Full circle. After a big orgy of trying to make ever larger word guessing engines write software we rediscover that computers are fundementally logic machines (and also word guessers were never intelligent)

People kill bears with 30-06 yet Charlie Kirk’s neck stopped the bullet. That never made sense.

CENTCOM’s real headquarters is in Tel Aviv

“Are we the Russians?”

NVidia’s Jensen Huang has a bag he wants you to hold.

Perhaps, but I suspect that Wikipedia was looking for a reason to ban them to avoid problems with the ADL and US Government…

Modern “stealth” aircraft like the F35 uses split-ring resonator patterns in the skin of the aircraft. This is much more durable than the iron spheres suspended in a top coat that the F-22 and older aircraft use. (There’s a reason why the F-22 can’t be left out in the rain). The problem is that the resonator pattern is highly dependent on radar frequency. So yeah, the Iranians may very well have found radar frequencies that aren’t absorbed very well by the F-35.

They’re getting blasted out of the air in Iran right now. One confirmed with a second loss possible. How many F-16s has Ukraine lost in combat? I’m not saying the F-16 is a better aircraft than the F-35 but I think it does show that “stealth” isn’t all that and an “old” aircraft like the F-16 or (for that matter) Gripen, with a modern sensor and weapons load-out, is actually pretty similar in capability.

The spoiler is that the virus is controlled by the immune system, so it can take over if your immune system fails for some reason (for instance AIDS).

It’s a myth that rich people aren’t already avoiding every tax they can. They would have you believe that there are rich people not currently avoiding a 20% tax who would avoid it if it were 40%. In fact they’re already doing everything they can do to avoid it and if they’re paying it at 20% they would still be paying it at 40%.

It’d be way more expensive to split the order. Canada needs arctic recon and interception. That’s all it has ever needed. Gripen was built to do that mission. Going with Gripen would both put Canada with a cheaper platform that fulfills the mission, and it sticks a thumb in the eye of Trump’s war machine.

That’s not OP’s point. The point is they are clearly getting rid of the guy for telling them their AI plans are dumb. I’ve seen it before. If you see a leader get dismissed or resign right as there is a big policy shift that’s what’s going on internally.

Yeah and “fuckening” is clearly his attempt to bandwagon on “enshittification.”

“Oh so catchy phrases need swear words in them now, I’ll use the sweariest word and have the catchiest phrase!”

AI Doomerism is AI boosterism.

No, LGPL just allows linking to differently-licensed software.

Basically linking copies some code from the library into the program that uses it, making any linked software a derivative work.

Sellers of proprietary software libraries give permission for this specific type of linking in their license. LGPL gives the same permission to people who are otherwise following the GPL. LGPL used to be called the “library-GPL” because it is the GPL plus permission to use the library linking mechanism.

Sure the parts I needed weren’t available. Which is probably the problem with these iFixit scores. They should really wait for the laptop to be a few years old and then look and see if the stuff that’s actually breaking on the laptop are actually repairable with the parts available.

For this particular laptop even though it had a really good iFixit score, I couldn’t even buy a new touchpoint nub (or whatever HP calls it). The old one completely disintegrated but the nub was different than other HP laptops, so the ones I tried to buy (even for other elitebooks) wouldn’t fit. The nub the laptop needed simply wasn’t available anywhere.

I once bought a HP Elitebook on the basis of a very good repairability score from iFixit. It was a shit laptop but the big problem was that as it started breaking I found it impossible to find parts for it. It doesn’t matter if it’s held together by torx screws with no glue if you can’t actually get any parts.

The “recruiting base” is already there. They’re joining ICE now.

Probably a combination of that and Russia finally starting to run out of meat. They’ve been missing their recruiting goals for the last several months. Russia will have to start using general mobilization soon, something they have been very reluctant to do. This is probably why they are finally starting to move forward on ceasefire talks.

Just going to leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5uSbp0YDhc

They’re putting a lot of chemicals in the water. Some are messing with frog reproduction.

Bradley is surprisingly good considering all the “Pentagon Wars” development hell. I think a lot of people still think its junk. When it was more effective than the Abrams in Iraq the theory was that the fighting there mostly didn’t require tanks. In Ukraine of course, the fighting was very mechanized in the beginning until equipment losses and drones ended it.

And the Bradley still did very well, better than the MBTs. At this point I think it’s reasonable to wonder if MBTs are obsolete, if not all tanks. A lightly-armored vehicle like a Bradley is going to be no more vulnerable against modern MANPATS and drones than a MBT, but it’s going to provide just as effective protection against small arms. It’s easier to maintain, longer range, and it can do more missions.