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by tim333 7mo ago
Yeah but it's cheap and doesn't need putting pilots up there. The: >When a Russian recon drone enters the zone, the system vectors an interceptor to chase it down and destroy it, without requiring a human operator to manually
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by tim333 7mo ago
Apparently it's one of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_gun with two cartridges firing in opposite directions.
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by tim333 7mo ago
$300 add on - see it in action https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/2039672658086744566 It's recoilless with two cartridges firing in opposite directions. It can also work autonomously from 126m. Very cunning th
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Varta Put a Shotgun on a Drone. Ukraine's Frontlines Say It Works(dronexl.co)
2 points by tim333 7mo ago|6 comments
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by tim333 7mo ago
From the video with one of these robots (maybe the one in the story?) >We prepared for the combat use of these modules for a very long time. It was a very difficult sector on which the enemy was constantly conducting assault actions. Tha
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by tim333 7mo ago
>There is a good chance this one becomes the Wework of this decade. It's very different from WeWork which was basically just subletting office space with beer taps. At least SpaceX had done significant stuff with the rockets and Sta
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by tim333 7mo ago
There's a video with footage of a similar land drone and interviews with the operators https://youtu.be/Ir6sNgW91Hw
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by tim333 7mo ago
Ideally you'd have some sort of diplomatic solution and no war. But these things don't always pan out.
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by tim333 7mo ago
The unexamined life is not worth living ~ 400 BC I imagine Andreessen was kind of trolling?
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by tim333 7mo ago
There seems a bit of an acceleration ~ 50-100k years from evolving brains similar to modern ones to agriculture, ~8k year from there to writing, ~4k to the printing press, ~400 till computers, ~40 till the web and so on. Each of those has k
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by tim333 7mo ago
Google now ads an LLM result to about half the search results. I think they've figured out how to do that without too many resources.
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by tim333 7mo ago
Yeah, and Jakub didn't seem to have much background in AI research. I'm sure he's a great coder and did a PhD on fast algorithms but it's a different area to pushing forward AI really.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I figure the US was aware of the scale of Iran. It seems the US were talking with about three possible people in the Iranian government who could take over like what happened in Venezuela but their initial strikes killed them all which was
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by tim333 7mo ago
Yeah though most of the US government excluding Trump is pro Ukraine. Biden at least gave some weapons and Lindsey Graham pushed a tough sanctions package which was working quite well until stopped due to the Iran invasion.
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by tim333 7mo ago
>The era of carrier-dominated airpower is fading, as cheap, unmanned anti-ship weapons reshape naval warfare, whether US planners are ready for it or not. is not really backed up by reality. Pretty much the whole US operation so far, des
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by tim333 7mo ago
I think the majority of Americans are on Ukraine's side but of course the president has other ideas. The UK has some Ukranian drone manufacturing going on https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dvjwygk1o
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by tim333 7mo ago
That talks about how they couldn't find someone US side to make the injection moulding moulds. We used to have a manufacturing business in the UK and got quotes for some moulds in the 1980s. You could get it done in the UK but the cost
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by tim333 7mo ago
President truths a thing can also be a bit substandard journalism.
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by tim333 7mo ago
The markets go up and down and were expensive and due for a correction but I'm not sure the very stable genius with his tariff and oil wars is helping.
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by tim333 7mo ago
I'm not sure about the details but Apple know who I am anyway as I have various stuff with them and presumably the only info they are giving re this stuff is whether the user is over 18 or not? They generally seem quite good with priva
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by tim333 7mo ago
In democracies people can vote in control of the government to benefit themselves, unlike private monopolies. Corrupt autocracies get much criticism.
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by tim333 7mo ago
As a Brit I don't think so. It does seem mostly about protecting / restricting kids. I'm actually slightly puzzled everyone seems to assume otherwise. Amongst people I know, most are concerned about kids being ok and none wan
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by tim333 7mo ago
>most don't realize they're doing anything illegal I'm not sure they are. I watch stuff on youtube and some probably violates someone's copyright which is an issue for the people posting it but I'm not sure I&#x2
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by tim333 7mo ago
The main Moore's law like metric they track is compute in instructions per second, per dollar. That's kept on a fairly steady exponential for a century or so and doesn't seem to be slowing. ( https://www.bvp.com&#x
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by tim333 7mo ago
He probably gets to be a billionaire if OpenAI floats which would be nice.
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by tim333 7mo ago
On the other hand approx human brain equivalence in computers has been predicted fairly accurately since about 1990 based on Moore's law type projections - mid 2020s by Moravec, 2029 by Kurzweil. The underlying assumption is once the h
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by tim333 7mo ago
It quite likely won't become a $9T bust though because the investment so far is more like $0.8T. If things slump shortly it might be more like a $0.5T bust if you assume the things are worth 50% of what is being paid - there are a lot
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by tim333 7mo ago
It's quite impressive though. I'd estimate the content on my screen is about 1MB if you'd just sent it as images and html so that's quite a junk to content ratio.
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by tim333 7mo ago
The behaviour is a bit weird - I just opened mine and in Chrome task manager it showed the ram use climbing to 2.8GB, but in the network console it only shows a few 10s of mb download. I wonder what the discrepancy is? The site seemed to no
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by tim333 7mo ago
I was cheered to see the Conservative Political Action Conference audience cheering for his impeachment a couple of days ago https://newrepublic.com/post/208293/cpac-attendees-confused-... On the other hand you&#x

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