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Get ready for war boys.
Soo.... one side has entered a country with soldiers and tanks, but the people responding by arming themselves against the soldiers and tanks are the ones escalating?

Ok then.

Re:Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment on Monday February 07, 2022 @02:14PM (#30249578)
Maybe because Russia realized that Edward Snowden had a powerful name and they'd win favour with the lefties of the world if they protected him? That's one possibility. Or maybe because "let me try and be friends with the (perceived) enemies of my enemies." (although Snowden wouldn't characterize himself as an enemy of the US).

The important point is - a good thing done for bad reasons, might still be better than a bad thing.

Re:Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment on Monday February 07, 2022 @12:25PM (#30247978)
> Israel is having its Edward Snowden moment. Not in the sense that an employee of its intelligence community has defected to Russia while leaking hundreds of thousands of top-secret files to the media.

Pretty tendentious to say that "Edward Snowden has defected to Russia".

He hasn't defected to Russia. He has fled the USA, and Rusia gave him asylum. Very different.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defect

> to leave one situation (such as a job) often to go over to a rival

He didn't leave one in order to go to the rival. He left one and then went to the rival.

Are the logic and the rendering loop in separate threads?

If so, how do you ensure that when the rendering loop reads the shared state, it sees something consistent (i.e. something that hasn't been updated by the logic loop in between the time when the rendering loop started accessing it, and the time when the rendering loop finished accessing it)?

Re:Julia Macros for Beginners on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:22AM (#30085065)
I will not look for such files, I'd rather forget this ever happened.
Re:Julia Macros for Beginners on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:54AM (#30083987)
> There is also a secret option to get into a lisp repl in Julia "julia --lisp".

Wtf....... what? I just tried it, it's true. Is this some easter egg?

Re:China gives 'Fight Club' new ending where authorities win on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:47AM (#30072305)
not the onion.
Re:$130B wiped off crypto markets in 24 hours on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:00AM (#30059258)
> 2. The world decides it will be a major part of the financial system, and it goes to 500k or 1 million.

Where does this belief come from?

Dollars are also a major part of the financial system, at yet each dollar is only worth $1.

Another example of google going downhill?
Re:When cigarette companies used doctors to push smoking (2018) on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:51AM (#30006452)
Research is great but common sense is a good starting point.

We know lungs are very sensitive and easily accumulate shit in them. Therefore the reasonable position is to assume that anything you point into your lungs is harmful, unless you have extremely strong evidence that it's not (as opposed to assume that something is safe until evidence that it's not.)

So: assume that e-cigs will give you lung cancer.

Re:Database-less torrent website on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:55AM (#29919712)
Could someone more savvy clarify....

On that page I do inspect, got console and do:

loadDBAndExec('SELECT * FROM my_table LIMIT 10;')

I get

Uncaught ReferenceError: loadDBAndExec is not defined

Why doesn't this work?

Re:Database-less torrent website on Thursday January 13, 2022 @06:38AM (#29919596)
I love the internet.
Re:A letter to all the bosses I’ve begged for a job on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @02:13PM (#29896257)
I think we should stop this "I won't name the company" bullshit.

Why won't you name them, exactly?

Wouldn't it be better to have in the title _what_ the library is supposed to achieve, as opposed to who published it?

Right now the title reads essentially: "Here's a library".

And you believe Facebook's statements why?
Re:Aviation Safety Whistleblower Report on 737 Max [pdf] on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @03:58AM (#29563557)
We in the academia invented it. We call it an Abstract and we put it at the top.
Depends on what you mean by "relevant". Personally I don't think Miss Universe is super relevant for the world. It's just some show that someone owns and monetizes.

Or that some kid detonated himself. Or something something about the NFL....

It's not "her" instagram handle. It's facebook's instagram handle. People only learn the hard way :-)
Re:Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life? on Friday December 10, 2021 @12:40PM (#29512873)
Do you think it's possible that what you call optimum are exactly the state of things in your late twenties / early thirties? And anything more you just call "too much"?