[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 25 minutes ago

Why would you want to go to Valhalla, Folkvangr sounds much nicer.

The trouble here is that NK state religion is monotheistic.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

The purpose of the church is not to drive progress, but to drag the stragglers along. And they do it rather adeptly, first it's "You shall still love them, even if they sin", because that was always church doctrine, then it's "of course sinners can be part of the flock, we all are sinners", because that was always church doctrine, and then, a generation or five later it's "How can it be sin, god made them like this", because that was always church doctrine. Everything has always been always church doctrine, there's nothing new under the sun.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

But we know too little about whether the limits of the turing machine are also limits of human cognition.

Erm, no. Humans can manually step interpreters of Turing-complete languages so we're TC ourselves. There is no more powerful class of computation, we can compute any computable function and our silicon computers can do it as well (given infinite time and scratch space yadayada theoretical wibbles)

The question isn't "whether", the answer to that is "yes of course", the question is first and foremost "what" and then "how", as in "is it fast and efficient enough".

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

(besides perhaps valve)

Definitely besides valve, they didn't lose their mojo as gamedevs. In fact valve is what happens when gamedevs have too much money: Too few fucking games.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

look at Euromaidan. a series of violent protests led to the democratically elected president being forced into fleeing the country, afterwards a government was appointed into power unconstitutionally and without an election

Said president reneged on core election promises (getting closer to the EU), then faced protests, then decided he didn't like the protests and tried to become a dictator while ordering Berkut to shoot at protestors.

Which only increased the number and resolve of protestors, so the president went AWOL. He was then impeached -- the Rada has the authority to do that, and had the votes, but the procedure was cut short, arguably unconstitutionally so, yes. Be that as it may: There were elections soon after. That's the fun thing about democracies, you can heal fuckups by having the people be the judge.

Ukraine banned a political party that over 10% of population supported early on in the war.

Ukraine banned a political party early on in the war that just over 10% of the population supported in 2019, you mean.

It generally doesn't help your case when your party chairman is under investigation for high treason and happily partakes in a prisoner exchange. He's in Russia now.

Meanwhile, Germany is in the process of banning a party that currently polls at just under 20%. And yes of course the AfD should be banned they're Nazis, their influence and poll numbers in fact are a requirement for the ban: Back when the constitutional court had to decide about the NPD they said "they're small and irrelevant, thus not a present danger".

. lockheed martin stock jumped over 30% after feb 2022. the shareholders were ecstatic.

...I'll just assume you're American. You see shifts in the stock market and conclude that that is, for some reason, why people fight. You consider your own nation to be so exceptional that its stock exchange influences the decisions of people half-way around the globe. Ukrainians fight because they know what it's like to be a colony of Moscow. Because in the end you'd rather die in a trench giving Moscow hell than to die in a gulag building Moscow's weapons, or in a meat assault against Moscow's next victim.

Have you ever wondered what happened to all those men in the occupied territories? Sent to the front with fucking Mosin-Nagants. Such is life as a colony of Russia.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

So instead of just losing it now, you lose it a week later and you throw away 300 lives for virtually no tactical benefit.

As long as the k/d ratio is beneficial to the Ukrainian side it's still strategically beneficial to stay. It's a war of attrition, not a tactical manoeuvre, Avdiivka itself was never strategically relevant Ukraine has plenty of land to fall back to, what matters is tiring out the Russians.

Strategic command might very well have misjudged the situation, including not factoring in morale effects properly, but that doesn't make "hold and take losses as long as the other side takes more losses" strategically invalid.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

With Pirates the captain also wasn't the sole authority on the ship, just the military one. The first mate was the civilian leader, also elected. You generally don't want your war chief be the one solving disputes over who sleeps in which bunk: Even if they have the skillset that's not what you want them to worry about.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

You probably can, not just in non-EU Schengen countries (i.e. EFTA) but also a couple of other select places. E.g. Egypt will let you in with a German ID card if you have two extra images with you so they can issue you a small cardboard visa. Wouldn't recommend it in Egypt though, banks, hotels etc. might not recognise ID cards.

But that's really the main issue: The country will have to issue a visa and that has to be recorded in some way. It could, in principle, be completely electronic and online, but that requires that their IT systems can actually use the electronic features of your ID card and that everyone who might have to check your visa has to have a card reader and a connection to the state's servers.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

In their defence it's very useful trash outclassing, in general practice, what Russia is fielding (Bradleys are sturdy, practical, and their autocannons pack a punch), it's just the accounting that's straight out of Hollywood: The sums you're seeing announced prices old stuff at the replacement value, that is, what new stuff costs, stuff that they would have bought anyway. It's entirely imaginary dollars.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Renewables won't exactly help harmonics, on the contrary, especially solar. This is an issue of insufficient mitigation mechanisms, probably on the supply side as computer PSUs are generally quite well-behaved loads: Drawing lots of electricity, on its own, does not harmonic distortion make.

If it is on the consumer side utilities need to start charging commercial customers for distortions just like they're charging for blind current. If it's on the supply side, utilities need to require large solar installations to have proper filters, and have their own mechanisms to mop up the rest. Generally the US should start having a not shoddy electricity grid, brown- and blackouts and you call yourself a developed country? We don't even have a (colloquial) word for brownout over here!

That all said, yeah the AI hype gotta stop. That doesn't mean that you should blame them for everything.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not about not able but not willing. And not in the "we don't want to help Ukraine" sense, but in the "we don't want to switch to a war economy, not even in part" one.

Lessons should definitely be learned about capacity to scale up, though. E.g. in future peace times we might regularly order shell casings from 1000 machine shops, each doing a couple, to make sure that each of them has experience doing it. The penny-pinchers won't like that, low-volume production is expensive, military logisticians will love it.

And we can definitely produce more tank/artillery barrels than Russia, btw. They only have two suitable rotary forges, both of them Austrian models. That company could, push come to shove and with some help from other companies delivering parts, probably build forges faster than the Russians can make barrels. And at that point you seriously have to worry about whether we still have enough steel production to justify making cutlery.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

How to tell me you're stuck in your head terminally online without telling me you're stuck in your head terminally online.

But have something more to read.

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blurb:

So apparently buying a high speed camera wasn't enough, because after two videos with it I decided to build my own, but 5 orders of magnitude faster…

In this video I'm filming the motion of light as it flies across my garage at… well, the speed of light! It's fast. So fast that even with my best setup so far, I get 18 frames of video from one end of the room to the other, and those frames have a lot of temporal blur so realistically each "frame" is actually kind of an average of the information that by right should belong to 5-10 frames. It's a mess, but it works.

I'm using the technique from the electricity waves video where I used repeated oscilloscope measurements synced after the fact to produce "videos" of electricity moving down a wire. The only difference is that instead of measuring electricity waves, I'm measuring light emitted by a laser, bouncing off the wall, traveling to my camera, and landing in the window of a photomultiplier tube. UNLIKE the electricity waves video, this setup (thankfully) is automated, and an optics assembly slews across angle space, building up a 3d dataset of video, collecting all the time information from each pixel sequentially.

It's a really fun project that I've wanted to do for a long time, and just recently got pulled together.

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3Blue1Brown explains holograms in detail. The physical kind, flat plates that show 3d scenes.

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Synopsis: Title. Asianometry.

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Asianometry dives into the tech, history, and the last bits of innovation potential spinning magnetic platters have left as they hold on to their last niches under the onslaught of SSDs

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Videogames are being destroyed! Most video games work indefinitely, but a growing number are designed to stop working as soon as publishers end support. This effectively robs customers, destroys games as an artform, and is unnecessary. Our movement seeks to pass new law in the EU to put an end to this practice. Our proposal would do the following:

  • Require video games sold to remain in a working state when support ends.
  • Require no connections to the publisher after support ends.
  • Not interfere with any business practices while a game is still being supported.

If you are an EU citizen, please sign the Citizens' Initiative!

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120 days – roughly four months: That’s how much time Maxim Timchenko reckons Ukraine has until cold weather sets in, raising the pressure on Ukraine’s crippled power infrastructure. Timchenko is CEO of the country’s largest private energy operator, DTEK, which has lost power plants in recent Russian attacks – part of a Russian offensive that has wiped out half of Ukraine’s power production. He tells Steven Beardsley how he’s now trying to scrape together every bit of generating capacity he can find, including from renewables.

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Even more voter movement charts.

Bonus: "Do you think Germany's economic situation is good or bad?"

not even asking about personal economic conditions, just the overall state there's a massive fucking difference in perception.

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Provisional results are in (results.elections.europa.eu)
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For all your boycotting needs. I'm sure there's some mods caught in lemmy.ml's top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire.

  1. !memes@lemmy.world and !memes@sopuli.xyz. Or of course communities that rule.
  2. !asklemmy@lemmy.world
  3. !linux@programming.dev. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :)
  4. !programmer_humor@programming.dev
  5. !world@lemmy.world
  6. !privacy@lemmy.world and maybe !privacyguides@lemmy.one, lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. !fedigrow@lemm.ee says !privacy@lemmy.ca. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :)
  7. !technology@lemmy.world
  8. Seems like !comicstrips@lemmy.world and !comicbooks@lemmy.world, various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
  9. !opensource@programming.dev
  10. !fuckcars@lemmy.world

(Out of the loop? Here's a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour)

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