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Wait ... there is a university for HIPPOS??!??

12.03.2026 06:55 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Philosophers and mathematicians often seem scared of logical paradoxes — they are something to be avoided, not tolerated. But in λ-calculus, paradoxes manifest as endless loops. And in computer science, we know how to deal with those, since we can never get rid of them completely.

18.02.2026 23:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On Linux, there is no fundamental difference between “foreground” and “background” processes, or between “GUI” programs and “terminal” programs. “daemon” is just a convenience term for how a program might be invoked, not necessarily the way it is written.

16.01.2026 22:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She’s not pale enough. Get rid of those rosy cheeks. Deathly-pale is the look you want to go for. And a DNA test to prove she has no Black ancestry. (Too many white folk do indeed have Black ancestry.)

14.01.2026 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Actual experiments, which keep getting closer and closer to absolute zero, without reaching it.

Negative absolute temperatures are also possible, and such systems do exist in practice. I studied some in undergrad physics.

10.01.2026 07:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A “democratic” country does not subject people to arbitrary arrest and detention, and torture and killings. It does not try to evict people from their land so it can steal that land.

04.01.2026 22:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

“For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces”

www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne...

04.01.2026 22:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hamas - Wikipedia

“Initially, Hamas was discreetly supported by Israel, as a counter-balance to the secular Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) to prevent the creation of an independent Palestinian state.”

Check the references here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

04.01.2026 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

CPython uses reference counting. This means objects are automatically disposed as soon as they go out of scope.

This include file objects, and is useful for read-only files.

04.01.2026 22:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Denial, denial, denial.

Go talk to Jews who know what’s going on. There are a few in Israel, even: Gideon Levy, Ori Goldberg, Rabbi Alissa Wise ...

04.01.2026 22:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Interestingly, Israel played a big part in building up Hamas in the first place, as a counter to weaken the Palestinian Authority.

That really blew up in your face, didn’t it?

04.01.2026 22:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A people should not need to exist at the expense of other people.

Trying to intimidate your neighbours into submission is not a long-term recipe for regional peace and stability.

04.01.2026 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You simply cannot recognize how you are being played. The fall is likely to be sudden and unexpected.

04.01.2026 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cloris Leachman plays one of her two great Brooks villains. (One whose mere name, whispered all the way from the other end of the castle, can still frighten the horses.)

Marty Feldman works with Mel Brooks.

Authentic props from the original “Frankenstein” movies.

What’s not to like?

04.01.2026 22:28 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

Israel wouldn’t last 10 minutes if it weren’t for ongoing military, political and economic support from the Christians in the USA.

Trump himself said it: Israel gets more support from American Christians than American Jews.

04.01.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It doesn’t touch the Linux app at all. It adds a layer underneath. An ... emulation layer.

04.01.2026 22:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Zionists are the ones who are invading. At this stage, their claim to the land of Palestine is based on nothing more than religious fanaticism. That kind of mentality does not make for international peace and stability.

Don’t you see that Israel is just a pawn of Christians in the US?

04.01.2026 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The “brainwashed” ones are the ones who are becoming increasingly isolated in the world community.

04.01.2026 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So does it run Windows app as though they were *not* running under Windows, then?

04.01.2026 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Jews” ≠ “Zionists”. We know it is in the interest of Zionists to conflate the two. The rest of us (including most Jews outside Israel) know better.

There is no right of self-defence against resistance to occupation.

04.01.2026 22:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We can’t find the world’s commit history, though. What has changed since yesterday? Is anybody keeping track?

04.01.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think of the French Resistance killing Germans in occupied France. It was considered legitimate back then.

04.01.2026 22:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Absolute temperature is universal for any measurement of temperature.

04.01.2026 22:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Really?? What is it about “acting like”, then? How is it able to run Windows apps as though they were running under Windows?

04.01.2026 22:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Seems like your definition of “anti Israel” is any source that reveals facts that make Israel look bad.

The fact is, Israel *is*bad. At least the Government needs to change; the brainwashing of the people needs to end, too.

04.01.2026 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Your insistence on repeating that question, after I have already answered it, raises nothing but revulsion in any right-thinking human being. It betrays a refusal to recognize Palestinians as actual human beings, worthy of their own lives and right to self-determination.

People like you disgust me.

30.12.2025 07:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

For some reason, those who loudly insist “life begins at conception” fall silent when you ask if that applies to IVF too. Conclusion: their doctrine must mean that principle only applies in a woman’s body, not in a Petri dish.

30.12.2025 07:28 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Lawrence D’Oliveiro / python_linuxfs · GitLab Some useful Linux-specific filesystem functions not (yet) in Python standard library

I did a Python wrapper for these a little while back.

Part of gitlab.com/ldo/python_l...

30.12.2025 07:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You keep asking as though they should be obliged to aid and abet your crimes.

30.12.2025 07:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The laws in your country may let you to steal your neighbour’s house just because you don’t like them, but civilized countries don’t allow that.

30.12.2025 07:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0