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by m4rtink 7mo ago
And at the same time VRChat is reaching record popularity and user counts with tiny fraction of the budget Facebook wasted. And it is so simple - just listen to your users and give them what they want - which seems to be VR cat girls.
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I think this is likely quite outdated by now - a lot of artillery is definitely still is use now, but there is also a very large gray zone dozens of kilometers around the front line where remote controlled UAVs (usually single use FPVs and
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I think the Ukrainian Stugna & other ATGMs (not only with soviet heritage) use the rotation trick - you get some stabilization for free, might need less control surfaces and maybe even simpler sensors. IIRC in the Stugna case, they even
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
I think given the technology that has been shown - a massive space and planetary infrastructure base, torpedoes with torch drives armed with nukes that would make Teller blush - I don't think you can actually use Dinosaur killer astero
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
It only worked in the Expanse because they expertly choose a special trajectory that made the rocks hard to detect and some questionable (but plot necessary) "stealth coating". By this point UN and MCR have been in cold war for 10
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
Any realistic space warship design will need propellant - sure you can avoid ground based interceptors and kill sats but it will eat into your propellant reserves over time. You will need to replenish from somewhere & that somewhere mig
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
The story of Footfall is basically about that - and alien space invasion force with torch drive powered space battleship in orbit. There are ways to battle that - balistic missile submarines for one and then "Project Michael" whic
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by m4rtink 7mo ago
US was escorting tankers during the 1980s in the Persian Gulf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_war
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
AFAIK by this point they are now building them all themselves in the big Yelabuga factory.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
This can be simplified further: "Don't hire McKinsey." ;-)
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Yeah, they totally did not get it & burned a lot of money. They could basically just dumped a much less money into VRChat (or even 1:1 cloning it) and getting almost assured success.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Yeah, the sequels really were very different and in hindsight not very good. Not to mention kinda too forcefully trying to show how almost everyone is a a corrupt asshole - both humans and large ass well as those almightly aliens sending th
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I don't think it is realistically possibly to run out of JDAMs.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Maybe this is just what realistic and maybe even sustainable AI investment looks like. Compared to the fever dreams playing out in the US.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Facebook at it again - creating the worst possible image in society of a potentially useful technology by their carelessness and greed.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Plastic is just hydrocarbos basically - hydrogen and carbon. You can totally synthetise it. Might just not be as cheap an convenient like making it from mined oil, at least initially.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Note that neither Ukraine or Russia have air supperiority. It would be much harder for IRGC to build and launch hundreds of drones with basically predators stalking the sky & strikes from manned jets availalbe on short order.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I am afriad thhe GPUs chips will be often useless (to power hungry, running too hot and needing too expensive accessories) but it might be possible to harvest the memory chips and put them on useful GPU cards.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I would be totally fine with all code generated by LLMs being considered to be under GPL v3 unless the model authors can prove without any doubt it was not trained on any GPL v3 code - viral licensing to the max. ;-)
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
So this is indeed how OpenAI survives (a little bit longer ?) - government bailout.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I think it is much more likely they will be (and are) generating protorealistic images of ther favourite person (real or fictional) with cat ears. Never underestimate what adding cat ears does. OK, maybe someone will build a bioweapon that
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Well, they were just totally doing it the wrong way - with the result being ugly corporate distopia. They could haver just looked at what paople are using VR for & improved it to succeed. VRChat is thriving and some other similar envron
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I would not be so sure - for example Oracle is already struggling to finance its datacenter commitments: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/shareholders-sue-...
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
With launch costs finally falling there really could be more investment into space related technologies.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
There far too many railways, amusement parks, housing developments and other bubble ventures that were either never even completed after wasting a lot of money or went bust soon after opening. No reason the same can't happen now - espe
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
Do you really need EUV for RAM manufacture already ? IIRC RAM and NAND still DUV & EUV is really only used for the most cutting edge GPU & CPU stuff.
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I don't think anything other then a major implosion of the AI companies is possible. It is just not physically possible to go any other way due to he ridiculous amount of funny money they have invested to this dead-end & the non-ex
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
On many modern distros (like Fedora) ZRAM is enabled by default. :)
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I guess something needs to be done about the RAM (and to a degree SSD/NAND) production cartel if it can so easily take hostage a major part of the society & starve it of critically needed components that are needed for a functionin
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by m4rtink 8mo ago
I am not sure summoning Nintendo due to trademark infringement will help with damage control. ;-)

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