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Dude the issue in Barcelona is that AirBNBs take up housing that's supposed to be occupied by supercomputer researchers. The city also already has plenty of Hotels. Licensed ones.

If more tourists want to come than there are hotel rooms tough luck why should Barcelona tank its economy for them. Barcelona is a city, not a theme park. The reason it's beautiful is not because it was built to attract tourists, but because it's an economical powerhouse run and lived in by people who value things like architecture and urban planning.

Take your tourism dollars and spend them in Extremadura, Barcelona won't mind. Great food there, nature, small places, little industry, Roman architecture, they can actually use that money.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Maybe in the past, but they actually lobbied against the EU diluting the supply chain act which makes companies responsible for human rights abuses of their suppliers.

My best guess it's that it's a combination of being sick and tired of being sued and not having due diligence documentation at the ready to defend themselves not just in state courts but also the court of public opinion, as well as the realisation that human rights abuses don't make cocoa any cheaper for them: It's not like slave plantations would cut them a share of the extra profit, they're still paying word market prices. So for them it's a way to get rid of grift and corruption within their own supply chain and they don't want to be the only ones playing along those rules.

It definitely isn't caused by Nestle suddenly growing a conscience, it's just that making money, for a change, in this specific case, actually aligns with corporate responsibility.

Here's the ZDF documentary, German only, German subtitles available.

Here's an interview with the makers, also German but as it's on youtube you might have some success with auto-translated subtitles.

None of those are fast fashion. Hanes and Gildan make underwear, t-shirts, maybe the odd hoodie. Boring and casual (both in a good way), most of all comfortable. Under Armour is similar but for sports.

NixOS. Gentoo gets into trouble when you need multiple versions of the same library at the same time. Also while the infrastructure supports it it's annoying that gentoo doesn't provide pre-built binaries, like yes some people might want to have reason to build their own bash but I think I'll be fine with a standard build. NixOS? If you install something usually it's going to be pre-built. Change a couple of configuration flags? May or may not be pre-built. You want to apply a custom patch? It's going to seamlessly build from source.

I don't know whether you've been alive during the "games make people violent" craze, where the establishment was trying to pin school shootings on a harmless hobby: The same establishment which caused the systemic issues driving youth into desperation was now blaming an escapist hobby for the issues they, themselves, caused. It's like framing jugglers for knife attacks. Do some jugglers juggle knives? Yes. Does that have anything to do with anything? No.

Is that in any way comparable in scale and intensity to what various groups had to go through historically, or are now, no of course not. But gamers, as a wider culture, know what it's like to be victim-blamed. The average person who picks up playing games as a hobby is not any more racist, misogynist, or drivelling rape apologia than the population average. They do it because they enjoy it, no further qualifications necessary.

But OTOH, nope. The copypasta is pumped-up to 11 when it comes to the capacity of gamers to be a community, to organise, take joint action, be a force, everything. I'd be easy to go "no true gamer" on some people but face it "gamers" as a group are still pre-ordering games and letting GPU scalpers have their way with us. Just as powerless as, say, football fans are powerless in he face of FIFA corruption. Concert goes in the face of ticket platform monopolies. We're a hopeless case in any other aspect but whinging: That, we are masters of.

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.

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.