Don’t they understand how fucked up the Nazis were, sweetie?

Yes. And if you actually read what they say then you’d see that they, I’ll quote myself,

Go point by point, you’ll find similarities, but also stark differences.

There’s also plenty of talk about “The Holocaust is singular”.

You also see things like

The Israeli government and its army aren’t Nazis, but they are behaving like all oppressors and people who make wars.

I’m not sure whether you, and people like you, are unwilling or unable to understand what this is about. Why nuance matters, specifically to Germans, specifically regarding this topic. Why it’s important for us to be precise with Nazi comparisons.

feddit.org is absolutely on the side of Palestinians, as you’d know if you actually talked with people there. The genocide does get called a genocide, Israeli politicians get called fascist a lot, if you come with a talking point that smells even remotely of Kahanite you’re getting dogpiled and/or banned. And here you are, getting your underwear in a twist over “please don’t do inaccurate Nazi comparisons”.

It’s a well-established concept in Germany and I’m not really sure what’s confusing or unclear about the verb “to trivialise”. It means “to make something appear less grave than it actually was/is”.

“You had a good orgasm, though”, for example, is a way to trivialise rape. It’s a good example in the sense that I feel bad writing it even in quotes. Calling the RKI “Corona-Stasi” trivialises GDR injustice as the measures taken to prevent spread of a contagious disease cannot be compared, both in goals and the means employed, to a secret police disappearing and torturing people.

Is it permissible to compare the Israeli government with the Nazi regime? Of course. But then do it, actually compare them. Go point by point, you’ll find similarities, but also stark differences. Lazy statements like “All X are Y” though are, at best, useless, and more often than not harmful. They don’t compare anything, they equate things.

If you can’t, on the top of your head, come up with five points that were significantly worse directly at the start of the NS regime, way before WWII started, than they are in Israel right now you don’t know half the history every single German high schooler knows. Meaning to say: The reason, I think, many people think the two are comparable is because they don’t understand the extent of just how fucked up the Nazis were.

Well the way German law works out that it comes down to established historical fact. As in, the professional consensus of historians, heard as expert witnesses. The wording of the law is (paraphrased) “Acts committed by the NS regime that fulfil the UN definition of genocide”, the historians decide what happened, who did it, judges decide whether it fits the definition. Invoking precedence, in German law, is like invoking someone’s doctoral thesis on a matter of law: It’s a piece of reasoning judges will have to take into account because it’s an argument before court but it’s by no means binding. As such having an ICJ judgement will be helpful, but it does need to be up to standards.

One of the doctors who performed the first vaginoplasty, on Dora Richter, did also go on to participate in brutal abuses in a concentration camp.

TIL, design of the freezing experiments and he later wrote on them. Worked at the Charité at the time of doing the vaginaplasty, from what I can tell seems to have been a star surgeon. Surgery attracts psychopaths, he probably could not give less of a fuck about the ethics of anything but was interested in the technical aspects. Dora Richter’s surgery was a joint effort with Ludwig Levy-Lenz, generally credited as the father of sex reassignment surgery and working at the Hirschfeld Institute itself. Not terribly surprising they collaborated with the Charité on a novel procedure, it was and is one of the very best hospitals in the world. Not indicted in the Doctor’s trials, you probably do not want to read up on what those people did. I’m serious.

Unless you’re running BSD or some other genetic Unix probably not as everything GNU is newer than that. GNU is 80s, original Unix 70s, in the 60s you still have giant minicomputers with very little standardisation, including ISA, and before the 60s there were not even compilers.

A decent chunk of software traces lineage back to then, even if the old code has been retired: vi is the screen terminal mode of ex with is a more featureful ed which got most of its features from qed which is 60s software. Cutting-edge: You didn’t have to punch holes any more, you had a keyboard and a printer. Someone figure out where dd has its argument syntax from so we know whom to blame.

The point being it’s obnoxious that discussions of any female politician at some point have to bring up their attractiveness.

Her badassery was brought up. Yes, badass women are attractive, deal with it.

If we take your proposal for example, that would mean that we were very alike to the Scandinavians, since those are mostly the “pagan” traditions that remain in some thinned out, distorted ways, here too.

I guess what I want to say overall is that you shouldn’t confuse the impact of Christianisation with the impact of being neighbours for millennia. Of course you both have Saunas, why wouldn’t they copy you, long before the crusades. There’s indubitably lots of influence in areas such as administration, but folk dances, music? Which tax collector has ever cared about that, that kind of thing travels from village to neighbouring village, the occasional travelling musician, not via state structures.

The Catholic Church definitely had influence on music as they had their stuff standardised but then not every village had a church much less a choir much less organ, nor would you want to dance to their chants. They didn’t unify Europe musically, why would they care to. What they did do is popularise polyphony.

On the flipside: Tradition is not praying to the ashes, but passing on the fire. If there’s some specifically Finnish spark that makes you produce the amount and quality of metal that you do then, by all means, do blaze on. Why go backwards, how would that be more authentic.

might we have something equally powerful and captivating to preserve?

…no. As in: That’s not the kind of cultural practice Christianisation wiped out or we wouldn’t be burning stuff come spring, dance around maypoles, and whatnot. The Faroese are still into singing sagas as an actual community practice. Missionaries back then weren’t trying to regiment people into factory workers, make them sit still on chairs and such.

It’s kind of a grass is greener on the other side kind of situation. There’s a good reason stuff like Heilung is captivating, but that’s because they’re modern-day shamans speaking to instincts buried by modernity, not because they’d be historical in their music or practices. Norse folk music indeed sounded pretty much like Norse folk music does today.

Honourable cause, not good praxis interjecting it into random topics making people more fed up hearing about it than they’re fed up hearing about vegans.

I would guess it’s pretty hard to reconstruct data with a different LLM

I think the idea is to have compressor and decompressor use the exact same neural network. Looks like arithmetic coding with a learned function.

But yes model size is probably going to be an issue.

So… crystal ball, I don’t have access to the paper either. Think arithmetic coders as neural nets are function approximators. You send an initial token and the NN will start to generate deterministically, once you detect a divergence from the lossless ideal you send another token to put it on track again. Make it a sliding window so things don’t become too computationally expensive. You architect the model not to be smart but to need little guidance following “external reasoning” so to speak.

The actual disadvantage of this kind of thing will be the model size, yes you might be able to transmit a book in a kilobyte (100x or more compression) but both encoder and decoder will need access to gigabytes of neural weights, and that’s just for text. It’s also not going to be computationalliy cheap, though probably cheaper than PAQ.

Not the customer’s problem. Also, fraud.

But probably failure of due diligence because any seller who’s not a complete idiot would rather let the sale fail and let the company go bankrupt than risk committing fraud.

Austrian and Bavarian gibberish indeed is the same, one tribe, different states. The rest of the sign isn’t in Boarisch though so in Bavaria you’d expect it to be completely in Standard German. Bundesrepublik Standard German, that is, not Austrian Standard German with heuer, Jänner, Paradeiser, and whatnot.

The green sign reads “Please don’t leave empty boxes here. Bring them to the bin outside”

No it doesn’t. It has a bad slogan in big font: “If we all unpack here, we can all pack up” (the idiom probably works if you squint hard enough). Then “Please don’t leave waste paper (carton) in the self-service-zone. Carry your empty package to the container. The environment will be just as happy as us”.

It does not say where the container is (despite the definitive article in English, it’s not implied that there even is one at location), nor does it have relevant information in large letters, just lots of fluff. It’s accessively passive-aggressive, trying to give the impression that it’s all polite while simultaneously ordering you around. Trying to invoke social responsibility while completely ignoring that that’s a two-way street: Where’s the fucking container? You had one job with that sign, and you failed.

Here’s what would work: Big: “Waste paper container is around the corner”. Small: “Please. Thanks”. You don’t have to convince people, you just have to make it convenient and they’ll be happy to carry their stuff five metres instead of playing carton Jenga.

Also they’re using “Packerl” for package that’s probably Austria. Maybe Switzerland it’s not like I’m a specialist in mountain gibberish. Also not enough yellow for a Deutsche Post shop.

There’s a better way: German flour types. They’re specifying mineral content, e.g. standard “white flour” is Type 405, meaning that when you pyrolyse 100g of flour, 405mg of ashes will be left. As the minerals were all in carbon solution before, and temperatures are low enough to not melt them into slag, you’re essentially left with single atoms. Close enough at least for an assumption. If you disagree I shall hand you a mortar.

Of course, that doesn’t specify everything. I suggest also measuring the released energy, then jot both numbers down on the complex plane. So you have joule-moles of flour.

Not really, they’d clash all the time. 8080 is the default port for a non-privileged webserver, that is, web server, something you put your own stuff on, not applications/daemons that happen to have a web interface. E.g. ComfyUI uses 8188 for its web interface, deluge 8112, neither will serve your index.html.

Eh. Ben-Gvir is Mizrahi, while Hippie Kibbutzim are full of Ashkenazi. Netanyahu is Ashkenazi, but also from a Russian background. Jigal Amir is Mizrahi.

Not saying that European BS doesn’t have a role in this, it laid the foundations, but the current political landscape of Israel would look quite differently without all the newer arrivals. There’s definite electoral trends among the ethnic backgrounds, long story short Mizrahis don’t hail from places where there’s ever been anything like a functional social democracy, they’ve also been minorities there, mix that with European fascism and you get… well, people like Ben-Gvir and Amir.

Because PATH_MAX is? Also because it’s a 4k page.

FILENAME_MAX is not safe to use for buffer allocations btw it could be INT_MAX.

255, generally, because null termination. ZFS does 1023, the argument not being “people should have long filenames” but “unicode exists”, ReiserFS 4032, Reiser4 3976. Not that anyone uses Reiser, any more. Also Linux’ PATH_MAX of 4096 still applies. Though that’s in the end just a POSIX define, I’m not sure whether that limit is actually enforced by open(2)… man page speaks of ENAMETOOLONG but doesn’t give a maximum.

It’s not like filesystems couldn’t support it it’s that FS people consider it pointless. ZFS does, in principle, support gigantic file metadata but using it would break use cases like having a separate vdev for your volume’s metadata. What’s the point of having (effectively) separate index drives when your data drives are empty.

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