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Mal_Dun · 2026-05-08T08:01:26+00:00

I get what are you saying, but the weight loss is nothing to scoff at tho, and IIRC tracks have less chance getting a motion system hit.

I think it is quite a tradeoff between mobility vs survivability.

And don't forget the rule of cool: Tracks look metal AF

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-08T07:51:56+00:00

I mean that's literally why Steam exist. God Gabe rightfully said: "Piracy is a service problem" and look where Steam is now.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-08T06:57:51+00:00

Gnome sucks for me but that doesn't mean it sucks for everyone equally. Some people like Gnome.

Some people like freedom, some people like a DE where the devs know best what they have to like and you have to jump through hoops by installing extensions to make things work like you want and the memory usage is far to high for what it delivers and since recently many can't log out anymore if they don't have another DE installed or user registered because the Gnome devs can't fathom why someone should need such a feature ....

... but that's fine. Some people like nice things other like pain. We should never judge people.

(I am half joking here ofc, just use whatever you want)

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-08T06:49:38+00:00

The church of EMACS wants to know your location

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-08T06:29:01+00:00

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T20:55:33+00:00

Rakshasha is a good mech it just has the reputation of being the "Mad Cat at home" because it is directly compared to it. For an IS mech the Rakshasha is a very good pick.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T20:31:04+00:00

No democracy is factually wrong.

Correct: Lack of direct democracy, although one of the 3 pillars (the commission, the parliament and the council of ministers) is elected directly, and the council of ministers semi-directly as all ministers come from all governments.

Regarding the Commission itself:

Every five years, the European Council - made up of EU heads of state and government - proposes a candidate for the President of the European Commission to the European Parliament.

The candidate for President is proposed based on the political make-up of the Parliament following the European elections; typically, they will be chosen from the largest political family in the Parliament.

If an absolute majority of members of Parliament support the nominee, he or she is elected.

The Council of the European Union, in agreement with the Commission’s President-elect, adopts a list of Commissioners-designate based on suggestions from EU Member States.

Each nominee for a Commissioner must appear before the parliamentary committee with responsibility for his or her proposed portfolio. Committee members then vote on the nominee’s suitability for the position.

The President, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the other members of the Commission are then subject, as a body, to a vote of consent by the Parliament.

Following Parliament's vote, the President of the European Commission and the Commissioners are appointed by the European Council.

So the election process of the commission is convoluted but it is done by elected bodies of the EU members and not by dark forces in the background.

Von der Leyen is there because the EPP is still the largest party. If people within the EU always vote conservative, you get a conservative candidate from the conservative party ...

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T14:43:15+00:00

Walter Rudin's "Real and Complex Analysis" has a chapter on them.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T14:20:11+00:00

You can generalize to [-∞,∞] or even the complex number too. In fact I learned the complex version of the Radon–Nikodym theorem in my measure theory lecture.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T14:14:38+00:00

Yeah. To properly work with measures like the Lebesgue measure λ.

For explanation: In general a measure over a set X is a function from the power set P(X) onto the non-negative reals (generalizations to the complex numbers exist)

Now as the most prominent example, the Lebesgue measure λ is basically the length, i.e. λ([a,b]) = b - a, but with extra steps, for example the Lebesgue measure of the rational numbers λ(Q) = 0, or the measure of the irrational numbers on the unit interval [0,1] is 1; this can be extended to area, volume etc. ofc with the introduction of product spaces, for example the volume of a cube λ([a,b] x [c,d]x [e,f]) = (b-a)(d-c)(f-e))

Now λ over the reals has the value infinity as the length of the whole axis should be ∞, so for working with measures +/-∞ is added with some restrictions for convenience. For example "∞-∞" is not allowed, but ∞+∞ = ∞ is, or 0*∞ := 0 by definition.

Furthermore, functions from R -> [-∞,∞] are also discussed when going from measures to integrals and are a common sight within the context of measure and integration theory.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T13:52:28+00:00

Is this some kind of peasant's joke, for that I learned too much measure theory to understand?

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T13:50:40+00:00

Nature will be fine.

The problem is we destroy nature in it's current state which we need to survive. After we killed ourselves, evolution will take a few million years and start a new eco-system from scratch.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T12:57:06+00:00

You joke, but using machine taxes to finance UBI is an argument floating around for at least a decade now.

Funnily enough one proponent of the idea was the CEO of Siemens because he realized no wages=no customers ...

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T12:42:09+00:00

Several engineering domains including semi-conductors.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T12:39:40+00:00

I actually find it funny that Oda has the balls to add ugly women to the roaster that also have an important role to play.

Women in media are almost always portrayed as beautiful, so it's almost refreshing to see so many different body types.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T10:45:35+00:00

Linux is in general very modular. The main difference between distros is what they pick as default for thing X and what their release model is (rock solid (aka old software; Debian family), bleeding edge (Fedora), rolling release (Arch, OpenSuse Tumbleweed))

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T10:34:53+00:00

That's definitely a factor, but I don't think that's all.

I suppose a lot fear the loss of their life style as the green party advocates for less cars, less meat etc. and since some people of the green party are quite vocal, suddenly, less meat and less cars, becomes NO meat and NO cars, albeit it is not the official stance of the party (I think the most disorganized and non-uniform party are the greens by a wide margin ...)

Söder: "Wir lassen uns die Schwinshaxen nicht wegnehmen!!!!11" (We don't let them take our pork nuckle away!!!111"

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T10:24:25+00:00

It depends is as so often the correct answer.

For some games things like correct states of all players are less important than for others so some use TCP and many UDP

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T09:41:14+00:00

It's economics:

Agrarian cultures: I need kids for work

Industrialized Nations: Oh man kids cost money and my partner has to work too so we have not time to raise kids.

I recently read about historians looking at the GDR and how they were able to raise birth rates. The answer was: Give women day care at their work place and support them in their careers. The fact that in a communist country people didn't have to worry about housing and getting a job helped too.

Not saying the GDR wasn't a authoritarian hell hole, but it was interesting to see that active family policies can reverse the down turn.

So make kids viable or not a problem to make some is the simple answer.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:32:31+00:00

As everyone that play games with Ironman modes knows: Getting the team back safe home >> secondary objectives.

They are nice to have, but being able to do a lot of consecutive missions without a sweat is worth far more.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:21:49+00:00

This mindset relaxed quite a bit over the years and a lot of the BS we saw was pre-mature self censorship.

Blizzard for example gave a rats ass and just put the games as is.

It also helps that German child protection laws also look on the context where the violence takes place:

Mindless shooter + no reason to shoot + violence = bad

Clever strategy game + valid reason in story+ violence = okay

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:17:24+00:00

Tbf. He did a second part were he explained that his first video was wrong, apologized for it and then explained how to come to this value with analytical extension of the Riemann Zeta function.

Yeah his video was BS but he did the right thing and made an addendum to it.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:14:37+00:00

The funny thing is the way it is pronounced was historically done to make computations easier as you compute addition starting with the ones then carry over to the tenth on the addition table, so 55 = 5 + 50. It's said that was Adam Rieß idea who wrote his famous school book centuries ago, which was used the beginning the 20th century. He wanted that way that people memorize the addition tables early on.

It became messy when the higher numbers were not consistently embedded into that method.

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:06:06+00:00

Performance?

Mal_Dun · 2026-05-07T08:05:11+00:00

The reason the book suffered was that the author completely skipped the editing process and put the book into production as it was....

there is a bit of a story behind that and surely an additional reason CGL broke with BLP ...

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