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Comment · 1 year ago
It would quite concerning if Israel had non-Zionist (read: not in favour of the existence of Israel) parties.
Comment · 1 year ago
This was Israel's thinking with Hamas - they're deterred, they're comfortable and in charge and they wouldn't do anything to jeopardise that, etc. Israel's thinking was wrong, and they've learned to believe their enemies when they say they want to destroy Israel. There isn't a country in the world that would allow their enemies, who have repeatedly stated that said country's demise is a key goal of theirs, to develop nukes if they have with the capability to stop it.
Comment · 1 year ago
You shouldn't ignore it, you should listen carefully, and you should ponder why an enemy state wants it to outrage you.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't doubt he said it, because I think it's pretty plain to see it's a correct analysis - antisemitism is rife with the new generation to a degree that, to me at least, is quite scary. I just think it's quite instructive that a hostile state is trying to use this to sow discord.
Comment · 1 year ago
Worth noting: > In a phone call leaked by the Tehran Times
Comment · 1 year ago
It would correlate strongly that 8200 alumni end up being educated and working in tech, and likely living in Tel Aviv. This is a group of people who, by and large, are not big fans of the current government.
Comment · 1 year ago
Based on the pager incident, I'd think you should avoid companies that don't have a publicly-known link to Israel. It's not like Hezbollah thought they were buying pagers from 8200 alumni.
Comment · 1 year ago
Having been involved in several ISO8583 implementations/integrations, it's really quite wild how different each one was in both structure and required content from one another.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just a note that the translation in that video is slightly incorrect - he mentions Gaza City, not the Gaza strip.
Comment · 2 years ago
> What if the dude if hugging is kid/wife/mom ?

Then they also die/get injured. Being in close contact with a terrorist is a dangerous pass-time, and armies targeting foreign threats need to accept some level of collateral damage. In this case, we have thousands of injured terrorists, with hundreds dead, and an additional fraction of those numbers being non-military targets (civilians). It's certainly unfortunate and unpleasant, but this is an excellent ratio.

Comment · 2 years ago
Abstracting everything you use has a (high) cost, and doesn't always achieve what you want. This article repeatedly states things "go no further", but realistically, some dependencies will have worse inconveniences than a bad field name. If database you rely on is relational, has token based pagination, and has eventual consistency, chances are that swapping to a consistent timeseries DB with only limit/offset based pagination will impact code in your *.core.* package.
Comment · 2 years ago
Tangential: at my first company out of uni we worked on software that ran in cars. I had never heard the term "smoke test" during my studies, and for quite a while I thought we were running tests (diagnostics) to check if the car was smoking.

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