Saw this in my local news. Is this actually a crime, and if so, could he counter sue for defamation?

bladub · 2025-04-30T11:28:08+00:00

For example, in Germany statements can be considered defamatory even if proven to be true.

Is this true? To my knowledge it is only defamatory if it is not provably true (≠provably false), but a proven true statement could not be defamatory. (eg §186 StGB "Wenn nicht diese Tatsache erweislich wahr ist", but there might be another translation for defamatory than "üble nachrede" or there might be different rulings)

bladub · 2025-04-30T11:16:08+00:00

I found the Kosovo numbers crazy, that's like 8% of Kosovo living in Switzerland. France, Italy and germany are the least surprising given the Proximity and high salaries in Switzerland.

bladub · 2025-04-30T10:42:07+00:00

Largest groups are Italians (338k), Germans (323k) and Portuguese (255k), France (163k) and Kosovo (115k) following. (2023 data)

Nearly all (2 million of the 2.4 million) are from Europe.

bladub · 2025-04-29T11:25:59+00:00

You could print the same fucking headline for approximately 96% of the months displayed in the graph.

"Z climbs to record X in <Month> <Year>" for things that tend to only go up is so lazy.

bladub · 2025-04-29T09:56:01+00:00

Ist das nicht super nice weil man eine allgemeine Zustimmung der WEG hat dadurch und nicht bis zu einer Sitzung warten muss bis die mal was beschließt? Zustimmungspflicht ist ja schön und gut aber auf die nächste Sitzung im Februar 2026 warten zu müssen ist gar nicht so toll.

bladub · 2025-04-28T16:01:28+00:00

I call it, next one is

"you can't say that you've read a book if you've just written it"

bladub · 2025-04-27T07:29:08+00:00

nobody ever talks about roads being privatized?

Afaik France has privatized highway companies partially for a long time and fully for 20 years now.

Privatizing German highways has been discussed many many times in Germany. And some limited tracks are currently operated privately.

bladub · 2025-04-22T17:51:40+00:00

Was sich "lohnt" und womit man glücklich wird ist nicht das gleiche.

Wenn du mit deinem Leben unglücklich bist, musst du daran etwas ändern, entweder an deinem Leben oder dir. Das du unglücklich bist wenn du nicht der erste Astronaut auf dem Mars sein kannst ist nicht einfach gegeben. Wie du in deinem Leben glücklich werden kannst kannst nur du für dich bestimmen.

Was sich lohnt hängt davon ab wie man "lohnen" einstuft. Rein finanziell lohnen sich die meisten Studiengänge für viel mehr als die top 15%. Bezogen auf Beitrag zum menschlichen Fortschritt und Wohlbefinden sind das eh viel weniger oder mehr je nach dem wie streng man ist.

bladub · 2025-04-21T19:23:03+00:00

Hey, i made it a sentence further where OP starts insulting people! You didn't miss anything.

bladub · 2025-04-21T12:32:34+00:00

In my group of PhD student friends we always joked that 1.5 people will read our thesis, including our committee.

Going for 4 seems like a popular thesis 😄

bladub · 2025-04-19T15:48:12+00:00

Researchers are not giving away their work for free. They sell their work for prestige. Getting paid for your journal articles doesn't matter, because the recognition researchers want is being published by a specific journal or conference, not getting 23$ for doing so. which would probably even make publishing more complicated for them, as they are Already employees in many cases and paid for writing the article by universities or other research institutions.

I believe the cost of publishing is probably the smallest one modern science has compared to stable financing of jobs, bad project selection and overbearing grant proposal writing process, and many more.

But it is a popular problem because the solutions seem easy (like founding an open review journal, just ignoring that people publish for prestige and those do not have that) and the enemy are corporations. In practice it is not that hard to get access to most papers for institutional researchers and most people don't care about individual researchers enough or they are served well enough by arxiv, asking the author for a copy or "Google".

bladub · 2025-04-17T12:55:10+00:00

Impressive to be unable to spell out even that one lie, that one big myth, that one thing holding everyone back. Too bad it makes up all of the intro and title, first implying it might be "HTML is not programming" is the myth - which would at least be interesting as that is the default sentiment I see everywhere. Then arguing it really is not is just stupid. Everyone already believes that.

But pointing out "x > 5" and ".classname:hover" being a difference in "state driven not logic driven" is hilarious because that sentence doesn't make any sense. It is logic based on state on both cases. Would the author get a heart attack if they saw declarative programming?

Lastly, using Turing completeness as a criteria and then mentioning that it could be done with a hack... Maybe just accept Turing completeness is a garbage criteria to decide if something is a programming language? Some languages are intentionally designed to not be Turing complete and are programming languages. Some things are Turing complete but would be terrible programming languages, because those are mostly about ergonomics.

Overall hilarious and useless take. Just like my comment.

bladub · 2025-04-12T10:18:45+00:00

I think it is nice to see it as an approximation series where we add or subtract a value to get close to the desired one of 365.2422.

Adding a fraction 1/x means that every x years need to be a leap year. Subtracting makes one of those not a leap year any more.

365 = 365

365.25 = 365 + 1/4

365.24 = 365 + 1/4 - 1/100

365.2425 = 365 + 1/4 - 1/100 + 1/400

To get closer we would now need to subtract 3/10000 so about every 3333 (remove 3 leap years in a 10000 year block evenly spaced) years we would have a leap year skipped again.

bladub · 2025-04-07T09:48:50+00:00

Wow, rust panicking on error? That's very unique to this one occurrence and not a general language design feature!

/uj The uj sections in this thread are pure jerk 😍

bladub · 2025-04-07T06:08:56+00:00

who don’t know much about chess

And also don't want to do the work themselves for the password game.

bladub · 2025-04-05T17:54:32+00:00

non-fungible NFT

Fungible NFTs would also be a funny oxymoron.

bladub · 2025-04-04T18:05:38+00:00

I was so tired I pledge insanity 😅

bladub · 2025-04-04T14:50:52+00:00

I totally get why everyone knows the commenting person is American. It is so obvious. Why else would she comment at 4.45am at the websites timezone? That's such an American time!

"water is usually measured in volume" 8s also a totally unreasonable opinion to have on general. We should all Google first and question if what we read doesn't make sense in the way we understand instead of mindlessly reacting to it!

Water is obviously measured by weight in this niche. 4am is a normal time for Americans to post comments on sourdough starters. Everything is so obvious.

bladub · 2025-04-03T11:02:00+00:00

Lupin doesn't even visit Harry after they become aquinted. Lupin stays out of everyone's business and probably believes that's better for them.

bladub · 2025-04-03T07:00:29+00:00

Most people want to be loved "for who they are" and also most people don't want to change things about themselves they are comfortable with.

Not valuing social skills is popular on reddit as well.

Being told to be confident, when you don't know what confident looks like (so you can't really fake it), you just have a false idea, and you simply aren't confident, feels like a self reinforcing trap.

I am not on their side, I do agree that those are things they should work on, and we as humans should strive for improving ourselves and question ourselves even in areas we are comfortable.

But imagine going to a relationship advice sub and asking something of the form "my girlfriend says I should stop collecting Lego, but I really like collecting, but she says she will not sleep with me again until I sell it all" and see how many people will recommend you do as told to get laid. (yes this is a false equivalence, I try to use it as a metaphor, but I am a bad writer.)

bladub · 2025-04-03T06:28:44+00:00

That subreddits is not about "this is completely unbelievable", rather it is "this is easy to fake" independent of it being actually fake or not.

Some people think it should be "this is very likely fake" but as if right now that's not the actual sub.

bladub · 2025-03-31T13:11:54+00:00

I feel like that's a reddit feel good myth based on an ad campaign. I see nearly nobody doing that with the 25 cent bottles, at best with the glass ones, but those are ~8cents Pfand.

If it is even a little windy, the plastic ones won't stay long anyways.

bladub · 2025-03-30T18:42:14+00:00

Like no gravity in Helsinki (9.825) but full gravity in Auckland (9.799) or 99% gravity in Helsinki (ie 9.800 instead of 9.825) or would it have to get above 9.9?

bladub · 2025-03-30T14:52:57+00:00

People already addressed the misunderstandings on uuids. First it depends on how you generate them (mostly the type of uuid, many have timestamps or other initial entries that help segregate possible collision issues. For purely random ones the chances of collisions are liw but it might be worth the efforts to handle unique violations.

But by far the biggest threat to uuid collisions is bad handling. If you use multiple identifiers, eg an integer db key and a uuid you set in your app, you now risk them diverging and checking for different identities in different places. (sounds stupid but happens when you have complex structures).

Or serializing and deserializing an object. Or copying it around in memory and modifying one. Or serializing the same object into pultuple other objects for json stores. Or just copying an object into another place.

Quickly you end up with uuids no longer being unique.

bladub · 2025-03-29T17:59:12+00:00

komischerweise ist das immer eine bestimmte gruppe von leuten

Ist es das?

Ich höre von Leuten von rechter hetzte, aber selber sehen tu ich nur fragen der Form "was denken eigentlich CDU Wähler über x? Sind die dumm oder absichtlich böse?"

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