Tar_Alcaran

If you can’t get IFV’s, bring some IFB’s…

Yes, lots of people. By a tremendous stroke of coincidence all of them suffered tragic window-related accidents or committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back with a rifle.

giant pocket mares

I don’t want to Google if this is real, so I’ll take your word that this is how it’s done.

The point was that the more you keep compensating for other people’s dumb moves, the greater the damage when it all inevitably comes crashing down.

In other words, just do what they ask, get them to sign off on it and watch it crash and burn in an unmaintainable, unsecured mess

Russia’s frontline is in tatters, all they can do is fumble for more viral acts of mass terror like hitting water infrastructure.

It’s also exceedingly stupid. We’ve got nearly a century worth of evidence that while you can bomb a country, you can’t bomb a country into surrender.

At least by focussing on one type of infrastructure, you can exhaust supplies and hinder repairs by taxing existing civilian capacity. If you bomb 10 transformers a week and Ukraine replaces 9, you’re at least getting somewhere in the short term. If your weapons cost less than the target, it might even be a good idea to keep going.

But if you shift half your attacks from transformers to water treatment, guess what happens? Suddenly Ukraine catches back up, replacing more transformers AND fixing pumps faster than you can break them.

These are literally lessons from the 1940s. You can go to your nearest bookstore and buy several wheelbarrows full of books on this topic. This is why somewhat smarter nations attack either centralized facilities or military sites. There might be ten thousand people who can install a sewer pump, but I doubt there’s a hundred people who can build radar systems.

Let me give you a little parable.

There once was a juggler, who could juggle with three balls all day. Then someone from the audience threw a fourth ball, and he kept going. Someone threw a glass, then a flaming torch, and he kept going, occasionally burning his hands. Seeing he could do it, someone throws a machete, and the juggler almost never cuts his fingers keeping all those things in the air. A chainsaw gets added, and an open bottle of bleach, and occasionally the juggler gets his hair caught or spills some bleach, but he keeps going. As he keeps going, people keep adding more and more things. Eventually it’s too much, and it all comes crashing down, killing the juggler and several members of the audience and destroying all the objects in the air.

On the next street corner, a juggler stands with three balls. Someone from the audience throws in a fourth. He steps aside and lets it fall to the floor, happily juggling three balls.

Yeah, if there isn’t an unconnected hose or cable, that’s about the extent of my car knowledge.

It’s a delete request, not a deletion.

It works when it’s in range. And it’ll only occasionally spray allied ships because the Phalanx doesn’t check whats behind the target.

Just work 996. Working 72 hour weeks will do wonders for your bank account, and murder your personal life.

The chinese way.

Russia has always made tanks with 1 goal. Starting the drive westwards with 10.000 tanks and getting to the Atlantic coast with more than 0. Everything else was irrelevant.

And it turns out those are fucking terrible design goals.

“I worry about about giant sinkholes collapsing my farm, says man causing giant sinkholes by farming”

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Have it airgapped.

Russia want 428 tanks per year. Is, optimistically, getting 250 now and keeps turning tank builders into soldiers.

This Guy shouldn’t have died and the people that killed him must be punished.

he was part of a neo fascist group

Well, I would rather see him not be a fascist while alive, but since he refused to do that, I don’t think this is a bad outcome.

I distinctly remember the day I lost faith in educated people.

I do Workplace Safety and (waste) compliance. That day, I was at a rent-a-lab, telling people about how stuff works regarding their chemicals. Now, I have a doctorate in chemistry, but that room had more degrees than people by a pretty good margin.

I had to go over basic concepts like “the hand washing sink is not for rinsing chemicals. No, not even if you run the tap a lot” and “yes, you can run a waterhose down the special disposal sink, but it costs your company thousands of euros” several times.

Or “yes, if you scoop a little bit of [hazardous waste] into each bag of used napkins, you are technically below the level of it being a bag full of hazardous waste, but you’re also willingly and intentionally commiting ecological crimes and slowly murdering garbage workers. Yes, if I signed off on it, nobody would know, and that would make me an accomplice AND make this a conspiracy, so I suggest we don’t do things that will get me fined roughly all worldly possessions”.

Most damning was “no, these barrels aren’t magic. Anything you put in a barrel will stay in the barrel. Yes it says “disposal”, but they’re loose barrels. They don’t empty till someone empties them. Like a bucket”.

Actually, MOST damning was “no you can’t keep food in the lab. Not even in the special food-only fume hood”. But that was at a different place.

Everyone is on a list, the only thing that changes is the order of that list.

I’m a fucking ignorant moron on the vast majority of topics.

A dumb person will happily talk about everything as if they understand it. A smart person will shut about the things they don’t understand and be open to being educated.

Oh no, it’s actually much worse.

These LLM datacenters are basically useless for anything but running LLMs. You can’t use them for any other cloud software, because all the electronics were specifically made for running LLMs. Really, the only thing that will still be useful is the concrete building and the power and data lines coming in.

No, the actual reason why hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent is because of three things.

• AI boosters (Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, etc) are excellent liars and great storytellers, and rich people eat that shit up.

• rich people invest money by the bucket load, and everyone else notices. Stocks go up and everyone notices that LLM stocks go up, making people buy them making stocks go up because surely, something popular must also be good and useful.

• The people investing money into these lies want to see it happen, so they tell their pet CEOs to implement LLMs and reward them for implementing LLMs. Not for getting a use out of it, but for applying it.

So we get a bunch of people benefitting in the form of massive bonusses for implementing LLMs and pushing the use of LLMs, despite it actually not doing anything useful and being actively detrimental in most cases. All to make the stock line go up, unlocking more bonusses for the ultra rich.

But the LLM itself is pointless. It doesn’t even matter if it does anything. It’s just a vehicle to inflate fake numbers.