Parents have natural bootmaker authority and if you want to be a good parent then you realise that the kids also have it: They, or maybe better put their genome, know how they need to be raised, and try to teach you, as well as (with increasing age) seek out the exact bootmakers that seem sensible. Worst thing you can do as a parent is to think that learning is a one-way street.

Classes, as per Marx, are foremost identified by the economical position of people, and not necessary a hierarchy as such, that’s a secondary effect of how classes happen to work towards their own self-interest. If, in an anarchist utopia, one population freely chooses to live in a high-tech skyscraper doing engineering work, and another neighbouring one grows coffee in the rain forest, then their economical position is vastly different and they have different interests, thus they are different classes, but that doesn’t mean that they need to be nasty to another.

Most importantly though this is all just arguing semantics and Marx didn’t get anarchism anyway, mixing the theoretical bodies is usually more headache than it’s worth.

Kannst auch in die Zwischenablage kopieren bevor du auf “post” oder “reply” drückst.

Wäre sinnig dass der quote-knopf in der Zeile im Editor das gleiche macht, kannst zu github gehen und das vorschlagen, sich hier beschweren bringt nichts.

Microservice architectures are ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow, implementations of Erlang, implemented by people who think that “actor model” has something to do with Hollywood.

Absolutely not. Italians may drive like madmen, but they drive well and are focussed.

Also why the hell would you add chicken to butter and parmigiano.

Or maybe France should finally develop Guyana so they have a GDP of their own instead of having European partners co-sign the subsidy drip-feed.

No, Rust lacks the semicolon elision rules of Javascript which make everyone always use semicolons in javascript because they’re so horribly broken.

Rust is like ML, quite literally, not just by ancestry: The syntax is palpably ugly, but at least it’s sane, regular, and concise where it matters.

Look I’m not trying to argue that Merz is a paragon of virtue. What I’m arguing is that

a) a lot of things are way more important to him than the things you are worried about and

b) there’s checks on his behaviour, from inside the conservative population. They know who did and who did not murder Lübcke, who agitated against him (among others, Steinbach) which is why right now nobody, literally nobody, is backing Merz as Lübcke’s widow is ripping into him for his “where was Antifa” comment: The Antifa was there, it was Merz and the other paleoconservative CDU people who weren’t. This idea that he can do what he wants is falling for the conservative’s apparent unity while in reality it’s a cesspit of backroom deals and backstabbing.

How about Merz claiming he “understands” Trump’s only-two-genders exective order, then?

I also understand it. I don’t support it, in fact I oppose it, but I do understand it. If there’s one thing that’s sure right now is that Merz, a lifelong, staunch, Atlanticist, feels betrayed by America and Trump is on the top of his shitlist.

I don’t see Merz become a champion of civil liberties anytime soon.

Yeah but by that measure we have to declare the whole of the SPD fascist. Even worse, thinking about nothing but civil liberties you suddenly start to respect the FDP so I’d advise against that, always keep all the struggles in mind or they trick you.

Whereas fsck, short for “file system check”, should be pronounced “fisk” when someone in a suit is around, otherwise it’s “fuck”.

I definitely wouldn’t mind soldered RAM if there’s still an expansion socket. Solder in at least a reasonable minimum (16G?) and not the cheap stuff but memory that can actually use the signal integrity advantage, I may want more RAM but it’s fine if it’s a bit slower. You can leave out the DIMM slot but then have at least one PCIe x16 expansion slot. A free one, one in addition to the GPU slot. PCIe latency isn’t stellar but on the upside, expansion boards would come with their own memory controllers, and push come to shove you can configure the faster RAM as cache / the expansion RAM as swap.

Heck, throw the memory into the CPU package. It’s not like there’s ever a situation where you don’t need RAM.

…no?

I think you mean the Ukrainian coat of arms. Or the tryzub in general, very common in Ukrainian heraldry and branding.

Or maybe they just hide their transphobia behind a thin veil of reasonable-sounding, legal arguments.

That’s paranoia, not analysis, also, the CDU is too big to keep such a conspiracy secret. It’d rather look like the AfD’s attempts to not look fascist. Also, they’d be facing opposition from the churches to… capture a sentiment that doesn’t really exist outside of a couple of rabid people noone will tear away from the AfD, anyway? To discriminate against one of the first groups of people the Nazis persecuted?

They will use that topic for diversion in a pinch. It’s mostly meaningless to them, but they’ll happily jump at the chance to play off unemployed stoners against the hard-working middle class.

True, still those topics are a dime a dozen and first they’d have to actually desire a ruckus. Right now is the absolute worst time for that, they want unity and stability to a) face the existing geopolitical threats and b) look better than the traffic light and c) don’t know whether they realise that but to weaken the AfD, which thrives on democratic parties bickering.

Everybody knew, and they must have known that they would only strengthen the Afd if they went all in on “bad foreigners” as the primary campaign topic.

And there was internal opposition! But CDU does as CDU does once Merz was elected leader, not so much because Merkel’s wing would be weak but because the middle wing wanted to balance the scales, the rest of the party kept silent to only moderating slightly. They do that kind of thing all the time, shifting the external perception of the party by putting different people on the front. They might not be deep strategists but they know what strategy is and they have the internal discipline to follow through on it.

Side note did you notice Söder very much emphasising social stuff in the Union faction press conference. Fuck me if in the end it’s the Bavarians causing a resurgence in social housing projects etc, actually combat the core reasons why the AfD surged. Maybe even sell it as a grand “Bismarckian” thing, ignore the AfD, say it’s to keep the icky left in check.

That’s a very good question and I guess the answer is ask the constitutional court. Quoth §20 GVG:

German jurisdiction also shall not apply to representatives of other states and persons accompanying them who are staying in the territory of application of this Act at the official invitation of the Federal Republic of Germany.

This is international jurisdiction, though, also is it even legally possible to extend an official invitation to a known fugitive.

It gets even more complicated because even if the federation thinks that it should not apply an international warrant, that doesn’t mean that the states think they shouldn’t.

And then there’s the whole political question, stances on the violence aside “let’s just not arrest people when the ICC wants to put them to trial” is not a thing that’s exactly popular among law-and-order-and-procedures CDU people. Their preference would be, if anything, to not have to think about the issue, that is, not have Netanyahu visit.

They’ve promised to revoke gender self-identification

…no. And their opposition to the law wasn’t transphobic (in the strict sense) in the first place but regarded abuse potential, which is why the law that got passed says that name changes are transmitted to police etc. so they can figure out whether someone’s trying to escape justice that way. Queer community of course didn’t like that but it did insulate the whole thing against attacks from the right.

and marijuana legalization for instance

They won’t. Also they’d fail before the constitutional court as outlawing it back then was not scrutinised by the same standards the constitutional court would apply now. Fixing it, OTOH, forget it.

and they’re all in on xenophobic isolationist rhetoric

Hell they aren’t because SMEs aren’t. Merz picked that up in a (stupid) attempt to get AfD votes. The CDU is captured by lobby interests and the lobby wants immigrant workers. Loudly. Vocally. The whole economy of the whole east is up in arms about lacking workers and the AfD scaring away those they could get. They’re going to bury the topic as quickly as they can. That Netanjahu invitation might actually be exactly that: That’s giving the Springer press opportunity to forget about the whole xenophobia thing and instead focus on purported anti-semitism on the left. Because, *checks notes*, executing international arrest warrants is antisemitic. Expect candlelight vigils with pictures of sniped children, I’m confident Die Linke knows how to play that one, this isn’t about preventing the visit at all costs but exposing bigotry on the right. Did I already mention that Merz sucks at strategy?

The CDU always has contained everything from centre-left to far-right, as long it’s compatible with democracy. Their right wing is about en par with Reagan, their left wing with, dunno, Harris, status quo liberals in general. They’re not about to abolish public healthcare, gutting unemployment benefits OTOH is up their alley. Social conservatism wise they tend to brake a lot, but aren’t prone to be regressive, like wanting to roll back gay rights or something. Or, differently put, they won’t be any more conservative the EKD which is absolutely fine with reverends having gay sex in the vicarage as long as it’s monogamous.

Argh. That Chinese guy at the MSC gave me a headache about that one. Paraphrasing: “China does consider the Russian invasion a result of NATO expansion: The Russians think that you’re stepping on their toes, they think in influence spheres, and neither we nor you can change their mind about that”.

More or less “you bumped into a stupid drunk, now they’re hitting you, what did you expect, the drunk to not be stupid?”

Obvious troll is obvious.

Especially because programming is quite fucking literally giving computers instructions, despite what you believe keyboard monkeys do. You wanker!

What? You think “developers” are some kind on mythical beings that possess the mystical ability of speaking to the machines in cryptic tongues?

First off, you’re contradicting yourself: Is programming about “giving instructions in cryptic languages”, or not?

Then, no: Developers are mythical beings who possess the magical ability of turning vague gesturing full of internal contradictions, wishful thinking, up to right-out psychotic nonsense dreamt up by some random coke-head in a suit, into hard specifications suitable to then go into algorithm selection and finally into code. Typing shit in a cryptic language is the easy part, also, it’s not cryptic, it’s precise.

Oh great you’re one of them. Look I can’t magically infuse tech literacy into you, you’ll have to learn to program and, crucially, understand how much programming is not about giving computers instructions.