azimir
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- Comment on How can I develop software for a PowerPC? 3 days ago:
Well, one option would be either Open or NetBSD. They both have Power PC architecture ports and come with compilers. It would not be cross compiling, but you could run native and compile the source there.
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
Switzerland doesn’t play when it comes to trains:
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
If there’s nothing else, Germany can complain about Deutsche Bahn! I have a long commute to work (my employer ist sehr schlect in some ways), so I’ve spent many months playing “will it, won’t it” on RE train delays. I even had one vanish on the app after it claimed to pass through my station. Geistbahn!
The dumb part is that I started visiting Germany back in 1995. The trains ran much better. Nich so viel Störungen oder unregelmaßig dingen. Good memories only cover over so many cracks, though.
It’ll only take about 20 years of big investment to rebuild the train network after so many decades of underinvestment by conservative governments. No worries, any day now.
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
I kept seeing discussions about the way things generally work in Europe, the rights people have, and the cultural appreciation for people’s health and I finally said “fuck it! Let’s move to Europe”. I’d been visiting for decades off and on, so we made it permanent.
It only took three years of applying for jobs, saving, and finally getting all of our family needs in order, but we did it. If you can, give it a look.
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
Mülltrennung ist seht wichtig! Wir wissen das, aber die Gelbetonne ist komisch.
Unsere Wohnung hat kein nachbar jetzt. Es ist ein neues bau, und die Vermieter ist Meiter suchen. Ruhezeit ist sind die besten teil von Deutschland!
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
Bingo! Yeah, it’s bad there.
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
I had my first real sickness for time off since I moved to Germany. I had a call with a doctor, they pushed a sick note into the digital health system, and my company noted it as paid time off.
Modern civilization in a developed nation rocks.
Now if we could just get the paperwork to die down a bit… Oh, and find a way to get the trains on time!
- Comment on Sick days 6 days ago:
Undeveloped societies can be like that. It’s often places that don’t have many rights for the citizens and are worse off in wealth then the pre French Revolution France. Basically peasants with smart phones given this day and age.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bingo. You’ve nailed it.
- Comment on Malnutrition deaths are soaring in the US – especially among seniors 5 weeks ago:
It is when so many people stupid together that it systematically starts kill them. Is it a 3rd party punishment? Nope, it’s FAFO on a national scale. Unfortunately it’s going to be epic in just how much suffering it causes.
- Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 1 month ago:
Would you like some sulfur to go with your pseudoscience, fascism, and stupidity?
- Comment on Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift. 1 month ago:
You’re spot on here. The list there was heavily subsidized by government funding. NIH, DARPA, NSF, NASA, etc made those be discovered and initially refined. Many are still heavily subsidized by government funding.
There’s an initial investment stage that takes risk, but after that, it’s mostly about refinement and efficiency. Capitalism tries to exploit those government funds then spread the risk followed by retreading old ideas for new dollars. Capitalism invents few things because it’s risky. It’s really good at monopolizing existing things and eventually driving the efficiency of exploitation to the umpteenth degree.
- Comment on The USA and Europe are now enemies 2 months ago:
Here’s the dumb part: nothing beyond old men wanting to grab power.
- Comment on Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers 2 months ago:
Oh! You mean being somewhere tih neighborhood scale markets, not just “fuck WalMart”. (Which deserves it).
Yeah, Europe is mostly still rolling relatively small grocery stores of various makes and models. Go to a major Germany city on a mapping app and search for lebensmittel (groceries). You’ll get them everywhere.
I just got back from walking the 80 yards to our local grocery store for a few things to cover tomorrow while I work from home. Total time 20 minutes for shopping because I wandered a bit. It’s wonderfully easy and relaxing compared to when I would do a multi hour Costco->WinCo weekly trip in the US that included dealing with all the driving and stress of huge stores.
I miss Costco’s polish dogs, but that’s about it. The move to Europe was well worth it.
- Comment on That's interesting 2 months ago:
To quote Alex:
Alex Blechman (@AlexBlechman) tweeted: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
During the era it wasn’t rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We’d had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you’d do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.
Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This post feels like a bot wrote it as pro Microsoft spam.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 4 months ago:
Show me an ad in my own kitchen and that screen is going to be broken.
I moved to Germany. It’s been an experience because the tech status dialed back about 15 years. One area I don’t miss is the ever pervasive drive to have screens with ads on every surface.
- Comment on It could just have been a cop's "sniper" with bad trigger discipline and now they try to cover it up with gay bullets or whatever 5 months ago:
Awesome follow through. Thank you.
- Comment on It could just have been a cop's "sniper" with bad trigger discipline and now they try to cover it up with gay bullets or whatever 5 months ago:
Got a source on how they hid the body? It’s very not cool if that’s what was done. I know the Nazis are trying to turn him into a martyr, and having the body both to hide from the investigation and to make it mysterious so they can tell any lies they like is classic.
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 5 months ago:
It should just be that the government doesn’t patrol the high seas, of course! Every ship should enter into personal 1-on-1 contracts with each pirate for a market appropriate rate to ensure they don’t get attacked. The Libertrian way won’t cause any issues of scale, rampant loss of merchant ships, and an eventual ending of all oceangoing shipping outside of the handful of ships that can afford their own navies to escort them… /s
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 5 months ago:
You’re getting it just fine. This is exactly what’s expected in many cases as speciation occurs. Usually the two branches diverge, but still overlap in the timeline. Over time they either both survive and continue to diverge, or one (or both) dies out.
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 5 months ago:
For anyone who actually works with evolutionary systems and models: yup, that’s how it would work. I’m glad they found evidence that the models aren’t overturned, though likely tuned by the new info.
These are phenomenal finds. Great work, slow diggers!
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 5 months ago:
Since 1998, baby! Found my RedHat 3.0.3 install CD recently. It’s been such a long road, but it keeps getting better.
- Comment on Everything you know is wrong. 7 months ago:
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 8 months ago:
It’s not a conservative’s problem until it effects them personally. By then it’s usually too late, but at least they feel bad about that one issue for a while.
- Comment on The people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools. 10 months ago:
I like to talk about this in my CS classes. We get compiles to compile code by compiling a compiler with a compiler. It’s an infinite regression problem that terminates with someone writing a compiler in assembly… Which requires an assembler to assemble… So you write an assembler in machine code directly on the processor.
If we lost all of the currently compiled programs one day, even with the compiler source code in hand, it would be some serious work to rebuild our current tool chains.
- Comment on Copilot is on every updated PC. Forever. 11 months ago:
Not on my machines. Open Source oses and tools are the only way to have a chance at dodging this kind of thing.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 1 year ago:
If you’re a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it’s Professor Doctor Doctor.
Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can’t just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.