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by mpyne 6mo ago
> They could have surfaced (remember, it was KNOWN that there was no threat) It was by no means "KNOWN" that there was no threat. A modern submarine is inherently in a much more unsafe posture when surfaced, which is precisely
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> Everything I said in my previous 2 posts stands. It was wrong before and still wrong though. For example, you haven't explained why you feel that a torpedo for an Iranian warship in international waters is a war crime, but sinking
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by mpyne 6mo ago
> Exactly this was one of the charges against Admiral Doenitz at Nuremberg. Indeed, however despite being convicted of that and other charges, this particular charge was not factored into his sentence, precisely because British and U.S.
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by mpyne 6mo ago
None of that changes that it was an Iranian warship . Warships of nations involved in armed conflict are always valid targets for the adversary. Otherwise it would also have been a bunch of war crimes for the Iranian ships destroyed at the
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by mpyne 7mo ago
`-` is the traditional shell way to refer to stdin/stdout (as with your git commit example) but also the traditional way to refer to the last directory you were in (as with git checkout/switch). You would never pipe the output of
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by mpyne 7mo ago
I'm really just talking about the browser trusting the user cert itself. I've done the softcert thing myself before, I forget if it used commercial root CA or not but it did work. I guess you could flag the leaf (user) cert as ult
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by mpyne 7mo ago
Honestly this isn't even the first time this kind of advice has been given to non-DoD users needing to access a DoD service over commercial means. The Navy a few years back were experimenting with letting users check basic HR things in
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by mpyne 7mo ago
Sure, people do that all the time. After they run "InstallRoot" to install DoD root certs on their COTS device, that is. I'm honestly not sure any major browser will allow you to use a client smartcard without having the smar
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> Is this actually all the way technically correct? As far as I know, there is no requirement that the trust chains for server certificates and client certificates are in any way related. It seems to me that it would be perfectly possibl
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> but then what's the point of my having an open source project? For some people, the point was precisely to improve the software available to the global commons through a thriving and active open source effort. "Too many peopl
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> given that it's the equivalent level of quality on review?
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> Like, why on earth would I spent hours reviewing your PR that you/Claude took 5 minutes to write? If the PR does what it says it does, why does it actually matter if it took 2 weeks or 2 minutes to put together, given that it&#x
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by mpyne 7mo ago
Yes, I think there's a range between 'give it away I don't care what happens after' (public domain) to the "just cite me bro" (BSD/MIT style) and farther into the full copyleft where you have rights to see
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> but not everyone’s open source projects are meant as a gift to the world for anyone and everyone to use How is that open source then? There's a reason they added the "no discrimination against persons or groups" and &qu
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by mpyne 7mo ago
I had a lot of success with Claude just by telling it I would throw a relevant snippet in a <tag></tag> pair. That's not even XML, nor has it been really needed in my experience. Even simple --- separators is usually e
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by mpyne 7mo ago
Yes, the ribbon also showed you the appropriate keyboard shortcut. My last job in the Navy involved a lot of converting mail merge-style Word docs to PDF for digital signature and so I became very adept at using keyboard shortcuts in Word
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> The Department of War was responsible for naval affairs until The Department of the Navy was spun off from it in 1798. After the Continental Navy was disbanded, there wasn't much of an American Navy to have a department around unt
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by mpyne 7mo ago
> Granted, I do not know why "service member" did not catch on. Perhaps because "warfighter" is a bit shorter. Yeah, it's basically this. "service member" is clunky, like saying "person with enlist
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by mpyne 7mo ago
The Department of the Army is what was previously called the Department of War. The Department of Defense is new, dating to just after WWII.
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by mpyne 8mo ago
> I thought it was vaguely common for secretaries (or staffers) to run the email/social media accounts of politicians and executives? Yes, that's correct. One of the many functions of an executive assistant for a senior execut
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by mpyne 8mo ago
Yeah, their "corporate mascots" are valuable IP because they are associated with fun games. The games aren't fun because of the mascots, it's the other way around.
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by mpyne 8mo ago
> It's fine for citizens to voice positions, beliefs etc. It's not fine for organizations of hostile origins to astro-sturf and manipulate people into positions they wouldn't normally take. As the Supreme Court has already
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by mpyne 8mo ago
When people learn to do things by reacting to inputs, they learn much better when the input comes soon after the action/inaction they are trying to train, rather than long after. When you can tie specific acts as a driver to a later
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by mpyne 8mo ago
> Coding is a passion for some of us. It's a passion for me too, but LLMs don't change this for me. Do they change it for you?
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by mpyne 8mo ago
> Having established that, are you saying that you can't even conceptualize a conflict of interest potentially clouding someone's judgement any more if the amount of money and the person's perceived status and skill level
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by mpyne 8mo ago
And my point is simply that if it were obvious enough an idea that I thought of it after initially using my tool, you probably will want to look for more realistic examples of where a person thinks they came up with an idea that was reall
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by mpyne 8mo ago
This is a great website for learning this type of puzzle. Certainly better than what people had available to them before. Once you have learned and want to keep playing, this site has tens of thousands of good nonograms, in both black-and-
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by mpyne 8mo ago
I had the equivalent of --dry-run in my kdecvs-build script from 2003 (where it was called --pretend) so it's not that spontaneous an idea that it must have been dreamed up by an AI. Any time you have a script that needs to run for a
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by mpyne 8mo ago
Yeah I don't even agree with the conceit that public investment is causing companies to make bad games. You don't make 'good returns' as a video game company with bad video games, I don't care how fancy your financi
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by mpyne 8mo ago
Yes, it mentions this on each game startup.

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