Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the West's interest in Gaza is really all about: "It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity [...] The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal"

The Indian Express

A plan to join the Red Sea with Mediterranean — an alternative to the Suez Canal

Many decades ago, the Americans proposed to use nuclear weapons to blast a waterway through the Negev Desert. But the plan never progressed. This i...

Early internet news report:

I wonder if anyone questioned the original dependency choice in this situation. Given the colossal effort they've had to make to switch to a different dependency - the switch itself and all the devs learning the new way - it seems to me that a different approach at the start could have potentially saved lots of time.

Balancing Old Tricks with New Feats: AI-Powered Conversion From Enzyme to React Testing Library at Slack

Update (October 2024): In response to numerous requests from external developers, we have open-sourced a version of our Enzyme to React Testing Lib...

Sounds about right:

Clever code is probably the worst code you could write

And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write

While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it. “While I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple. I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex.”

This guy seems good if you want to understand how LLMs work: https://m.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos

"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James

Oops

BBC News

All Santander staff and millions of customers have data hacked

Their data is being sold online by the same gang who this week claimed to have hacked Ticketmaster.

Is there any nostr client that does something similar to twitter's lists? Always surprised by how few people use twitter lists - only way to make twitter usable imo #asknostr

Mainstream media in a nutshell:

X (formerly Twitter)

Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) on X

Feb-22: "Putin's Botched Job" Jul-23: "The Humbling of Vladimir Putin" May-24: "Putin's Plot to Destroy NATO is Reaching Its Devastating Climax" ...

"To realize the spirit of Mu you must, without being sidetracked, travel along an iron rail stretching to infinity. One halt, much less many, will thwart enlightenment. The narrowest separation from Mu becomes a separation of miles. So take care, be vigilant! Don’t let go of Mu even for a moment while sitting, standing, walking, eating, or working.”

One underrated thing about vim modal editing is the magic of having the cursor bounce and then transforming characters in a few keystrokes. It's not even about efficiency. It's the innocent fun of a kid in a jungle gym. And it never seems to get old. It significantly increases the joy of coding for me

First things first

The Old New Thing

Before you try to do something, make sure you can do nothing - The Old New Thing

If you can't do nothing, then don't expect to be able to do something.

AWS charges for unauthorised writes to S3: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

Long article, but worth the read. https://medium.com/@john_25313/c-isnt-a-hangover-rust-isn-t-a-hangover-cure-580c9b35b5ce "But, the reputation that memory safety problems currently have of being plentiful and trivial for sophisticated attackers to find and exploit is wrong. [...] C programs generally have a small number of external dependencies, where often those dependencies are among the most used pieces of software out there [...] Most other languages are much better equipped to support programmers leveraging the work of other programmers. In some sense, that’s a good thing from a business perspective. But from a security perspective, more dependencies not only tends to increase our attack surface, but it leaves us more open to supply chain attacks. [...] I have personally always been far more concerned about minimizing dependencies than buffer overflows. There are straightforward approaches to minimizing memory safety problems [...] But digging into each and every dependency? [...] My intent here isn’t to argue for using C over Rust, it’s to show that decisions around language choice are far more complex than the sound bytes people fling around."

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