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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
When asked to show their development-test path in the form of a design document or test document, I've also noticed variance between the document generated and what the chain-of-thought thingy shows during the process. The version it p
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
No citizen in a nuclear-armed state need learn anything about anyone else, save perhaps about other nuclear-armed states. The Westphalian system of armed states had its legs chopped out from under it after 1945, but it's taking a while
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
I think the discussion in recent years has refocused, embracing ethnonatalist implications and challenging the core assertion that "racism is wrong". My main resistance to that is much the same as yours: the differences are so sma
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Dangit, I'll need to give this a run on my personal machine. This looks impressive. At the time of writing, all deepseek or qwen models are de facto prohibited in govcon, including local machine deployments via Ollama or similar. Altho
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
To add to some of what others are saying, another problem is the measurement problem. DAs and police in general are almost universally evaluated based on arrest numbers. Only very rarely on actual crime rates, and never on something as abst
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
This machine seems to be more in the lineage of a Photoshop/Illustrator or Krita/Inkscape rather than a SolidWorks/FreeCAD. Granted, in earlier ages of computing, such lines were more fuzzy.
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
"It's like SalesForce, but for murder" I don't necessarily agree with that, but it's my fave one liner to describe where they get the big checks.
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Strategic Bombing - the idea wars can be won from the air alone - is the absolute worst of these. It's a religion that might well someday kill us all, or a great many of us. In the quest to dot it "enough" . . . On a lighter
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
The fact that anyone in leadership would ever think this is even remotely possible - given my experience in the general state of requirements / contracts / integrations / support - makes me bleed from my earholes just a littl
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Interesting to see how this integrates with any release flows that use a lot of tags or feature flagging.
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Sayings like those are aspirational rather than being realist or simulationist, and they're supposed to be aspirational. They're stories, just like all morality. It seems when cultures get to a certain point in dissolution you hav
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Both these and the oft-maligned gas core fission rocket[1] have a common problem: "what does a nuclear flame holder look like?" Less problem with water of course, but you're also holding down the reaction area temperature, an
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Any breakdown of respondents by industry? I noticed small companies are definitely the majority of those represented. This study is from GitBook, so read with that lens firmly in place. One of my "evangelist" goals in this life is
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
By any quantifiable measure, yes, and not by small numbers either. Until someone can demonstrate a quantitative measure of intelligence - with the same stability of measurement as "meters" or "joules" - any discussion of
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
One of the biggest sources of gossip in my gramma's life was when the Russian church muscled out the old Kadets-descended priests and laypeople in her little Florida ROCOR church, right around the Canonical Communion with the Moscow Pa
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
While opinions differ, I would say that pandoc+makefile is a variant of SSG, versus something wholly different in kind.
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
We were burning through all hours of the day trying to get the customer deliverables out, but mostly burning donuts in the customer feedback parking lot and wasting an absolutely unthinkable amount of time in the desperately awful[1] ecosys
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
The departments / roles that LLMs most deeply need to be pointed at - business development, contracts, requirements, procurement - are the places least likely get augmented, due to how technology decisions are made structurally, social
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
One of my favorite things about the current generation of "AI" is that it puts a powerful analytical mirror up to what language actually is . Like, quantitatively - what is language. Why do I take pleasure in this? In document
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
China won't need to invade anyone. In a few more years of this the leaders of the world will be re-writing their national anthems in Mandarin to get a whiff of stability. Why invade when they come to you?
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
2 is almost unimaginably worse. Nuclear explosives are good. They are very good, as in, "the invention of fire" good. Once the cat is out of the bag on First Use, militaries around the world will put them in operational planning
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
There's only a single civilization-scale weapon effect in the inventory, and its usage reflects something more impactful than a mere "war crime". Once the First Use Taboo is broached, nuclear explosives will be used for ever
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Yeah, the notion of "consciousness" as byproduct of simulation engine is more evocative than most theories I've heard. It's sort of like evolving a sensory organ for "five dimensional" space, if we want to be c
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
The "right element for the right meaning" crowd is always going to fall when they charge against the sheer walls of "but I like using Caution for my bulleted list" crowd. Or the "of course we put tire patches in the
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Taking the long term view, our system's failure will be seen as distinctly parallel to the failure of the Soviet system[1] - dual headstones of the European Era. I suspect that the common collapse will be seen not a result of any infer
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Using your metaphor, this rule change represents something more along the lines of an invasive predator, new disease or parasite. I'll stop there, because Musk is much-loved by the internet, but to pull on this string of systemic risk,
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Taiwan might be indefensible at any rate of production the United States could conceivably spin up within a practical time horizon. The volume of fire that can be generated inside the 100km line by PLAN/PLAAF/PLAARF forces is noth
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Where the heck is the mild-mannered retail investor going to go if they bork up all the indices?
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by lopsotronic 6mo ago
Pour yourself a drink, as I have a longish story that might be a useful metaphor. Back in the day, there were more or less two consumer flight sims: MS Flight Simulator and XPlane. MSFS was and has always been the much prettier one, much ea
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by lopsotronic 7mo ago
Back in the Aughts a large number of home-schooling and educational reform organizations (leaning heavily on the Fundamentalist side of the Christian spectrum) had apparently determined that Set Theory originated in Socialist / Bisexua

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