jim33442

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by jim33442 4mo ago
They want to expand into the Palestinian territories and also want to not be existentially threatened, both of which require weakening their enemies. They aren't going to get a friendly Iran no matter what, but they can get a weak one.
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by jim33442 4mo ago
I don't disagree with this, it's just that there's no reason to assume Israel simply wants the least hostile Iranian government. We never saw a real effort to replace the Islamic Republic, not even now. Likewise there was nev
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by jim33442 4mo ago
Shah Pahlavi was installed by the US but soured with us later on. OPEC involvement was a big part of that. By the end of his reign, he was openly calling the US a puppet of Israel and criticizing both countries' actions there, and the
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by jim33442 4mo ago
Iraq war had bipartisan support, or more right-wing if anything. Any high-level politician saying we can install a democracy there was probably not serious about it.
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by jim33442 4mo ago
I don't see why Israel would want regime change in Iran. The current one may hate them, but it's keeping the country poor and weak. Previous regime was starting to be a threat.
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by jim33442 4mo ago
It's not even a partisan issue because mainstream Democrats support the war too, even though some of them are talking out of both sides of their mouths. They approved the emergency military aid to Israel right before.
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by jim33442 4mo ago
I don't think they're this dumb, just bought by Israel. Same with the Iraq war that was obviously bogus.
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by jim33442 4mo ago
US govt would've been propping someone else to take over if they were serious about that plan
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by jim33442 5mo ago
And the US ZIRP zombie companies die at some point even without rate hikes
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by jim33442 5mo ago
No, there's a lot of subtlety in AI harnesses
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I don't mind if they use nodejs for this, but the Ink/React stuff is annoying. It wastes space and even makes it hard to copy-paste. Wish it could open a few pipes for raw in/out as an alternative.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Gemini CLI seemed more extensible, but the internal Gemini CLI didn't come with whatever it needed to deal with Google's internal tooling, and Jetski did. You were supposed to install those yourself in Gemini CLI, which I did, and
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Even Poetry wants you to install it via pipx, which is itself managed by pip. I'm not going to do that.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I've noticed it's better in npm than in python, but still been burned enough times
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Even with that, uv took some time at 100% CPU during dep resolution, which I imagine would've been much slower if in pure Python instead. Unless pip's backtracking is already in C.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
On it being a "mess": When writing applications, I only devoted at most 2 brain cells to installing dependencies even before Claude existed, and that was enough for npm, uv, or cargo to just work. Never used any of these flags. Me
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I saw that ^ so many times in npm and never knew what it meant until now
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Yeah, this is when it really matters that they wrote it in a CPU-performant language. There have been times I pointed uv at a random pip-managed GitHub project to rescue it because the author forgot to specify some versions and entire deps
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Yeah that's true. I can't imagine someone making a lib would just install deps without specifying version ranges, but maybe they do.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
The lockfile does more than just pin the versions of your immediate deps, so one might reset it for some other reason. Or you might want to update individual packages without caring about the specific commands for that, so you edit the pack
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by jim33442 5mo ago
All I know is internally they were recommending people use Gemini CLI until they switched to recommending Jetski/Windsurf CLI. Even before that, I could tell Jetski was way ahead, but still people from Gemini CLI were trying to convinc
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Also it doesn't even matter because the real way to use both uv and npm is to switch everything to = and only update manually, rather than trusting non-major updates not to break anything
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I've never noticed an issue with this using any of those three languages
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by jim33442 5mo ago
You can write C++ in a way that's similar to C if you want and run into some of the same UB. Normally I don't like the "C/C++" thing, but in this context it makes sense.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
UK police aren't breaking laws by arresting people for those social media posts. They don't have free speech to begin with.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Gemini is insanely bad. It even takes super long to start up, why??
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I've never heard of any of those other harnesses
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by jim33442 5mo ago
LLM is not comparable to MCP or skills. There's no way I could've come up with LLMs on my own. Anyway Claude Code is the best.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
Nothing against AI in particular, but Schmidt's commencement speech sounded boring, and I would've tuned it out.
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by jim33442 5mo ago
I'm fine with just the "cascading styles" part of CSS. The thing is it's also sizing and placement of elements in the webpage. Sometimes that's easy, other times there are 10 different ways to accomplish something t

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