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dekelpilli | 4 days ago | on: Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track

Java also has a performance cost to accessing class fields, as exampled by this (now-replaced) code in the JDK itself - https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/jdk8-b120/jdk/src/share/...

dekelpilli | 9 months ago | on: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

It would quite concerning if Israel had non-Zionist (read: not in favour of the existence of Israel) parties.

dekelpilli | 9 months ago | on: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites

This was Israel's thinking with Hamas - they're deterred, they're comfortable and in charge and they wouldn't do anything to jeopardise that, etc. Israel's thinking was wrong, and they've learned to believe their enemies when they say they want to destroy Israel. There isn't a country in the world that would allow their enemies, who have repeatedly stated that said country's demise is a key goal of theirs, to develop nukes if they have with the capability to stop it.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: TikTok goes dark in the US

You shouldn't ignore it, you should listen carefully, and you should ponder why an enemy state wants it to outrage you.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: TikTok goes dark in the US

I don't doubt he said it, because I think it's pretty plain to see it's a correct analysis - antisemitism is rife with the new generation to a degree that, to me at least, is quite scary. I just think it's quite instructive that a hostile state is trying to use this to sow discord.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: TikTok goes dark in the US

Worth noting: > In a phone call leaked by the Tehran Times

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

It would correlate strongly that 8200 alumni end up being educated and working in tech, and likely living in Tel Aviv. This is a group of people who, by and large, are not big fans of the current government.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting cursor.com

Based on the pager incident, I'd think you should avoid companies that don't have a publicly-known link to Israel. It's not like Hezbollah thought they were buying pagers from 8200 alumni.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: ISO 8583: The language of credit cards

Having been involved in several ISO8583 implementations/integrations, it's really quite wild how different each one was in both structure and required content from one another.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

Just a note that the translation in that video is slightly incorrect - he mentions Gaza City, not the Gaza strip.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

> What if the dude if hugging is kid/wife/mom ?

Then they also die/get injured. Being in close contact with a terrorist is a dangerous pass-time, and armies targeting foreign threats need to accept some level of collateral damage. In this case, we have thousands of injured terrorists, with hundreds dead, and an additional fraction of those numbers being non-military targets (civilians). It's certainly unfortunate and unpleasant, but this is an excellent ratio.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: Why Use Onion Layering?

Abstracting everything you use has a (high) cost, and doesn't always achieve what you want. This article repeatedly states things "go no further", but realistically, some dependencies will have worse inconveniences than a bad field name. If database you rely on is relational, has token based pagination, and has eventual consistency, chances are that swapping to a consistent timeseries DB with only limit/offset based pagination will impact code in your *.core.* package.

dekelpilli | 1 year ago | on: The greatest resume I've ever seen

Tangential: at my first company out of uni we worked on software that ran in cars. I had never heard the term "smoke test" during my studies, and for quite a while I thought we were running tests (diagnostics) to check if the car was smoking.

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009)

Maybe Pythagoras had a G6PD deficiency. It is more common in males and people with a Mediterranean background[0].

[0] - https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/G6PD-deficiency

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

> the order of the key and value can be reversed

That's not true. What you're seeing here is a map where [1 2 3] is the key for the value :baz

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: XML is better than YAML – Hear me out

It is, as it should be. I'm struggling to format it nicely here in HN, but I believe that the formatting show here [0] is more readable than JSON or YAML. It gives you type flexibility (instead of JSON's string-only keys). What's the source of your confusion here?

[0] https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide#opt-commas-in...

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: jq 1.7

Just adding that a JQ implementation already exists on the JVM[1], although it's not 100% complete.

[1] https://github.com/eiiches/jackson-jq

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?

GPT2 (and 1 to a lesser extent IIRC) used to spit out repeating sentences much like this.

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: Why is desalination so difficult?

Answered at 2:16 of the video - the claim is that the rain actually helps, as it makes the "mountain" steeper.

dekelpilli | 2 years ago | on: A Computer Generated Swatting Service Is Causing Havoc Across America

> frequently shot and killed

I'm struggling to find statistics more recent than 2019, but perhaps skipping the anomalous COVID years is for the best. Anyway, in 2019 [0], 89 officers died in the line of duty, of which just under half (44) were due to gun violence. The number of full time police officers in 2019 was in the region of 700k [1]. That's a fatality rate of under 13 per 100,000 - certainly higher than the national average of 3.6, but far less than jobs highlighted as "occupations with high fatal work injury rates" [2] (who are mostly tradespeople or people that operate heavy machinery).

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-releases-2019-st...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-inju...