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721.
by 8note 6mo ago
it really seems like the US is just ceding to iranian terms. the US cant solve the hormuz strait problem militarily, and so it has to come to the table
722.
by 8note 6mo ago
he's chickened out of getting regime change primarily. in terms of shifting war goals, he's chickened out on getting back to the status quo from before the war. rather than chickened out, the US is the sound loser of this war. the
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by 8note 6mo ago
is that really reason to go to war though? the US has been doing that in the gulf of mexico; should we be destorying the american civilization as a result?
724.
by 8note 6mo ago
they can destroy whatever they want, but are unwilling to move ships in, and unwilling to put boots on the ground. if the US/israel believed their own propaganda, they'd be doing both of those things.
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by 8note 6mo ago
its not particularly might makes right, but bargaining knowing that war is costly. iran could attack every ship that goes through the strait, but that would cost iran both in actual missiles/drones, and an opportunity cost of getting
726.
by 8note 6mo ago
the meaningful change is that ships can move with volume through the strait again, no? ships could register and pay the toll without having to take a stroll by iran's toll booth, so the volume of ships can go back up
727.
by 8note 6mo ago
does iran even want nukes? they have a religious law against making or using them, and theyve been sitting at "they could make a nuke within a week" for the past 20 years or more it feels like people are falling for iran's ba
728.
by 8note 6mo ago
i dont imagine spending a bunch on the military and oil is nearly enough to topple the US government. what case does it make that the constitution needs to be abandoned?
729.
by 8note 6mo ago
almost certainly its pulling said words and sentiments from westworld and other similar media where people describe amnesia and the like
730.
by 8note 6mo ago
those hundreds and thousands of years were basically before humanity learned that prosperity could exist. no growth that whole time, other than when you go to war and expand your gold supply by taking somebody else's. the positive sum
731.
by 8note 6mo ago
deepfakes have been pre-subverted by having leaders that can't put coherent sentences together, or be trusted when they say literally anything. A trump deepfake will be just as reliable about trump policy as actually listening to him s
732.
by 8note 6mo ago
There are some actual acts that count as war crimes as well, that Hegsdeth has overseen - killing civilians off the coast of venesuela by attacking and sinking fishing boats, but also then killing the civilians after theyve jumped ship. the
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by 8note 6mo ago
> If people are still using git but not really using it, are they doing so simply to take advantage of free resources such as github and test runners, does it have to be free to be useful? the CD part is is even more important than befor
734.
by 8note 6mo ago
gloomhaven has a reasonable solution to this - some heals give experience, others dont, and often times gaining experience comes with giving up other resources
735.
by 8note 6mo ago
i expect students have or will get claude access via their university, pr at a discount if they register with their university email? students generally get specific subsidized/free tiers for all kinds of tech
736.
by 8note 6mo ago
this where i think any claims that an iphone is not a full computing experience as justification for disallowing freedom on it to build and run your own software as you see fit as a bit ridiculous.
737.
by 8note 6mo ago
I've noticed a strong degradation as its started doing more skill like things and writing more one off python scripts rather than using tools. the agent has a set of scripts that are well tested, but instead it chooses to write a new b
738.
by 8note 6mo ago
What does the eIDAs do? Does this lock Germans out of society if they dont buy American tech?
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by 8note 6mo ago
I dont know if id call it "hard for ai" so much as "untreaded ground" agents might be better at it than people are, given the right structure
740.
by 8note 6mo ago
can you prove this? train an LLM to leave out the filler words, and see it get the same performance at a lower cost? or do it at token selection time?
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by 8note 6mo ago
the mask can be taken off at least, that the bases are there so that americans can kill the gulf state leaders in a moment's notice, rather than for any defenses.
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by 8note 6mo ago
> We’ve been working to manage demand across the board, but these tools put an outsized strain on our systems. Capacity is a resource we manage carefully and we need to prioritize our customers using our core products. but couldn't
743.
by 8note 6mo ago
This is a really great case study for why you only optimize when you actually have a problem, and only in the context of a profiler to define what needs optimization. the engineering and leadership failure was at requirements time. why on e
744.
by 8note 6mo ago
i would certainly consider "at any price" to mean that you'd be willing to pay the 5x price to 20 different scammers and still got no card. there might be a cultural difference between the old world and new world for what &qu
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by 8note 6mo ago
> When understood in this way, it is obvious why LLMs are bad at counting r's in "strawberries". no it doesnt. it makes sense that they cant count the rs because they dont have access to the actual word, only tokens that m
746.
by 8note 6mo ago
would you choose a flight that's $200 more expensive because it has starlink?
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by 8note 6mo ago
i dont imagine any of the cases have ruled that the government can not legislate against child porn, so there's always going to be some amount of both speaker and content speech limits. they could also just ignore any scotus rulings th
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by 8note 6mo ago
ok, but how do i get the only linux command i know? ctrl+r
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by 8note 6mo ago
multitouch+stylus screen, plus the windows ink demo app https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/sketch-pal/ its low latency, can do multiple layers, and its easy to pick out a standard set of col
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by 8note 6mo ago
theyre literally your head of state, heads both legislative houses, and the court. They're all of the positions for speaking for you, elected by the population of the US

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