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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • No. This isn’t a thing you need to “both sides”. There is nuance.

    It’s bad for Netanyahu if settlers die. It’s good for him if Israeli people are threatened. His appeal is that he’ll protect them (including through killing others). If he fails to do that too often, he loses.

    Hamas is fine with people on their side dying. Israel is not. Israel is accomplishing their goals through genocide. Palestinians would love to genocide Israel, but they can’t. That doesn’t excuse Israel actually currently committing genocide.

    And there’s no excuse for settling land in areas that will keep Israelis in danger. The first settlers are Zionists, later people living there won’t (necessarily) be Zionists.






  • C# is nearly the same, but much, much better.

    • It doesn’t (usually) come with the Java culture 8 layers of abstraction. This isn’t in the Java language. This isn’t in OO. Yet nearly every Java programmer makes things way more complicated than it needs to be.
    • It’s a prettier language. Similar syntax with less bullshit.
    • It’s open source
    • It’s still multiplatform. Modern dotnet / C# works on anything.
    • Both Visual Studio and Visual Studio code are great IDEs that blow Eclipse out of the water
    • It’s one of the most common business languages.
    • It’s going to be supported forever.

    If I could restrict the world of programming to two languages, it’d be C# and Rust. C# for most things and Rust for a lower level language.



  • feel free to wow them with contactless payments

    This is quite dated. Per Forbes, "Nearly 90% of U.S. consumers now use contactless payments, "

    Tip at restaurants where they take your order at the table and bus your table, 15-20% of the total. Absolutely don’t tip at those kiosks at the counter. They’ll beg for a tip because software. You’re absolutely fine to hit skip or custom 0. Don’t normalize that shit.