shaib

shaib, 2 months ago

@carlton
Good to know!
VY1704 - June 4th, 20:15 ("3 seats left at this price")

shaib, 2 months ago

@carlton
Took it. It should say "2 seats left" now 😈

shaib, 2 months ago

@katykaty

Your kid has bad teachers, and good instincts.

When I was taught programming, Readability was king. Efficiency was always taught as a consideration for specific points where it is a problem. We were also taught that "premature optimization is the root of all evil".

One day, we started a course on performance optimizations. After the first class, some student wrote on the board "R̶e̶a̶d̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ Efficiency". The next teacher to come in struck it down immediately.

@matthewskelton

shaib, 3 months ago

@bmispelon
Ehmm. On one hand, they may be totally virtual, and then it makes perfect sense. But they don't have to be virtual, and when they're not, they can even be indexed, so, actually, why not?

On second thought -- maybe that's why they can be added in the migration, and fail when applying -- they only work on some backends?

shaib, 4 months ago

@NWengrov @oatmeal @israel

I am sure he is a horrible, misogynist and chauvinist man, and I find it appalling that he is the Chief Rabbi of the IDF.

And yet, in this case, I tend to accept his argument from 2012 -- that, essentially, when he spoke in 2002 (as a civilian), his answer was not as bad as portrayed; that he answered the "how come the Torah permitted this" part and ignored the modern implications part of the question.

Still bad that he didn't start with "rape is verboten period".

shaib, 4 months ago

@NWengrov @oatmeal @israel
For Hebrew readers, the 2012 clarification:
https://www.kipa.co.il/%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%d7%94%d7%a8%d7%91-%d7%a7%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%9e%d7%91%d7%94%d7%99%d7%a8-%d7%95%d7%95%d7%93%d7%90%d7%99-%d7%a9%d7%90%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%a1-%d7%90%d7%a1%d7%95%d7%a8-%d7%91%d7%9b%d7%9c-%d7%9e%d7%a6%d7%91/

shaib, 4 months ago

@ehmatthes @konstantin @mahryekuh

That's close to accurate, but not full; "the truth, but not the whole truth".

It is true that a .0 has, in general, no more new features nor new deprecations than a .1 or .2 release. So if you take care of the deprecations as they show up, then Eric's description should match your experience.

But .0 releases do have more deprecation shim removals (and .2 releases have none). So if you're less diligent, .0's will break more.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/release-process/#deprecation-policy
@carlton

shaib, 5 months ago

@brettcannon @jacob

We already had that talk, it just wasn't Jacob but @carlton
https://youtu.be/7WUFWmyk-HY

shaib, 5 months ago

@AlSweigart
Why would you do that?

shaib, 5 months ago

@gee8sh @protecttruth

I, an Israeli, disagree. The two-state solution is currently not viable, but the only alternative that has really been deemed viable -- no solution -- has been exposed as the hoax that it's always been.

The two-state solution is not "on the table" now. A lot of hard work and resources need to be invested to bring it back into relevance. But I believe there is a crack of an opportunity for that now.

shaib, 6 months ago

@carlton
When I was young, and they packed me off to school
And they taught me how not to play the game
I didn't mind if they groomed me for success
Or if they said that I was just a fool

(the song is actually about religion)
https://youtu.be/TI0_oLQWXvQ

shaib, 6 months ago

@carlton @laymonage
Well if we're discussing this seriously, we should also mention that it should be

git clone $URL $DIR

for a consistent reproduction

shaib, 6 months ago

@b0rk
First of all, I should clarify -- I'm not complaining about people using these buttons, I'm complaining about the way Github implements them. People do what's easy, and that is not just understandable, that's how it should be.

(The project which brought me to this opinion has a CI that's broken more often than not, and to tell the truth, it would be wrong to hold just the buttons responsible for it; but I'm pretty sure they're part of the problem)

shaib, 6 months ago

@appassionato @palestine
For the record, that letter claims that Israel has no right to exist ("The European ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine"). Somehow, for the Jewish population in Israel, the right of self-definition does not apply. Not to mention the blatant lie -- close to half of the Jewish population in Israel is of middle-eastern or north-African origins.

Israel is doing a lot of bad in Gaza and the West Bank. But this is lies and misrepresentations.
@Grandalf

shaib, 6 months ago

@jburd @appassionato @palestine @Grandalf

We can argue about that start (e.g, colonial projects are usually carried by European states, and in this project there was no such power). But referring to Israel now as such a project is an absurd lie, as much as referring to Australia or the US as such is.

shaib, 6 months ago

@jburd @appassionato @palestine @Grandalf

So, it stops being a colonial project once all the displaced are dead? Or does that have anything to do with the intents and self-definition of the "colonists"?

But the major point, which I missed earlier is this: Are you saying that European ethno-nationalist settler colonial projects have a right to exist, and that is what we should read from the letter?

shaib, 6 months ago

@appassionato @jburd @palestine @Grandalf

That piece gets a lot of things right. It also misses some major points; the critical one: We ask about Israel's right to exist because so many in the West fail to see that it is truly denied -- in any way -- by Palestinians and their supporters. I read what you say here as "of course Israelis have a right to self determination", but that is actually not granted; efforts to specifically stop the state from forming began in 1947, right after the
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shaib, 6 months ago

@appassionato @jburd @palestine @Grandalf
UN General Assembly resolution to set it up, and as far as Hamas is concerned, continue to this day.

I agree that Israel should change. In particular, I would love to see a free Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, per UN SEC resolutions. As would most of the 2 million Palestinians who are Israeli citizens, and would like to keep it that way.

Calling Israel "a colonialist project", and chanting "from the river to the sea", work against this.

shaib, 6 months ago

@WahbAllat @appassionato @jburd @palestine @Grandalf

October 7 was a murderous terrorist attack, whose main intentions were to kill as many civilians as possible. It was exactly as justified as 9/11, and done in the same spirit.

shaib, 6 months ago

@WahbAllat @appassionato @jburd @palestine @Grandalf

We can always go remembering only the wrongs done unto us (you know about the 1929 massacre of the Jews of Hebron, right?)

That leads nowhere.

What, in your mind, would serve as a "[demonstration of] willingness to live in peace with the Palestinians", on the part of Israel -- and is consistent with the continued existence of Israel?

shaib, 6 months ago

@jburd @WahbAllat @appassionato @Grandalf

Genocide is when your target is to kill as many of the other side as possible. The only side in this conflict who attempted that is Hamas.

WRT the West Bank, just a clarification: Do you mean Israel should end the occupation in agreement, like it tried in the 1990s, or unilaterally, like it did in 2005 in the Gaza strip (and, since you like punctual details, in a small part of the northern West Bank)?