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steventhedev

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  • U.S. to send air defense system and troops to Israel

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  • Iran is pretty fucking transparent with their goal: to destroy the Zionist entity. The posters literally say "wiping Israel off the face of the Earth is just the beginning". And no, they don't mean "dismantle the state mechanism" like some users here claim. They very much mean it in the "death to the Jews" way.

    Framing it as purely defensive is just lying

  • Exclusive: Hezbollah running out of money amid Israeli bombardment

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  • Sanctions have not been effective - AQAH has been sanctioned since 2007, and only the direct military threat on Iranian planes bringing cash seems to be having the desired impact.

    The quiet part is here in the details - Iran is Hezbollah's financier - confirming what everyone has known for decades. AQAH is unlicensed, yet they do business with AQAH because they know that someone (Iran) will guarantee AQAH's debts. More importantly, it shows a path forward for Lebanon - to simply enforce their existing sovereignty and laws - punishing banks that do business with unlicensed banks.

  • Secret Documents Show Hamas Tried to Persuade Iran to Join Its Oct. 7 Attack

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  • Tim Walz calls for scrapping of electoral college to decide US presidential race

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  • The electoral college is good for one thing and one thing only: boosting confidence that election fraud in one place won't impact the result of the election.

    Winner takes all was always stupid and needs to be replaced with proportional allocation, preferably with a more direct ratio to the actual population of votes. Basically, everyone doing what Nebraska and Maine do.

  • US antitrust case against Amazon to move forward

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  • If you only look at the US (which a US court should) - it's really between Chrome and Safari Mobile, and it's a pretty even split to be honest - a bit in the favor of safari for mobile traffic, which is telling.

    But the bigger issue is that they have undue influence in technical decisions to the detriment of consumers because they have a vertically integrated business.

  • Unix Rules

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  • Most AIs are trained on older poster art like this - they're well labelled, have consistent style, and because they're older there are likely to be a bunch of duplicates in the training set.

  • Unix Rules

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  • Pretty sure this one predates AI art.

    It's from 1986

  • loss rule

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  • Packet Loss

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  • None built in from what I recall. That was from back in 2011, so it's possible things changed since.

    Reading through, it looks like retries do exist, but remember that duplicate packets are treated as a window reset, so it's possible that transmission succeeded but the ack was lost.

    I remember the project demos from the course though - one team implemented some form of fast retry on two laptops and had one guy walk out and away. With regular wifi he didn't even make it to the end of the hall before the video dropped out. With their custom stack he made it out of the building before it went.

    I'll need to dig through to find the name of what they did.

  • What comes next for Iran after strike on Israel?

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  • Small strikes against any IRGC personnel stationed outside Iran - they're fair game and on the table. We're already seeing this with the strikes on Damascus and throughout Lebanon.

    Also - based on the saber rattling and talking heads, it sounds like there are likely to be three potential targets: the dams, which would cause massive domestic economic damage to Iran; the oil facilities, which would cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime; finally, known nuclear sites, which are in line with Israeli rhetoric about preventing Iranian nuclear ambitions.

    I think cooler heads will prevail and the dams won't be targeted, and without a regional coalition committed to a ground invasion with a goal of regime change, attacking the nuclear facilities won't have the strategic impact that's desired. Which leaves the oil refineries - there's a natural bottleneck for Iranian oil production/export so there's a short list of physical areas that need to be attacked for it to be effective.

    Thinking on it further, IRGC headquarters should also be on the table. I don't think it's likely, but if it succeeds (and it's likely to succeed - especially with direct US support) then it's a huge win. But even if it does succeed I don't see it leading to real regime change in Iran, so without that strategic impact it's far less likely.

  • Packet Loss

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  • To be fair, because of window size management it only takes 1% packet loss to cause a catastrophic drop in speed.

    Packet loss in TCP is only ever handled as a signal of extreme network congestion. It was never intended to go over a lossy link like wifi.

  • "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely

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  • Only on signup

  • "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely

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  • Anything using Blind as a "verified industry source" is going to be skewed to the type of person who uses Blind. Beyond that, it's low sample size, and there are suspiciously round fractions for some of the larger companies. Worse, because Blind is blind - this doesn't represent current employees, but merely people who worked at some point in the past at those companies.

    Not saying it's not good - just saying not to get overly excited over a badly done survey

  • Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'

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  • Are you ok?

  • Meet the First Tenured Professor to Be Fired for Pro-Palestine Speech

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  • Typical intercept opinion piece - one sided with self-contradictory citations. For example - claiming that the only complaint was based on an Instagram story that way posted after the professor was informed of the complaint. It's like they started from the headline and just wrote whatever supported that conclusion.

    I honestly wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this

  • Live Updates: Israel Says It Killed Hezbollah Leader; Hezbollah Hasn’t Confirmed

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  • Not just Nasrallah - basically everyone in the top two or three layers of Hezbollah's military leadership have all been killed in the last few weeks.

  • Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire Infowars will be sold for parts to help pay Sandy Hook families

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  • The actual auction site: https://360assetadvisors.com/events/fssmh/

    Looks like they're only breaking it down into three parts: Infowars the media company, Infowars the supplement store, and a pile of domain names. Production equipment might get sold as part of a separate auction.

    I'm not loving the NDA though - open auctions should get more value.

  • Human rights groups: Israel's Channel 14 has repeatedly called for genocide in Gaza

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  • Exclusive: Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen's Houthis, sources say

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  • Much as everyone is laughing at this, there are several European countries that recently purchased Israeli missile defense systems. This could potentially be Russia attempting to show them that it won't work (or probe for weaknesses - depends how far along they are in their anti-anti-missile program).

    Either way, it does put Russia on the spot as knowingly providing weapons that will likely be used against Israel. Which hopefully will mean greater support of Ukraine by Israel, who have up until now been avoiding that to maintain security ties with Russia in order to counter Iranian operations in Syria.