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  • Not in any way a new phenomenon, there’s a reason fizzbuzz was invented, there’s been a steady stream of CS graduates who can’t code their way out of a wet paper bag ever since the profession hit the mainstream.

    Actually fucking interview your candidates, especially if you’re sourcing candidates from a country with for-profit education and/or rote learning cultures, both of which suck when it comes to failing people who didn’t learn anything. No BS coding tests go for “explain this code to me” kind of stuff, worst case they can understand code but suck at producing it, that’s still prime QA material right there.


  • Liquorice (there’s also an actual root, not just the confectionery) is very sweet and tummy-friendly, actually recognised as a herbal remedy over here for (mild) gastritis because antiinflammatory and antispasmodic (alongside helping with coughs and having some antibacterial properties) but too much will fuck with your blood pressure, avoid it if you have any issues there. A bit will probably be fine but a habit generally isn’t “a bit”.

    There’s some medicinal teas over here which pretty much only contain it to taste better (otherwise makes no sense in combination with e.g. valerian). The stuff is actually sweet and pleasant, not a neutral but woody sweetness, not to be confused with North European liquorice confectionery where the predominant flavour is Salammoniac. Which are also very good… hey I grew up with the stuff, don’t look at me like that. Anyhow if you want a naturally sweet herbal tea adding a couple of shavings of the stuff should do the trick.




  • With numbers out of Kiel:

    132bn Euro divided by 450m Europeans == 296 Euro per capita. Not including already decided on money which has yet to be paid out, that’d nearly be double. Also not including refugee costs.

    114bn Euro divided by 335m USians == 340 Euro per capita. Vastly exaggerated as they’re valuing ancient Bradleys they would have to pay to decommission at the price of buying a new, modern one, same with old ammunition. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the US are saving money by giving Ukraine weapons, there’s also shipping and refurbishment costs, but it’s definitely exaggerated.


  • Why would you think Ukraine is banking on Trump?

    I don’t. You implied they do:

    Zelenskyy’s demand for Russia to retreat to pre-invasion borders is less a roadmap than a plea wrapped in geopolitical theater—knowing full well Putin’s playbook doesn’t include rewinding clocks. Banking on Trump to broker peace reeks of tactical nihilism, betting on a man whose transactional whims could pivot faster than a TikTok trend.

    If you did not want to be interpreted that way, may I suggest not using language such as “reeks of tactical nihilism” right after criticising Zelensky’s approach.

    What he’s actually doing here is framing what “success” and “failure” means for Trump’s initiative, “If Trump can’t get this then it was a failure”. The point itself (pre-Feb-2022 lines) is rather unlikely in practical terms, it’s chosen so that a) Putin will not accept it, he wants way more and b) It is not Ukraine’s maximum position, either, so that afterwards it cannot be said “Ukraine could have had peace if they were only reasonable and realistic”.

    There’s also a reason Zelensky only talked about “Russia must withdraw to”, not “Russia can keep”. Sounds more like “If Russia withdraws there, we can start talking about exchanging the rest for Kursk”. They’re establishing the desired framing of the Trump negotiations without giving up anything, even if Trump should succeed in pressuring Putin.

    Now I don’t want to imply that Zelensky is running circles around both Trump and Putin when it comes to 4D chess. It’s not the man, it’s his whole administration. They’ve gobsmacked me more than once.




  • Ukraine doesn’t have the luxury of stopping Trump or anyone else

    So why would they try? Why are you characterising them not attempting the impossible as “banking on Trump”?

    Noone but MAGA has Trump as Plan A, B, and C.

    Ukraine’s Plan A here is dictated by happenstance: Gotta wait for Trump because he’s gotta have his try. Plan B is going it alone with Europe. Plan C is their own military production. Plan D is partisan warfare. Ukraine is prepared for all of them.



  • Banking on Trump to broker peace reeks of tactical nihilism

    Trump brokering a deal is not negotiable, he’s going to do it for the simple reason that he sees himself as the best deal-maker, the best negotiator, the best. It would be futile to try to stop him, and it doesn’t hurt Ukraine’s position that he try, so why the hell would they attempt to stop him.

    There’s basically two outcomes, here: Trump thinks Putin is nuts when it comes to demands, Trump still wants to look good domestically, so he’s doubling down on Ukraine support. Then, Trump thinks Putin is in a strong position, he tries to dictate terms to Ukraine, but will fail. US support may or may not stop after that, depending on how he can spin it domestically, in any case Europe is there to have Ukraine’s back.

    This decision point – is Trump going to squeeze a deal that’s acceptable for Ukraine out of Putin – has to be awaited before Ukraine can move, because otherwise you’re pissing Trump off and making the US pull out instead of double down more likely.

    tl;dr: It’s strategically opportune to hold Trump’s beer right now, you might not believe he can get anything out of Putin but you got to let him try, and fail, on his own.



  • barsoap@lemm.eetoScience Memes@mander.xyzNot the same
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    The top right one is definitely not drawn by a human, it’s right out hexagons. Noone cross-hatches like that because you can’t cross-hatch like that there’s no lines going straight through.

    The rest could be artistic choice, compression artifacts, or other stuff though. Well, some minor stuff, the topmost book on the left pile on the desk on the right is sus, and there’s way too many sponges at the base of the chalkboard. But none of them are dead tells like the hexagons.




  • Something something Emmanuel Todd and endogamous communal family structures, the tight internal clan bonds competing with and thus preventing the creation of a strong overarching identities vs. almost exclusively non-communal structures in Europe (and where there’s communalism it’s not as strong as in the Arab world, and definitely not endogamous), leading to strong overarching civil societies and identities. Very different assumptions about how society should be organised on a very fundamental, structural, level.

    In those terms Europe is culturally way closer to e.g. Japan (just as much stem family structures as e.g. Ireland and lots of Scandinavian and German regions, some in France) than we are to the Arab world. Arabs actually integrating here means, for them, to flip an internal switch, saying something like “oh now my clan is my region, and my profession a secondary one”, and that is hard to do because a) you don’t actually know most of those people, while you know at least about everyone in your original clan, and b) you’re in a foreign land, not understanding what binds people together even though they might not know each other directly, also c) your family clan is still expecting you to be part of it, and not just in the “come to your cousin’s marriage” way. Lots of non-prejudicial cultural friction that especially people from absurdly individualist societies like the US don’t understand because they don’t have an overarching society in the first place. Both sides think the other is weird AF.


  • There’s already EU territory with 110V systems, even 60Hz, or more precisely said Guyana is a clusterfuck of different systems. Standardisation would be nice but it does have limited market impact so the EU is comfortable to just not. Also the main reason European stoves won’t work as intended in Canada isn’t 220V, you do have 220V, but because they’re expecting three 220V phases to be fully powered, they can pull up to 13kW with everything at full tilt. Most can be configured to draw less and be hooked up to a single phase, though, you could use those. Modern DC converters don’t mind the differing voltages and frequencies in the first place and with DC motors being quite popular making e.g. a blender dual-voltage is actually quite simple, which leaves us with things like hair dryers and I mean who cares.




  • barsoap@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux is not ready
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    That’s not going to work radarr is a daemon. Well at least it’s not going to work as intended, you might be able to start the thing as a user, but it’s likely not what you want to do, you want the thing registered with systemd and start up and shut down with the system. We don’t nix-shell -p sshd either.