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John J. Mearsheimer has weighed in on characterizing what Israel is doing against the Palestinians. "I do not believe that anything I say about what is happening in Gaza will affec…

Thanks. Was wondering about electrostatic myself. Still wondering how the grate itself doesn't get stained due to the air flow.

Interested in an informed comment on the paint application part. How do they keep those spray rooms clean from paint? I noticed the robots were covered up to protect against the sp…

It is odd since Ada is DoD's (bastard?) child and NSA is DoD but a little digging you get this from 1997 (with a singular mention of the word "safety"): https://nap.nationalacademi…

the internet says "it tries to be". http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/rm12_w_tc1/html/RM-13-9-1.... https://old.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/mme3jk/is_ada_memory_s...

> ":earlier 15 minutes" takes you to the code as it was 15 minutes ago. TIL. Very cool. tnx

It is an interesting contrast to the situation in 'editorial rooms' (not virtual tiktok rooms) where most decision makers globally get their information. Some head of state in coun…

> Command(move(D)) -> “go”, Direction(D) Did Rob Pike read this back in the day?

The class that prints money and operates fractional reserve banks (in partnership with your local government) extracts a cut from everyone that touches or must use ("legal tender")…

None of this explains why I need to give you my telephone number to get on your boat. Identity is the core of the matter and that is invariant of the modes of transport. On top of …

"The outrage over the incident was intensified just a year later when the US media was tipped off to the existence of CHASE. The Cut Holes And Sink ‘Em program was the Army’s plan …

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Always interested in your thoughts on software matters. You know my professional issue with Clojure is that it attracts poseurs. It's that strange …

p.s. it appears (speaking as an Iranian) that there does seem to be a overall cultural element that has contributed to this matter: information is highly compartmentalized (and lik…

Just for the record, in Java (JVM) this is done (routinely circa first 'bean containers' of ancient history) via interfaces and class loaders. Using Java I can have n distinct vers…

Financial or not, clearly the notion of maintaining records was not foreign matter to these Persians. > It was likely closer to a 100 years or so. e.g. it seems that by the time of…

It would have been worthwhile for them to mention why not use Java. I mean, grep for Java and JVM and that short blog lights up! It was good that they did stress the (very) small t…

> (it probably wasn't that clear to the Persians themselves what might have happened to one of their previous rulers after a generation or two) Let's see: Persians of a generation …