[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

The string “AAAAA” cannot be said to be greater or less than “AAAAB”, besides the very special case when we order it.

I hate it to break it to you but it's the same with numbers.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago

Surrogacy is not a personal choice by a couple but a contract with a third person affecting the legal status of a fourth person.

Plenty of states where surrogacy is illegal for everyone, plenty of states where the LGBT angle doesn't even begin to be an argument because they can adopt, use IFV, etc.

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

Pfft, amateurs. Discordian popes can apply infallibility retroactively.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

Healthy, well-functioning society would mean allowing adoption and IFV for LGBT folks and still outlawing surrogacy, or at the very least commercial surrogacy.

Probably a sign of our times that any- and everything is commodified, including mother/child bonds. What's even more nuts is that there's countries where prostitution is illegal but commercial surrogacy legal.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

Das Züchtigungsrecht gegen Kinder wurde erst 2000 abgeschafft.

Davon aber abgesehen war das aber damals schon keine Züchtigung sondern Misshandlung. Für runter gefallenes Eis Schellen zu geben ist weder angemessen noch maßvoll.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Die anderen dürfen ihr Zeug gerne verkaufen, nur halt als Invertzuckersirup und nicht Honig. Manch einem Verbraucher mag das egal sein, andere sehen zu recht einen Unterschied wie zwischen Tag und Nacht, ich kauf inzwischen keinen Honig mehr wenn er nicht entweder a) in Gläsern vom Deutschen Imkerbund daherkommt oder b) eine geschützte und geprüfte Spezialität vom Fachhändler ist. In letzterem Sinne mal so ein Tipp am Rande: Kubanischer Honig. Mit dem Fall der UdSSR mussten die ja gezwungenermaßen komplett auf Bio umstellen daher geht's den Bienen da prächtig und die futtern Dschungel.

Den Invertzuckersirup kannste knicken da ist eine Packung Zucker doch einiges praktischer. Und billiger.

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

That makes complete sense. Ranges implement fmt::Debug, .. is a range, in particular the full range (all values) ..= isn't because the upper bound is missing but ..=.. ranges from the beginning to the... full range. Which doesn't make sense semantically but you can debug print it so add a couple more nested calls and you get a punch card.

I totally didn't need the Rust playground to figure that out.

EDIT: Oh, glossed over that: .. is only the full range if standing alone, it's also an infix operator which is why you can add as many as you want (be careful with whitespace, though). .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. is a valid Rust expression.

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

Named function arguments would occasionally be nice to have instead of the single n-tuple they take now. Currently I'm more or less playing a game of "can I name my local variables such that rust-analyzer won't display the argument name when I stick them into functions (because they're called the same)).

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Enum constructors are functions, this typechecks:

fn foo<T>() {
    let f: fn(T) -> Option<T> = Some;
}

I was a bit apprehensive because rust has like a gazillion different function types but here it seems to work like just any other language with a HM type system.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

It's not actually any safer, they taped thin rubber strips over the exposed edges. Someone's friends with an inspector who played dumb, me thinks.

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This stuff has foreign policy implications so the BND is very much interested. As a lot of this stuff might affect the military and, more generally, constitutes hybrid warfare the MAD is also very much interested.

Long story short the Russians are currently occupying no less than 19 German intelligence services (The 16 state ones (internal) and the three federal ones, internal, external, military)

If you ever want to see truly terrible architecture btw the BND delivers. Then, for years activists have tried getting freedom of information requests fulfilled by the BND but they're very good at blocking everything off. Until someone asked, referring to their obligations under laws about the protection of nature, what kind of tree that Christmas tree was they displayed very publicly, and where it came from. That broke them: Instead of writing a 20 page dissertation on why they supposedly don't have to answer, they simply answered the question. Since then further information could be extracted such as the meal plan of their canteen.

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

Funny how you cite a source that doesn't even contain the word "Zionist", "Zionism", "Zion" anything.

If you actually have a look at the data you can see there's very significant chunks that don't have an issue with BDS, that don't think that Netanyahu is in any way serious about peace. Those are not the frothing-at-the-mouth Kahanites that people on the US left often mean when they say "Zionist". Yitzhak Rabin was a Zionist. Murdered by a Zionist.

It's more complicated than that and may I remind y'all that Hamas specifically targeted Hippie Kibutzim during their attack, the same kind of people who go into the West Bank during olive harvest so that settlers have a harder time shooting Palestinians, which is one of the reasons why the Israeli government doesn't give a rat's arse about the hostages.

The biggest enemies of the Zionist project, currently, is the type of people running the Israeli government. Because if you're out for a place for Jews to call home, to live in peace and prosperity, antagonising the fuck out of everyone is not the way to go about it. Traitors to the movement, the lot of them.

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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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A new paper suggests diminishing returns from larger and larger generative AI models. Dr Mike Pound discusses.

The Paper (No "Zero-Shot" Without Exponential Data): https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125

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There are lots of ways we are tackling the climate crisis, bringing down emissions and sucking carbon out of the atmosphere. But which method is the most cost-effective? For a given investment, which draws down the most carbon emissions? In this video I answer that question... and then talk about why that answer doesn't necessarily mean much.

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Press release of the Parliement itself


  • Safeguards on general purpose artificial intelligence
  • Limits on the use of biometric identification systems by law enforcement
  • Bans on social scoring and AI used to manipulate or exploit user vulnerabilities
  • Right of consumers to launch complaints and receive meaningful explanations

On Wednesday, Parliament approved the Artificial Intelligence Act that ensures safety and compliance with fundamental rights, while boosting innovation.

The regulation, agreed in negotiations with member states in December 2023, was endorsed by MEPs with 523 votes in favour, 46 against and 49 abstentions.

It aims to protect fundamental rights, democracy, the rule of law and environmental sustainability from high-risk AI, while boosting innovation and establishing Europe as a leader in the field. The regulation establishes obligations for AI based on its potential risks and level of impact.

[...]

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Mensch jetzt hab ich schon so viel in den Titel gepackt bleibt ja gar nichts mehr übrig für hier.

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In this video, I measure a wave of electricity traveling down a wire, and answer the question - how does electricity know where to go? How does "electricity" "decide" where electrons should be moving in wires, and how long does that process take? Spoiler alert - very fast!

I've been very excited about this project for a while - it was a lot of work to figure out a reliable way to make these measurements, but I've learned SO much by actually watching waves travel down wires, and I hope you do too!

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This is from the 37th Chaos Communication Congress, still ongoing y'all might find other things of interests there, e.g. sticking with looking at stars the talk about the Extremely Large Telescope. Congress schedule, live streams, relive and released videos (i.e. final cuts not the automatic relive stuff which is often quite iffy)

Talk blurb:

The Solar System has had 8 planets ever since Pluto was excluded in 2006. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. But did you know Neptune was discovered as the 12th planet? Or that, 80 years before Star Trek, astronomers seriously suspected a planet called Vulcan near the Sun? This talk will take you through centuries of struggling with the question: Do you even planet?!

In antiquity, scientists counted the 7 classical planets: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – but their model of the universe was wrong. Two thousand years later, a new model was introduced. It was less wrong, and it brought the number of planets down to 6: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Since then, it's been a roller coaster ride of planet discoveries and dismissals.

In this talk, we stagger through the smoke and mirrors of scientific history. We meet old friends like Uranus and Neptune, forgotten lovers like Ceres, Psyche and Eros, fallen celebrities like Pluto, regicidal interlopers like Eris and Makemake as well as mysterious strangers like Vulcan, Planet X and Planet Nine.

Find out how science has been tricked by its own vanity, been hampered by too little (or too much!) imagination, and how human drama can make a soap opera out of a question as simple as: How Many Planets in Our Solar System?

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