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wara23arish··on Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet
a lot of these kids are missing limbs, it breaks my heart
wara23arish··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Isn’t the problem the same with both systems but one just scales a lot better and is more dangerous?

Im intrigued by why you believe federal level should override local variations. It seems so counter intuitive.

wara23arish··on The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra
I was taught at UT. Apparently Djikstra would make his students take exams with pens instead of pencils.

Less likely to make mistakes if you can’t erase

wara23arish··on VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
I remember using VLC and figuring out how to download subtitles and use them within it.

I suddenly became the computer person of my family at 11 because of that

wara23arish··on Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers
It’s Turkey and literally no one cares.

Turkish gov or UN can’t dictate language

wara23arish··on Git CLI tool for intelligently creating branch names
I hate issue numbers for branch names. ISSUE-9482 doesn’t really provide much.

Ticket link should always be included in PR description.

But branch names should be descriptive like terraform_dev_create_instance

etc

wara23arish··on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest
stay vigilant Lebanon was granting 12% rates and everything was fine and “covered” by central bank until it wasnt
wara23arish··on Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootloader Going Rust
which begs the question why even get a laptop as a daily driver

people do it all the time for gaming laptops etc when probably 99% of their usage is at the same desk

wara23arish··on Ask HN: Am I the only one not using AI?
One is passively receiving the answer and the other is actively reading and comparing multiple choices.

If you were the type that would just copy paste whatever came up first, then yeah its just quicker to do it that way.

wara23arish··on Magit Is Amazing
where do you work where everyone uses magit! jealous :(
wara23arish··on Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support
confused why it would be worse for range partitioning?

I assume there would be some type of index on the timestamp portion & the uuid portion?

wouldn’t that make it better for partitioning since we’d only need to query partitions that match the timestamp portion

wara23arish··on Incident with Webhooks
i recently started and kinda agree?

my setup before was just build and scp

now it takes like 3 mins for a deploy: i haven’t setup caching for builds etc. but that feels like a self made problem

my proj is pretty simple so thats probably why

wara23arish··on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
I’ve recently quit all social media and been wanting to do the same thing. Thank you!
wara23arish··on Software CEO to Catholic panel: AI is more mass stupidity than mass unemployment
may I ask why?
wara23arish··on AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?
has to be satire no lol
wara23arish··on Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
homedepot too

in my team of 23 there were 2 americans

wara23arish··on Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
I resonate with that way of thinking a lot.

fwiw: what you did is pretty impressive and hella brave, respect

wara23arish··on LinkedIn will use member data, profiles, and public posts to train AI models
slop meet slop
wara23arish··on Ask HN: What Are You Reading?
reading Blood Meridian now, honestly it just flows for me.

I grew up reading arabic and sentences are just feel longer so maybe thats why Im not struggling with it.

wara23arish··on Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid
both can be right
wara23arish··on Stephen Miller's Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests in Immigration Raid
Im an immigrant and I think it’s something that needs to be done.

The people responsible are the ones who let this happen. The solution is gonna be ugly no matter what.

too much immigration literally suppresses wages, all other arguments are secondary and not imp enough imo

wara23arish··on A beginner's guide to extending Emacs
i 100% agree, kinda cool how LISP was first meant for AI and now it’s easy to reap the benefits of this
wara23arish··on I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf
i think lowering the volume down to zero now constitutes as play/pause

i hate it too

wara23arish··on How to stop losing 17,500 kidneys
I feel the same way.. Why can’t my family benefit from making money from my organs?
wara23arish··on Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
I know but I saw some comments on here painting arabs with a brush as if we don’t believe in medicine/doctors etc.

Im ashamed to say but im annoyed and tired of it (especially lately)

wara23arish··on Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science (2011)
The arab world is perfectly capable of practicing science. However in countries where your future is bleak, you either immigrate or work barely able to get by.

One only needs to read recent history of any random country picked at random. And you will see a multitude of incidents of “oh yeah that will fuck them over”.

Here’s one where im from, a famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_Mount_Lebano... induced by both Ottomans and the allies. Where 50% of mount lebanon the population died of starvation (christians and druze).

The list is literally endless. What drives me crazy is that the average american thinks arabs/muslims hate the west because of “their way of life”. My jaw dropped the first time I heard someone say that.

One small thing that can help is if the west can stop propping up dictators and genocidal countries. That would really help

wara23arish··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
Im curious, if you’re realpolitik american.

Can you explain why would the USA support one country instead of appeasing 300 million in the area?

What are the benefits out of being so pro israel?

wara23arish··on Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
I moved right about 10 years ago, kamen min lebnen :)

It’s actually a major thing I think about especially when it comes to any kids I might have.

wara23arish··on Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
Very unusual accent. If you speak in MSA, I have to hold myself from laughing usually.

There are also definitely some words that I’ve never of that arent common in local dialects.

wara23arish··on Show HN: Parallel Arabic – Arabic reading and writing practice
Im arab myself, hence the username :)

What I find fascinating myself is that no on actually speaks MSA, modern standard arabic. It is mostly used for written text that is meant to last? We dont text in standard arabic at all. Its used in government forms/legal documents etc..

This makes it such a challenge to teach ppl arabic since many books use MSA which can often sound alien to native speakers.

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