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by oblio 7mo ago
There will be no knockout punch here, instead it will be death by exhaustion. North Vietnam didn't die of exhaustion, nor did Afghanistan (2x), Iraq. For reference, it's likely Ukraine is making more medium cheap drones per year t
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by oblio 7mo ago
In case you haven't been following Ukraine, that's what it's doing. It has multiple cheap long range drones (FP-1, FP-2, etc) plus more expensive ones (FP-5), and it's making them in the millions a year, I think. They ju
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by oblio 7mo ago
How do these compare to Open AI OSS?
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by oblio 7mo ago
Nah. DotNet.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Does it even make sense to build everything on top of machines that are 70% reliable? The sheer orchestration and validation overhead at scale risks being more expensive than just keeping most software engineers and having them manage a few
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by oblio 7mo ago
I'll try again but lately I've been using strictly the VS Code terminal. Gnome Terminal and Termux in Ubuntu 24.04 were unusable even with 1000 hacks.
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by oblio 7mo ago
If you include consulting that could easily be 10 companies a year...
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by oblio 7mo ago
At least Gemini and Claude constantly break down with scrolling in various Linux terminals, something which was solved by countless TUIs decades ago. I think a lot of the people prasing Claude & co are on Macs.
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by oblio 7mo ago
It even wrote an entire browser! By "just" wrapping a browser engine.
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by oblio 7mo ago
I think the "breakage" is in terms of conciseness and compactness, not outright brokenness. Like that drunk uncle that takes half an hour and 20 000 words to tell you a 500 word story.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Yeah, I know, I think you were 25 or something back then :-)
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by oblio 7mo ago
No way this will end badly, when Alphabet (!!!) had to issue bonds for the first time in its history. In 2 years' time we will look back fondly at the Global Financial Crisis.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Hey, at least it's better than your other one. https://landley.net/history/mirror/linux/kissedagirl.html
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by oblio 7mo ago
Don't worry, big companies are doing similar things now. Layoffs after the main activity period is over, laying off HR people after they held layoff meetings for other departments, etc. Reptiles.
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by oblio 7mo ago
That argument is definitely BS, though. What do you think happens in the most restrictive labor market in Europe? We're not slaves. There is a short notice period, usually 1 month or even shorter (notice periods for companies are longe
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by oblio 7mo ago
The upside is that taking down Taiwan will be really hard. Fairly sure a lot of it is mountainous and forested and I think the strait is quite perilous. So China might cripple Taiwan but invading it risks being their Vietnam. That doesn&#x2
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by oblio 7mo ago
And why would that be different or allowed? Sure, you get all the code you want, GPL licensed. Everybody is trying to have their cake and eat it, too, by license laundering. Heck, money laundering means you at least lose some of the money.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Once creation is commodotized, controlling eye balls is king. Look up aggregators. Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. If anything, in Extremistan we're all useless. Platforms and whales are all that matters.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Giant corporations started in the early 1600s and back then they had gunboats :-p
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by oblio 7mo ago
But LLMs do distribute the derived code they generate outside of their company. That's their entire point.
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by oblio 7mo ago
Because OpenAI built their entire business around shamelessly scraping anything that had bits on it.
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by oblio 7mo ago
We only got PCs because IBM screwed up. Every other ecosystem is walled off to various degrees. And absolutely every current corp knows about IBMs failure and definitely does not want to repeat it. Nintendo? Walled garden. Playstation? Wall
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by oblio 7mo ago
I wanted to be nice :-p
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by oblio 7mo ago
> The Chinese don't live in fear of whether Benelux is 'friendly' to them or not, and if the Beneluxers went insane and started trying to invade their neighbours, I'm sure China would treat it much the same way as Eur
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by oblio 7mo ago
You are so far behind the news that it's funny. Bayraktar stopped being good in this war - or cutting edge - about 3 years ago, which is an eternity. Do yourself a favor and ask your favorite chatbot about the Ukraine drone industry an
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by oblio 7mo ago
Your sober analysis of the situation overlooks what many respectable analysts are saying. Ukraine has become probably the de facto #1 drone based military in the world right now. It's made the first production use drone type that uses
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by oblio 7mo ago
You do realize that Russia is and will continue being an enemy of the US, right? Even now it's providing Iran with intel to kill US soldiers. Russia is primarily a threat to Europe, but not only. And what do you imagine will happen if
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by oblio 7mo ago
How did you read the previous comment and decide that "insanity is the only option"? The sane option would be to back down. And no, not every adversarial regime can be taken down. The Soviet Union had to fall, nobody was going to
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by oblio 7mo ago
> Russia: this crisis will probably force the West to make peace with Russia and they'll retain any current Ukrainian territory just to secure Russian energy exports, particularly natural gas; The West is not the only party in this
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by oblio 7mo ago
There are a gazillion battery techs being developed right now (regular lithium ion - with variations like NMC, LFP, ...), solid state lithion ion, sodium ion. You can over provision solar as someone said. There's geothermal, tidal, etc

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