From the third best Scheme in the world - Gambit Scheme System - there is a new beta for version 4.0. Particularly interesting about Gambit-C is - besides the high performance of the code - the truly brilliant threading implementation. Normal Scheme continuations are used and then a dispatcher is placed on top. As a result, threads under Gambit-C hardly need any memory (on a 2G machine you can easily run over a million threads) and resources (and yes, the switching with a million threads is also quite decent). As a result, Gambit-C is the absolute number 1 for massive multithreading on single-processor systems - and web servers love many threads.
And before anyone asks: the best Scheme is of course PLT Scheme (Dr. Scheme) and the second best is Chicken Scheme - because Chicken Scheme still has the most impressive library of included code after PLT Scheme. Gambit-C could learn a lot here and include more libraries, because libraries are what really make the language usable. At the moment, it is still quite bleak for Gambit-C.
By the way, the license issue is finally resolved: you can now choose between LGPL and Apache license for Gambit-C, which should really make all license discussions obsolete.
Soon, it will be possible to determine from a distance of 10 meters without the owner's knowledge that he has erectile dysfunction - or thinks he does. Great idea, let's make all diseases remotely diagnosable via RFID, set up a few doctors in street cafes and they will be helped.
According to US media, Pfizer's RFID application does not even allow the distribution path of the pills from the manufacturer to the pharmacies and wholesalers to be tracked correctly.
Oh, well that's good. If total surveillance has not yet occurred, then it's not so bad. With some sentences from professional journalists, one wonders if they even think about what they are reporting on ...
Amazing - amid all the praise there is just this small paragraph on the not entirely unproblematic topic of Harrer and National Socialism:
Harrer's past during the Nazi dictatorship became a topic at the end of the 1990s. According to media reports, he had to admit that he had been a member of the NSDAP and the SS. He later evaluated this as a mistake. In 2002, his autobiography "Mein Leben" was published.
Otherwise, only praise and cheering. What is the fact that he was in the SS (into which one certainly does not accidentally stumble - apart from the fact that he was also previously in the SA, which was also not really a purely passive organization of the Nazis) against the mountain ascents and the cuddling with the friendly smiling absolutist from Tibet.
The blindness of the media on certain topics is really shocking. Riefenstahl is also constantly admired for her "art" ...
... the German government is tightening immigration law:
According to the plans, spouses should only receive a residence permit from the age of 21 to "protect young foreigners from forced marriages". Residence permits are explicitly prohibited in case of sham marriages. The German government wants to counter abuse "particularly for illegal purposes such as forced prostitution" in this way.
From personal experience, I can say that the interpretation of the authorities is much more concrete. A sham marriage is simply assumed - in an attempt to get rid of the annoying foreigner. Even direct biological children from the marriage are not automatically considered proof of a genuine marriage. But of course, it's not about deporting annoying foreigners, it's only about limiting sham marriages and forced marriages.
The changes in tax law are not about giving those who already have a lot even more, but only about promoting tax honesty. And the Hartz IV changes with the attached impudence towards the unemployed are not about harassing and bullying those who already have nothing, but only about motivating long-term unemployed people.
Of course. And pigs can fly.
Wondering how high the interests of the Senate are that should be preserved in the gradual sale of Hochbahn and the port to the railway:
According to the report, the paper sets the goal of "pursuing the achievement of a majority in stages while safeguarding the interests of the Senate."
Well, apart from the "turbulences":
The negotiations between the Senate and the railway are still ongoing, accompanied by severe turbulences. Not only did the federal government speak out in favor of keeping the headquarters of the railway in Berlin. Also, the employees and numerous economic representatives recently positioned themselves against a change of the main seat of the railway from the Spree to the Elbe. However, this is exactly what Beust's plan envisages, in return for the participation of the railway in HHLA and Hochbahn. The HHLA employees fear the loss of around 300 jobs.
Hey, not only are the Berlin employees being sold, but also those of Hochbahn and the port. And all this for the relocation of the railway administration to HH - which is of course strategically important for the labor market. Screw the jobs in Berlin, as long as HH gets some. For that, we'll easily sell the others.
At the beginning, I still thought that with the right SPD in Hamburg, it couldn't get much worse with a Union Senate. I admit, that was an exaggerated optimism on my part. It keeps getting worse/stupider/incompetent.
Recipients of unemployment benefits must prove their need - because the mere fact that they may have paid into the system once and are now unemployed is not sufficient.
The State Secretary in the Bavarian Ministry of Social Affairs, Jürgen Heike, supported Clever's initiative. "Those who want benefits from the state should prove that they are entitled to them," Heike said in "Focus". This would have the side effect that obtaining payments through false statements would constitute fraud. "These people can then be sentenced to repay the money and pay a fine," he said. Those who have no money must "expect to serve a prison sentence".
Exactly. Throw them in jail. Or put them on the pillory, as the Bild newspaper likes to suggest from time to time. What kind of perverse society are we supposed to live in?
How is a recipient of unemployment benefits supposed to pay for the lawyer they will soon need to assert their claims?