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Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:30PM (#50022944)
I don't believe they have been, or are. What's happening today is media manipulation by selective reporting (i.e. straw manning). We've seen many, many cases of Islam-haters who, after studying Islam properly, end up embracing it.

Furthermore, people can be outraged at anything, including things that are good for them. Can't be more clear than what we see happening in certain geo-political circles.

Re:Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:58AM (#50016539)
Shariah prohibits dealing inhumanely with animals.
Re:Yes, and on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:19PM (#50015590)
LLMs will always be biased by the training set used on them. I don't see how they will become an entity that knows everything there is to know about a domain to make the correct decisions.
Re:Mastering SIMD with Java Vector API on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:15PM (#50007698)
Apparently they're aiming to move it up to preview in JDK 28 and out of preview for 29.
Re:Mastering SIMD with Java Vector API on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:15PM (#50007696)
Apparently they're aiming to move it up to preview in JDK 28 and out of preview for 29.
I'm noticing that many establishments are charging you more when you pay by credit or debit cards.
Calling out israel is not antisemitic.
> “Religion” just means “set of beliefs”. Every person has some set of beliefs.

True. I like to use the phrase "world view", everyone has a world view, including atheists. The word 'deen' (دين) in Arabic is usually translated as "religion", but one of its linguistic meanings is "path" (i.e. way of life/world view), which everyone has.

Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Saturday October 03, 2026 @05:37PM (#49948030)
> not to mention this is the goal of Shia Islam nationalism

The fact that there are jews in Iran shows that they don't have the narrative of "getting rid of the jews".

Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:04PM (#49927600)
> Oh please, you can't honestly believe that the "The West"... care about suffering?

Yep, that's my point. Many of us knew it from before, but the events of the past few years have really made the masks fall for all to see.

Re:macOS 27 is so buggy on Thursday October 01, 2026 @06:03PM (#49927594)
AI could have amplified it.
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:04PM (#49924270)
> We're spending insane amounts of money and diplomatic capital for very little in return.

One can argue it's having negative return. Hopefully more Americans wake up and vote to stop burning their taxes.

Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:29PM (#49916984)
The Ottoman Caliphate was nothing like western colonialism.

Is it against the interest of the US to cease supporting foreign entities and commit war crimes in the region?

Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:24PM (#49913168)
Why do you need "leverage" in the Middle East? Haven't they suffered enough since ~WWI colonization (including Africa and India and the surrounding regions)?

I haven't seen any serious circles and discussions that use israel as a scapegoat for every issue that arises, but it is also naive to deny what we see in front of our eyes and hear with our ears first hand from their own ministers; it's more clear now than ever.

Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:14AM (#49906326)
This talk makes the argument for a few Java frameworks and explains why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMIPCyXZDAk
Re:Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video] on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @04:47AM (#49906138)
Java (Spring Boot, Quarkus).
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:44PM (#49902936)
Exactly. What's happening today is more obvious than ever. The covers are blown, yet some people still have their heads in the sand. The epestein fiasco showed how deep and dirty things run.
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:43PM (#49902927)
Let's not dilute things. The "greater israel" goal is on full display.
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:23PM (#49898986)
pro american and pro israeli forces are not in charge in Syria
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:22PM (#49898962)
Same playbook as Iran being 3 months away from nukes.
Re:US Forces Exit Iraq on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:20PM (#49898937)
It's very obvious that anything remotely critical of israel gets flagged very frequently.
It's surprising how many in the west don't see this.
You mean the people in Palestine getting massacred left and right by the israelis.
Brought to you by the epestein war
Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:20PM (#49887711)
It depends on the GC settings. With the other JEPS I listed, things should become more aggressive. But today you can have:

    > java -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=5 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=10 test.java
    used=7640 MB, committed=7668 MB, max=8192 MB
    used=4 MB, committed=20 MB, max=8192 MB
    used=3 MB, committed=8 MB, max=8192 MB
    used=3 MB, committed=8 MB, max=8192 MB
The RSS drops from ~8GB to 8 MB.
Re:Goodbye Google on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:04PM (#49870819)
I put the title because it shows he is an expert in his domain. Not to mention knows several language including Biblical Hebrew.

The point is to convey how Dawkins and his ilk (e.g. deGrasse Tyson) have so many basic fallacies that they do not seem to be aware of the moment they step outside their domains, and try to apply their relatively narrow world view across domains that do not support them. The video talks about a very fundamental logical fallacy.

The topic of the existence of God is not the discussion here.

Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @05:01PM (#49870789)
When was the lat time you encountered such issue? The JVM has been more proactive in releasing memory back to the OS[1], and more work on dynamically setting the heap size (both up and down)

[1] https://openjdk.org/jeps/346

[2] https://openjdk.org/jeps/546

[3] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8350152

[4] https://openjdk.org/jeps/8359211

Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:58PM (#49870761)
We have Java services running on 512MB k8s nodes.

Furthermore, collection time (for moving collectors) is a function of the liveset, not the # of dead objects.

Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:55PM (#49870730)
I find that very debatable. Spring Boot, for instance, is just one config line away from automatically using virtual threads in its handlers:

    spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true
We also see library implementations switching to them.
Re:Go Concurrency Distilled on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:58PM (#49869094)
Java has structured concurrency.

This poster summarized it well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864334

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