Here is one of my favorite exceptions:

https://www.oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/

Irgendwas mit Globalisierung.

Fascinating.

Tell me again when it's done and released...

Damit dürfte twitter jetzt wirklich langsam aus dem mainstream verschwinden. Gut!

Digital frankieren funktioniert jetzt mit praktisch allen Bezahlmethoden. Kann ich nur empfehlen.

We don't know what an eventual outcome will be right now and it would be... weird to talk about help financing "defense" for years and then actually negotiate for concessions.

It's an open secret that if all Russian nukes would disappear over night, the other members of the UN security council would probably party for a week. The US (and the EU) is supporting Ukraine because that's the right thing to do AND it is in their interest because who knows what a bigger Russia will do next. But they're also doing it because it's weakening Russia and that's also in their interest, even though they would never publicly say it or not with the intensity that they actually think that way.

Long story short, if the absolute optimal (for Ukraine and "the west") thing happens:

• the war exhausts Russia more than Ukraine + supporters
• the timing for negotiations is chosen in a way that is extremely bad for Russia, to the effect that Russia doesn't have to just apologize, return territory, pay reparations, and all that, but ALSO give up other things.
• like UN observers and limits to their military.
• nuclear disarmament
• ???

It would look extremely badly if politicians, actual leaders of nations, were to talk about "defense" for years and then actually ask those things in the end. Which they want to.

So (imo, it's all speculation) it's preemptive PR management that leaves room for that asking for more things than would be justifiable with "defense".

Nein.

Die Richter können dem Bundestag nicht vorschreiben was sie tun müssen, und der Bundestag kann dem BVerfG nicht sagen wie es urteilen soll. Sonst wäre die Gewaltenteilung verletzt.

Gesetzlich sind die Bundestagsabgeordneten "nur ihrem Gewissen verpflichtet" was sie tun oder nicht tun, machen sie mit Mandat vom Volk. Punkt. Pech gehabt. Gleiches übrigends auch für dumme Entscheidungen der Regierung.

Bzw. theoretisch könnte man was in die Verfassung/Gesetz einbauen, das die Gerichte etwas sagen können von wegen "muss in xyz Tagen passieren sonst Festnahme etc.." Das wäre aber innenpolitisch gefährlich, weil sich dann die Polizei entweder auf die Seite der Gerichte stellen muss und es umsetzt, oder es nicht umsetzt und sich damit dem Gericht widersetzt. Also, das provoziert einen innenpolitischen Konflikt den wir vermeiden wollen. In solchen chaotischen Zeiten gibts dann nämlich gerne einen charismatischen, starken, einzelnen, der... aber die Geschichte kenn wir ja schon. Und deswegen machen wir es nicht so.

One of the events that comes to mind was a "open" conference at a university that "actively encouraged" "low class" participation. (They didn't say this).

What I mean by that is that it happened during normal work hours and you had to send an email to sign up, but they did allow you to come.

Over the course of the event it became clear that it was a joint PR thing for the sponsors and the university to appear to be "doing something about [issue]", so they had 2 talks, an audience participation thing, where it was very clear that the thing needed most was more funding for people and work material and tools (think PPE, it wasn't that or that critical). ...and a panel discussion between [company] and [5 politicians] that in absolutely no way addressed the issues that were brought up in the audience participation part.

There was very nice, expensive catering.

Pretty surreal experience and something that solidified my belief that some very important parts of our society are utterly broken beyond repair.

To address this concern, CISA recommends that developers transition to memory-safe programming languages such as Rust, Java, C#, Go, Python, and Swift.

If only it were that easy to snap your fingers and magically transform your code base from C to Rust.

guy_butterfly_meme.jpg is this unbiased journalism?

I wonder how much memory can Python hold until an error like “out of memory” happens, because ML models (for example, those hosted and served in HuggingFace) loads training weights with dozens of GBs

All the stuff that's LLM and the actual "serious" python libraries are implemented in C/C++ and only made accessible via python.

Which doesn't directly answer the question of what the maximum is, in those cases, but it should be obvious that C/C++ have some good ways to deal with memory.

You can still do "traditional" memory management in python, or "memory aware programming" like, e.g. not trying to read a file in one piece, but reading and processing line by line.

And using C from python is actually very easy and convenient with ctypes. https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

1. the world doesn't owe you at least one morally correct choice. They can also just all be morally bad choices. (hello classical greek drama btw)
2. morals depend on your point of view what correct behavior is and on the social group you want to be respected and accepted by.
3. because of that, morals are subjective, made up, and can be whatever anyone wants.

So xyz being "morally correct" and saying that, is just that person's point of view, and if you have a different point of view, it's just a difference of opinion.

Why the heck would 2 projects share the same library?

Coming from the olden days, with good package management, infrequent updates and the idea that you wanted to indeed save that x number of bytes on the disk and in memory, only installing one was the way to go.

Python also wasn't exactly a high brow academic effort to brain storm the next big thing, it was built to be a simple tool and that included just fetching some library from your system was good enough. It only ended up being popular because it is very easy to get your feet wet and do something quick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHjuCuCkHrE

The difficulty with python tooling is that you have to learn which tools you can and should completely ignore.

Unless you are a 100x engineer managing 500 projects with conflicting versions, build systems, docker, websites, and AAAH...

• you don't really need venvs
• you should not use more than on package manager (I recommend pip) and you should cling to it with all your might and never switch. Mixing e.g. conda, on linux system installers like apt, is the problem. Just using one is fine.
• You don't "need" need any other tools. They are bonuses that you should use and learn how to use, exactly when you need them and not before. (type hinting checker, linting, testing, etc..)

Why is it like this?

Isolation for reliability, because it costs the businesses real $$$ when stuff goes down.

venvs exists to prevent the case that "project 1" and "project 2" use the same library "foobar". Except, "project 1" is old, the maintainer is held up and can't update as fast and "project 2" is a cutting edge start up that always uses the newest tech.

When python imports a library it would use "the libary" that is installed. If project 2 uses foobar version 15.9 which changed functionality, and project 1 uses foobar uses version 1.0, you get a bug, always, in either project 1 or project 2. Venvs solve this by providing project specific sets of libraries and interpreters.

In practice for many if not most users, this is meaningless, because if you're making e.g. a plot with matplotlib, that won't change. But people have "best practices" so they just do stuff even if they don't need it.

It is a tradeoff between being fine with breakage and fixing it when it occurs and not being fine with breakage. The two approaches won't mix.

very specific (often outdated) version of python,

They are giving you the version that they know worked. Often you can just remove the specific version pinning and it will work fine, because again, it doesn't actually change that much. But still, the project that's online was the working state.

Ein großer Tag für Aalemania.

Klingt schon cooll, aber ich wette die klammern sich alle an den überteuerten Preisen fest die sie selbst bezahlt haben, deswegen fallen die nicht auf das Niveau was es bräuchte um das attraktiv zu machen.

Außerdem kann man nicht wissen wie die Qualität der Gebäude ist...

Easy, join the cult of linux and bow to the power of the cult leaders: "doing math very fast". BEHOLD.

Depends, it's been a bit disappointing to see virtually no change since I started using it, particularly in terms of QoL. It is open source, so that's on everyone, including me, but I had hoped for more speed, etc..

Mastodon is way better when it comes to filtering.

Having the option of a reddit clone is pretty good though and I will stick with it. Who knows when and where it will get that critical bit of momentum.

It's already superior to regular forums, in my opinion, so now the question is what kind of format you want to have discussions in, instead of having to default to forums. That choice is a definite upside and I'm glad it exists.

In a different time, under different assumptions, meritocracy can happen. Working and working a lot in that kind of environment, enriches yourself, your company and society, without a downside.

Overtime you put in, may be more work, but it's temporary, necessary, because you in your job doing the overtime, helps orders of magnitude more, in critical situations, than other people can, or maybe there is actually nobody else to do the job and the job doesn't get done. E.g. specialized surgeons saving lives. And that effort and overtime would be recognized and rewarded under those assumptions as well.

Somebody who has worked extraordinary amounts, would have put in extraordinary effort. They would be community champions.

It's important to recognize that clash of assumptions.

seek so much escapism to be away from dealing with the bleak, always-gloomy mentality of work.

His words, or yours?

Ich finde die sonstigen Begründungen schlüssig.

auch wegen der grundgesetzlichen Schuldenbremse, auf die die Rich­te­r:in­nen ausdrücklich verweisen.

Das ist bescheuert. Man macht nicht Rentenerhöhung, Diätenerhöhung, etc.. und sagt dann "ja aber beim Bafög haben wir Schuldenbremse". Das ist kindisch.

Das Gericht kann leider nur danach entscheiden was schon Verfassung ist. Und wir haben leider keinen Anspruch auf Wohlstandsgleichheit und -ausgleich. Wir haben nur die Gleichheit vor dem Gesetz und eine Chancengleichheit die dadurch ungefähr gewährleistet ist, das man nicht prinzipiell vom Studium ausgeschlossen werden kann (also nach Geschlecht, Eltern, Kaste, Hautfarbe, Religion etc.), sondern es tatsächlich nur vom Geld und Verhalten abhängt.

Die Situation allgemein um Ausbildung, Studium, Schulen, Bafög ist trotzdem Mist. Aber das Gericht hat Recht, die Aktion muss hier nicht von ihnen kommen, sondern über den normalen politischen Prozess. Leider.