amitport

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Comment · 10 days ago
not at all creepy
Comment · 16 days ago
the only reasonable applications are in showbiz. It's a movie atunt, a theme park ride.. nothing actually useful.
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been considering something like this for a while. It only makes sense as a free, open-source, decentralized sharing protocol (where anyone can host theorems and no one can limit sharing them).

If a company were to manage to commercialize this, it would end public open research.

Comment · 4 months ago
C# did not ship with async/await, and Java didn't have virtual threads back then. I am specifically referring to the initial choices made in C#'s foundation.
Comment · 4 months ago
The mystery of why .NET got so many things right is simply that C# was built several years later by the exact same Microsoft engineers who had previously worked on extending Java, giving them a perfect blank slate to fix the architectural flaws they had already encountered

Second mover advantage.

Comment · 4 months ago
Let’s look at the actual historical record, because the pattern is undeniable: the root cause of this conflict is the absolute refusal of the regional and local leadership to ever accept a sovereign Jewish state within any borders.

In 1937 and 1947, the Jewish community accepted partition, but the local leaders rejected it and chose war.

Following the Six-Day War in 1967, the Arab League shut down any path to compromise by issuing its 'Three No's': no peace, no recognition, and no negotiations.

Decades later, Israel engaged in direct talks at Madrid in 1991 and made massive concessions under the 1993 Oslo Accords to establish the Palestinian Authority, only for the process to be dismantled by waves of suicide bombings.

At Camp David in 2000 and the Taba Summit in 2001, Israel offered an independent state encompassing Gaza and over 90% of the West Bank, but their leadership walked away to launch the Second Intifada.

When the Arab League proposed a plan in 2002, they conditioned it on non-negotiable terms regarding refugees and borders that compromised Israeli security, while Palestinian factions rejected the deal entirely regardless.

In 2003, Israel accepted the international Roadmap for Peace, but the process stalled permanently because the local government failed to fulfill its basic obligation to dismantle terrorist infrastructure.

In 2005, in a one-sided prayer for peace, Israel completely dismantled every single settlement in Gaza, dragged out its own citizens by force, withdrew every soldier, and handed the entire territory over to Palestinian custody.

In 2008, Israel proposed its most sweeping offer yet, including near-total territorial withdrawal and international administration of holy sites, which Mahmoud Abbas flatly refused to sign without any counteroffer.

You cannot blame Israel for a lack of effort when it has repeatedly offered statehood and land for peace. While the West labels Hamas as an extremist group, the reality on the ground is that they are viewed by a vast number of Palestinians as a mainstream governance structure and a legitimate movement of armed resistance against occupation. The true obstacle to peace remains this foundational objective, which Hamas champions and the local political culture reinforces, to establish an Islamic state over the entirety of the land and eliminate Israel entirely. If at any point there is a Palestinian majority and a leadership that genuinely seeks peace, it will happen in a second, despite whatever imperfections Israel may have.

Comment · 4 months ago
"parents and grandparents,"

You don't have to go into historical events. This is still happening now.

Jews are still fighting for their survival and the moment Israel stops fighting, millions of Jews will die.

Comment · 4 months ago
To be fair, NPM sucked long before it got acquired by Github/Microsoft.

And to be fair 2: The other package repos also suck.

Comment · 5 months ago
Hi, thanks! I appreciate your input and generally agree. The TDS article wasn't really aimed at the HN crowd, but it did help a bit with the more general audience.

I do plan to also develop an interactive guide that breaks down post-rotation quantization fundamentals in a more educational, hands-on way.

Comment · 6 months ago

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