Yeah, good point. I’m with you.

Headline writers believe there are two genders: pilots and female pilots.

can you explain the problem?

it’s beyond me how people can feel bad for one but not the other. Feeling bad for neither or both, that I can understand.

I don’t see how what you said is inconsistent with me saying “self” is special in lua. Note that I did not say it’s a keyword.

Lua might have been a better choice, since self is special in lua.

Fair enough about America and Canada. Still, I think the Israeli are perfectly aware that they could become part of Palestine. They just don’t seem to want that. Honestly, trying to convince the Israeli people to go for this option seems rather Liberal-minded to me – liberal democracy! Just vote!

“river to the sea”

RttS is a prediction, or a call to action. It is a slogan used by both sides, to mean freedom in one case or manifest destiny in the other.

What Israel has a right to do is not relevant. America has the right to become part of Canada. Israel remaining as it is is the problem – and more to the point, the problem is that people don’t see that as the problem.

Good point. Still, “not having the right to exist” sounds to me – and more importantly, to those undecided on the issue – like it’s encouraging the destruction of the things that are in Israel, not the entity of Israel itself. Which is obviously not a take that’s likely to attract support.

Generally I’m not interested in what Israel as the right to become. I would rather “Israel doesn’t have the right to not be Palestine” (phrased better, perhaps?)

I wonder if we can find a new way of describing the notion of “Israel existing.” It seems opponents believe we mean killing the occupants of Israel or (somehow removing the area entirely) rather than reforging the state itself. It’s not like we don’t want the geographical region to continue existing.

assuming holocaust=genocide, then this is not the second. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides

the UN doesn’t have the ability to. If only it had more power.

I think it’s a good way to remind you right up front when you sign up that this is what you’re signing up for. Honestly if last week I had been asked to choose between a world in which facebook makes its invasiveness painfully clear at signup vs keeps it low-key, I would choose the former.

I feel bad about everything.

This is not really the invasion of privacy it seems when you compare it to everything else facebook will do with your information.

Yeah, retrieval-augmented generation and AI web-search will still run into some trouble with this. But if it knows about it in its weights, then it will be fine.

Anti-SEO pushes you to use AI to get help instead

That bools are stored in 8 bits rather than 1 is a compiler detail. I don’t really see how this improves readability, unless you mean that of the compiled binary.

i did

Yes, because cache optimization is still important. Also useful to keep the size of packets down, to reduce the size of file formats, and anywhere that you use hundreds of thousands of instances of the struct.