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New comment by mikeen in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

mikeen — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 05:50:27 +0000

A terrorist state does not need to be "baited" to attack.

It is absolutely correct to hold the state to higher standards, regardless of what you pay for. But it is not correct to refuse state's right to defend itself, when it is attacked by a terrorist semi-state that not only does not care about its people, but actively using them as bait. This only incentivizing Hamas to keep using Palestinians as bait, and to turn more of them into "martyrs".

New comment by mikeen in "Left to Right Programming"

mikeen — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:21:07 +0000

Google actually started pipe syntax, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338877

Now it is supported by DuckDB, BigQuery, Spark SQL, Firebolt, and probably others. I use it more and more (with BigQuery).

New comment by mikeen in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

mikeen — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:28:05 +0000

TXT files are good. Scribing notes with a pen in plain paper notebook beats .txt files.

New comment by mikeen in "How to Firefox"

mikeen — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:23:22 +0000

I still remember one bug I filed to Firefox, about issues with roaming profiles on Windows. I then forgot about it, as nothing was going on with it, except few times a year someone new commented that they run a few thousand seats org, and this bug prevents them from deployong Firefox. It was finally fixed like 12 years later.

New comment by mikeen in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

mikeen — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:25:11 +0000

A bunch of countries joined the non-proliferation agreement, including ... Iran. Which makes those nukes illegal in the eye of Iranian own laws.

Israel is not a singer of the treaty.

New comment by mikeen in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

mikeen — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:26:36 +0000

A more realistic example: something like printf or scanf. It can take an object of multiple types as argument. It takes computer's locale from environment and does locale dependent number and date formatting, also supports various timezones that it reads from OS.

And you always run it in a data center that uses a specific locale, and only UTC time zone, and very few simple types. But all this can only be known at runtime, except maybe types if the compiler is good.

New comment by mikeen in "Nobody cares"

mikeen — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:59:36 +0000

Hawaii Big Island does care about light pollution - for the sake of astronomical observatories. They use yellow low pressure sodium light. Yellow is dispersed less by air. The energy efficiency of low pressure sodium bulbs is also high, comparable or higher than most LEDs.