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by wk_end 7mo ago
I'm Jewish (though not Israeli); my grandparents were among those Jews who fled to Mandatory Palestine against the British's and Arabs' wishes to escape the Holocaust. Kindly, I think I'm a better judge of the right hill
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by wk_end 7mo ago
It was absolutely not Balfour's idea to create a Jewish state in Palestine. The Balfour declaration was from 1917. But the Zionists first started to move to the region in the hopes of establishing a homeland in the early 1880s, based o
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Yes, American police use these kinds of justifications when innocent people are killed too. It's absurd (watch Surviving Edged Weapons [0] some time) either way. The reality is, if you have soldiers mowing down children throwing rocks,
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by wk_end 7mo ago
That checks out. Although the history of "Warrior Policing" in the US predates this (going back to the 60s) and extends far beyond IDF training programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_policing
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by wk_end 7mo ago
The situation in the West Bank (and similar forces are at play in Gaza, too) remind me of what's wrong with American policing, at a far more extreme scale. The people charged with enforcing the peace deploy lethal force with near impun
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Around a year ago I started a new position at a very large tech company that I won't name, working on a pre-existing web project there. The code base isn't terrible - though not very good either, by-and-large - but it's abso
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Crocker's rules themselves might be, but the essay is plainly contemptuous of people who aren't naturally disposed to follow them.
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by wk_end 7mo ago
That's the theory, but there's absolutely normative statements in this piece. For example: > When you spend the first third of your message establishing that you are a nice person who means well, you are not being considerate b
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by wk_end 7mo ago
OSS licenses haven't grown in complexity all that much in the past forty or so years. They're being ignored more now because it's become easier to ignore them, not because it's become harder to abide by them.
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Of course now everything is like that. Partially that's because of computers and software, but there's lots of other technologies that have contributed too. There's an old tweet I can't find that was something like &quot
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by wk_end 7mo ago
I think the appropriate response here is some combination of Russell's Teapot and Occam's Razor: they might, but some kind of hard evidence is necessary before humouring that theory, particularly since there's a vastly simple
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count , even an 8051 has 50K transistors, which reinforces my claim that 26K really doesn't seem like a big ask for an MCU core. Whether that means a barrel shifter is w
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by wk_end 7mo ago
What MCUs are you thinking of? To the best of my knowledge (and Google-fu), 26K really isn't a lot of transistors for an embedded MCU - at least not a fully-featured 32-bit one comparable to a minimal RISC-V core. An ARM Cortex M0, w
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Is Pierre Menard really the author of his Quixote?
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Well, you're guaranteed not to be interrupted by garbage collection , which is the point here. Segments of code that are provably free of garbage collection can satisfy hard timing constraints, but that doesn't mean that they j
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Except that, from that talk, Larry clearly has some idea about what the term postmodernism means in art & culture and isn’t just using it to mean “modern++”.
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Rather than a fixed 4-pane browser, a potential solution is to use something like the macOS finder's "Column" view, where each layer of the hierarchy produces a new pane, as many as you need to drill down to the particular th
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by wk_end 7mo ago
Seems a bit like an historically blinkered statement. There's a long history of countries militarily supporting their allies; there's nothing "modern" about this. Most of the countries in WWI - which this poem is about -
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by wk_end 7mo ago
"The only intuitive user interface is the nipple." (usually attributed to Bruce Tognazzini)
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I don't believe this is correct. There's no settings that correspond to that AFAIK, and it'd actually be quite bad, because you could access the empty array and then get a `never` object, which you're not supposed to be
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by wk_end 8mo ago
The claim has always been made that attacking NK was off the table anyway, because they have obscene numbers of conventional artillery pointed directly at SK's capital and largest population centre, right across the DMZ; even the faste
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I guess this is true in a professional context - you don't want your user's or company's data somehow becoming compromised because of your choice of text editor. But, at the same time, that's exactly the sort of thinking
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I don't have any use for Notepad++, but reading about this makes me wish I did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad%2B%2B#Political_messag... The possibility of software being a personal, creative, expressive en
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Anything with a scripting engine isn't lightweight compared to (classic) Notepad! (Also, a lot of that stuff comes bundled with Emacs out-of-the-box, further disqualifying it. Having a scripting engine is one thing, but having a script
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Let's suppose it could be demonstrated conclusively that every hospital in Gaza that Israel has bombed had Hamas militants operating out of them, as Israel has claimed. Do you think that'd silence Israel's critics about bombi
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by wk_end 8mo ago
> The rules aren't written by plucky revolutionaries, but the big powers. They, thus, fairly often favor people who fight like the big powers. I think this is one of the ugliest things about this particular war. While the IDF unques
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by wk_end 8mo ago
I think it's just that Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, and the Mellons made their fortune in banking.
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Yeah, the idea that types exist just to help the compiler catch your mistakes shows a depressingly superficial understanding of the benefits of static typing. Types exist so that the compiler can reason about your code better - but not inci
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Some links to examples of the sort of behaviour you're describing would be really helpful here (I say this as someone who is sympathetic - I work with on a web component/Lit codebase in my 9-5 and I'm not a fan, compared to t
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by wk_end 8mo ago
Poe’s Law. Personally I thought that might be what you were doing, but I wasn’t sure.

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