GordonS

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by GordonS 2y ago
As I said, I don't want this to become a flame war, and to that end would have preferred not to name the apartheid state in question. But since you insist, nobody is just 'making it so by saying it' - indeed, saying it's
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by GordonS 2y ago
Millions protested the Vietnam war. Many millions more protested the Iraq war. Millions upon millions have protested against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people for an entire year. Now those same people also protest against Isr
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by GordonS 2y ago
Yes, and also the UK just denied Nelson Mandela's grandson access to the UK, because of his views on modern day apartheid.
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by GordonS 2y ago
I remember being a kid in the 80's, and being told by a primary school teacher we couldn't play conkers anymore :( We'd only just discovered it too!
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by GordonS 2y ago
Aye, especially nowadays with the ubiquity of computing - "hello world", or console apps in general, aren't the most enticing of projects anymore.
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by GordonS 2y ago
I also had it in hiking Peru. I found it to be a mild stimulant, similar to caffeine but wihlthout any jitters. Didn't notice any euphoria at all, TBH. My wife and I drank coca tea during the whole stay in Peru, and the altitude didn&#
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by GordonS 2y ago
The article doesn't even say how long the protection lasts for, or mention a single one of the ingredients by name. Doesn't really give the reader much to go on :-/
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by GordonS 2y ago
Has Israel tried removing themselves from lands they are illegally occupying? Has Israel tried not constantly lobbing missiles and rockets at Lebanon? (yes, I know Hezbollah had launched many rockets at territories Israel are illegally occu
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by GordonS 2y ago
More lies, and straight out of the Hasbara playbook at that! From the Hamas charter: "Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the J
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by GordonS 2y ago
> Hamas is a fundamentalist group You've offered no evidence to support this repeated claim, and haven't refuted the evidence to the contrary. > your arguments seem obsessive and misdirected Not obsessive, just consistent ;
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by GordonS 2y ago
> If it wasn't fundamentalism, what do you think motivated the attacks? I don't mean to be snarky, but I'm finding it very difficult to take you seriously when you make preposterous comments like "Palestinian lives ar
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by GordonS 2y ago
As much as Israel likes to spread that narrative, religious fundamentalism had nothing to do with October 7th. And the number of innocents murdered, the amount of destruction wrought, the land stolen by Israel in Gaza since then has compl
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by GordonS 2y ago
> It is not a terrorist attack, it was an reaction of Hezbollah indiscriminately firing rockets into Israel It was literally a terrorist attack - it was designed to cause terror. If Hezbollah had done this to the Israeli government or ev
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by GordonS 2y ago
IIRC, an age ago Balsamiq also offered one-time payments for lifetime desktop access.
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by GordonS 2y ago
I think this is a sound analysis, if rather depressing! I really just can't see how this ever changes. You are right that the Dems and Republicans are two cheeks of the same arse - but worse, they don't even play fair within their
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by GordonS 2y ago
Lol, I meant what can we do about the CIA destroying the entire world, piece by piece... not specifically Kissinger.
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by GordonS 2y ago
I agree with everything you've said here. The question is, what can really be done about it?
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by GordonS 2y ago
Do you truly believe these documents will ever be released, unedited?
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by GordonS 2y ago
> Further, we want to spare the dev-experience of using WHERE clauses A laudable goal, but one which is easily solved at library level, or at the "infrastructure code" level. I've been doing this across a range of database
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by GordonS 2y ago
The UAE always toes the line and does what it's told - it's political theatre, nothing more.
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by GordonS 2y ago
I'm guessing so they can keep data of EU customers stored within the EU.
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by GordonS 2y ago
Surely it's the same "virus"? Unless I'm mistaken, the async2 proposal wouldn't require any code changes, as it essentialy just moves compiler stuff to the runtime.
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by GordonS 2y ago
> If you find yourself needing more performance, you can reach for hardware Thread instances True for code your team write, but async/await is kind of viral, and many libraries now only have async APIs, which makes them difficult to
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by GordonS 2y ago
That'll be the "next big thing" they'll gushing about on stage: an incredible new mouse with TWO (2!) buttons! Of course, it'll be a $600 upgrade...
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by GordonS 2y ago
Does SmoothMQ support running multiple nodes for high availability? (I didn't see anything in the docs, but they seem unfinished)
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by GordonS 2y ago
This is so cool, "just because we could", but I am curious about possible use cases for Postgres in the browser?
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by GordonS 2y ago
My thoughts exactly - a risc-free (hurhur) way to get RISC-V in the hands of many, many devs.
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by GordonS 2y ago
Unfortunately I'm old enough too :) Yes, it's true that things were pretty grim. I remember being embarrassed when a colleague from Norway travelled with me in a filthy, worn train carriage stinking of piss :( But IMO that doesn&#
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by GordonS 2y ago
I think very few Brits would agree that rail privatisation has "worked". Poor and old carriages, overcrowded, slow , late trains, and generally a lack of investment. Oh, and ridiculously high fares (often well over air fares!), w
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by GordonS 2y ago
The relatively high TDPs are putting me off Ryzen 9 a bit, even if you are getting 12-16 cores.

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