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by nwatson 6mo ago
The USA military is subject to civilian control and whim and that's their contract. Gauging approaches to have best effect would involve coordination among the political, intelligence, and military glamorati, and that's something
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by nwatson 6mo ago
I got an Olares One system with a 24GB (consumer not 32GB) NVIDIA RTX 5090 for less than $3k at the Kickstarter price. It comes with Olares OS which for my purposes is not all that useful, I settled finally on a good Ubuntu 24.04 LTS config
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by nwatson 7mo ago
I spent the early 70s and early 80s in Brazil. I left at around the time of the abertura in 1984 when we lost a semester at UnB due to the student and faculty strikes. It was convenient that my family was coming to the USA. There's a l
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by nwatson 7mo ago
Enforcement stops completely at around US$1-billion.
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by nwatson 7mo ago
Sounds like "Nate B Jones" from the "AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones". He's very enthusiastic about the notion that there are "dark software houses" or something like that where no human writes
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by nwatson 9mo ago
Self-hosted might be the way to go soon. I'm getting 2x Olares One boxes, each with an RTX 5090 GPU (NVIDIA 24GB VRAM), and a built-in ecosystem of AI apps, many of which should be useful, and Kubernetes + Docker will let me deploy wha
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by nwatson 9mo ago
His painting is based on a prior work, an engraving by Martin Schongauer ... "The Temptation of St Anthony" ... see here https://www.wikiart.org/en/martin-schongauer/the-temptation-... ... So he was re-r
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by nwatson 9mo ago
Graças à Deus, amanhã chega sexta-feira.
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by nwatson 9mo ago
Capture might not be the aim. The coming decades will see anonymous effective asymmetric warfare with USA infrastructure and the USA political establishment as prime targets. That's the big concern.
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by nwatson 10mo ago
The past that we have yet to subject to our subjection also is effectively future. Supplication for unknown outcomes surely already determined in the objective past wrt the present time still makes sense. The Divine Successive Relaxation wi
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by nwatson 11mo ago
Poetry jailbreaks peoples' own defenses too. Roses, wine, a guitar, a poem.
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by nwatson 11mo ago
The goal is kinetics and beautiful fireworks for the folks back home. "Acting now" is much easier than methodical interdiction, investigation, and potential justice. The home audience won't tolerate anything smacking of evide
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by nwatson 1y ago
Enter the Dominionists, gaining steam now. Not a regime I want to live under. Here's a forty year old article describing the inception of those religious figures close to the current USA administration ... https://banner.org
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by nwatson 1y ago
Just wait for the City Office of Roommate-By-Another-Name Licensure.
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by nwatson 1y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to branch out to build things outside my comfort zone. AI already is helpful in my normal day-to-day (backend engineer, mostly Python w/ PyCharm/Datagrip working in monorepo style), but Claude Code helped me
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by nwatson 1y ago
It can get a lot more complicated though. At times there are more parameters to an algorithm's complexity than just `n`. E.g., the parameters for big-O might be `n`, `K`, and `ρ`, and some expressions in the big-O might involve combin
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by nwatson 1y ago
Yeah ... animal (and plant, etc.) populations in a stable environment have a lot of random variations that confer no outright distinct advantages over their peers, they are distributed along the normal plane to the current evolutionary grad
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by nwatson 1y ago
The ones that survived will have had more efficient metabolisms, or harder hooves that could break through the ice to get to the food, or could have learned a technique to cope. Hopefully their next generation will retain those traits or th
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by nwatson 1y ago
One can also integrate with, say, a running PyCharm with the Jetbrains IDE MCP server. Claude Desktop can then interact directly with PyCharm.
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by nwatson 1y ago
Set up a second remote on Bitbucket or other and synchronize through that. Pipelined, etc might be missing but at least development can proceed.
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by nwatson 1y ago
It creates rich-people dollars and poor-people dollars. The poor people can still afford a buy a few necessities because rich-people money is tied up in useless vain endeavors, at least to some extent. If rich were to direct all their purch
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by nwatson 1y ago
As for WW2, Roosevelt worked hard to make sure Britain couldn't reconstitute its empire, and to work toward global self-determination.
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by nwatson 1y ago
Someone will propose privatization of said program with insurance fees covering the reformulated collision-prevention service. Of course, privatization will leave out crucial aspects, lead to failures, increasing untraceable space debris fr
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by nwatson 1y ago
I spent time in the "Rio de la Plata" area in the late 1970s, mainly Montevideo, and learned rioplatense Spanish, and would use the ZH sound as in "meaSure" for Y/LL letters in "playa" and "calle&quot
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by nwatson 1y ago
Along the same lines ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJiwovX3mNA ... powerful lyrics
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by nwatson 1y ago
For low "pixel count" games try electronic football, 3x9 pixels. From Mattel, 1977. https://youtube.com/shorts/MNm4e5MxqFk?si=-UR3HayZOuDuhGJm
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by nwatson 1y ago
The Gates company make the Gates Carbon Belt to replace bike chains with a carbon fiber belt (encased in some polymer). My Priority Bicycle 600x has this belt drive, along with matching sprockets and a Pinion C1.12 "transmission",
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by nwatson 1y ago
Jetbrains has "AI Assistant" and "Junie" (the latter is much like "Claude Code"). Junie is a great AI coding assistant, seems to be on par with Claude Code (and can use Anthropic models e.g. Claude Sonnet, or o
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by nwatson 1y ago
Thanks for the Rick Beato video. Yes, complex.
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by nwatson 1y ago
Maybe "they" want to do the pwning with less coordinated resistance. Doing away with CVEs would help with that objective.

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