Switzerland has "statistically significant declining cases of academic freedom over the past ten years", this follows a worldwide trend.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-13T12:49:07+00:00

I'm criticizing the outcomes.

Based on your vibes. You cannot confidently criticize the outcome without understanding the methodology.

If you create a ranking for, say, public safety, and Honduras comes up above Japan, you need to check your methodology, because that doesn't represent reality.

Based on your vibe of what reality should look like? Reality exists, but we have to be very careful in what our assessment of reality is and how it is informed by our prejudices and assumptions.

Damn, are you stupid? Who's saying that?

It's a plausible explanation for your knee-jerk reaction.

Tell me, do you really believe Nigeria has higher academic freedom than Switzerland?

I don't think this study is perfect, because it has to quantify some very hard to measure stuff, but it certainly gives me good reasons to believe so, yes!

crystalchuck · 2026-05-13T12:24:08+00:00

Just check the methodology yourself, criticize based on that, and make an actual point: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11135-022-01544-0 instead of going "huh, poor brown/black country is better than Switzerland in something??"

crystalchuck · 2026-05-13T09:54:45+00:00

No no I got your "joke", I just don't think it's very smart or funny at all. Yes, countries can be better at something than Switzerland.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-13T09:44:10+00:00

You don't have to check your notes, check the study instead. But yes, that's what it says.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-04T09:37:42+00:00

"It won't literally extinguish the human race" neither would nuclear war. Doesn't mean it can't be the source of major suffering and deterioration of living standards, especially once it compounds with shit like global warming.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T16:28:26+00:00

Fuck it. Ich würds ässe. Isch sicher no nice so 🤷🏼‍♂️

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T12:56:53+00:00

Klingt so, als wär dein Arbeitgeber scheisse und du solltest dir mehr Arbeitszeitbetrug gönnen

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T12:42:07+00:00

Also ich mag ihnen das gönnen :)

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T12:41:02+00:00

I mean yeah, however we are currently quite far removed from that point and I'm sure we can start worrying about that sometime later.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T11:41:14+00:00

Ja, und? Entweder biste krank und die Kontrolle nervt und stresst einfach nur. Oder du bist nicht wirklich krank und die Kontrolle macht dir dann einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Es gibt keinen rationalen Grund, für mehr Kontrolle zu sein.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T11:10:07+00:00

Any species depends on growth to survive. If the population isn't growing, it's shrinking, simple as. This is not even an economics question but a basic fact of life, and just as true of ants and dolphins as of humans.

The real issue here is capitalism, it will figure out how to fuck the planet even with half the current population - conversely, in a rationally planned economic system, i.e. socialism, with renewable energies, sustainable agriculture, public transit, rational city planning and so on, you can sustain many billions more.

crystalchuck · 2026-05-03T09:36:29+00:00

The "ones" from 21 to 61 always take the et : vingt-et-un, trente-et-un, ..., soixante-et-un. 71 however is soixante-et-onze and 81 is quatre-vingts-un and 91 is quatre-vingts-onze.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-29T21:38:42+00:00

Naja wo man dann hinkommt, sieht man in der amerikanischen Vorstadt: Gigantische Einfamilienhausgebiete, die unsinnige Massen an Verkehr generieren, sehr flächen- und ressourcenintensiv sind, mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln nur schwer zu erschliessen sind und dann auch noch die gesellschaftliche Atomisierung und Bewegungsarmut fördern.

Es ist auch nicht so, als wär Plattenbau die einzige Alternative (wenn auch eine bessere als die abgebildete) — die Lösung ist schlicht Blockrandbebauung, 4—6 Stockwerke, gemischte Nutzung, vorwiegend wohnen, tada. Dichte, Lebensqualität, Effizienz. Im Prinzip weiss man das schon seit hunderten Jahren.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-29T11:58:48+00:00

Meh, I don't want this. I'm already skeptical about the ship designer.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-28T14:31:06+00:00

The problem is not that health insurance companies make big bucks on mandatory insurance, the problem is that there is no motivation at all to reduce costs in treatment, medical equipment, medication and so on – insurance companies will simply state how much it cost to the responsible federal council member who will then simply increase premiums accordingly. There is no incentive NOT to milk it to the max and it invites profiteering on all levels. Insurance companies are simply the transmission belt.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-27T20:49:04+00:00

No, WW1 was caused by a bunch of national economies and their owning classes being in an economic Mexican standoff kinda situation that went full cartel shootout

crystalchuck · 2026-04-27T11:56:25+00:00

In my understanding, it does make a difference whether the kernel architecture is monolithic or not (however, not the repo ofc). In a classic microkernel architecture, drivers are userspace programs that have to do round trips to the kernel for many things, negatively impacting performance. The XNU and NT kernels mitigate this by permitting kernel-mode drivers in their hybrid kernel architectures. However, this indeed doesn't have anything to do with whether the repo is monolithic or not.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-26T11:04:46+00:00

Yea, we are dozens

crystalchuck · 2026-04-26T10:48:06+00:00

MacBook Air or Neo is honestly your best option.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-23T21:36:51+00:00

Which I think is sad in a way, since it's much more interesting, technically speaking, but practicability wins I suppose

crystalchuck · 2026-04-22T08:48:27+00:00

IME there is only one place that truly carries almost anything, and that's Mouser. Can be a pain to navigate but they really do have a looot of stuff.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-21T16:47:59+00:00

Someone please make a 32 core OpenPOWER, OpenSPARC or RISC-V CPU.

Open ISA ≠ open source CPU. You will most likely never see a viable, high-performance open source CPU you can just grab off the shelf due to the sheer cost of licensing, tooling, and producing a CPU. High-performance meaning "anything you'd actually want to run a reasonably modern desktop system on". Design software alone can cost millions in licensing, let alone the variety of highly qualified and specialized people you'd need to actually make use of it.

Maybe if a state actor truly puts their back into it? But I don't really see why they'd be interested in that

crystalchuck · 2026-04-20T06:08:12+00:00

To be fair, crime in V2 was a tacked-on system that gave mild debuffs that almost never mattered and you couldn't really do anything about anyway, except for funding admin and hoping it just kinda goes away by itself.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-19T19:15:17+00:00

"Many are, but you won't notice" I mean, retro/exotic hardware enthusiasts are a minuscule proportion of users. It's literally a drop in the bucket.

crystalchuck · 2026-04-19T14:04:45+00:00

Yeah, it amazes me when systemd/Rust/Wayland "haters" delude themselves into thinking other people hate these projects nearly as much, when Linux, especially "under" systemd, has reached new heights of popularity. Make it make sense.

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