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by closewith 1mo ago
I think it takes a wilful ignorance of the history of industrialised warfare to believe this.
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by closewith 1mo ago
No, the opposite has happened with this war. Adversaries globally have seen the ability of the US and Israel to operate with near-impunity over Iran, and it has destroyed confidence in non-Western defence systems. The big weakness is indust
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by closewith 1mo ago
You have the same issue with the conventional bombs and their guidance kits, which when delivered in contested areas are not usually cheaper. The issue is general industrial capacity, not missiles specifically.
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by closewith 1mo ago
The headline is inaccurate, as the article actually says that the US Army has used nearly all of its long-range precision missiles, referring to ATACMS and PCM. First, those are short- to medium-range weapons. Second, the USAF and USN hold
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by closewith 2mo ago
> A new, fully equipped ambulance is about $150k. This is definitely not true. A base model unequipped ambulance may be in that ballpark. A fully equipped ambulance will vary wildly in cost based on clinical level but will be about $250-
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by closewith 2mo ago
I tried to find the asterisk there to see the details, but could not. FWIW I think that HEMS cost is significantly under costed, as the London HEMS H135s run about £2,500 per flight hour on direct flight costs alone, so I suspect the £4,748
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by closewith 2mo ago
> Only a complete moron would think the answer to this is no. If there's no personal cost to using an extremely expensive service, every one is going to use it regardless of whether it's actually necessary. It will quickly turn
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by closewith 3mo ago
And overheid.nl is their government site for that reason.
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by closewith 3mo ago
Yes, which I think is also very common, but what Wikipedia was referring to is that there's no official second-level domain for Government, unlike say gov.br or gov.uk). Gov.nl is just a domain owned by the Dutch Government, like gov.i
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by closewith 3mo ago
That's the most common approach globally. Like most countries, the Dutch Government use .gov.nl.
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by closewith 4mo ago
Can you name one?
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by closewith 4mo ago
I wonder where you suggest researchers go that is both granting funding and not attaching similar or more stringent strings to the money?
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by closewith 6mo ago
Our developers work office hours, but would frequently have 10 plus sessions open. Massive parallelism is one of the benefits of agentic coding.
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by closewith 6mo ago
Yes, subjectively there do seem to be moments where the quality of the output drops significantly - usually during US peak hours.
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by closewith 6mo ago
My company has several MCPs that our very token intensive, but it seems that with Claude Code, usage is throttled even before hitting limits. I don't have any proof, but often when using intensive MCPs, Claude Code will just stall for
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by closewith 6mo ago
Tongue, meet cheek.
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by closewith 6mo ago
Americans desperately trying to justify their firearm fetish is embarrassing. > PS A "curve-off" public welfare policy is far more effective than banning guns. Roll eyes emoji.
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by closewith 6mo ago
No, you should always follow you're own moral code. Companies don't have morals, only people. Abdicating your moral responsibilities because you're employed is cowardice.
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by closewith 6mo ago
> Cars kill more than guns. In most countries, but not in the US.
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by closewith 6mo ago
Was there a Send Me to Heaven for Sora?
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by closewith 6mo ago
No, current LLMs are already good enough to read the subtexts from documents, email, call transcripts where available. They're extremely good at identifying unwritten business practices, relationships, data flows, etc.
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by closewith 6mo ago
> I don't know of many professions[1] with such demands on time outside of a work day to keep your skills updated. This is an extremely miopic view (or maybe trolling). The vast majority of software developers never study, learn, or
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by closewith 6mo ago
LLMs are already good enough to read corporate email and document shadow functions and hierarchies.
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by closewith 6mo ago
Private companies literally are building drone armies right now. Are you sure their use will be limited to Ukraine and the Middle East?
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by closewith 6mo ago
You're obviously entitled to your opinion, but if you think it generalises, you're simply wrong. There is extremely strong and consistent polling across the EU in general, and Ireland in particular, showing that while the public s
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by closewith 6mo ago
The ~2M figure was a 2025 EOY nameplate capacity target, not actual output for the year. Even those capacity numbers are widely overstated - it’s well known in defence circles (where you claim to be) that real capacity is running at about 4
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by closewith 6mo ago
And I'm a former soldier and current defence advisor. I suspect you'd be horrified of the realpolitik within the EU today.
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by closewith 6mo ago
This is absolute fantasy. Stockpiles are only depleting, production hasn't and won't come close to meeting demand, and until there's a shooting war inside the bloc, it won't.
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by closewith 6mo ago
What are you talking about, 2025 defence spending is coming in below 2024
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by closewith 6mo ago
Are you talking about economic warfare? Too many EU nations are completely dependent on the US economically and it only takes one veto. The reality would be lots of denunciations, some token measures, followed by Business As Usual. Ireland,

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