The cost per message increases with context while quality decreases so it’s still generally good to practice strategic context engineering. Even with cross-repo changes on enterprise systems, it’s uncommon to need more than 100k (unless I’m using playwright mcp for testing).
It was the incessant attempts by Israel to invade Lebanon and the inaction of the Lebanese government but I guess your answer responds to your underlying allegiances.
Because of the constant invasion and denial of recognition of the West Bank and Gaza as Palestinian and after decades of pogroms and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian villages.
Enemy of my culture? Picked a side? Never been there?
I have eyes and I have a heart capable of empathy. I have a belief that all humans deserve wellbeing, even people I disagree and dislike.
Watching a genocide unfold is clearly antithetical to my beliefs, no matter what the culture of the victims is. Watching a genocide unfold and being against it does not require first hand knowledge of the place. And this conflict is not a team sport -- I can be opposed to Hamas AND opposed to the genocide being perpetrated.
you do not seem to have the heart and empathy for the israelis being attacked and killed by rockets and drones and killed in terrorist attacks and seem to be very certain in information you gathered online and not from direct experience. You definitely picked a side - and blaming one side for all evil, especially in this conflict simply shows just how selective your empathy is, again, especially considering You have no personal stakes. you are demonizing a whole nation under deadly attacks and going to great lengths closing your eyes to the suffering of people you demonize
I think you have not been reading my posts where I unambiguously and repeatedly condemn both Hamas and Hezbollah, and consider firing rockets into civilian areas a war crime.
You seem to believe there's a right side and a wrong side to this conflict. I think there are two wrong sides to this conflict, but the scale and magnitude between the two sides is enormous.
I have empathy for all the non combatants here. I don't have empathy for the groups engaged in killing, displacing, torturing, etc.
How many people died from those terrorist attacks and how many innocent Palestinian children were purposely shot in the head? Whose leaders are currently on national TV proclaiming that their main goal in life is ethnic cleansing?
80% of surveyed Israeli Jews agree even partially with the phrase "there are no innocent civilians in Gaza".
over 5000 israelis and under 10 (or I assume 0) innocent palestinian children purposely shot in the head (but yes, in the history of israel there must have been some psychopaths in the army, hopefully punished).
you realize Teheran has a square with a countdown to complete destruction of Israel and they make people chant death to Israel death to America as part of normal culture?
did you survey personally or did Aljazeera do? Liar
Why do you turn this forum into a house of lies? There is a limitless supply of testimonies of Western journalists dating from decades relaying how the IDF purposely shoots children in the head in Gaza and the West Bank. Haaretz has covered it. MSF has covered it. There are testimonies from all over the world. Every single day we have dozens of incidents of West Bank settlers destroying Palestinian villages and they are being recorded by Jewish Israeli activists.
Iranians, believe it or not, have not been in a campaign of ethnic cleansing, unlike Israel which currently destroying literally every single standing building in Gaza and purpusely starving its population, with explicit mentions that Lebanon will follow "the Gaza model".
iOS seems to mute the web audio apis when the phone is in silent mode (the switch on the side of the phone). If you toggle it on, then this site (and many others) play sound.
I have no idea why it works this way and it’s frequently annoying.
Why wouldn't it work that way? Whether it's a hardware toggle like on iPhone or a software one like in Android, I want silent to mean silent. Not "silent but if a web page decides to play sound it can".
There is some amount of the "Focus follows brain" problem here. What we want is for things to do what we meant, all the time, and in this case it's very possible that the visitor wanted to hear the music. It is not practical (without yet to invented technology) for that to work so we have a substitute - there's a switch and you should remember to press it.
"Focus follows brain" is how everybody wants windowed UIs to work. When I type on the keyboard the letters go where my brain thought they should go - duh, but of course that's unimplementable, so the Windows UI provides "Click to focus" - if I click on a Window the typing goes there until I click another window, meanwhile some Unix systems do "Focus follows Mouse" - if I move the mouse over a Window then my typing goes there even without clicking. Neither is what we actually wanted, both are trying to approximate.
Many many times I have music playing in the background from another app while browsing. So no, there’s no way to focus follow brain. There’s just no way for this device to know what I want unless I tell it
The phone will still make sound if I launch a music app, why is a web page different?
And I hate web pages making sound! But the UX is confusing, and it’s changed over the years, seemingly without reason.
Iphones now have a software toggle as well, which may have coincided with the shift from “mute ringer” to “mute (almost) everything” that came with the multifunction button.
Web browsers on desktop operating systems initially allowed any website to play audio without any interaction required. Some websites would blast annoying audio ads as soon as you opened a page on their site. So effort was put into making it so that web browsers on desktops would only play sound after user interaction via mouse click. Later, some websites were exempted from that by some desktop web browsers, for example YouTube I think.
Even without ads, background noise that starts automatically as soon as you visit a page can be distracting and disruptive.
I’m perfectly happy that Safari on iOS does not play background audio when I have my phone in silent mode. Even when I have tapped on buttons on the page.
Silent mode is not entirely only for notifications anyway. The built-in keyboard is also silent in silent mode, whereas when silent mode is off it makes an annoying click sound for every button that you press. Likewise the builtin camera app on iOS makes a shutter sound when you take photos with silent mode off. With silent mode the camera app is silent. Same with taking screenshots. I take a lot of screenshots, and prefer that people around me don’t think I’m taking photos when I am taking a screenshot on the phone.
Meanwhile, if I open a music player app on my phone and hit play, I have made a very deliberate choice about playing sound.
All of the games on my phone I can think of are also silent in silent mode. Not sure if all games have to be silent in silent mode or not on iOS (i.e. if “can play sound in silent mode” is a special permission in iOS and if Apple disallows apps categorized as games in App Store from having that permission or not). But I like that the games I play on my phone are silent in silent mode.
There is some inconsistency indeed about what is silent or not, but I am happy with the way that it is as someone who prefers surprising silence over surprising noises from my phone when it’s in silent mode.
media sound is generally unaffected by the silent mode toggle, which apple suggests is only for notifications. but the toggle inconsistently affects media, muting some things but not others. it's incredibly frustrating. android has much better audio controls for notifications, media, alarms, and vibrate.
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