Yeah, it’s not terribly surprising that the essay was failed. That’s barely high school level and even there it wouldn’t be a good effort.

And due to social media dominance, the far-right party (AfD) is set to become the strongest power with the next election if things don’t change.

Mind you, that party has been confirmed to be radical by the constitutional protection agency; that assessment has only been temporarily retracted because they got an injunction against it that now needs to be resolved. Court procedure is the only thing keeping them from being recognized as a threat to the democratic order.

The other major parties see no reason to comment on this, especially not the conservatives. Those same conservatives refuse to rule out a cooperation with the AfD, instead wanting to “face them on content”. That means parroting their talking points and then acting surprised when this doesn’t drive voters away from them.

In previous elections I voted for the pan-Europeans who, in a saner world, would be steadily on track towards beating the 5% cutoff. Unfortunately, right now the far-right threat is too big for me not to hold my nose and vote strategically. I’m not happy about that.

But hey, who knows how long that’ll even matter? Like always in such a situation, I expect the AfD to use bullshit delay tactics to stretch that injunction until after the next election, get voted into power, and then kill the investigation. Because rules don’t apply when you have enough backing. And I’m deeply afraid of what they’ll do to the country as the governing party with a conservative lapdog rubber-stamping everything they say.

muxica@lemmy.ml posted a link to the essay. In case they’re blocked for you here’s a copy of the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qxnVi_yaJ-Fb9u1-A1Vy2vQT3Aiw8Nix/view?usp=drivesdk

For most cases you can use Rider, which has a native Linux version. It doesn’t do database projects so if you use MSSQL without an OEM ORM you’re gonna want at least VS Code, but other than that it works fine.

Of course if you’re a .NET developer in a corporate environment you probably don’t have a choice as you’re already using a Windows VM through Azure Virtual Desktop just so that your company can chain itself harder to daddy Microsoft.

Or the Rafale, for that matter.

France has a habit of entering into pan-European programs to develop fighter jets, then demanding that most of the parts be made in France. Last time this led to France exiting the Eurofighter project and building the Rafale. This time it’s possible that Germany and Spain might leave the FCAS project and join the UK, Italy, and Japan in the GCAP project, which would lead to another exclusively French fighter.

Admittedly, the French are really good at building fighter aircraft. Their insistence on not sharing their expertise with the test of Europe is annoying, though.

I had a front line wizard in The Dark Eye. Dude had trash spell stats but high strength, lots of points in throwing weapons and an indestructible crystal ball that he could summon back to his hand. Which counted as a magic weapon because, well, it’s enchanted.

And he still had access to various divination spells. Not reliably but still.

Playing a shit spellcaster can be a lot of fun.

Ja, da sind die schlimmsten weg. Der Rest ist etwas wischi-waschi, aber das sind die meisten Politiker.

Ansonsten würde ich an der Aufstellung noch die Darstellung der Grünen als “SPD ohne Arbeitnehmersolidarität” darstellen, weil die SPD das Konzept selbst schon bis zur Bedeutungslosigkeit verdünnt hat. Wie an sich alle Konzepte.

Until systemd-pussy is released, that is.

Best I can do is mandatory Lumen and Nanite. You can get almost-stable 60 fps on a 5090 with DLSS Performance and 3x frame gen, which should be optimized enough for anyone.

My game will sell for 80 bucks, 150 if you want the edition with all the preorder-exclusive content.

That’s what happens when you get distracted while posting. Thanks for the correction.

Mind you, changing the sleep logic to “if there is no signal and the menu isn’t open” shouldn’t be all that difficult. Neither should be waking up when a button is pressed.

To put in context how much they are driving up demand: OpenAI just bought 40% of the global wafer production from two of the three major RAM manufacturers, Samsung and SK Hynix. SK Hynix Micron (best known for their Crucial brand) decided to drop out of the consumer market entirely.

Of course the other AI companies are going to try to nail down supply as well. If they get similar deals, 10 € per GB of DDR5 will look cheap.

This will increase the cost of computers, phones, and laptops, both directly and indirectly (e.g. GPUs will also become more expensive; VRAM doesn’t grow on trees). We’re already at a point where Samsung Semiconductors reportedly refused to sell RAM to Samsung Electronics. I fear we might enter into an age of 2000 € basic office PCs and 1000 € mid-tier phones if the AI bubble won’t pop first. Even when it does, the repercussions will be felt for some time.

Looks simple enough. The choice of Godot for a UI library is an interesting one; how big is the program in the end?

I would suggest being a bit more explicit about files: Which ones are in the working set; which one is currently being worked on, that sort of thing. Having a file list (even if it’s hidden in a drawer or something) before starting the conversion helps the user verify that the correct files are being worked on. Seeing which file is currently being processed might be useful for troubleshooting or just to see how far along the process is.

A shorthand for 000a:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:000s. It’s part of the alphabet v6 spec.

In stardate 42761, war was beginning.

Picard: What happen?

Worf: Somebody set us up the probe.

Riker: We get signal.

Picard: What !

Riker: Main screen turn on.

Picard: It’s you !!

BORG: How are you individuals !!

BORG: All your distinctiveness are belong to us.

BORG: You are on the way to assimilation.

Picard: What you say !!

BORG: You have no chance to resist make your time.

BORG: Ha ha ha ha …

Riker: Captain !!

Picard: Take off every ‘Voyager’!!

Picard: You know what you doing.

Picard: Move ‘Voyager’.

Picard: For great genocide.

Oh, AI can be very useful. Just not the generative stuff that is currently trying to consume all resources of the entire solar system for nebulous potential benefits.

A good example of AI that just works is document scanning. Get a picture of a document, locate text, OCR it, figure out which parts of the text correspond to entry fields, auto-populate the fields. That works pretty well and can greatly speed up manual data entry. It’s not perfect but the success rate is pretty good due to the constrained problem space and even if you have to check all fields and manually correct 10% of them you still save a lot of time.

An early example of this is the automated parsing of hand-written postal codes. That iteration of the tech has been in productive use since the 90s! (Yes, that’s just OCR but OCR is considered a field of AI.)

It’s one of those unexciting applications of tech that don’t make major waves but do work.

And not only is she capable of scaring Picard and Odo, she also becomes one of very few people who truly accept all of Odo’s weirdness and social awkwardness and just let him be himself.

Sure, Kira also accepted him in a similar way but that took years of time and romantic feelings. Lwaxana was just cool with it pretty much immediately. DS9 did a lot to show us that there was more to her than just an incredibly loud personality.

I mean, I’m perfectly fine with high prices as long as wages rise faster then the prices do…

In reality, the most common answers are “No shit, Sherlock!” and “What’s Copilot?”

The “Shut up!” only comes after you point out that Linux doesn’t have forced AI bullshit.

(They hated Jesus because he told them he uses Arch, btw.)

There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.

And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don’t.