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by dmix 7mo ago
How would a THAAD in Jordan help stop drones in Iraq? That's not the only radar they operate. The C-RAM was in Baghdad, the high end radars hit were in the other gulf states. The CWIS is probably the best anti-drone tool the US has but
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by dmix 7mo ago
He's also a savvy businessman, this will be great for his career
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by dmix 7mo ago
That doesn't say 10+ radars have been destroyed. It says radar sites have been attacked 10 times across 7 locations in 6 countries, with some damaged and some destroyed. This biggest loss was the mobile THAAD radar in Jordan https:&#x
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by dmix 7mo ago
They are the ones who show up at local political fundraising galas and constantly report local issues influencing municipal/state priorities. Although it's not just NIMBY. There's a million rules about building housing and de
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by dmix 7mo ago
Read the article, it's basically just homeowners near by complaining and city councilors responding to that by demanding Tesla fix it.
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by dmix 7mo ago
Palantir turning into a movie villain caricature on the internet through breathless journalism is a great example of "Amusing Ourselves To Death". Journalists turned it into a great story that sounds straight out of a thriller TV
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by dmix 7mo ago
Last time I used GPT-5 mini it seems much slower than the primary GPT model API when we used it for an AI chat agent. Particularly around streaming the responses. But everything I've read implies it's supposed to be faster.
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by dmix 7mo ago
Having a baked in hardware userbase and dev team helps a lot. The hardest part of inventing new things is getting feedback from real people who really think deeply about this stuff, who also have lots of power within the company to say no.
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by dmix 7mo ago
My instinct is to blame these agent frameworks as well but at some point we have to start blaming Claude or Claude Code for engaging in these endless planning loops which burn tokens with no regard. The future of these coding models will ev
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by dmix 7mo ago
It's still going to be hard to overcome the stigma of ex-Java developers coming into other languages and bringing their overly complex ideas with them. But I am happy to hear Java itself is evolving and I hope that limits the downstrea
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by dmix 7mo ago
This is definitely the smart path for making $$ in AI. I noticed MongoDB is also going into this market with https://www.voyageai.com/ targeting business RAG applications and offering consulting for company-specific models.
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by dmix 7mo ago
State government is always the worst for this sort of garbage legislation. The number of "economically-impactful" regulatory pages generated by state governments far outpaces the federal government in the US. And plenty of it is j
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by dmix 7mo ago
E) parenting
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by dmix 7mo ago
Human instinct is always to ban and fight everything as soon as any change happens in society. The same biological motivation to doomscroll fuels our instincts to panic and doompost about how society is ruined unless we do [brash action].
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by dmix 7mo ago
It's okay when legacy companies die. That can be a good thing. Having the same few companies around for 100yrs isn't always a benefit for the world.
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by dmix 7mo ago
Using a beaten down Russia in the current year is probably a bad way to plan for your future military. It should be considered against a real target like China where all of those fancy jets won't get close to China proper (w/ long
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by dmix 7mo ago
> With 5th generation fighter using datalink they to use the active radar in far away AWAC planes for targeting so the stealth fighter can get closer to the enemy without breaking cover by turning on active radar. What benefit does a hu
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by dmix 7mo ago
Drones doesn't automatically mean no pilot or no human in the loop. Motherships and relays to command centers solve nearly everything loyal wingman offers. The only question is data access (which is still a major issue in manned jets o
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by dmix 7mo ago
I've had good results from Spotify's DJ, it's basically just a memories feature on Facebook
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by dmix 7mo ago
Why do I get the feeling that the market shifted beneath their feet to drones and these old aircraft companies are using "loyal wingman" to make a half-hearted half-way play between old/new products to stay relevant, which ju
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by dmix 7mo ago
That story keeps being spun by people who don’t read articles (or don’t expect people to). What SpaceX did there was limit the use of Starlink in Russian controlled territory. The very same new pattern of Ukraine whitelisting and geofencin
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by dmix 7mo ago
The theory is the US let some Russians use it as a trap to get them dependent on it and then pulled the rug which gave Ukraine a big advantage to clear some areas and generally disrupted Russian operations. The DoD has always been deeply in
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by dmix 7mo ago
> The vendor becomes a strategic chokepoint, and there's no precedent for how that plays out in a peer conflict This describes Boeing and lots of other firms The US has also done lots of protectionism for a bunch of monopolistic bus
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by dmix 7mo ago
FDR also bullied Congress into passing laws and threatened their individual reelections using his cult of personality the same way Trump has been doing for a decade now to keep the moderates and fiscal conservatives in his party from making
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by dmix 8mo ago
FISA courts are not sufficient oversight of this stuff. Not to mention there’s little rules for foreign data, including Americans talking to foreigners on the phone. As long as one end is foreign…
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by dmix 8mo ago
Then we just have to see if SpaceX can pull off orbital refueling at scale. Starship 3 first launch will be in April as well https://www.caller.com/story/news/local/2026/03/11/spacex-st...
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by dmix 8mo ago
Where you get the exciting opportunity to choose between the next set of huckster lawyers and shallow ideologues.
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by dmix 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_combat_losses_of_Unite...
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by dmix 8mo ago
Protecting kids and Terrorism, always the reason why nobody is allowed to have privacy on the internet.
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by dmix 8mo ago
People will always keep looking to politicians to make the world better despite their terrible track record.

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