blini-kot

i wonder if they even bothered to roleplay this incident or the PR team just made it up

god I hate infinite scrolling so much

you can't jump to the specific place on the website, you can't remember where something has been to have a map in mind, you can't go to "about" section or some sort of site settings

*according to techbros

god i hate this so much

there was a certain approach tried back in 1917 in Russia

isn't without its issues of course, but you know, desperate times call for desperate measures

yeah, and somebody mounting i.e. some sort of audio/video equipment might make a mistake of putting flammable wire through firewall, while a software engineer in a different field (i.e. embedded or network firewall) might get lawful action in case of a design flaw

Licenses and reprimands are not bulletproof as those are often portrayed: take 737MAX for example, or Ford Pinto, or bridges, which fail every day as it seems

the only good investigation on the matter I've seen is this one: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-project/

and it states that yes, software engineers are in fact engineers -- and some investigation of the same order of magnitude is needed to disprove it

democracy is deliberate decision-making, not selection of something to force down based on popularity

apologies, not putting it directly at you

I've always thought americans had an amendment specifically for situations when voting does not work

I think it's a great illustration of complicated cybernetics at work, i.e. its not enough to give people the right to enact change and own the instruments for it: homeostatic forces will preserve status quo no matter how many firearms are circulating. Can't really think of a clean approach to this predicament though

90% killrate might be a little bit of a stretch, but the problem is real, although not for all locations and not for all types of vehicles -- small civilian SUVs and various humvee-like trucks don't have that problem: more agility and speed. Most importantly, however, is the tuning of a CNN aborad autonomous killer drone, those can figure out the military 6x6 target as it is sufficiently large and distinct to be targeted autonomously, but for smaller trucks its still a problem

So the answer for troop transport and some of the logistics shifted onto smaller vehicles, although the tendency have been there the whole war -- the key innovation was the use of small drones for recon, which basically lifted fog of war and increased kill chain speed for inter-unit operation, i.e. infantry calls an artillery strike precisely on target and from the comfort of a pillbox equipped with a large screen to monitor feeds from 5-10 recon drones hovering 24/7 over allied positions

on foot (not 20km, usually its something like 3-5km AFAIK, 20km is the width of both sides strongpoints + no-mans-land between), or on some fast and agile one-way craft: motorcycles, buggies, e-bikes

the key idea is that you need something which can get you onto the enemy position either before hunter drones take off, or that a drone won't take out the whole complement, hence the uselessness of trucks

going on foot is not really due to the human wave nature of the attacks, but rather its like WW1 stosstruppen - they use whatever cover they can find and a squad of 4 on foot is much easier to go through bushes used as cover or when weather is not suitable for flying

of note here is that trucks were not really used for transport on the tactical level on the frontline, however lately (with drones from destinus) logistics runs in the rear have also become a problem even 100km+ deep - thats where the 90% killrate figure comes from

what a surprise! who would have thought, right?

meh, first the battle royales destroyed gaming, now they will destroy llms and possibly us too

god i hate competitive people so much

yeah yeah and human brains are just cells firing ions with small electric charge

very witty and very cynical, thank you

what kind of content he's consuming?

like other "entrepreneurs" its most likely self-affirming bullshit, cranked up to religious levels (cue any modern ayn rand equivalent)

not really, the problem here is not that the government is involved per se, but that there is practically no involvment at all as the government is directly controlled by a clique of businessmen

so instead of involvment proper there is leverage somebody tries to pass onto competitors

I can't really even be smug about the framing anymore, this is like a developer deflecting blame for a bug by saying "oh I don't know, it was cursor/claude"

gee I wonder what other economic system was known for its apartment-building programs

western society slowly collapses

good riddance

oh of course, to discredit both his least favourite idea and socialism together the yuppie always picks the most outdated strawmen

the thing is, any ideology whatsoever (capitalism, rationalism, communism, religion - anything) has the utopian asymptotic unachievable point, its the inherent feature of the ideology and human mind in search of a sublime itself + some rituals around forming common knowledge

I haven't read the passage fully, but if it does make a point that the current ai crowd invokes the "you have to try harder" argument for coercion and therefore the ai push is invalid -- that passage in itself is irrelevant, you are adressing the wrong flaws, not that of the ideology itself, but only the one you personally does not like: an honest move, but a mediocre one.

well maybe we don't need those platforms?

the big platforms are sort of tolerated because you can't really escape them, not because people like them

another small one? nah, thank you, I have plenty of my own useless projects to look after

"to build software you need someone who can make requirements and someone who can build systems"

revelations never stop coming do they

"accidental" data "leak" am i right

we absolutely do have a couple of such technologies - cloud forming via sulfur emissions and nuclear winter

of course, those are as crude as early surgery, but it is there

and oh boy I'm sure no one will refrain from using them once we reach an obviously critical point, as the subtle ones are already way behind

"Tehran oil sites on fire as Iran exchanges strikes with Israel and US – video report"

You know, the usual independent and objective framing - its "Iran exchanges strikes", not "Israel and US started a war of aggression amid negotiations and bombed Tehran" or whatever

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that's exactly what I am on about, and facing those restrictions as well

as such, sarcasm here is beyond measurement - obviously those measures were just a distraction for own voters, but presented as a matter of principle yada yada yada

an absolutely identical situation gets a 100% hush hush reverse treatment, hence my comment on being a matter of principle - even though I don't agree with such measures, seeing them implemented against Israelis would at least be an honest thing to do instead of the current hypocrisy

I wonder if israeli citizens are blocked to enter other countries, or maybe Israel itself is disconnected from visa and mastercard

not that it is a proper response, but you know, at least it would be a principled one