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halflife··on Israel-bound flight diverted to Saudi Arabia after brawl between pilots
Copying my comment from a previous thread -

Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, details as known so far:

Omani second pilot stabbed the Emirati captain severely, and tried to crash the plane causing a dive from 34k to 15k in mach1.

The captain managed to take control back, and in the meantime Israeli passengers who have heard the commotion in the cockpit broke in and apprehended the Omani pilot.

A second flight crew on the plane landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, with a damaged tail from the dive.

halflife··on Israel-bound flight lands in Saudi Arabia after violent incident between pilots
Flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, details as known so far:

Omani second pilot stabbed the Emirati captain severely, and tried to crash the plane causing a dive from 34k to 15k in mach1.

The captain managed to take control back, and in the meantime Israeli passengers who have heard the commotion in the cockpit broke in and apprehended the Omani pilot.

A second flight crew on the plane landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia, with a damaged tail from the dive.

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
It happened once.

And I see you’re sticking with the “evil IDF just decided to kill these 3 hostages without any reason” plot.

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Yes, because Hamas routinely does that to lure IDF soldiers.

Let’s use occams razor hear.

Option A - mistaken identity because the enemy wears no uniform, embeds itself in civilians, and uses inhumane tactics to confuse IDF soldiers (like putting explosives on dead bodies, placing speakers with hostages recording as bait)

Option B - IDF decided to kill the hostages they came to rescue for some evil reason

halflife··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
That is completely incorrect. The terrorists that were put in charge of these hostages fled and left them alone in a war zone. They were definitely NOT released.

They were killed because of mistaken identity, which is horrible, but it happens in war, some IDF soldiers died from friendly fire.

Hamas definitely didn’t ask protection for the hostages, they asked protection for themselves.

There are many hostages reports of Hamas terrorists saying to hostages that if IDF will draw near, they will shoot the hostages.

halflife··on iPhone Duo
It’s marked ip68, I wonder how they made the hinge water and dust proof
halflife··on Glacier Mice
You managed to talk with the dog from fallout 1?
halflife··on Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
Ukraine received Patriot missile defense systems from Israel, Zelensky confirms

https://www.jpost.com/international/internationalrussia-ukra...

halflife··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
Possible path for organic zero calorie sugars!
halflife··on A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life
Incorrect. There are symmetric achiral molecules. Which can be consumed as food for both normal, and mirror life, thus creating competition for resources.
halflife··on Israel's Rave Music Drowns Out the Sound of Its Victims
What a shitshow of an article. The first victims of the Nova festival mentioned in this article are not the ones massacred, kidnapped and tortured by the gazans, it’s the ones killed by “Israeli police” in a “crossfire”.

For an article trying to celebrate peace love and unity in edm music, it fails to mention the fact that Hamas weee the ones to attack innocent festival goers.

halflife··on Gina Gallery of International Naive Art
But not all naive art comes from 3rd world. I remember learning about famous naive artists from Northern Europe which were quite amazing.
halflife··on Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media
Back to 2015, I stopped posting on Facebook when I noticed that it’s no longer about connecting with my friends, but a never ending stream of boring posts from groups and people that I don’t know or care to follow.

All my “social” life just moved to direct communication in WhatsApp (meta owned as well)

halflife··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Makes sense, thanks!
halflife··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
Thanks for the detailed comment! I always heard that bees pollinate the vast majority of plants, so in the parent comment, I assumed incorrectly that the meaning was for bees in general being non native.
halflife··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
If they are not native, how did plant propagate seeds? Flies? Wasps? Butterflies?
halflife··on Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
I actually find this incredible, since this highlights how desperate they are to advertise these glasses
halflife··on Jest/Vitest interactive course (runs in the browser)
Jest mocks allow developers to write bad code. Instead of separating concerns with DI, jest mocks overwrite the importing mechanism without any type safety. Also, if you wish to migrate to native node test runner, the mocks lock you into jest.

Use proper mocks with ts mockito and it will force you to write better code.

halflife··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
If you need to protect your border inside, than you already failed. Borders are protected outside the country.
halflife··on Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say
Israel has clearly defined borders. If youre are talking about the West Bank there’s area a, b and c which are controlled by Israel, both, and PA respectively. I’d call that borders.
halflife··on Angular v22
When all you need is a synchronous operations, yes. When it involves async, batching, buffering, and user input, it becomes much more complicated, and every step needs to be setup manually.
halflife··on Angular v22
Agreed, the OP said that the r in rxjs stands for reactivity, so my point was the the names have little bearing on the actual design patterns achieved with the libs
halflife··on Angular v22
A derived state is certainly reactive.
halflife··on Angular v22
Maybe push pull wasn’t the best metaphor, but the point is that everything can be reactive, it only depends on how much boilerplate you need to write to achieve the desired result.

Since react doesn’t have a true reactive model, you need to subscribe to changes manually (use effect) to create computations, while in signals it’s a primitive (computed).

I actually created a lib that operates signals over reacts state management (https://roypeled.github.io/react-logic/), so I removed the boilerplate to create a true reactive system.

If you want, you can create reactive system just from JS primitives, using callbacks. But that doesn’t make JS reactive by nature.

halflife··on Angular v22
Its entire state management is not reactive, it’s always on push, not pull. You always need to call setState to get render changes.
halflife··on Angular v22
The react in react stands for reactivity, however it is not.
halflife··on Angular v22
I partially agree, there is an overlap between signals and rxjs, however the core business is different- observables are about data manipulation, while signals are about efficient state management.

Regarding angular I agree, rxjs was a bad choice for data management, and before signals arrived I abandoned rxjs in favor of mobx in my angular projects. However you could roll your own http client, we used axios, and using DI it’s a drop in replacement.

halflife··on Angular v22
Each one of these solves a different problem.

Promised - async

Observables - streams

Signals - reactivity

halflife··on Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'
I think Trent reznor did a fantastic job with the soundtrack, maybe the only person that could’ve fit in daft punks shoes
halflife··on Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked
Don’t like to cast stones, but this feels like Claude trying whatever it can to make things work, without fixing the underlying process and problem.

“It looks like the user wants to run curl on windows machine, I need to bootstrap Linux under docker, and channel bash commands into shell inside docker, so the user would be able to run curl natively.”

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