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by biorach 3y ago
> The IRA is a good example of how to deal with terrorism. You don't compromise I'm Irish. That's not an accurate description. There very much was a compromise, on all sides. One that both sides in the current conflict cou
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by biorach 3y ago
> Ariel Sharon who has, despite being a hard right-winger, lead the disengagement from Gaza This was not an attempt to further the peace process. It was motivated by the expense and difficulty of a military occupation of a densely popula
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by biorach 3y ago
True. However as far as I can tell the settlements in the West Bank have grown through every government since the occupation - something which fundamentally undermines any moves towards a resolution. Any attempt at peace has poor prospects
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by biorach 3y ago
It's wrong for both sides to behave violently
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by biorach 3y ago
> Hamas, on the other hand, is quite ideological about its stance with regards to the destruction of Israel. > Israel is a democracy made up of various parties with a whole spectrum of opinions. That may be so but the Israeli state as
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by biorach 3y ago
...and bingo! Thank you.
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The patents having long expired, presumably there are practical reasons that this design is not competitive with modern compressor designs.. Would have been good if the article had said what these are
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by biorach 3y ago
> Gaza's citizens chose Hamas as their elected government Well... They got 44% of the vote in 2006 and have refused to hold elections since
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by biorach 3y ago
> Hamas need to agree that Israel has the right to exist. Agreed And maybe Israel needs to agree that Palestine has the right to exist
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by biorach 3y ago
Nope. That's not at all accurate.
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by biorach 3y ago
That's a rather idiosyncratic definition of "runtime"
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by biorach 3y ago
How is it better than, e.g. Whatsapp ?
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Many processor vendors provide a mechanism to allow some bits of a pointer value to be used to store unrelated data; these include Intel's linear address masking (LAM), AMD's upper address ignore, and Arm's top-byte ignore. A
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Slam: A New Spectre Technique(lwn.net)
3 points by biorach 3y ago|1 comments
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by biorach 3y ago
This is not grant driven acedemia. This is the PSF, not encumbered with layers of beurocracy, audits and regulation. An expectation of a turn round time of a few weeks is entirely reasonable
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by biorach 3y ago
The distinction between developed and developing countries you think is so clearcut is actually not so clear "the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of sodomy laws in Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986. However, in 2003, the Supreme Co
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by biorach 3y ago
> feel it's better to just implement multi-threading in your own code (as needed) instead of using something convoluted and confusing like Node.js. What say you? I could give a long and detailed answer, but I think the best way is
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by biorach 3y ago
I only know laravel from skimming the docs, but I got the impression that there was not enough difference between it and Django to justify switching to a language you don't know,going either way. That said... Does Laravel have somethin
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by biorach 3y ago
Because they know, or want to know Python
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by biorach 3y ago
The comment you're replying to is calm, reasoned and courteous. Claiming the poster is being emotional is... poor form, to put it mildly
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by biorach 3y ago
> Google have no interest in providing support
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by biorach 3y ago
Damn right getting paid changes things
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This is not a typical open source project. The developers are all Microsoft employees who, in theory, are paid to work on MAUI
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by biorach 3y ago
The must be a certain pride in being an evolutionary local maximum
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by biorach 3y ago
I can't believe you replied after 2 days. And why are you on another rant about tools and support thereof. I was pointing out that your hysterical language was not helping your point. You're not doing yourself any favours here
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by biorach 3y ago
> make them feel less supported or inferior? Your point would have been much better made without the hysterical language
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by biorach 3y ago
> Some articles are timeless Probably a lot fewer than you'd think. And certainly not every article you write.
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by biorach 3y ago
The article does not argue that "the negative externalities of heroin production are somehow okay"
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That wasn't an API breakage. The maintainer reworked how HID events were handled.
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Many organisations have a CI step that runs a linter or formatter on all the code and fails if the tool makes changes. The idea is to catch cases where contributors failed to run the tool on save. On large code bases this can be time consum

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