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by nsguy 2y ago
What is worth repeating this is no different than any other occupied territory in the world or in history. When the US occupied Germany it didn't allow Germans voting rights. When it occupied Japan it didn't give Japanese voting r
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by nsguy 2y ago
They're also expelling Syrian refugees right now which is not getting a lot of coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69059929
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by nsguy 2y ago
Freedom house, which I think is a credible source here, says Israel is free and democratic, and Lebanon and Iraq are not. How does that not contradict your point? The claim was that Israel is the only free and democratic country in the midd
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by nsguy 2y ago
Iraq and Lebanon are far from free and democratic countries. https://freedomhouse.org/country/iraq/freedom-world/2024 https://freedomhouse.org/country/lebanon/freedom-world/2024
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by nsguy 2y ago
This might be a useful reference here: https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitio... "Manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. Howeve
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by nsguy 2y ago
I'm not American so I can't comment on US politics but I feel like there's a small difference between "daring to say anything negative" and asking for arrest warrants (without jurisdiction as well). The Arab lobby s
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by nsguy 2y ago
How do you propose we determine the fine line between the antisemitic "The Jews run the World" and "being critical of their actions"? What would e.g. be the piece of evidence that convinces you that we're dealing wi
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by nsguy 2y ago
TIL from another comment that the Shannon limit assumes Gaussian noise so it's not actually always the theoretical limit. You can't work around the Shannon limit by using encoding. It's the theoretical information content lim
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by nsguy 2y ago
There is, by pressing a button on the left stalk. But that only wipes once and is also not intuitive when you first drive a Tesla.
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by nsguy 2y ago
When I picked up my new Model 3, about 5 years ago, I headed home and it started raining. I had no idea how to turn the windshield wipers on and was barely able to find a place to stop on the side of the road as I tried to figure it out. I
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by nsguy 2y ago
Here's that segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74RdET79q40
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by nsguy 2y ago
I wasn't aware this was discussed, thanks for the pointer! I'm curious now what he says he was talking about ;)
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by nsguy 2y ago
That's not my interpretation. If you're profiling and benchmarking you're already engaging in (premature) optimization. This process you're describing of finding out whether `i++` is taking a lot of CPU time and then cha
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by nsguy 2y ago
Not really. Knuth was talking about putting effort to make a non-critical portion of the software more optimized. He's saying put effort into the smaller parts where performance is critical and don't worry about the rest. It'
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by nsguy 2y ago
This quote is often taken out of context, here's the full quote: "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency act
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by nsguy 2y ago
That sounds a lot fluffier than writing code ;)
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by nsguy 2y ago
In Hebrew there is a saying that goes roughly like "He who steals from a thief is exempt". This is commonly interpreted as you're not liable but goes to a Mishna (circa 100AD) that says you're exempt from the normal fine
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Mass mortality of diadematoid sea urchins in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocea(sciencedirect.com)
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by nsguy 2y ago
Our local library has a Radon detector you can borrow. We did. No Radon... AFAIK the scientific consensus is no amount of radiation exposure is beneficial. There have been some theories going around about how a small amount of radiation can
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by nsguy 2y ago
IIRC they also come down from their tree to poop once per week.
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by nsguy 2y ago
I used a Kodak digital camera in the late 90's. I don't remember the model name. These cameras were not "one offs". They were not quite consumer products either. They were more "Pro-sumer". Even later they had
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by nsguy 2y ago
I think you're referring to a later period. They had earlier digital cameras that were not cheap and were ahead of the competition. IIRC Kodak invented the digital camera pretty much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by nsguy 2y ago
I still have my Newton and my HP-48SX. Yeah, the Newton was clearly ahead of its time. Maybe the main thing that "made" the iPhone was connectivity (and ofcourse having the "Internet" to connect to) - neither were really
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by nsguy 2y ago
Your garage project also doesn't need to support 100's of random features some product manager thought are critical but nobody uses. Quality issues are exponential to the complexity of the software. Out of those 1000's of eng
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by nsguy 2y ago
I got to use CP/M briefly on a DEC Rainbow machine in the 80's. It was very similar to DOS but IIRC there were quite a few differences at the detail level. I remember seeing some ads for Kaypro's but I don't think I ever
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by nsguy 2y ago
Well. BBC. Their title contradicts their article which says: "And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious po
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by nsguy 2y ago
90% of people think they're above average drivers. And no, the flat earthers e.g. think we're stupid. I'm not sure stupid vs. smart is the right axis here though. Plenty of people with apparently high I.Q. believe in nonsense
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by nsguy 2y ago
You've just realized that a lot of people can be stupid? I saw some statistics that 7% of people in Brazil believe in flat earth. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1131128/flat-earth-brazi... As Einstein sa
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by nsguy 2y ago
Sliced bread is a step in the wrong direction though ;)
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by nsguy 2y ago
The logic is really for things like Telnet sessions. IIRC that was the whole motivation.

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