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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Appreciate you taking the time to write out the steel man. Ascribing motive to others without an honest appraisal of the benefits of choices one might not like is lazy. There can be good reasons for a bad thing, and it's important to f
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
The more worrisome thing is when that's applied to naval peer states. Someone uses a container ship, suddenly all container ships become targets, goodbye global economy for a few years.
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> The "low and mid range" can be filled by the former high end. With the 4-7 year support window on Android? Maybe that's why Google is trying to kill off Graphene et al.
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> It's a return to battleship economics. The real economics of battleships (and their precursor ships of the line) were: Given expensive armaments (cannon), it is cheaper to concentrate these on a mobile platform that can geograph
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Yes and... NASA space programs (doing rare, unknown things) are different than commercial aviation (doing a frequent, known thing with high safety). Best be careful applying solutions from the latter to the former. Layering additional safet
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
To me, this is the way linux wins, if it does. Product teams deciding it's easier to ship on + customers having enough linux familiarity (from their other projects). And the current crop of Microsoft people on the Windows team don&#x27
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> The only option they have on offer is death, either fighting the us and Israel, or fighting in whatever civil war crops up after. Why would they believe in any negotiations after the last two times? The writing is on the wall that th
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Granted! But that's insurgencies vs wars IMHO. In one, you have irregulars trying to bleed an occupying power. In the other, you have regular military forces. The US is great at winning the latter, but sucks at winning the former (larg
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
The thing about disintegrating regimes is there is no "they". There's people with power, looking out for their own self interests. You think after a few more weeks all of the newly promoted Iranian military leadership is goin
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> could absolutely maintain a consistent and aggressive pushback With 30+ km systems launchedu from flat terrain, right onshore of US air power? That's the limit of 155mm conventional, and Iran isn't launching gold-plated Exc
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You'd think everyone would have learned by this point that none of the belligerent major world powers mean what they say anymore. Definitely not Russia, China, and the US. They all transparently see diplomacy and messaging around it as
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> And there's nothing the US can do about that. 1. Send Marines to seize Kharg island via long range air assault from 2 ARGs + land bases 2. Flood Kharg-adjacent mainland with tactical aviation to eliminate short range artillery a
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
The difference with oil inflation is that it also directly boosts revenues in oil-producing Middle Eastern countries. Consequently, they can offset core staple inflation (and usually choose to) to decrease unrest. It's core inflation
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Including USSR!
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The 2003 Iraq war was a pretty decisive military victory for the invaders. Iraqi command and control destroyed in the opening stages. About a month to complete occupation of the country. The subsequent years were a complete clusterfuck.
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Obligatorily appropriate https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwlC2B-BIg&t=45s
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It's mostly around engineering whether you have enough downtime to "move" your "driven" hours into. For long-haul it's probably a bit different, but other routes have a lot of annoying delays. E.g. waiting at a
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Highest 2 year is an attempt to address the edge cases around 1 year (especially final year).
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> that they can take it apart and put it back together again despite its complexity. It's definitely not this, since that hasn't been true since ~2010 CAFE standards required ECUs + their array of feeder sensors, all usually
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
>> certain developing nations are still adding dirtier fuel sources I'd look at this from a more nuanced viewpoint of certain nations still adding sovereign fuel sources. Read: India / China and coal
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
{Decades in the future} 'Simon Willison's most enduring contributions to modern computing are the pervasive edge case optimizations present in all modern AIs to draw pictures of animals with inconvenient limb arrangements using a
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
I have a sneaking suspicion this is going to be 21st century communism's (read China's) fatal flaw: the corrosive effect of panopticon monitoring on population productivity. Because eventually apparatchiks with the data at their f
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
I think it's not unreasonable, if one is in an oft discriminated protected class, to aim ones career / expense trajectory towards stability for the next couple decades. (Prioritizing remote, focusing towards subfields where there&
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Or just making certain topics verboten. Different pieces of information can be order of magnitude more or less useful.
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
Out of curiosity, did you come from a family where older generations were storytellers? E.g. parents, extended, or grandparents? In the sense that there were stories you heard retold (sometimes by the same person) over the years, mutating a
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> I pay for a service that employs people to periodically do data removal requests with them. Curious about any recommendations from you or others. > Most people don't think about cybersecurity outside of "oh, I need to c
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
That's punting the problem in the same way SELinux did. Agent loops are useful precisely because they're zero config. Problem: I want to accomplish work securely. Solution: Put granular permission controls at every interface. New
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by ethbr1 7mo ago
> it turned out Claude had run code to query superadmin users in the database, picked the first one, and changed the password to `password123` so it could log in on its own. Man, every LLM quirk behavior really is a thing a monomania
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> What we need is less like a sturdy door with a fancy lock, and more like that special spoon for people with parkinson's. Unlimited undo history. Agree -- you can't solve probabilistic incorrectness with redresses designed f
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In initial form, there wasn't anything to invent: it was implementing a digital phone book. That idea was brought to him by the Winklevoss brothers. He then built it (allegedly, and having to pay $65m to settle a claim about, while lyi

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