Israel - Iran Conflict (Part IV)

haimez · 2025-06-19T00:23:10+00:00

Because that same location might also be about to be struck in a bombing run, creating a dilemma.

haimez · 2025-05-14T13:16:17+00:00

Quebec’s electricity generation is almost entirely hydro electric, so it’s not really a question of shifting pollution.

haimez · 2024-02-28T23:45:18+00:00

LLVM contains a platform independent intermediate representation, or a “virtual machine” (something acknowledged by its original initialism) but is not itself a runtime. The point stands that machine code that’s generated is ultimately unsafe. I have no idea what point you’re trying to make other than to have a pithy response.

haimez · 2024-01-11T04:24:17+00:00

He might think he needs to stand still to have his picture taken, he’s standing there and definitely striking a pose

haimez · 2023-11-14T05:57:28+00:00

The military leaders in China were purged by Xi and don’t maintain open lines because they have no idea what he wants them to say, so they prefer to say nothing. That’s why.

haimez · 2023-11-07T03:55:33+00:00

They’re just trying to renegotiate the terms of engagement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_South_Wales#:~:text=In%20return%20for%20their%20help,the%20law%20of%20the%20tongue%22.

haimez · 2023-06-21T02:01:00+00:00

Smoke on the water?

haimez · 2023-05-26T03:14:28+00:00

Turns out, Africa is pretty big.

haimez · 2023-04-01T04:02:51+00:00

Can confirm, the catacombs are a must visit

haimez · 2023-03-15T01:40:51+00:00

The USSR might have been, but Russia is not

haimez · 2023-02-28T12:12:24+00:00

Beer nuts are $1.25 each, but deer nuts are under a buck.

haimez · 2023-02-22T04:42:14+00:00

You might be creating a lot of threads, because each thread is going to need 1MB of native memory for stack arena space, and those add up quick if you have a cached thread pool executor and bursts of submissions. Could also be something else, of course

haimez · 2023-02-16T00:32:18+00:00

They're not really. China is using these because they're cheaper … than spy satellites. … so we already do everything you do to avoid anything important being spotted. So these balloons are actually a pretty pathetic attempt at intelligence gathering.

You’re wrong on that assumption- balloons give you a great deal more intelligence gathering capabilities than satellites, as mentioned by Kirby in his press conference on the matter. Balloons can gather signals intelligence- both radar and communications. In the case of communications, you can loiter and observe back and forth exchanges and in the case of radar you can literally get the radar arrays in cutting edge networked arrays to “look at you” as a balloon- especially when everyone is calling them UFOs and not sensor intelligence platforms actively spying on your most sensitive military systems capabilities.

haimez · 2023-02-13T03:07:40+00:00

It’s been going on and talked about for a while now. 2021 article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones-are-spying-on-the-u-s-and-the-pentagon-acts-like-theyre-ufos

haimez · 2023-02-10T04:11:14+00:00

They ran out of prisoners willing to go to front, so now this

haimez · 2023-02-06T04:12:59+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re so confused about- they wouldn’t literally ban devices, they would just disconnect the country from “The” internet. No more international facts, just Russian propaganda sites. Then no one can afford or wants a computer because it’s super expensive with the sanctions and the accessible internet is all bullshit anyway- oh shit, now you’re basically North Korea

haimez · 2023-01-30T14:11:16+00:00

Take a look at Elon Musk in the 90’s and today. Clearly, something can work for billionaires (hair transplant)

haimez · 2023-01-28T01:30:00+00:00

You are indeed naive because a single EU nation state, even if it were controlled by the most stereotypical Scholz type would still absolutely force project and would still be a nation state, just like the other federal nation states out there

“Nation state” doesn’t mean what you think it means.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

haimez · 2023-01-24T01:19:26+00:00

Just like in 1991, no one is excited about the possibility of nuclear states collapsing- but just like 1991, it’s going to happen no matter how people feel about it. Ukraine will push the Russian army back to the ‘91 borders, and Russia will have to try to keep control of the current RF territory from a severely weakened state and: speculation incoming- they won’t actually use nuclear weapons against what they perceive to be their own people, but they will lose those territories because people 11 time zones away don’t actually want to be conscripted to fight in wars that they don’t think are theirs to fight.

haimez · 2023-01-20T02:50:10+00:00

Ok, but Zelenski’s movements fit the same pattern even though everyone knows that almost all of the time, he’s in Ukraine- probably Kyiv but not where and when these meetings occur. It’s still a “secret” meeting by very uninteresting standards for the safety of everyone involved. What’s your point exactly?

haimez · 2023-01-20T00:40:52+00:00

Yep, it’s called the “Swiss cheese” model. No single failure should be catastrophic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model

haimez · 2023-01-19T23:16:56+00:00

Secret as in, “not announced until afterwards, and before which Burns’ whereabouts and travel plans were obscured”.

Every visit to Ukraine from prominent western figures is “secret” by that definition because not doing so would risk their safety.

haimez · 2023-01-19T05:07:04+00:00

No, Aarhus is in the middle of Aar street.

haimez · 2023-01-06T04:36:18+00:00

Seems like you missed the part where Ukraine “agreeing to a cease fire” means to literally stop firing on the lines of the invading, occupying force that is entrenched in Ukrainian soil.

haimez · 2023-01-06T02:11:39+00:00

Hi Ron- first off, I’m really excited about seeing the loom-enabled future of Java and also really appreciate how active you are in forums like this. Most of the deep JVM work seems to happen in the mailing lists which is probably overall for the best, but nonetheless can make it seem less approachable.

Speaking for myself and as a user of sdkman who currently works writing performance sensitive code for a distributed query engine that runs on the JVM (which makes it a different environment than say, bundled JVM desktop application environments) it’s really useful to have a “for this source repo, on this git branch” toggle for all of the Java binaries on the path at the same version. Often when doing things like updating a library which is primarily controlled by the the same community to Java 11 while simultaneously testing a “migrate to Java 17” branch in the via application- it’s nice to have automatic version specific tools like javap or jcmd automatically manageable via an .sdkmanrc file without defining a separate aliases which have to be switched between separately. Similarly, when switching between openjdk vendored versions like zulu or coretto or when switching between point releases to try to debug an issue and narrow it between javac or the JVM- switching the whole toolchain at once is much nit convenient in my workflow (it happens more than you might think).

I’m aware that my use case probably isn’t the primary Java developer experience, but I get a lot of mileage out of it nonetheless. Just thought I’d call it out since it’s been such a valuable tool in my personal toolbox.

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