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It makes me wonder how Israel can achieve something like this while simultaneously not being aware of the Oct 7 attacks.


News reports say that Israel had copies of the Oct 7 plans but found it impossible to believe and were convinced hamas didn’t want all out war.

Similar to Pearl Harbor where we also had intelligence of the attack I suppose…


October 7th happened exactly because Israel was over-focusing on Iranian proxies like Hezbollah and underestimated Hamas.


Also on the expansion on the West Bank.


The same way usa can blow up any country in the world but was blindsided by 9/11.

When the element of surprise is involved, the attacker only has to get lucky once,the defender has to be lucky every day.


Offence vs defence.


Netanyahu has long supported Hamas, to his own political ends.

For the downvoters:

‘Buying Quiet’: Inside the Israeli Plan That Propped Up Hamas https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...


Preparation. Surprise attacks work… once. Then, you have to wait for a few years when the enemy side lowers their readiness again.


It seems like these attacks happened multiple times in succession, a day apart from eachother. Yesterday pagers exploded, today walkie takies and solar panels. What's next to come?


"solar panels"

That is news to me. Who reported so?



"home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut"

Sounds more like the battery exploded, not the panel. That would be a weird and difficult attack vector.


Agree with this completely. I have found it consistently challenging to create the structure necessary for low performers to turn their work around. We have also had issues with people actively working for other companies while turning in poor work, spending most of their time freelancing, etc. It is hard to correct that level of effort when they think it is "good enough". Sadly the whole overemployed phenomenon is ruining it, not because they work multiple jobs but because they are disingenuous about it.


>not because they work multiple jobs but because they are disingenuous about it.

it's definitely a situation with no one coming out looking good. employees should be honest, but bad companies really screwed the pooch being hawks trying to preside over every minute of their lives. messaging them in dead hours of the night, micromanaging breaks, being worried when they leave about "leaking secrets", pressure to work overtime (e.g. stealing their time for no extra pay). There's no way in high hell I'd tell my workplace anything happening outside of it unless it involves extended leave.

But I do think either way that's it's unacceptable to have two "full time jobs" with shared hours, unless all 3 parties agree to it. I have some long term freelance work I'd continue on the side, but that's specifically because the hours are low and I can fit them into evenings after conventional work hours.


For anyone coming back to math I can't recommend enough the book "Journey through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics". It's interesting how much of algebra came originally from geometry and the path to developing these fields makes it so much more intriguing / understandable vs just learning math to learn math.


Similarly, I've been enjoying "The Joy of X" as additional context around the fields and how they connect in an entertaining wyay.


Our team has an Enterprise account, but individuals cannot access GPT-4 through the chat.openai.com interface. With teams, do individuals get access to GPT-4 through that interface? Is our account just broken somehow?

It seems odd we have enterprise but cannot access GPT-4 through the main ChatGPT interface.


Do you have a ChatGPT Enterprise subscription purchased via our sales team? Or are you an API customer?

The former should have GPT-4 access; if not, that’s a bug, and I can look into it if you email me at atty@openai.com.

The API and ChatGPT are separate products, and usage or credits purchased for the API do not provide paid ChatGPT access.


Yea I always liked the way Spanner solved this. Let's not bother with any of the distributed system theory and just use that Google money to build in to the system extremely precise clocks :-D.

(Obv I know it's more complicated than that, but where else can you be reductionist if not the internet)


This[^1] Barbara Liskov's paper gives me an impression the distributed systems people would be glad if they didn't have to bother with all the theory :)

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[^1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/112600.112601


If you like RATM then it's worth watching this early video of theirs from 1992. So many hits on their debut album and about 10 people in the crowd in the middle of a record store. This video is a definite gem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ8YAv2rcQU


Yes.


There is a weird bug on your "What do you want to learn about first?" question.

I am able to select both "Cheeseburger" and "Greek Salad" but not "Greek Salad" and "Spaghetti & Meatballs". If I tap "Greek Salad" after first tapping "Spaghetti & Meatballs" then it deselects the "Spaghetti & Meatballs" and selects "Greek Salad" (even with only 1 item selected).

Anyway, cool concept.


Are you on iOS or Android?

You are supposed to be able to only select one dish at a time. In RPG gaming terms, that is your "quest" and the levels are basically what you need to complete the quest.

If you can select multiple dishes then there's a bug we need to fix, please let us know!


On iOS


You still owe capital gains on the original proceeds, deferred a few years and with a possible 10-15% basis step up. This isn't zero capital gains tax.

If you happen to have a billion dollar exit on your reinvested capital gains that can be tax free, but you're still paying tax on the original gain.


It might as well be zero when the original "investment" is a token amount you put in at the founding of a startup.


I feel this. I just upgraded MacOS 11 Big Sur and to XCode 12.5 (from 12.4). Both updates were 12 GB.


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