falcor84

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   by falcor84 1y ago

   I wouldn't quite say that the former Confederate states fully respected the Union's victory as saying something good about the North [0], and in some ways still don't, but otherwise it is a good example. [0] https:/&#x2
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   But that's the question - how do you fight honorably and win? How many examples can you offer (from any time in history), where the winning side conducted the campaign in a "gentlemanly fashion" (or however you want to call i
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   From my reading of history, there's no straightforward correspondence between the ethics of the winning side and its ability to have good relations with the losing side. As a clear anti-example, in later stages of WW2, the allied force
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   Sorry if I was unclear, I was hoping for clarity about your argument and its relevance to urban warfare situations across different conflicts, not more detail about your take on Islam in general.
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   Well said. But I'm still left with the question - have we actually benefitted in any way from these two centuries of military theory? If anything, it seems to me that wars are less decisive, more prolonged and often more deadly than th
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   What do you mean it depends? What does it depend on? I was hoping that being "the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute" [0], the author could offer some actual advice on strategy. Or what is the institute for
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   I'm all for "Be excellent to each other", but in war, the first and foremost consideration is whether the strategy is effective. I'm not a big Clausewitz scholar, but I can't imagine that he or any other general wou
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   Could you please more fully explain what you mean and how it relates to the parent comment? The parent and TFA offer examples of the conflicts of US vs. Vietnam and Russia vs. Ukraine, which don't clearly involve Islamic beliefs, but o
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   by falcor84 1y ago

   Thanks for the clarification. Yes, I absolutely agree that this analysis was lacking. I would then ask you about your mention of: > turning Bakhmut, Vovchansk, Toretsk, Chasiv Yar et al. to _literal_ rubble Leaving aside the horrible eth
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Well, yes, a "checklist" (his word) might be too much of a strawman, but what would be useful would be a strategy in the game theoretical sense - a decision mechanism of actions conditional on different situations (e.g. "If t
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    I appreciated the historical context, but was disappointed that it seemed to fizzle to nothing at the end, just circling around "Urban warfare is messy; bummer". I mean, I was hoping that it could offer at least the basics of a st
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    What? The latter part discusses the current battles of Kyiv and Gaza in some depth.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    I don't understand, how can you acquiesce to a situation whereby "As a developer everything changes every week"? Not even the most "on the bleeding edge" JS developers can switch frameworks every week, and the pace
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Note that their basic example in the readme starts with `OpenAI(api_key=os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"])` Generally speaking, in most regular usages, you can replace it with an alternative provider like Openrouter, with `OpenAI( bas
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    I grew up watching Star Trek and its replicators ("Tea, Earl Grey, Hot"). So a core part of me is excited about this ideal future world where we wouldn't need to work to sustain ourselves, but would be free to use our time to
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    The general model is what runs in an agentic loop, deciding which of the MCP commands to use at each point to control the browser. From my experimentation, you can mix and match between the model and the tools available, even when the model
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    My sci-fi filled head makes me most concerned they these will arrive concurrently.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    > What’s the point of an internet at all Going back to first principles, we need to recall that the internet is for the dissemination of cat pictures, and at the end of the day every technical and organizational change must be analyzed t
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    There might be some version of a future where robots take care of managing the industry for our benefit in a post-scarcity setting, allowing us humans to live as simple a life as we want, knowing that when a material need arises the robots
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    The openai library works with most other providers by just changing the endpoint url, and this is Apache licensed, so I feel good about using it.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Like "Abort, Retry, Fail"? And same as there, what's the difference between the first and the third? Is there a way of accepting a new sdk every week without specializing?
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Was there ever a clear exception stating that you're ineligible for a Nobel in regards to stopping a war that you yourself started?
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    And then later on there's of course the recipient's Nobel lecture, most of which are fantastic.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    I would like to know more
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    DOOM on the printer's display is a cop-out, I want my printer to be fast enough to actually print each frame fast enough to be playable.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    I think I understand what you're saying, but disagree with the implication. If anything, I'm actually impressed by how the development of AI seems to me be making it more and more difficult for us to move the goalpoasts. There obv
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Well, I failed to predict the "lol" at the end of your comment; touché.
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Can you please offer a measurable definition of intelligence that you would put good money on not being cracked by AI in a decade?
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Leaving alone Stallman's extreme take, present day LLMs and other generative systems are absolutely still being referred to by society as AI, and I don't see this changing any time soon, so what does this say about the AI effect?
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    by falcor84 1y ago

    Thanks for bringing that up, it's probably time got for me to reread the Vorkosigan Saga. And you also reminded me of the flawed but moving film "Never Let Me Go" from 2010 about a more present version of this. Oh, and there&