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steventhedev ,

Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.

steventhedev ,

Well? Do you have any grapes?

steventhedev ,

Well? Do you have any grapes?

steventhedev ,

.gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.

But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.

steventhedev ,

Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes.

Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.

steventhedev ,

Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.

steventhedev ,

XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans

steventhedev ,

Whoosh

Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.

All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.

steventhedev ,

They started from XML. There’s nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.

FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface

Friends don’t let friends use Java 😜

steventhedev ,

Centrifuges spin really fast, so you need to balance out the things they’re spinning, otherwise it can fall catastrophically.

Stick everything on one side and it will effectively explode.

steventhedev ,

AP decided this was not headline worthy:

Concerns still loom large — the pier was attacked Wednesday, the U.N. official said, as four high-ranking U.N. officials were visiting the site. The military said the mortar fire from Gaza militants forced the officials to take shelter, but no one was killed or harmed.

apnews.com/…/israel-hamas-gaza-aid-port-eb8a701b3…

steventhedev ,

IDI are vocal in their criticism of Netanyahu, but their statistical methods tend to hold up. They answer your question pretty succinctly:

We found that a very large majority of the total sample (89%) think that Hamas bears a great deal of responsibility for the suffering of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.

And also:

we asked: “Given the current circumstances, is Israel’s leadership is doing its utmost to secure the release of the hostages?” We found that slightly more than half of the Jewish respondents think or are certain that the leadership is doing all it can to bring the hostages home. Only a small minority of Arab respondents concur.

steventhedev ,

That is legitimately one of the most level-headed replies I’ve read here in the last few months. Kudos.

Two things I want to add:

  1. one of the two IRGC generals killed helped plan October 7th - one of the semi-official war goals is to kill every person who was involved
  2. Ignore the amount intercepted - that’s not what matters for geopolitics. An equivalent escalation would mean Israel responding with 15,000 ballistic missiles and 30,000 suicide drones

Iran fires drones, missiles at Israel in first-ever direct attack; IDF downing them (www.timesofisrael.com)

Iran on Saturday night launched a large wave of attack drones from its territory toward the Jewish state, in the first-ever direct attack on Israel by the Islamic Republic, with warning sirens activated in Israeli communities throughout the country early Sunday as the military worked to intercept the Iranian aircraft....

steventhedev OP ,

Hamas and Hezbollah have been launching near daily rocket attacks on civilian targets for over 6 months now. This attack is larger than the usual daily salvos, but still smaller than what Hamas launched on the first day.

It will be incredibly interesting to see if they continue to launch rockets after Iron Beam is deployed operationally with a marginal cost of interception far lower than the cost of a rocket or drone.

steventhedev ,

Don’t make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

steventhedev ,

$previous_job allowed us to pick. One of my coworkers had to replace his laptop, and I convinced him to try out Linux this time. I handed him the bootstrap script and he was back to working by the afternoon.

Our CEO got wind of this and said as a matter of policy everyone is switching to Linux unless they have a good reason (needing excel for financial reports is a good reason). The two new hires who had been setting up their dev environment for over a week at that point were the trigger for this.

steventhedev ,

This is a shit shitpost post shitpost.

steventhedev ,

And here I was thinking that adding timezones for mars was going to be the biggest timezone headache in the next 5 years.

https://xkcd.com/2867/

Israel accuses Australia of forgetting ‘Hamas’s culpability’ for Gaza war as ministers consider UNRWA funding (www.theguardian.com)

As an Australian, no we didn’t. We just had it put in context. Jews around the world are great people, the Israeli government and the hardline supporters are absolute monsters. I hope the Australian government tells them as much. Israel deserves no support and everything that may happen when it’s withdrawn.

steventhedev ,

Bluntly - step outside lemmy and you’ll see plenty.

There’s little point for even trying to discuss it here - that died with the stickied post about the ICJ ruling and a mod who joined in rather than preventing hate speech.

steventhedev ,

It is extremely coincidental the director of UNRWA announced they terminated the employment of 9 employees during the ICJ hearing.

Almost like he was trying to bury the news.

steventhedev ,

I doubt the intelligence they transferred is only about the 12, given the size and immediacy of the reaction. Those are the ones they were able to most easily prove using Hamas’ own footage of October 7th.

My guess is they passed a list with a lot more than 12 to each of those countries, and said “watch how many they fire”.

Bottom line is that it isn’t in Israel’s best interests to stop all aid - they want to avoid a true humanitarian crisis (as opposed to the current threat of one) to achieve the war goals: return the hostages and destroy Hamas. UNRWA is best positioned to provide aid, but the proof on the ground is that they aren’t distributing that aid effectively at all and people are suffering as a result.

steventhedev ,

Sounds like Hamas gave their answer:

At least 10 rockets fired from Gaza toward central Israel, no injuries reported

steventhedev OP ,

Condensed milk whipped into the butter. I was legit surprised how close the taste was.

Honestly, the dried strawberries were hella expensive. I’m planning on doing a syrup next time. I’m thinking something like a small box of strawberries reduced and then through a blender, and drop some of the condensed milk to compensate for the extra liquid.

steventhedev OP ,

Around 20% of the kids asked for seconds, so not as popular as a plain chocolate box cake with chocolate ganache frosting, but I’m proud of it.

I’m honestly excited to try out different flavors for the frosting.

steventhedev OP ,

Thank you!

steventhedev OP ,

Best of luck! You can do it!

steventhedev ,

Cynical take: maybe don’t employ terrorists

Real take: UNRWA staffers will be busy scrubbing their socials for the next week instead of actually handing out aid. Of course, they aren’t exactly distributing the aid anyways so I guess it will make fuckall difference. They’ll complain about it and blame all their troubles on it anyways. Bottom line is that aid won’t get to the people who need it until Hamas stops preventing it from reaching those in need.

steventhedev OP ,

Fourth.

The UN shouldn’t be employing genocidal terrorists.

steventhedev ,

I wonder how long it will take for Israel to file a countersuit against Palestine for their failure to prevent genocidal statements.

There’s plenty of room to have the ICJ force the UN to designate Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, Hezbollah, and others as genocidal terrorist organizations that cannot receive any UN funding or have their members employed by the UN. UNRWA would have to fire half their employees, but that’s not a bad thing.

steventhedev ,

Except immediate access to the means isn’t actually part of it. They attempted to ethnically cleanse the area around Gaza, and publicly stated that one of their goals with the rocket fire was to empty the city of Ashkelon. They don’t get a pass because they failed to fully succeed.

From Opposite Sides of War, a Hunt for Elusive Facts (www.nytimes.com)

Since the initial [Oct. 7] attack, disinformation watchdogs in the region have been overwhelmed by unfounded narratives, manipulated media and conspiracy theories. The content has spread in enormous volumes at great speed: video game clips and old news reports masquerading as current footage, attempts to disavow authentic photos...

steventhedev ,

Don’t underestimate people who have a vested interest in one side of a story and are willing to sacrifice anything to push that agenda.

That and the danger that a group will take their status and abuse it to push a particular agenda despite evidence to the contrary. At that point they’re not fact checking - they’re actively pushing disinformation.

steventhedev ,

There’s a long cut, and the camera zooms in on them before the shots. It’s pretty easy to spot that there’s context that is missing.

It’s probably 50-50 if that context would change anything in reality, but the fact it’s missing could mean anything from the cameraman just getting more background footage to the group putting away their firearms after taking potshots at soldiers. Most likely, it’s somewhere in between all that and they were warned verbally to turn around.

steventhedev ,

Here’s the short list of Hamas’ war crimes that are part of their regular military doctrine:

  • Indirect fire that intentionally targets civilians
  • Indirect fire that intentionally targets protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Conducting indirect fire from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Taking civilian hostages
  • Intentionally targeting civilian population due to their nationality and/or religion
  • The systemic use of child soldiers
  • Coordination and housing of military efforts from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Manufacturing weapons within protected infrastructure - medical , educational, and scientific
  • The use of medical transport to convey military forces during a military operation for operational purposes and not medical ones
  • Incitement to genocide
  • Incentivizing war crimes by paying larger pensions to their members (and their families) who commit atrocities

These are the things they have done so much that it is clearly part of their military doctrine and policies, and not even remotely defensible as “one off” behavior of irregular forces.

steventhedev ,

On October 7th, Hamas and PIJ militants attacked 20+ civilian communities and killed over 10% of the civilian population of the entire region with the explicit purpose of ethnically cleansing the area, along with thousands of rockets targeting civilian population centers across Israel.

The civilian casualties in Gaza are a very sad fact of combat in a densely populated urban area, and are not being intentionally targeted by Israel alongside explicit declarations and very public military orders that “civilians are not to be targeted”. So far, around 1% of the civilian population of Gaza has been killed.

So yeah, very different. They are the awful realities of war. Some of them are likely avoidable, but a large number of them are not, especially given Hamas’ tactics and doctrine of embedding within civilian populations.

steventhedev ,

I probably missed a few, and that’s all since October 6th.

I also intentionally only included the ones they can’t possibly say “this is a individual soldier or group of soldiers acting on their own initiative”.

steventhedev ,

I’ll definitely need a source for that

Literally google maps and wikipedia. Most of them are 100-200 people only. I exclude the areas past the 232 road because fewer than 5% of all Hamas allied deployments reached there.

steventhedev ,

The actual press transcript in case you really don’t trust JNS:

press.un.org/en/2024/db240117.doc.hhtm

And the UNRWA statements in the past regarding tunnels under its facilities:

steventhedev ,

From the article:

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

Hamas has been operating from within Nasser hospital very recently, so if they’ve managed to close off the tunnels they might even be able to rescue some hostages.

EU adds Hamas political leader Yahya Sinwar to terrorist list (www.euronews.com)

The move allows the bloc to freeze Sinwar’s funds and other financial assets in EU member states, and to prohibit EU-based operators from making economic resources available to him. The sanctions aim to stifle Hamas’ financial resources and prevent its militants from orchestrating further attacks....

steventhedev ,

Official press release

Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:

  1. ‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.

Now if only the UN would follow suit and also recognize Hamas’ terrorist status. That would force UNRWA to clean house and maybe some of the food going into Gaza might actually reach the people who need it.

steventhedev ,

I worked with mosh for years to connect to servers on other continents. It was impossible to work otherwise. It only has two small warts: forwarding, and jump hosts.

The second is fixable/ish with an overlay network, but that isn’t always an option if you don’t control the network. I tried to solve this with socat but wasn’t able to configure it correctly - something about the socket reuse flag was very unhappy.

steventhedev ,

TCP was never designed with wifi in mind. TCP retransmission was only ever meant to handle drops due to congestion, not lossy links.

Tmux is a wonderful complement to mosh. Together you get persistence even when your local client loses power (speaking from experience)

steventhedev ,

TCP Selective Ack is very much a thing, but it does take extra memory so lots of TCP stacks exclude it or disable it by default.

steventhedev OP ,

Normally I’d agree with you that Daily Mail is not to be trusted, but the meetings absolutely happened:

Hamas officials join Nelson Mandela’s family at ceremony marking 10th anniversary of his death - AP

The novel information being presented in this article is exactly who was part of that delegation (and potential inclusion of PFLP representatives in that delegation)

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