CapricornNoble

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by CapricornNoble 2mo ago
> They are advancing, but incredibly slowly Their tactics have settled to extremely-small infantry infiltrations across almost the entire frontline. Warfare has evolved and concentrated mechanized assaults have been abject failures for b
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by CapricornNoble 2mo ago
> Ukraine is gaining some ground, but very slowly. It's basically a stalemate. Ukraine has been gaining some open fields, while losing major urban areas. Kostyantynivka just fell and Russian troops are securing the high ground overl
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by CapricornNoble 2mo ago
Yes. It depicts how supplies arrive at a port, move via roads to a logistics organization that is brigade-sized, assigned to support a corps. It depicts the subordinate units within that logistics organization (the Army calls these "Su
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by CapricornNoble 2mo ago
>>Probably the biggest learning from the Ukraine war alone is the effectiveness of cheap drones. It was suspected for years but hadn't been put to the test yet. Some of us were paying attention as early as the 2016-17 Battle of M
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Lisuan Tech LX Pro 24GB GPU(techpowerup.com)
4 points by CapricornNoble 3mo ago|1 comments
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by CapricornNoble 3mo ago
I haven't seen this GPU mentioned on HN. 24GB DDR6 @ ~$500 USD. Can we finally stop buying used RTX3090s if we wanna run LLMs at home at a reasonable price? Any Chinese HN members able/willing to benchmark one of these with some o
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by CapricornNoble 3mo ago
I actually completely agree on all points. #47/DJT2 is uniquely disastrous for the American Empire. I think Kamala is a narcissistic sociopath but DJT is that PLUS a bully with a fragile ego and the most ridiculously overconfident pa
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by CapricornNoble 3mo ago
Kamala "the greatest adversary of the US is Iran" Harris? That Kamala? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/8/kamala-harris-says-... I kick myself every time I fail to place bets on Polymarke
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by CapricornNoble 3mo ago
Hard for me to judge your bubble-ness, as I'm in a different bubble of ....I dunno, a recovered former Wehraboo? Those people who "study WW2" mostly to edge themselves about how militarily successful the Nazis were. I include
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by CapricornNoble 4mo ago
Same. Thought I had a copy of Uthark [1][2] on my shelf too but alas I seem to have only retained Svartkonst [3] during the tragic downsizing of my library. [1] https://archive.org/details/karlsson-thomas-uthark-nightsi
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Data Breach Hits Anti-ICE Organizing Site Gtfoice.org(substack.com)
5 points by CapricornNoble 5mo ago|0 comments
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
>You don't hear american expats or expats from any other western country talking about how much they hate their regime. As an American expat this is laughable to me, plenty of my peers shit on the US government in general and Trump&
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
>What is the use case for keyboard shortcuts on handheld devices? As someone who bought an HTC Dream / Android G1 when it was new, and wishes more handhelds had a similar form factor, this comment depresses me. https://en
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
>this is perhaps a once in a century opportunity to end the Islamic threat once and for all. If Iran folds, Hamas, Hezbollah, and others will quickly follow and the region will be at peace. This is the exact same nonsense that Netanyahu
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
>Iran wants nukes. Entirely rational, given their desire for sovereignty and avoiding getting bombed to oblivion. > Iran has stated it would like to destroy the US and Israel. The linguistic nuance of the slogan "Death to America
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
Don't give Secretary of War Crimes Pete Kegs-breath any ideas. He's already all-aboard the Crusade-train.
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
Didn't Tornado Cash get un-sanctioned recently? Can't you just use that?
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
Why should I try to learn this instead of Slint?
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
Mint Press News has a good article about why Gamaan's methodology is unsound: https://www.mintpressnews.com/gamaan-iran-polling-regime-cha...
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
>That’s millions of Iranians. My in-laws who lives in Tehran are anti-regime, along with every single person on my wife’s side of the family: aunts, uncles, cousins. Everybody. How do you square this with the absolutely massive pro-gover
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by CapricornNoble 5mo ago
> What news are you even reading? You are terribly misinformed or out of touch. What news are YOU reading? https://time.com/article/2026/03/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-nucle... "As a result of Operati
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
>Israel started the war in response to the genocide of Oct 7. So all the legitimate collateral victims and damage from Israel's actions here is responsibility of the perpetrators of Oct 7. >You aren't calling for prosecution
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
As the sister comment alludes, how many of those 15 families are in Iran? My professor from my graduate program and his family are all Iranian. It's no surprise that they anti-regime: his wife's uncles were generals in the Shah&
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
Telegram is full of gigantic rallies all hours of the day and night supporting the Iranian government. Even street interviews with young women (no hijab!) claiming they were formerly protesters but aren't going to tolerate foreigners b
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
>why would they boast about it and invite attacks upon that weapon and its deployment systems? To complicate adversary targeting priorities. If you have to shift your pre-planned bombing sorties away from, say, local Basij HQ buildings,
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/new/ This is considered the most "pro-Russian" sub-Reddit, so it balances the Anglosphere deluge of pro-Ukrainian material pretty well. The most importan
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
One of my peers sent me a discussion from the Council on Foreign Relations and it was a difficult listen. Within the first 5 minutes of the hour-long vid, one of the "experts" was opining that Iran had no ability to close the Stra
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
> Iran's regime has just indiscriminately killed 20-30K innocent civilians and uncountable many have been tortured. That is a crime against humanity. So, the top of Iran's regime and its IRGC has to be punished. I'm fine w
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
Yes. What "poison" do you think they are leaching? Has anyone ever done any instrumented/lab testing that has shown ABS plastic toys to pose a threat?
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by CapricornNoble 6mo ago
I guess it depends on what a "Lego-quality experience" means to you. I grew up with the mid 80s to mid 90s kits, mostly castles and pirate ships, a few space sets. I think it's a very different experience compared to the nigh

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