“Karim Khan’s decision to seek arrest warrants for five people for grave international crimes committed in Israel and Palestine since October 7 in the face of pressure from US lawmakers and others reaffirms the crucial role of the International Criminal Court.” - Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director, Human Rights Watch
@demofox Great article! At first I thought, extended Euclidean algorithm is not constant time, but as far as I can tell its output can be cached as a one-time setup instead of computed live during inversion.
There’s also another imperative here: market share drives corporations, it comes from the math governing manufacturing costs. The largest factor is fixed costs (the factory). The more they sell, the lower fixed costs becomes to the capital investment. This motivation can be seen as ‘natural’, in the sense of making the most of any effort. The impulse to efficiency is another dynamic. It drives avarice (market share).
#SteveKeen worked out the correct math governing profits
I’ve been working with Web content since the mid-Nineties, and it has always had a content quality and maintenance problem. 95 out of 100 organizations I have worked with (and I’ve worked with some of the biggest organizations in the world in some 40 countries), they wanted to publish, publish, publish; nearly never to maintain. The Web is a launch-and-leave junkyard. And every year the percentage of content there that has simply been left to rot, it grows and grows.
@gerrymcgovern@juliaclement deleting is fine if you control everything, but you don’t in the case of a public website.
Deleting breaks knowledge. If I link to your site because there is importance context for my readers on your site and you delete the URL w/o forward, that’s both denied my readers of the context, but also the opportunity to address the audience I’m pointing to your site.
@linux_mclinuxface
It's actually the opposite. Deleting saves knowledge. The websites that don't delete become misinformation disaster zones. A content organization that doesn't actively delete is not professional and is doing a massive disservice to their users. When you save and keep everything you save and keep nothing. Value and quality disappears. Ultimately, the website collapses. I've seen it happen thousands of times. @juliaclement
Just sent out “Rising Resistance" to beta readers! So glad to have revisions off my plate. It's always the slowest part of writing for me. I don't dislike it, I add a ton of material, but it's a slog.
@jwilker@bookstodon I love this. But I doubt I'll have the time to commit my assistance. I have boosted in hopes it catches others eye tho. :) Best of luck (and Ill be checking out your already released novels).
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
@FediTips do you have any tips/suggestions how to add a 'share on Mastodon' button to a website? It's a bit tricky as we have so many different instances! I came up with this (see the screenshot) solution, but that's hardly convenient for the user🫠
@konstantinosd I think what really helped killing it was all the safety guards added that made it non portable, a bit like the Wii U was limited to being tethered to something, and Switch solved that issue. The screen wasn't good but I think it would have done better if not for the other thing.
I sometimes thought my father thought he could't die while he still had books on his pending pile (a stab at immortality I seem to be replicating)... so, it was strangely touching to see Tom Gauld has had similar thoughts.