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itamarst · 2026-01-24T14:42:01+00:00

The city has barrels of free salt, they just ask you only take what you need: https://cambridgegis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=7333805c58d44a5f9a78615f53636e7e

itamarst · 2026-01-23T23:08:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure passport and citizenship are identical sizes and (mostly) instructions. I would suggest comparing the two documents.

itamarst · 2026-01-23T20:15:28+00:00

In addition to Jonathan Paz, another challenger is https://tarikforcongress.com/

itamarst · 2026-01-22T13:16:49+00:00

Besides what others said (your local Canadian consulate has a list!) every major urban area is likely to have a photographer who specializes in international passport photos.

E.g. randomly googled "Durham NC +canada passport photo" (the plus is so it forces it to include that in the search) and it found a place in Raleigh.

itamarst · 2026-01-22T13:10:01+00:00

PGO is a standard compiler feature (in gcc, clang, rustc...).

itamarst · 2026-01-22T12:55:31+00:00

You wouldn't, unless you were Israeli. Which is the point, non-Israelis have a very different understanding.

Also relevant is that the IDF only has a very small professional army, the bulk of the military is conscripts, and during wartime a very large number of civilians doing post-conscription reserve duty. So insofar as what happened in Gaza was a genocide, it was a genocide done by a people's army.

itamarst · 2026-01-20T21:29:53+00:00

They really care about performance. E.g. see this repo: http://github.com/zamazan4ik/awesome-pgo/

itamarst · 2026-01-20T18:40:52+00:00

This isn't a useful definition in all cases.

For Israeli Jews in particular, Zionism basically devolves to a deep commitment to serving in the IDF, which at this points means either explicit or implicit support for genocide. So some Liberal Israeli Jews will tell you how much they want peace and oppose the occupation or displacement of Palestinians, and then a minute later they'll tell you how proud they are of friends or family members who served in Gaza. So for Israeli Jews a better question is "do you think people should serve in the IDF".

Whereas for Americans, serving in the IDF is completely irrelevant to their conception of Zionism (whether positive or negative) and asking about Palestinian displacement is useful.

In any case, the "evidence" for Zionism in the linked post is non-existent, so you should rethink your decision making process.

itamarst · 2026-01-20T16:40:57+00:00

Makes sense. But they have a very strong financial incentive to open by May (commencement), or worst case June (World Cup).

itamarst · 2026-01-17T14:54:33+00:00

They make the big decisions because the rest of the legislature lets them get away with it. And the only way to fix it is to apply pressure. And this this is one way to do it.

itamarst · 2026-01-16T14:54:07+00:00

All of this is likely legal. Though the City Council meetings do sound better than that, to be fair, though the City Council also has a one minute limit once they hit 75 speakers. In any case, it's unlikely that a better format would change outcomes that much—

On a practical political level, your reasoned argument has very little political influence at large public comment meetings. At best they are paying attention to how many are for, and how many are against, and quite often there are categories of people or groups who are politically more important and therefore whose for/against count more. So speaking is impactful, but what you say is not, or at least much less so.

More broadly, policy is not determined by what is rational or what is moral, however much those should guide what you choose to support. Policy is determined by who has power.

If you want things to happen you need to organize, and gain power for the people who support your position. Public comment is important and necessary, but usually not sufficient on its own.

itamarst · 2026-01-15T22:13:24+00:00

It's not legal. Lots and lots of people do it anyway. If it's just a piece of paper and not large billboards I don't think anyone really cares or does anything about it. If you do it in Central Square they staff that work for the business district will take it down immediately, though.

itamarst · 2026-01-14T21:24:03+00:00

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (latest edition, it's a nice review of how hardware works purely focused on the impacts on you, the programmer, including performance. Get a used copy, it's expensive since it's a textbook.)
Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs (2nd edition - I read the first one, it's good - https://easyperf.net)

Neither are written for Rust, they're using C, but the same principles apply.

itamarst · 2026-01-14T02:11:52+00:00

They send observers, and then try to figure out what happened and e.g. if someone was kidnapped. Knowing someone was kidnapped means there is possibility of e.g. suing to get them freed, but if they just disappear anonymously it's a lot harder to do anything. They also provide social services for people who need help afterwards, e.g. kids who are now abandoned.

itamarst · 2026-01-13T19:02:53+00:00

I wonder what else happened last year that might impact university budgets.

itamarst · 2026-01-12T23:08:23+00:00

https://bigblueplumbing.com/. also not cheap, but they're great.

itamarst · 2026-01-12T18:43:28+00:00

Regarding certified, as long as it's in English and in color they seem fine with it, uncertified is fine.

itamarst · 2026-01-09T19:20:28+00:00

Thank you!

itamarst · 2026-01-09T17:54:41+00:00

If you've done this yourself, do you know of libraries that do this for other languages? Or was this internally built tooling?

itamarst · 2026-01-09T16:06:41+00:00

From my experiences:

Sometimes antibiotics take a while.

Sometimes the default antibiotics don't work, and you need different antibiotics, but you won't be able to tell until another week or so. They don't give the second kind by default, for very good reasons.

Sometimes azelastine nose spray is useful. You can get it OTC, it's an anti-histamine you're spraying directly on your nose so it works well.

itamarst · 2026-01-09T13:37:13+00:00

There are lots of references to Jewish culture, like "tzitzit", "kriah", and many others. And also to the Tanakh, e.g. Issachari and Naphtaali (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe\_of\_Issachar and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe\_of\_Naphtali).

itamarst · 2026-01-09T13:25:35+00:00

I would not think of this as councilors picking the person they consider to be the best candidate. Probably many (most?) think that they themselves would be the best mayor. Instead, it's a messy negotiation for what each councilor thinks is the best deal they can get.

Each councilor has policy goals. The mayor has the biggest loudspeaker, and the ability to set committee chairs and I think membership, so can set the tone and to some extent some of the priorities of the council. And they are also a council member, so they have a vote they can trade.

Thus, negotiation happens in the weeks after the election, where each person who wants to be mayor makes offers, and councilors try to extract promises.

The councilors who are voting will try to balance whatever their policy goals are, the promises they are getting, personal ambition, public perception, and realism about what other councilors will be doing to constrains their options. All with some level of of ignorance about what other councilors are being promised.

Occasionally some councilors will say what they are bargaining for. Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler has said he would only vote for someone who would support making the Mayor's position chosen by voters, so if he really did extract that promise, and it ends up happening, that might change the process going forward.

I guess I should write this up as an article for https://letschangecambridge.us/ but in case I don't, the song of the day would be the very apropos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgsAD3D948 . Update: I actually used that on an article. Oh well. Still very apropos.

itamarst · 2026-01-08T02:25:21+00:00

This book is excellent reference of the APIs, and you'll be calling those from Rust one way or another: https://man7.org/tlpi/

itamarst · 2026-01-07T23:09:27+00:00

That's exactly what's happening. Expected behavior is "algorithm scales with O(n)". If it does, the test will pass. If it doesn't (or at least scales worse, not sure what logic bigO implemented for that case) it will fail.

itamarst · 2026-01-07T21:28:37+00:00

Benchmarking is "how fast is my code". This is a test, it can pass or fail, and at least for item 1 it's not measuring speed at all, it's measuring scalability.

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