Alternativer Titel: “Merz will Macht um jeden Preis”

Sollten die einfach verwenden, dann müssen die sich für alle weiteren Artikel über Merz auch keine neuen Titel mehr ausdenken

On that note, vinyls have overtaken CDs in sales again

Kinderbuchautor ist ein riesen Pluspunkt. Es bescheinigt ihm sich so ausdrücken zu können, dass es auch die verstehen, deren Gehirn (noch) nicht voll entwickelt ist.

I don’t think logseq has fully automated synchronization, at least it didn’t when I started using it. What it does have is the option to automatically git commit changes. You can then synchronize through a remote repo. It isn’t fully automatic and requires a remote repo you can trust with your data but it works great for me

The Egyptians most certainly didn’t use the Latin alphabet 5000 years ago, in fact noone used the Latin alphabet until more than 2000 years later. So how on earth do you come up with the transcription “aaa” and is it supposed to be pronounced a-a-a or what?

The original German wording is “Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand: wer ist die schönste Frau in dem ganzen Land?”. Literally translated that would be “Mirror, mirror on the wall: who is the most beautiful woman in all the land.” I would let “hottest” slide as a more contemporary translation.

That’s the beauty about open source: it isn’t beholden to the whims of anyone. If disagree with the Linux Foundation, you’re free to make your own independent fork. Others that agree with you can then start contributing to the fork. And this isn’t a purely theoretical scenario as it has happend with other open source projects before.

They did some great fan service before. In Borderlands 2, there is the NPC Michael Mamaril in Sanctuary who can randomly give out guns when talked to. That NPC is a tribute to the real Michael Mamaril, a fan that passed before Borderlands 2 was released

and it sucks

So there’s another thing they share

If you play 3.5e, Hasbro shouldn’t be affecting you. You’d be using old books and PDFs anyway and Hasbro has no control over that.

Die Begründung durch ein “traditionelles Familienbild” halte ich für falsch, das Gesetz halte ich aber dennoch für richtig. Letztendlich ist Leihmutterschaft ethisch äußerst fragwürdig. Man erkauft sich den Rechtsanspruch gegen die Mutter, ihr Kind nach der Geburt abgeben zu müssen. Das führt in vielen Fällen unweigerlich zu Ausbeutung, insbesondere wenn man sich Leihmütter in armen Ländern suchen kann. Ganz davon abgesehen, wenn sich die Bestelleltern dazu entschließen, das Kind oder bei Mehrlingen eins der Kinder nicht haben zu wollen. Einige Länder, die früher kommerzielle Leihmutterschaften erlaubt haben, wie etwa Indien, Thailand und Russland, haben diese mittlerweile ganz oder zumindest für ausländische Bestelleltern verboten.

Es ist auch eine Fehldarstellung, dass plötzlich allen unfruchtbaren oder homosexuellen diese Option genommen wird. Das war bisher auch nur für Reiche und Privilegierte eine Option, allen anderen wurde nichts genommen.

Man muss aufpassen, denn Leihmutterschaft und andere Positionen werden nicht automatisch richtig, nur weil die Falschen dagegen sind.

Not a native speaker, but to me it sounds correct in this context, since it’s about the source codes of multiple games (versus the source code of a singular game/project). Similar to how “peoples” can be a correct plural when talking about multiple groups of people.

I’m waiting in for the headline in a couple days or so:

Another hack at Gamefreak: Hackers upload fixed source codes

Unknown hackers have fixed the frame rate issues while upgrading the graphics quality to the level of the earliest Switch titles like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Yes, absolutely. When you look at the innovations happening to Windows recently like Copilot integration and Recall I’m glad that Linux is “boring”

Something similar already happened when bicycle manufacturer VanMoof went under. I believe there was a workaround if you extracted your bike’s crypto keys before the servers went down but otherwise you were practically screwed.

What in this article had you jump to the conclusion that he wanted to chop his penis off? Dysphoria is a thing, no questions about that, but the vast majority of men don’t want their penis removed and from the article it doesn’t seem this man is an exception.

First of all, self mutilation is a known phenomenon of psychotic episodes. While this is the first documented case of penile amputation that’s also the reason the case study was conducted and we’re reading about it at all.

Next, he has years of depression in his past. For a depression do be diagnosed he has to be under some form of psychological care. While no guarantee that greatly improves the change of dysphoria being diagnosed, especially if it were severe enough to resort to self amputation with an axe.

Ultimately, once he came to his senses he did everything in his power to save his penis. If it was his great plan to amputate his penis while making it look like a drug-fueled accident or even if just wanted it removed but couldn’t do so while sober, why would he put it on ice? Shouldn’t he be glad or relieved it’s gone? If he was dysphoric, I would expect him to make sure it doesn’t get to the hospital with him.

Everything here implies that he didn’t want to mutilate or amputate his penis and in that case implying it was intentional quite insulting, too.

To escape a body of mass you need to have enogh velocity (kinetic energy) to overcome the gravitational pull of that body. You can imagine it like a ball sitting in a bowl. With little velocity it will just roll back and forth but if it’s fast enough it can roll out of the bowl and escape it’s influence.

That critical speed is called “escape velocity” and it depends on mass and distance from a body. The escape velocity of earth (from the surface) is about 11.2 km/s and the sun’s escape velocity (from earth orbit) is about 42.1 km/s. Earth orbits around the sun at about 29.8 km/s. If you launch in the direction of Earth’s orbit, you will orbit the sun already at about 41 km/s, so you “only” need 1.1 km/s more to escape the sun, too.

If you tried to reach the sun, you could launch in the opposite direction leaving you orbiting the sun at about 18.6 km/s. Since there is almost nothing in space you won’t slow down from friction and the orbit won’t decay. Instead you’d have to accelerate opposite the direction you’re traveling. Now, calculating exactly how much you’d need to decelerate isn’t trivial since you don’t want a stable orbit but an elliptical orbit that just touches the sun at the closest point (perihel). I don’t know how much deceleration that takes, but it’s propable that it’s easier than accelerating by 1.1 km/s to escape the sun.

That requires neither engineering-level math nor paper nor patience. All you need is the chain rule and some basic knowledge of sine and cosine:

The derivative of cos is -sin, but because of the 6x you get an extra factor 6. The sine function is periodic on 2pi, so sin(6*2pi + pi/2) = sin(pi/2) = 1. So the result is -36

Ich lasse mir lieber die Welt von einem 20 Jährigen erklären, als von einem dessen Wissensstand vor 20+ Jahren stehen geblieben ist.

Don’t forget first party Linux support and Proton to add Linux/Mac support to many windows exclusive games.