nahumfarchi

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by nahumfarchi 5mo ago
It stopped charging and then died
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by nahumfarchi 5mo ago
Any kindle device that I bought barely lasted more than a couple of years, so joke is on them I guess?
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by nahumfarchi 7mo ago
Mathematically, it means that the number of lines read is bounded by 10*M, where M is some constant. So it's basically equivalent to saying that it's O(1). I'm guessing that intention was to say "around 10 lines", t
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by nahumfarchi 1y ago
I don't get HN anymore. This comment reflects a legitimate stance that's articulated just fine. Why is it grayed out?
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by nahumfarchi 1y ago
Sources?
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by nahumfarchi 1y ago
The current government is in power by a small majority, meaning that it is strongly contested by about 50% of Israelis (on most matters). That means against settlements, for ending the war, and largely liberal views. But no, we won't p
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by nahumfarchi 1y ago
A geometry processing library in the Odin language - https://github.com/nahumfarchi/odin-geometry . Not much yet, it includes a basic half-edge implementation and a couple of small examples.
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by nahumfarchi 2y ago
Yes, all finite languages are regular. Specifically, you can construct a finite automata to represent it.
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by nahumfarchi 2y ago
Their death is tragic, but such is war unfortunately... Lebanon is participating in this one whether they like to or not. That aside, these definitions were written for a reason, even if they have no appeal to the current victims.
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by nahumfarchi 2y ago
Proportionality is at the center of defining a war crime. "The principle of proportionality (Article 51(5) (b) API) states that even if there is a clear military target it is not possible to attack it if the expected harm to civilians,
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by nahumfarchi 2y ago
I would love to see a list of "oldies but goldies" in various fields. Wonder if you're aware of such a thing?
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by nahumfarchi 2y ago
Nit: the Israeli government is in Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv.
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
His policy towards Hamas was one of containment and not making a decision, which is classic Netanyahu behavior. I don't know whether or not his biographies agree with this, but this is pretty much the consensus among Israelis. Again, I
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
> Similarly any talk of peace from the Israeli government is meaningless while settlement of the West Bank continues. The same can be said of the terror attacks. I strongly agree that the settlements are an obstacle to peace and apologiz
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Sorry, but this adds nothing to the discussion. Yes, they were settlers (I don't think anyone in this sub-thread argued otherwise). Yes, they shouldn't have been there in the first place. And yet the Israeli government uprooted th
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Excel is notoriously bad at that :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_year_problem
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Civillians and those who do not want to take part in the fighting have been allowed to move south for their own safety while the IDF deals with the numerous underground tunnels from which Hamas operates. This is not an ethnic cleansing (tho
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
And you're ignoring the fact that our neighbors are hostile towards us and share a border with another country.
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
In this certain case, it is. The aggressions (during this round) started on October 7th by Hamas. You can replace "defense" with "response" / "retaliation" / or "zionist agressions" if you&#
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
What about the Jews who were ejected from neighboring Arab countries during these various wars? Do they get to go back home? Do you truly believe a compromise can be reached with an organization that committed a massacre on the scale of Oct
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Before Netanyahu there were at least four prime ministers - Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, Shimon Peres, and Yitzhak Rabin - who've made honest attempts at peace. Not to mention Ariel Sharon who has, despite being a hard right-winger, lead t
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
The US and Canada seem to be doing fine. France and Germany. Thailand and Laos (as far as I know). Your statement is vague and does not seem to take into account the actual realities of living in perpetual insecurity.
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
That's quite a bit of selective reading there. Where you see "'67 borders", I see "Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and complete liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea". River = the Jordan
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Based on what? He's a cynical real politik kind of guy, but I doubt this is how he hoped this would play out. At the end of the day, I believe that his legacy is extremely important to him, and he probably did not want to be remembered
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
We've tried defense, didn't work out. Which laws of armed conflict are you specifically referring to?
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
Israel is a democracy made up of various parties with a whole spectrum of opinions. Some are for a two state solution (center-left), some for a one state solution in the form of "greater israel" (hard right, fringe elements if you
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
1. You've made the comparison between a (if we're being honest here), in the grand scale of things, rather insignificant military conflict between two parties, and industrial scale genocide. So I find the framing problematic. I wo
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
That is a weird tangent to take. The population size in Gaza nearly doubled in the last 20 years, reaching approximately 2 million ( ). If the sea blockade is a population control measure, it's a highly ineffective one. Did ever you st
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
You're assuming that the probability to be drafted is the same for a tech worker as for the rest of the population. I don't know whether that's a valid assumption or not...
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by nahumfarchi 3y ago
As a Jew, I have quite a few qualms with the comparison to Warsaw. I'm not denying the suffering in Gaza in any way, but it's far fetched to put this on the same grounds as Warsaw, in which an estimated 300-400k Jews were murdered

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