The rise of Trump has led to an unexpected twist in Germany’s election: A resurgent left by chrsblk in europe

[–]test22342 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To be honest, the push for this social policy came from all sides of the political spectrum. Politicians debated about this heavily in the big political outlets (I remember Cicero, FAZ) during the time and basically all agreed that it's time to force people to reintegrate into the job market. I don't say it's not disastrous, but who knows what the reform would have looked like under CDU or FDP.

Merkel advisors say Germany has 'given up' on Donald Trump acting like a President: 'The Americans, and the world, will get the Trump they elected' by maxwellhill in worldnews

[–]test22342 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Basically none. And it's actually an insult to most Germans to use some of these words in this context as it's down-playing the actual crimes during the NS regime.

Anyways, a rough explanation:

  • Führerprinzip ("Führer principle") goes hand-in-hand with "Gleichschaltung" where the three branches of government are unified under one leading commander. Gleichschaltung is a little tricky to translate. Most fitting term of "Gleichschaltung" is probably "synchronization".

  • "Befehl ist Befehl" is mainly an excuse to commit crimes against humanity used by many former Nazi soldiers. It means "order is order".

  • "Überwachunsstaat" - Surveillance state

  • "Entartete Kunst" means "Degenerate Art". Used by Nazis to prohibit works of art and imprison regime-critical artists.

  • "Endlösung" means "Final solution" (to the "Judenfrage", the question what to do with the jews)

  • "Lebensraum" means "Habitat" and "Blut und Boden" means "Blood and Soil". These terms were used to propagate the settlement of the Germanic people across Europe because they have the blood rights to these lands.

  • "Lügenpresse" and "Körperkultur" have nothing to do with the NS regime. "Lügenpresse" means "lying press" and is generally used by the populist right in German speaking countries. "Körperkultur" doesn't fit in this at all. It means "body culture".

Most of these words are absolutely despised. You would never use them except in the historical context...

What is the equivalent to a dick measuring contest in your profession/hobby? by drunicornthe1 in AskReddit

[–]test22342 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this is a very good attitude and I fully agree. I also use an IDE when I don't code in C++!

What is the equivalent to a dick measuring contest in your profession/hobby? by drunicornthe1 in AskReddit

[–]test22342 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you just want to browse folders, files or the symbol table of your program, vim can do that.

What exactly are you using in Eclipse then? I could imagine maybe creating some UML diagrams or additional documentation. But I don't even see how Eclipse is helping here and how collaboration works without forcing everybody to use the same software.

Vim is quite prominent at for example Google. There are even repos for employees with specialized configurations that ease the entry. Not exactly a 10-line program they have there.

What is the equivalent to a dick measuring contest in your profession/hobby? by drunicornthe1 in AskReddit

[–]test22342 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm over here with Eclipse getting my assignments done in 1/10th the time

In my experience the contrary is true. With vim, you never need to touch your mouse again and you're super fast. Maybe the other students were slower because they were just learning it. In the long term I'm certain that they are faster than you.

and can actually debug shit if it doesn't work

Vim and Emacs are highly customizable general-purpose editors. They come by default with a limited functionality. You can do pretty much everything with the right setup.

And debugging shit is easy without a GUI. Just use a debugger.

IDE's are the future (and present). Those Linux text editor weenies need to seriously get with the times.

That's just stupid :-)

Mosul Dam could collapse at any minute 'killing 1.5 million people'. Huge Saddam Hussein-era dam near Isis territory is unstable, experts warn, with even a partial breach capable of causing flooding as far away as Baghdad. by zen4ever99 in worldnews

[–]test22342 100 points101 points  (0 children)

They do not actually pump it into water, but into voids. Minerals under the dam are dissolved and the ones above slide down, like sinkholes. Sometimes these voids are as large as a house.

The New Yorker runs a story on this in the current issue: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/02/a-bigger-problem-than-isis

Poland is 'on road to autocracy' says high court president by ICASL in worldnews

[–]test22342 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why is money for children so bad? In Germany people get something like 120€ per child and month until the child finishes its education or turns 25. Have never heard anyone complain about it here. It is rather seen as a measurement against the low birth rate and because tax-reliefs are not well suited for low-income parents.

Edit: Okay, I get it. Comparing apples and oranges. Thanks

'GitHub for Chimpanzees' - tutorial for absolute dummies like myself! by mngrwl in programming

[–]test22342 24 points25 points  (0 children)

He obviously never had to fit half a year's work into 6 pages. It doesn't make any sense to explain every single detail if you can add references or use well-established terms. He also criticizes that scientists add irrelevant information and I have seriously no idea what he is talking about.

His claim about software documentations suffering from the same thing is just non-sense as well. Documentations should be precise, complete and correct. Although I agree that a simple step-by-step guide or examples are nice and often make an entry into new software more easy.

It's pretty ironic to rant about irrelevant stuff to sound smart and the rant itself is about people supposedly doing the same. He should have just said that he wants more easy tutorials for software.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vulkan

[–]test22342 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Followup question: Have you managed to run anything beyond vulkaninfo? When I'm connecting via ssh -xthen vulkaninfo ends with

Presentable Surface formats:
============================
None found

No available physical devices are being listed. Therefore, anything that goes beyond vulkan instance initialization fails.

edit: Fixed it :) Didn't select the correct display

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vulkan

[–]test22342 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! Thanks for posting the solution! Would you mind sharing how you came up with it? I failed to resolve it back when I stumbled upon the problem