fatbird

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by fatbird 7d ago
Do yourself a favour and read this: https://texty.org.ua/projects/116021/20-kilometers-of-the-gr... Then follow the Kyiv Independent and Kyiv Post, and the ISW's daily reports. Listen to War on the Rocks and
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by fatbird 7d ago
I'm taking a regional conflict where the total manpower of both sides outnumbers all the rest of the armies of NATO without the US. Where one side, Ukraine, sends OPFORs to NATO exercises and wins handily with drones because NATO does
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by fatbird 7d ago
NATO has virtually no experience in modern warfare, which is substantially different than how they're organized now. NATO is well equipped for an armor-centric battle of maneuver, but Ukraine showed that's not at all how it has t
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by fatbird 7d ago
Russia has a million man standing army that's now thoroughly blooded and well versed in modern warfare, and an industrial base that's retooled to supply such an army (i.e., drones and missiles). The only problem for them is that
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by fatbird 9d ago
I had a client call me up and complain about my reduce code because it was hard to read and he couldn't tell what was going on. I broke through to him when I added comments to it that showed a particular data structure going in, and w
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by fatbird 15d ago
Give me a dictionary, a computer, and infinite time, and I'll generate all possible English texts: Shakespeare, works regarded as surpassing Shakespeare, new holy books, math proofs never even imagined... none of which is either "
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by fatbird 18d ago
I think you're leaving out a key aspect of the problem: not one of those people had the scope of responsibilities to really fix the issue. There was the website, windows update, and OS team, all being fed by a variety of product teams
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by fatbird 19d ago
One thing that the earlier documentary on Theranos, The Inventor, made obvious is that Holmes is pretty charismatic at a personal level. At one point, Gibney is trying to interview her, but the camera he’s setting up isn’t working for some
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by fatbird 19d ago
An unarmed woman climbing through a smashed window with a capital police officer on the other side, sidearm drawn, warning her not to advance, in the middle of a crowd storming the capitol building while a gallows stood outside, waiting fo
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by fatbird 23d ago
I've yet to see anyone address the more immediate problem for (humaniform) robotics, which is that it runs counter to the economic benefits of specialization at industrial scales. A robotic warehouse that's just like a human wareh
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by fatbird 25d ago
> "Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt," said the late Pierre Trudeau. ht
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by fatbird 25d ago
I've been referring to it as the "United States of Lower Canada" (USLC) since, and calling my American family members "Lower Canadians". They giggle in a kind of resigned way.
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by fatbird 1mo ago
As you seem to know, the prion example was to highlight how industrial scale operations create industrial scale problems, namely the bone-and-meal feed that was throwing all the cow brains into a common pool from which all were feeding. I
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by fatbird 1mo ago
So this butcher was standing in his insufficiently cleaned butchering room telling you about how he should really be doing what industrial slaughterhouses do, but he just can't be bothered? Or did he have his own methods of sufficient
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by fatbird 1mo ago
Industrial operations have industrial scale problems that require much higher standards. The local butcher might not scrub the floor and walls with the same industrial anti-bacterial detergent, but he's also not running hundreds of
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by fatbird 1mo ago
Agreed, but my point was that these things are hideously complicated and there's an endless source of details to hold up and say "NOT FAIR!" and it's ultimately about finding an agreement, not about the course of natural
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by fatbird 1mo ago
The U.S. also has a huge amount of trade barriers that are indirect against the rest of the world. Don't act like the U.S. is the victim here. One example: In Canada, there's a vibrant french language film industry, meaning films
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by fatbird 1mo ago
In the softwood lumber dispute that's been going on for decades, the US raised (legitimately) the point that in Canada, land is granted by permit to loggers for only nominal fees; in the U.S. loggers have to pay significant amounts for
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by fatbird 1mo ago
NATO funds no one and trains no one. NATO is a treaty about military cooperation and a bureaucracy for facilitating it. Or do you believe that NATO is secretly a more powerful, and comprehensive entity than it appears to be? The countries
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by fatbird 1mo ago
So the short version is: Russia felt threatened and invaded. It didn't do that for any of the Baltic states. It didn't do that when Finland aligned with NATO by joining the PfP in 1997, or joined NATO in 2023. All that had to h
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by fatbird 1mo ago
If Ukraine surrendered now, ceding occupied territories and perhaps giving up some extra in the Donbas, all that would happen is a pause that Russia desperately wants to rebuild and rearm, and return in a couple years (as it did in Chechnya
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by fatbird 2mo ago
The same way they survived and evolved for hundreds of thousands of years with cancer and different bacterial infections and viruses and congenital defects: they suffered from them, sometimes died from them. They didn't lack mental he
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by fatbird 2mo ago
I've successfully addressed several issues with a therapist. I know other men who've also done it. It's about the same as getting a doctor's help with a physical issue--some easily fixed, some taking time and effort, s
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by fatbird 2mo ago
I kept expecting it to turn into a horror short story.
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by fatbird 2mo ago
May you someday experience the same lack of empathy you're broadcasting here.
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by fatbird 2mo ago
Also, having explained by example, finish with "quod erat demonstrandum"
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by fatbird 2mo ago
How much fact checking do you do on the research AI does?
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by fatbird 2mo ago
Availability and wait times vary widely by location. I'm on Vancouver Island in a city of 100,000 and can see my PCP and dentist within a week if I want (though for a while, getting a cleaning required making an appointment months out
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by fatbird 3mo ago
That's where I got an immediate migraine.
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by fatbird 3mo ago
No, Carmack is actually an incredibly smart and talented engineer.

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