No, they don’t. From a Marxist perspective, they think that liberal-democratic capitalism is a better pre-stage to the abolishment of capitalism than Leninist state capitalism.

Quoth the SPD programme:

Our history is shaped by the idea of democratic socialism, a society of free and equal people where our core values are realized. It requires a structure in economy, state and society guaranteeing civil, political, social and economic basic rights for all people living a life without exploitation, suppression and violence, hence in social and human security.

The end of the soviet type state socialism did not disprove the idea of democratic socialism but it clearly confirmed the orientation of social democracy towards core values. In our understanding democratic socialism remains the vision of a free and fair society in solidarity. Its realization is a permanent task for us. The principle for our actions is social democracy.

Here’s where the arrows come from. Figures that social democrats aren’t authoritarians and thus don’t like tankies which the KPD very much was. Calling them, at least at that time, “against socialism” is gross libel. (Technically the SPD still hasn’t abandoned socialism, at least when you look into their party programme, but new labour etc).

I guess a much bigger red flag is coming from a .ml instance and re-heating “social fascist” rhetoric against SocDems.

…can’t believe I’m actually defending the traitor party but it’s against tankies so meh.

I wouldn’t say primary type, they just happen to be the primary example that theory (complexity analysis etc) is taught with. Hence also the veritable zoo of very very bad sorting algorithms that still have proper names. There’s no quantum bogosort for string search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm

If you don’t want your “base set of facts” attacked with nuance, don’t present tendentious ones. You’re not trying to establish fundamentals, you’re trying to justify the assumptions you have created to come to your conclusion.

Which is just stochastic optimisation.

Which yes is exactly what evolution does, big picture. Small picture the genome evolves a bit more intelligently, using not random generation and filtering but an algorithm employing randomness to generate, and then the usual survival filter because doing it that way is, well, fitter. Also what you can see under a microscope.

Merkur 23C, btw, in case anyone is looking for a safety razor that’s both inexpensive and very good. Unchanged for literally a century now, no fancy materials (“aerospace-grade aluminium”) but good ole chromed zinc and brass. On the blade side, Russians being out of the picture, BIC is probably the right choice unlike other western brands they didn’t slouch on quality. Feather is always an option but many consider them too sharp. Also, more expensive. BICs should be somewhere around 15ct a piece. Don’t buy anything of that stuff from Wilkinson or such their offerings in that area seem to only exist to make safety razors look bad.

He’s a damn good author, that’s why. Only read the Song of Ice and Fire books so far, and I’m also going to read the rest… if they ever get finished.

And, yes, I’ve read literally all of Asimov, both Herberts, and am somewhat confused what science fiction has to do with SOIAF. Somehow completely missed cyberpunk but I guess by now it’s too late, I’ve read The Diamond Age, fuck transhumanist dystopia we don’t need the transhumanism for that. Still have catch-up to do on the Culture series.

It’s from the Game of Thrones series, that’s Ramsey Bolton taunting Theon Greyjoy, and you want to stop watching it quite some while before the final season as the show runners can’t write for shit and GRR Martin hasn’t finished the actual story yet. The beginning is great, though. And so is, so far, House of Dragons, at least for that one the story is finished as it’s a prequel so I’m quite confident it’s not going to turn into a total disaster.

because Zuckerberg did Jujitsu

LMFAO that coordination failure of a leek I have to see that.

I can’t believe this exists. Watch carefully how Lex Fridman (yes that one) goes to great lengths to not kill Zuckerberg in training.

As to martial arts in general and assholery, I’ll just leave this here.

The international court does not recognise breakaways by referenda anyway.

Under Danish law Greenland does have the right to unilaterally declare independence. Seriously doubt that Greenland would bend the knee to the US, though, from political reasons (the Greenland right is to the left of the US Overton window) to, well, as a US state they wouldn’t have the right to declare independence. Joining Canada would be thinkable, the EU pretty much infinitely more likely.

And to my understanding as someone not living near there it is a respected cultural thing on both sides. It is not something about laying claim to it.

We stand with our Jutish brothers against the oppressive dictate of Rigsdansk, forcing people to put their articles on the wrong side of their nouns. Sjaellish devils, go back to Skane!

The 2600 used a MOS 6507, which is a cut-down 6502, which had ~3500 logic transistors (not counting the ones necessary because NMOS), running at a max of 3MHz. Add very primitive graphics and 8k RAM.

Can’t be arsed to slog through suitable processors but ARM cores back then could kill that thing dead. 2002 is six years after the Palm Pilot while Moore’s law was still in full effect. The 2600 is from 1977, two decades more ancient.

There should even be more than enough cycles left over to generate the video signal in software.

Higher refresh rates for movies are meh at best, VRR OTOH is a godsend as 24Hz just won’t fit into 60Hz. Gaming, too, is much nicer when you have VRR, figures that delayed frames are quite a bit less noticeable than dropped frames.

My condolences for buying an Intel CPU…

Care to address your whitewashing of russian genocidal imperialism and refusal to recognize their responsibility for putin?

Who is responsible? The roughly 80% native Russian speakers in Kharkiv or Odessa? They the ones invading?

I said I don’t care what language people use in private conversation (even if it happens to be outside or even in between people in a work environment).

So all streets should be renamed? Restaurant signs taken down? In other places such things are dealt with by having multilingual signs.

So is this what you believe?

No. You’re putting words in my mouth. What I want you to stop is demanding the oppression of an ethnic and linguistic minority in Ukraine which right now is dying on the frontline defending the country. Is that too much to ask.

Ukraine signed the ECRML. Be a good European and, unlike Moscow, care about the treaties you sign. Care about human rights. Don’t blame people for who they are, but what they do, and, do I need to remind you again: Those people whose culture you want to oppress are dying for Ukraine right now. “Glory to the Heroes” my ass, what you’re saying is “Glory to the heroes only if they say “Hamburger”, as soon as they say “Gamburger” then fuck them”.

You seem to be unable to distinguish between “Russian-speaking Ukrainian” and “Russian citizen”. Should Ireland, in your estimation, expel everyone who can’t speak Gaelic? Have all signs, all government communication, in Gaelic?

I was pretty clear I have no issues with private use of russian langauge and you somehow come up with “speaking russian in public in Kharkiv”

I wonder why that is. Might it be because public is the opposite of private?

you would be a fool to not recognize how their language and culture is used to enable their violent imperialist goals.

Around 34% of Ukrainians are Russian native speakers. I suppose because speaking Russian makes people violent imperialists, they’re all violent imperialists? According to you, that is?

What you’re saying is that the people dealing with russian genocidal imperialism should should shut up and get killed

Those people who deal with Moscow’s imperialism, right now, on the frontline, defending Ukraine, are to a large portion Russian speakers. And you want to tell them that they can’t speak their native language because the people who shoot at them happen to also speak it.

Make it make sense. Please make it make sense.

Honestly what confuses me right now is DW not just reporting on this, but actually being on the investigative forefront, why they’re actively bringing stuff to the light that the foreign ministry would rather have under the rug. For the unaware: DW is state media operated by the federal level, not allowed to broadcast within Germany both because it’s federal and insufficiently independent.

I may have actually underestimated their willingness to have their editorial policy follow German foreign policy doctrine as opposed to the foreign ministry’s policy. Which in this case don’t really line up which is why the foreign ministry wants to keep things quiet.

…or such a rift exists within the foreign ministry and one side is backstabbing the other by sending discrete notes to DW. In any case, well done. Not the cutting funds part, of course, the other thing.

Just for the sake of argument, let me turn this around half-ways: Just as guns don’t kill people, people do, so AI does not produce slop, people do. Generative AI has its uses, where it becomes problematic is when people who can’t even judge a medium use it to produce something in that medium. It’s perfectly possible to get good stuff out of Stable Diffusion, but you have to know a thing or five about visual media or it’ll dazzle you. Applies the same for all genAI I’ve ever looked at.

Likewise, humans are perfectly capable of producing horrendous slop without aid of these tools – just look at the romance novel isle or what Hollywood was up to last year. What’s different nowadays is that it has become very easy to generate that slop, there has been an explosion of slop. If I were to imagine a silver lining it would be that people are probably going to get bored of it and non-slop, AI or non-AI, will see an increase in prestige and value. Just as the invention of photography saved painters from doing portraits.

Bonus:

Summarise the fable of the robot and the antipsychotic

“The Fable of the Robot and the Antipsychotic” is a story that explores themes of mental health, technology, and the human condition. In this fable, a robot represents modern technology and its capabilities, while the antipsychotic symbolizes medication and support for mental health issues.

The robot, designed to optimize efficiency and productivity, struggles to understand the complexities of emotions and human experiences. It encounters an individual who is grappling with mental health challenges and is hesitant to seek help. The robot, despite its advanced programming, cannot provide the emotional support the individual needs.

Through the interaction, the fable highlights the importance of empathy, understanding, and the role of medication in managing mental health. The robot eventually learns that while it can assist in many areas, the human experience requires compassion and connection, which technology alone cannot provide.

In the end, the story conveys that while robots and technology can enhance our lives, they should complement, rather than replace, the human touch in addressing emotional and mental well-being.

Depends on whether you grow crops specifically to turn into fuel or ferment waste that would otherwise ferment in the open.

The main point on the European level revolved around whether construction of gas plants should get access to some green fund or the other, to which the answer is yes because they’ll always carry some on-demand load, and seasonal storage is bound to include syngas because we’ll need that stuff anyway as chemical feedstock.