Nope. Bitkeeper used it in the master-slave pairing and the term was carried forward. Gitlab did a whole writeup about it.
Older C compilers would truncate a variable name if it was too long, so VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInSeconds
might accidentally collide with VeryLongGlobalConstantInsideALibraryInMinutes
.
Legend says that they used to do it after a single letter with Dennis declaring “26 variables ought to be enough for anyone”.
Red circles are deprecated in favor of teal because of accessibility requirement WIP.DOnotUSE.14.g.2025.v0.
They started from XML. There’s nowhere to go but up but spring managed to fuck even that up.
FactoryStrategyFactoryFactoryObserverInterface
Friends don’t let friends use Java 😜
Whoosh
Seriously though, spring configurations are written in XML and you create variables, call functions, and have control flow. Effectively turning XML into a horrible twisted shadow of a programming language.
All in the name of “configurability” through dependency injection.
XML is the second worst programming language ever created by humans
Bluntly - step outside lemmy and you’ll see plenty.
There’s little point for even trying to discuss it here - that died with the stickied post about the ICJ ruling and a mod who joined in rather than preventing hate speech.
I doubt the intelligence they transferred is only about the 12, given the size and immediacy of the reaction. Those are the ones they were able to most easily prove using Hamas’ own footage of October 7th.
My guess is they passed a list with a lot more than 12 to each of those countries, and said “watch how many they fire”.
Bottom line is that it isn’t in Israel’s best interests to stop all aid - they want to avoid a true humanitarian crisis (as opposed to the current threat of one) to achieve the war goals: return the hostages and destroy Hamas. UNRWA is best positioned to provide aid, but the proof on the ground is that they aren’t distributing that aid effectively at all and people are suffering as a result.
It is extremely coincidental the director of UNRWA announced they terminated the employment of 9 employees during the ICJ hearing.
Almost like he was trying to bury the news.
Sounds like Hamas gave their answer:
At least 10 rockets fired from Gaza toward central Israel, no injuries reported
Cynical take: maybe don’t employ terrorists
Real take: UNRWA staffers will be busy scrubbing their socials for the next week instead of actually handing out aid. Of course, they aren’t exactly distributing the aid anyways so I guess it will make fuckall difference. They’ll complain about it and blame all their troubles on it anyways. Bottom line is that aid won’t get to the people who need it until Hamas stops preventing it from reaching those in need.
Except immediate access to the means isn’t actually part of it. They attempted to ethnically cleanse the area around Gaza, and publicly stated that one of their goals with the rocket fire was to empty the city of Ashkelon. They don’t get a pass because they failed to fully succeed.
Fourth.
The UN shouldn’t be employing genocidal terrorists.
I wonder how long it will take for Israel to file a countersuit against Palestine for their failure to prevent genocidal statements.
There’s plenty of room to have the ICJ force the UN to designate Hamas, PFLP, PIJ, Hezbollah, and others as genocidal terrorist organizations that cannot receive any UN funding or have their members employed by the UN. UNRWA would have to fire half their employees, but that’s not a bad thing.
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.
There’s a long cut, and the camera zooms in on them before the shots. It’s pretty easy to spot that there’s context that is missing.
It’s probably 50-50 if that context would change anything in reality, but the fact it’s missing could mean anything from the cameraman just getting more background footage to the group putting away their firearms after taking potshots at soldiers. Most likely, it’s somewhere in between all that and they were warned verbally to turn around.
Notably, the EU has sanctioned Hamas already:
- ‘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.
So to be clear: you didn’t laugh?