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It’s just a natural immune reaction. Trying to burn us off with fever

I don’t know that either, but for other drugs that can prevent hiv infections, it’s much more frequent. Like weekly, or daily.

I’m not sure about this… the build systems I work with are either so complex that something like cmake gets used because that way we can support multiple build systems on different platforms without maintaining five different projects, or they are so simple that it frankly doesn’t matter whether it’s make or something else.

And in the former case, i.e. the only case where I even care what tool we use, what I care about the most is speed, so I would want something like ninja instead of make (which cmake conveniently supports). I don’t want to micro-optimize by doing everything myself with redo.

It doesn’t seem to be based on petroleum, since they’re explicitly comparing it to petroleum-based plastics…

There also are other non-petroleum based plastics that dissolve in water. This part is not new. E.g. polyvinyl alcohol is used widely.

What’s new about this one is that it specifically needs salt to dissolve and they claim it’s otherwise relatively sturdy. So maybe it could be used instead of pet bottles for drinks? Or maybe they’re not quite there yet but it’s a new step in that direction…

Hmm, it shows archived on Jun 2 for me, but this person’s screenshot says May 31:

https://x.com/OnlyXuanwo/status/1929504028863369416

So did they unarchive it, make two commits, and then archive it again?

In UTF8, all bytes that are not an ASCII character have the high bit set.

“first genocide of the 20th century” sounds like it means something, but when it started in 1904, it was just around 8 years after the last genocide of the 19th century ended. Because humans are shit and we have one of these every few years.

I had one of those laptops (a PowerBook). Yes, it had two slots that could be used for batteries. But that meant taking out the CD drive. Modern laptops don’t have that anymore so I’m not sure where the room for another battery would come from. The other thing is, it lasted at best 4-5 hours on one battery when doing light work. Its modern counterparts last 10-15 hours on one battery.

The same thing actually happened with phones. But now we literally can’t spend half a minute not looking at them and we also play energy hungry games on them etc. You can still get a phone with replaceable battery though, e.g. Fairphone or Volla.

IMHO, LISP is ok for theoretical fundamentals but it won’t necessarily get you a practical understanding of how computers work. Functional languages are more like how mathematicians wish computers worked. All programming languages are abstractions, but functional languages abstract away how the underlying hardware works in ways that procedural languages don’t.

And Java is pretty useful if you want to get a job but if you don’t want that, then there are less painful options. The difference to Python is mostly that Java often feels like it was intentionally made annoying to use. But it’s a pretty high level language, I wouldn’t call it more fundamental or basic than Python. Java wins on performance but that has nothing to do with how high level it is.

For practical fundamentals, if you actually want those, I’d recommend starting with microcontrollers and their assembly. Modern CPUs are so complex that learning fundamentals from scratch with assembly is quite difficult. But with smaller/older microcontrollers (like PIC or something) it’s both more approachable and more useful. It’s almost a shame that hobbyist microcontroller platforms are pretty advanced now too. But you can move on to C first, you can ignore MicroPython for a while if you want.

If you want a game way to learn absolute basics, there is a game called Turing Complete. It basically teaches you how to build your own CPU architecture from logic gates. You start with the basics about logic circuits and eventually build a simple CPU, and then another more complex one. I think this actually goes a bit too far in terms of fundamentals, it will take you forever to learn how to even make something write Hello World on a screen. But I guess this is the closest to how I started out. Of course for me the logic part was theory only. And the CPU I eventually learned programming first was a 6502 and not something I designed myself.

Which “successful far-right party” are you referring to that was banned? The only right-wing party banned by Federal Germany is the SRP, and that one was fairly small. All the other attempts ended in a different resolution (i.e. not a party ban).

The NSDAP was banned by the Allied Control Council. Denazification was the Allied Control Council too.

None of this got rid of nazis. The AfD is only the current iteration. For my entire life, there’s always been some right wing extremist party that was big enough to be regularly mentioned on the news. Sometimes they randomly disappear and then another one rises. I even remember cases where one tried to become less extremist and then disappeared as a result of that (e.g. REP).

I’m all for banning them but it’s been 80 years that WWII ended and we still don’t have a real solution that actually works.

IMHO, if you’re discouraged by reality, that’s not my problem. I don’t like it when people just scream “ban” but don’t actually have a plan beyond that to get 30% of the voters to not vote for the next party that uses the nazi talking points.

You say that all the counterexamples don’t negate the one time it worked, but there is no successful example of banning a nazi party in Germany. They keep coming back. Learning some lessons is exactly what is needed here, because so far the NSDAP has been banned twice, the DVFP has been banned once, the SRP has been banned once, the FAP has been banned once, the NL has been banned once, attempts to ban the NPD failed twice before they lost funding in the third attempt, and now here we are and another nazi party is polling close to 30%.

I’m not advocating for not trying. Just saying that “it worked once” is not a good argument. I think the only ideology of a party that was banned in Germany that actually doesn’t matter in today’s political landscape is communism. But there still are nazis even though the NSDAP was banned twice, there still are social democrats even though they were banned for 20 years, etc.

There’s also that more recently, Germany failed to ban the NPD twice and that was this century.

I think the AfD should be banned, but the people voting for them also need to become less stupid, and a ban alone will not do that.