steventhedev

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[–] steventhedev 1 points 1 year ago

Don't underestimate people who have a vested interest in one side of a story and are willing to sacrifice anything to push that agenda.

That and the danger that a group will take their status and abuse it to push a particular agenda despite evidence to the contrary. At that point they're not fact checking - they're actively pushing disinformation.

[–] steventhedev -4 points 1 year ago

I’ll definitely need a source for that

Literally google maps and wikipedia. Most of them are 100-200 people only. I exclude the areas past the 232 road because fewer than 5% of all Hamas allied deployments reached there.

[–] steventhedev -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I probably missed a few, and that's all since October 6th.

I also intentionally only included the ones they can't possibly say "this is a individual soldier or group of soldiers acting on their own initiative".

[–] steventhedev 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Here's the short list of Hamas' war crimes that are part of their regular military doctrine:

  • Indirect fire that intentionally targets civilians
  • Indirect fire that intentionally targets protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Conducting indirect fire from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Taking civilian hostages
  • Intentionally targeting civilian population due to their nationality and/or religion
  • The systemic use of child soldiers
  • Coordination and housing of military efforts from within protected infrastructure - medical, educational, and scientific
  • Manufacturing weapons within protected infrastructure - medical , educational, and scientific
  • The use of medical transport to convey military forces during a military operation for operational purposes and not medical ones
  • Incitement to genocide
  • Incentivizing war crimes by paying larger pensions to their members (and their families) who commit atrocities

These are the things they have done so much that it is clearly part of their military doctrine and policies, and not even remotely defensible as "one off" behavior of irregular forces.

[–] steventhedev 15 points 1 year ago

Good idea but sadly not feasible

Relevant part (credit to [deleted] and u/chiagod):

Assuming D-T fusion, a single fusion event releases a 14.1MeV neutron and a 3.5MeV helium nucleus. Assuming you can absorb all this energy and you've got an efficient heat engine setup at around 50%, you'll get about 1.5x10^-12 J per fusion, so for a 1GW output you'll need 6.67x10^20 fusions per second. Say you have 1TWe (electric output) worth of fusion reactors worldwide (about half of current electricity generation), then you're producing 1000 times as much helium, or 6.67x10^23 atoms per second. About a mole each second, or 4 grams. This works out to 126 tons of helium a year, or about 1000m^3 per year of liquid helium. The US strategic helium reserve had a peak volume of about a billion m^3 . World consumption of helium is measured in tens of millions of m^3 per year so you'd be short by several orders of magnitude in the best case.

[–] steventhedev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From the article:

She told Cooper that while her family had become separated in the chaos of the attacks, the four of them had been reunited in captivity when militants hid them alongside dozens of other hostages being held at Nasser hospital in southern Gaza.

In an account that potentially backs up US and Israeli assessments that hospitals were used to shelter hostages, Aloni Cunio said there were three rooms at Nasser hospital each holding between 10 and 12 captives and that they were tended to by a male nurse every other day. “He knew who we are, he went along with it,” she said.

Hamas has been operating from within Nasser hospital very recently, so if they've managed to close off the tunnels they might even be able to rescue some hostages.

[–] steventhedev 4 points 1 year ago

TCP Selective Ack is very much a thing, but it does take extra memory so lots of TCP stacks exclude it or disable it by default.

[–] steventhedev 7 points 1 year ago

Official press release

Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:

  1. ‘Hamas’, including ‘Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem’.

Now if only the UN would follow suit and also recognize Hamas' terrorist status. That would force UNRWA to clean house and maybe some of the food going into Gaza might actually reach the people who need it.

[–] steventhedev 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

TCP was never designed with wifi in mind. TCP retransmission was only ever meant to handle drops due to congestion, not lossy links.

Tmux is a wonderful complement to mosh. Together you get persistence even when your local client loses power (speaking from experience)

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