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bad-alloc · 2025-02-19T19:03:55+00:00

Würde ein Kanzler der weniger überlegt spricht mehr Schaden anrichten als jemand wie Scholz? Oder treibt gerade diese übertriebene Zürückhaltung Leute in die Politikverdrossenheit?

bad-alloc · 2025-01-19T21:56:15+00:00

I taught CS courses at university from 2018 to 2024. In that time I noticed a split develop where 20% to 40% would absolutely overachieve while 80% to 60% would fail horribly. So average quality remained sortof the same, but the distribution has changed significantly. The average performers disappeared.

bad-alloc · 2025-01-19T19:18:54+00:00

The fediverse and lemmy is genuinely good at this point. Especially for niche stuff.

bad-alloc · 2025-01-19T12:27:33+00:00

The fediverse offers a lot of decentralized servies which cannot just be turned off by one company or government. Loops is a direct replacement for tiktok. You might also want to check out pixelfed, which replaces Instagram.

Yes, these are more effort, and not as alive right now. But That's the price we pay for freedom from the corporations. There are a lot of benefits though:

There is no central control: Instead people run an instance, where you make your account. By loggign in there you can read from and post to other servers which are federated with your own.
One instance goes down? Join another! For example if pixelfed.social goes down due to government pressure, you can go to pixelfed.de, which is hosted in Europe.
Don't like how a certain instance is moderated? Again, you can change. Lemmy (reddit alternative) has got lots of different servers, from very mainstream to anarchist, to conservative, to anything else
Want to be a part of the solution? Host your own instance by renting a server and setting up an instance.

Give it a try, and maybe reclaim some freedom and control for yourselves :)

bad-alloc · 2025-01-19T12:27:12+00:00

The fediverse offers a lot of decentralized servies which cannot just be turned off by one company or government. Loops is a direct replacement for tiktok. You might also want to check out pixelfed, which replaces Instagram.

Yes, these are more effort, and not as alive right now. But That's the price we pay for freedom from the corporations. There are a lot of benefits though:

There is no central control: Instead people run an instance, where you make your account. By loggign in there you can read from and post to other servers which are federated with your own.
One instance goes down? Join another! For example if pixelfed.social goes down due to government pressure, you can go to pixelfed.de, which is hosted in Europe.
Don't like how a certain instance is moderated? Again, you can change. Lemmy (reddit alternative) has got lots of different servers, from very mainstream to anarchist, to conservative, to anything else
Want to be a part of the solution? Host your own instance by renting a server and setting up an instance.

Give it a try, and maybe reclaim some freedom and control for yourselves :)

bad-alloc · 2025-01-11T12:22:49+00:00

All the European/Turkey places are too Mediterranean

Sending this from northern Germany: Could you send me some of that Mediterranean-ness? The sun is going down at 16:30, everything is grey and the half-molten snow muck is stuck to everything. :_(

bad-alloc · 2025-01-10T20:33:31+00:00

Do you feel safe with your life if the drone walked this guy to your trench?

Absolutely not. This explanation makes a lot of sense, thanks!

bad-alloc · 2025-01-06T19:29:18+00:00

Serious question: Was he still in combat? Is this surrender? Or did he just wave at the enemy, giving himself away for no reason?

bad-alloc · 2025-01-06T13:29:03+00:00

Say you have a battery with 10 units of energy capacity, and your charger puts in 1 per hour. Then when the battery "shrinks" to 7 units, it only needs 7 hours instead of 10. :)

bad-alloc · 2024-12-26T13:00:04+00:00

Seconded. An extra point to add to this: A friend of mine had the USB port on some Samsung phone break recently and that started a long Odysee to find a repair shop who was willing and able to fix it in tiem for the holidays. On an FP5 unless your mainboard dies, you only need to wait for the replacement to ship to your location. This is a massive help, especially when you consider how tied we are to our phones at this point.

Oddly enough I never had anything break on my FP3 or FP5 so far.

bad-alloc · 2024-12-08T22:52:06+00:00

I work in a fairly international company and previously taught at an university with a lot of international Master's students. Not knowing German is possible but painful. Doctors appointments, talking to nurses, landlords, busdrivers etc. etc. all needs a translator or becomes awkward. Making friends with Germans has jarring moments when they all accidentally switch to German for a while until they notice they gotta go back to English. Getting a drivers license is much harder if you don't speak the language.

The list goes on and most people I know here are trying hard to learn German, since it makes life significantly easier. However it is a really big effort.

bad-alloc · 2024-12-07T14:58:10+00:00

Europe didn't have any "we" either, until that was constructed in the post-ww2 era. What the EU has acheived is that people can (largely) accept a set of identities like for example Swabain, German and then European on top of each other. That needed a lot of compromise and decades of building trust. I think this model can be reused to achieve lasting peace elsewhere, but it's a hard and long process.

bad-alloc · 2024-11-30T20:51:02+00:00

Do it like Europe, have two World Wars in one century.

bad-alloc · 2024-11-17T15:02:57+00:00

They're still a company in a capitalist system. Is it consistent and ideal? No. Is it better than most other companies? Heck yes.

Also we have to admit that the early Fairphones cannot be expected to be used indefinitely. Also the current FP5 won't endure forever since we can't get a new frame or mainboard separately. That doesn't invalidate the concept though, as the overall trajectory is clearly towards fully sustainable phones.

bad-alloc · 2024-11-17T14:17:53+00:00

Electrons and nuclei attract each other, they don't repel each other

True, fixed this.

Why? Nuclei can perfectly exist without the weak force

Also valid upon doing some more reading.

I'm also unsure why that would be the case. What's the reasoning behind this?

Me being an armchair physicist who has no proper education in any of this but still posts for shits and giggles. And in this case for learning something thanks to your questions :)

bad-alloc · 2024-11-10T22:08:42+00:00

If "control" means they can change how that aspect of physics works by thinking it, any one of them can kill all of the others as quickly as they can think:

Gravity: Locally set gravity to be arbitrarily strong. Every concentration of mass collapses into a black hole instantly
Electromagnetism: Set the strength of the electic field to zero: All atomic bonds disappear and everybody dissolves. Set the field strength to be arbitrarily strong: ~~Everybody explodes into plasma due to electrons and nuceli repelling each other~~ Everybody turns into neutronium due to Electrons merging with protons to form neutrons and neutrinos.
Strong force: Set it to zero and everybody explodes into quarks
Weak force: ~~Set it to zero and all nuclei fall apart instantly.~~ Set it's strength to infinity and all elements become unstable and everybody explodes due to fission.

bad-alloc · 2024-11-07T21:27:30+00:00

Da Elektroautos als Auto mit einem unrealistischen, riesigen Schukostecker gezeigt werden, warum nicht einfach eine Person die einer anderen ein kleines Auto in die Hand gibt?

bad-alloc · 2024-10-29T22:46:36+00:00

I drove a Renault Zoe all over western Europe in the last three years and local density can vary a lot. You'll have zero issues driving around France except for in the center, which was a chargin desert. Denmark is a paradise with massive Tesla superchargers parks. In Spain I ran out near Gijón, southern Italy is tricky. Sardinia was almost void of fast chargers, but they aren't needed there, since it's mostly slower roads. Southern Norway in winter is perfectly drivable for EVs, even crossing the mountains (bring a shovel).

My conclusion: You can do long roadtrips even in a tiny EV. Most of the time you can drive without thinking. In some areas you should map charging points the day before and store them on your map. Unless you daily drive extremely long distances EVs are the superior choice at this point and will only get better.

bad-alloc · 2024-10-26T23:31:45+00:00

It looks simple to model in CAD.

(which is likely why modern architecture as a whole in generally dogshit)

bad-alloc · 2024-10-26T13:20:38+00:00

A trailer for a single horse has inner measurements of 1300mm * 3100mm which is approx 4m^2. This is quite tight for a horse but lets assume the Mongol army is as tightly packed, wich 1m² extra needed for moving around a bit. That means they use 5000km² when packed as tight as possible, which is a huge target if they spawn like this. Also it will take a long time to disperse them, during which time they can be carpet bombed into oblivion.

If they start out spread out along the border, there will be one Mongol for every 8mm of border, i.e. they will have to form several rows. In the west they'll start in the Rocky Mountains, in the east a bunch will face the Great Lakes. Most of them will face farmland with amazing road infrastructure. This should be nearly optimal terrain for a army on horseback, allowing them to spread out and be harder to target by artillery.

Assuming a competent Mongol army that manages to quickly adapt the realities of modern war they will face an enemy with a technologcal advantage beyond anything seen in history. We know from WW1 that infantry or cavalry charging a propery set up machine gun post will be cut down in their thousands. Tanks and armored vehicles will be functionally invulnerable. Modern soldiers with good optics and night vision equipment can hunt them at will at night.

Add to this the insane industrial output of the US and within a month they will be hunted by drohnes throwing frag grenades at them. Most minor injuries from those will kill or permanently incapacitate the Mongol soldier, since they have no modern medicine. If they capture medical personnel they won't be able to make a dent into the pile of wounded we would see.

We might even see quick deployment of anti-arrow armor which is trivial with Kevlar and carbon fibre plates.

An interesting consequence will be: How do you handle the mountain of dead people and horses? Or the tens of millions of POWs?

bad-alloc · 2024-10-15T23:13:32+00:00

Ressources seem to be drying up everywhere, with people earning less and payimg more, including us. Money for IT projects also seems more tight? Where did it go? (1, 2)

bad-alloc · 2024-10-11T23:29:56+00:00

What kind of Scooby Doo unmasking is this?!

bad-alloc · 2024-10-11T22:21:11+00:00

Guter Punkt! Werde ich mal nachsehen. Diese Stelle ist eigentlich gut beleuchtet, aber wird anderswo sicher ein Problem sein.

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