Mosul still had tons of standing buildings where Rafah has entire neighborhoods demolished down to the ground. The destruction there is far more systematic because it's intentional and systematized to drive Palestinians out of the area.
Mosul is a large city and Rafah is one neighborhood in Gaza. There are many buildings remaining in Gaza (if you look at other parts of the map).
Rafah has been demolished to create a buffer zone near the border (after the population had been evacuated). Egypt likewise has demolished Rafah on its side of the border in 2013 to create a security zone.
> "Israel is allowed to unilaterally declare their home is no longer allowed to exist and I don't see a problem with that"
Just translating what accepting that "demolished to create a buffer zone" is a reasonable justification for levelling Rafah (and a lot of the rest of Gaza) means. Those peoples lives, homes and businesses are expected to just be subject to the whims and desires of the Israeli government all while they allow(ed) the blockage of aid going into the territory and fired on the camps they drove people into.
I did look at them and the destruction in both was horrific. I'm not saying that the conflicts are in anyway comparable, but both include fairly comprehensive destruction of civilian areas.
The difference is that in Mosul the destruction is a consequence of the combats, Rafah has been demolished house by house just like the nazis did in Warsaw. Imagine an enemy that with time and ease, outside of active conflict, engages in the systematic erasure of a city- the houses, its history, and every place that is familiar to its inhabitants. Gone forever. That's what Israel did in Gaza.
The Nazis are not infamous for the demolition of houses. What they did in Warsaw was kill 90% of the Jewish population. No one cares about the buildings (many of which were actually demolished by the Soviets after the war, to make place for apartment buildings).
I know there’s an attempt by some to simultaneously downplay what the Nazis did while exaggerating the evils of Israel, but no - Rafah is not “just like the Nazis”.
A closer comparison would be the Egyptian demolition of Rafah on its side of the border in 2013. Both were done after the population had been evacuated, and to create a buffer zone along the border.
Houses are often demolished by force, to build freeways or for housing projects. It’s not a nice thing to do, but it’s not “like the Nazis”.
Not true at all. Buildings are where culture happens. Systematically destroying them is a mechanism of genocide because it erases the memory in addition to the people. And yes this was a deliberate process by the Nazis [1].
> It’s not “like the Nazis”.
Actually, if the Nazis did something and then somebody else did it too, it's exactly like the Nazis.
> Houses are often demolished by force, to build freeways or for housing projects. It’s not a nice thing to do...
You can't be serious. This is not a demolition of houses, this is the demolition of an entire city. Not for a housing project, but to erase the traces of the life human beings had there, all their collective and personal history. This- despite being far from the levels of human life destruction perpetrated by the Nazis- is genocidal in intent. When you roam around a city emptied by the war and coldly, methodically try to make it vanish from the face of the earth as if it never existed, house by house, you are not far in spirit from what the Nazis did to Warsaw.
FYI: Resizable BAR (Base Address Register) is a PCI Express feature that removes the traditional 256MB memory limit, allowing your CPU to access your graphics card's entire VRAM at once for a potential 5% to 15% boost in gaming performance
Only on specific devices, but generally every GPU released in last few generations, and every dedicated GPU from intel[1], supports "large BAR" this way to map entire GPU memory into MMIO space. This has to be supported on both target device and AFAIK the PCI Root Port[2], and of course needs to be properly handled in firmware - which this tool fixes.
[1] Intel GPUs actually can't work without it, because they do not have legacy "windowing" mode where portions of 256MB BAR window are mapped to different areas in GPU memory
[2] This tool implies that it's possible to handle root port side entirely in firmware, but it's new to me at least, so I can't vouch for that :)
Modern ROM is not locked in stone. For example, Flash memory is considered a modern, advanced type of Read-Only Memory (ROM), specifically a specialized form of Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), and can be re-written.
Isnt that slower though? Maybe Im not thinking of ROM specifically (the architecture/chip) but a different form of read only cache that can be located close to the compute and is super fast
At last ... realistic expectations! "I estimated that starting and finishing this project would take me 2 years, with a 99% chance of it never being finished. So I just hung paintings instead"
Pretty sure he means this:
- assume heads beats tails
- if both players get opposite results (HT, TH) then the winner is obvious
- if both players get heads, player A is the winner
- if both players get tails, player B is the winner.
Except that as a sibling comment mentions; that generalizes to any size of group - for six players you could roll one d6, and have "that" player go first.
But apparently the constraints are: every player rolls one die once.
> But apparently the constraints are: every player rolls one die once.
That doesn't eliminate the natural scheme, it just adds some useless die rolls. You can have each of two players flip a coin and choose player A when player A flips heads or player B when player A flips tails.
Useless depends on context here; I believe the idea is that each player gets a feeling of agency (they go in the order dictated by "their" luck, not leaving the decision to someone elses roll).
The most pragmatic would probably be to shuffle N cards from ace(one) through N - and let everyone draw).
I wouldn't call them an invention of Israel, but they were allowed/encouraged to flourish.
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