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by cess11 5mo ago
That was "anonymous sources".
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by cess11 5mo ago
The very short explanation is that they kind of want to be not-Saud and has trouble cooperating with Saudi Arabia for a rather long time, not just over fossil fuels but also in Yemen. Recently the UAE faction in Yemen was forcefully reined
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by cess11 6mo ago
"But I haven't seen hard evidence that the arms pipeline has actually slowed" Sure, as I understand it, it is mainly structured around flights and spread out over several logistics lines and already partly shadowed by turned-
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by cess11 6mo ago
One factor this article skips over is that UAE and the Abraham Accords makes the US reluctant to rein in their buddies. This might change due to the UAE not being very happy about the US dragging them into a regional war.
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by cess11 6mo ago
How does China approach this?
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by cess11 6mo ago
There's a difference between "sand" in the general, and sand suitable for construction purposes. There's sharp sand and soft sand, and you need sharp sand for e.g. concrete, else it will crack and rot. There is manufactu
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by cess11 6mo ago
Would you mind engaging with the arguments of the article as well?
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by cess11 6mo ago
https://gut.bmj.com/content/72/1/180 The study. It basically says that this is something one perhaps should consider in clinical settings and that the speed of fecal matter might be a worthwhile direction for
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by cess11 6mo ago
"This is what I've always found confusing as well about this push for AI." I think it's a few things converging. One is that software developers have become more expensive for US corporations for several reasons and blam
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by cess11 6mo ago
That's a weird lie. The US mainly targets civilians and irregular troops.
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by cess11 6mo ago
"I have no doubt any other western country would do the same if 1000s of their civilian citizens including children were kidnapped and murdered." So this is how you expect the rest of the world to treat the US? Just torture and mu
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by cess11 6mo ago
Yes, hence the continued US occupation after WWII, among other countermeasures. Israel has been killing iranians for quite some time. Here are some notable examples from the last twenty years or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by cess11 6mo ago
What editor you are using has no effect on things like copyright, while software that synthesises code might. In commercial settings you are often required to label your produce and inform about things like 'Made in China' or poss
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by cess11 6mo ago
There are many techniques. You're most likely to come across things like declarative DSL:s and macros, then there are things like JAXB and similar tooling that generates code from data schemas, and some people script around data source
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by cess11 6mo ago
It's a tool used to build other tools, some of which have non-trivial amounts of users. It's also a tool used by e.g. journalists and government agencies that dabble in stuff like research and evidence, and it would probably be mo
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by cess11 6mo ago
Such a weird take. What are the similarities between your fantasies and land that to you make the philosophical convictions involved in private property laws applicable to those fantasies? Why isn't it good enough for you to fantasise
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by cess11 6mo ago
Jakarta was chosen by the Eclipse Foundation because it is the largest city on the island of Java, and Oracle is virulently litigious around the Java trademark. https://www.theregister.com/2018/03/04/java_ee_i
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by cess11 6mo ago
SourceForge is still chugging along. It hosts some prominent projects: https://sourceforge.net/directory/linux/
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by cess11 6mo ago
In the Java world it is rather common to use something called application servers. These are meta-applications that provide your applications an environment with things like database abstractions and the like, as well as admin interfaces. I
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by cess11 6mo ago
It was done in 1995, and likely not as an edit, but as a hand pixeled replication. https://demozoo.org/graphics/28620/
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by cess11 6mo ago
The demo scene is obsessed with hardware and tooling. Exhaustively knowing how things work and showing practical results as evidence is the main activity at demo parties. You can crib techniques from other people but unless you also show th
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by cess11 6mo ago
See if there are any events close to where you live. https://www.demoparty.net/ https://demozoo.org/parties/
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by cess11 6mo ago
If it's slow people also stick around for longer if they have something they must accomplish before leaving.
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by cess11 7mo ago
Many people go into public service with an attitude of 'I want to help people'. The catch is that unless it's some form of care or perhaps fire-fighting, there's a high risk that it'll be pretty nasty stuff. Things
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by cess11 7mo ago
Not sure what you mean. The current EU leadership is extremely stuck in the Cold War, the US can be a bit inconvenient at most but at least they're not the islamocommies, hence they're the freedom side of history. They're not
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by cess11 7mo ago
Many 'tech' corporations are involved in the genocide against the palestinians. It's worth discussing the ethics of entering into contracts with or propagating a positive image of them.
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by cess11 7mo ago
Right, shouldn't make her workday stressful, she's just following orders.
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by cess11 7mo ago
If you aren't aware already, you can put 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps' in one of your startup config files, like .bashrc or somesuch. That flips left CTRL and CAPS LOCK.
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by cess11 7mo ago
The US really, really wants it implemented, and several national police institutions in the EU does too. Plus the politicians that start to drool a little at the prospect.
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by cess11 7mo ago
The only people named Miroljub I've met were serbian, perhaps this person is too.

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