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bennyz··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
>You what works? Identifying the purpetrators, prosecuting and convicting them. If you want to go ultra tough, use Mossad to go after Hamas leadership. Heck, even using precision strikes at Hamas leadership in Gaza wouod be better, regardless of the related colleteral damage and casualties. Israel is not doing any of that

ah, yes, it's that simple, just press the magic button that makes all Hamas disappear and all uninvolved civilians live well and prosper...

To me it seems that if those who care about innocent civilians were more focused on demanding Hamas to surrender and release the hostages promptly would be do more to save lives than constantly criticizing Israel, which gives Hamas hope they can survive this (and do what they did again later on)

bennyz··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Police brutality isn't something specific to this region (IDF is policing in the west bank), or to Palestinians in the region. Hamas murdered and kidnapped hundreds of civilians to protest this?

I think it's pretty clear that Hamas would prioritize the release of a high ranking terrorist with civilian blood on their hands over someone that may be wrongfully detained.

bennyz··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
You are moving the goalposts and reaching. Administrative detention is used on Israelis too, this is not the argument here. Those released in the latest exchange and in the Gilad Shalit exchange were convicted, many of which had innocent blood on their hands. Hamas isn't looking to correct the Israeli justice system, and you are calling actual and attempted murderers hostages...
bennyz··on Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war
Thousands of Palestinian hostages? What are you talking about? Please clarify, as I assume you are not talking about prisoners convicted of terror activities.
bennyz··on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
Check "The Quantified Scientist" on youtube, he does very good wearable reviews and compares them with sleep labs
bennyz··on Ask HN: Resources for Learning Idiomatic Rust?
I learned Rust from the book as well, the only programming book I actually read cover to cover (though a lot of stuff went over my head, so I am occasionally revisiting).

I found some complementary resources like the following: https://blog.burntsushi.net/rust-error-handling/

https://fasterthanli.me/ has a lot of very good Rust posts in varying levels

There are also some resources that are still incomplete, like the async book (https://rust-lang.github.io/async-book/) and Rust patterns (https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/)

And there are youtube channels like: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset - He has videos about super advanced stuff (like implement a concurrent hash map), and the Crust of Rust which is more suitable for beginners Another one I like a lot is Ryan Levick (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpeX4D-ArTrsqvhLapAHprQ)

bennyz··on Ask HN: Is Rust worth it compared to Golang?
I am actually doing the opposite transition now, I have been learning Go and using it a bit at work and on hobby projects for a while. I recently started working through the Rust book and I find it much more appealing at this point, and I am seriously considering converting my personal project to Rust to get some hands-on experience.
bennyz··on Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
>Is there a timetable and could you perhaps elaborate a bit as to why it currently requires root? (I don't know anything about virtual machine internals so this isn't a passive-aggressive question from my side. It's genuine curiosity.)

Not from Weave, but I might have an idea as I've played with Firecracker a bit. When you start up a Firecracker VM, you need to provide it with a rootfs drive, which is a file containing the root file system to be used for the VM. Ignite uses OCI images, so I guess they are doing something similar to [1] in code, the `mount` part requires sudo, so that would be my guess to why you need root.

[1] https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/blob/mast...

bennyz··on Firecracker: Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing
Amazon uses it mainly for Fargate and Lambda (from what I've read). Docker is a container technology (shared kernel), while Firecracker is an actual VM manager so it provides better isolation. It is more comparable with QEMU.
bennyz··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Containers are nice and I use them, but unfortunately they are not enough since they are not synced and don't solve the bookmarks issue
bennyz··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
I am still missing chrome-like profiles