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halflife··on Patrick Stewart has died
Thank you for this. You put my thoughts into words.
halflife··on Patrick Stewart has died
Almost every episode of extras is awesome, but of course Patrick Stewart is just perfect for that show.
halflife··on Patrick Stewart has died
Watching him in Star Trek TNG made me reevaluate how management of people should be done, his character was assertive but compassionate. High morals coupled with grounded reason.

I also want to mention his hilarious role as bullock in American dad, the way he takes a role both so seriously and ridiculously makes him so fantastically hilarious.

I love him and will miss him.

halflife··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
I’m pretty sure a database row backed by an app is much easier than handling crypto.

And decentralization here doesn’t mean a lot when you need to trust the broker with real stocks backing.

halflife··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
Ah I understand, so it’s backed by an actual stock, and you just trust the broker to not liquidate and leave you with nothing.

But what is the crypto value here? Why not just a database row?

halflife··on Microsoft and others tell crypto platform not to tokenize their stocks
I’m trying to understand what tokenized stocks actually mean. Where does the value come from? A stock is an actual percentage of a company’s ownership. A token of a stock is basically an NFT of a stock? The value is only from what other people are willing to pay for it?
halflife··on Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997
I remember having Word 5 installed on my pc, while the other classmates had Word 97. I was so jealous for their wordart!
halflife··on How Japanese Dried Bonito Is Made
I was at a fish ramen place in Tokyo, they had a bonito block with a hand operated shaver, looked like a giant pencil sharpener.

Next to the ramen they would serve the bonito flakes contained in a small net, And suggest to soak for 10 seconds, but no more than 30 because the flavor would be too intense.

halflife··on Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary
Just had that when visiting japan, wanted to order food to the hotel using Uber Eats, and everything’s in Japanese. So I translated it. Seeing parent and child bowl made it an immediate buy!
halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
The videos show Hezbollah members explode in public, but nearby civilians were unharmed. The explosive material was only a few grams. It didn’t even kill most people that were holding on to it, just maimed them with groin, hand, and eye damages
halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
What does Hamas has anything to do with the pagers attack?
halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
In Lebanon?
halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Oh you have the numbers? Or is it just a lie?
halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
It’s a mix of culture and army bias.

Culturally, Israel has a strong emphasis on entrepreneurship, coupled with general lack of tolerance for bureaucracy, makes for pretty agile organizations.

In the military side, it creates a country sized funnel that picks the best people and places them together trying to solve problems that would seem impossible. When these people are discharged, they are friends that knows how to work best together. Think of it like a larger and more focused version of an Ivy League school

halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
The idea of “greater Israel” is a bogeyman that lives in the heads of people that hates Israel in several factors of greater numbers than there are people in Israel who believe that.

You can literally count with both hands the amount of people in Israel that advocate for “greater Israel”

halflife··on AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware
Many, many, many Fortune 500 companies use Israeli cybersecurity services.

I guess that your concerns are not aligned with reality, or the benefits far outweigh whatever it is you think may happen.

(Talking as an Israeli working in cybersecurity)

halflife··on New Apple TV 4K
Playing dead cells on Apple TV is awesome. But it does tend to slow a bit in more hectic fights
halflife··on The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27
How many Macs are you setting up? This is only a 1 minute chore…
halflife··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
Interestingly, the name 2cv means 2 Cheval Fiscal, or 2 fiscal horses. Which was a tax measurement for cars based on a formula of the shape and performance of the engine.

The car itself had 9 horsepower.

halflife··on How Protein Took over the World
Beans look gross?
halflife··on A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
Scavengers reign was one of the best shows I’ve seen
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
The Jew?
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
I can’t believe modern people still believe Middle Ages blood libels. Antisemitism truly runs deep in some circles.
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Sexual predator karim khan, which was the icc prosecutor, was supposed to arrive with a delegation to Israel to investigate the charges and see evidence from the Israeli side. A day before he cancelled the delegation and one sidedly published the accusations.

A year later we learned that he threatened his victim that if she would expose him, it would hurt the case against Israel.

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Wow that’s a lot to unpack.

Dahyia doctrine - this means inflict damage on your enemy in such way that will deter him from ever trying to attack you again. It was named in the 2006 Lebanon war, which Hezbollah started, after which nasrallah admitted that if he knew of the Israeli response, he would not have started the war. I suppose your a 5 star general with a better way of creating deterrence.

Hannibal directive - affects only soldiers, and it means that the army must do whatever’s necessary to prevent a kidnapping. This is after a soldier was kidnapped into Gaza, kept there for 5 years without seeing any natural party to assess his condition (which is illegal but no one cares about that when Israelis are the victims), and eventually was released against 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, one of which was sinwar. Again, I assume you are a 5 star general that can find a better solution.

Israel is a secular state. The only thing controlled by religion is marriage (btw USA gives weapons to turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, where is the protest against support of these unsecular countries?)

And finally - how exactly is the Iran war illegal?

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
What the hell are you talking about
halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
Maybe it’s their parents that sacrifice them?

Here’s a recent video of a child carrying weapons for terrorists: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bj0epw85gx

And before you say that you don’t trust Israeli media, the world doesn’t care enough when it’s Palestinians at fault, so it’s not covered anywhere else.

halflife··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
You don’t get it, in their twisted worldview, Israel is to blame for anything. Coincides is exactly what’s being taught in every household in the failed states surrounding Israel. No jobs? Israel. Illness and death? Israel. Taliban slaughtering people? Israel.

Instead of understanding that these governments use the Israeli Palestinian conflict as a scapegoat, and Israel as a boogeyman, just to make the populous blind to the true cause for their suffering.

halflife··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Actually international law does let you do that, ie: child soldiers
halflife··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
Ha, it’s still up.

Looking up my user, kind of embarrassing to see comments from 22 years ago asking and giving code advice.

However, it does raise lots of nostalgia for the BBS era.

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