lopsotronic

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by lopsotronic 6d ago
For docs, see also "Darwin Information Typing Architecture" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Arch...
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by lopsotronic 6d ago
No, it'll come down to blood once more. With thermonuclear explosives the de-industrialization will be even more complete than it was for Eastern Europe the last go round.
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by lopsotronic 6d ago
If it was involving a reasonably solid military I would agree. Sauds, on the other hand . . .
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by lopsotronic 8d ago
Dude, just go look for anything in Defense. Not only are the frontier models verboten anywhere in the building[1], but any open weight model running on your laptop has to pass a pretty strict approval process. We don't have the GPUs on
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by lopsotronic 21d ago
What are some big unchecked violent acts from the Radical American Left the last few decades? I'm making a big list and don't want to leave any of them out.
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by lopsotronic 22d ago
Precisely this. The people in charge of technical direction don't understand the fundamentals of the technology. So you get the idea that LLMs can help make sense of parts data. Which . . . no, no it really can't, not without ALSO
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by lopsotronic 22d ago
If you want to take a very large-scale - if poetic - view of things, you could also (very arguably) say something like "Mass is Fate" . Mass represents a zone where probabilities want to be. The more that aggregate, the more they
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by lopsotronic 29d ago
Very excited. Watching this one. I'm building something equivalent but more towards specialization for manufacturing and DoD compliance. The latter means that every bit, every wire, needs to be on prem and auditable oink to tail. Part
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by lopsotronic 29d ago
A strategic countervalue exchange does have a chance of reducing solar input for a while, but the effect would be comparable to taking a man dying of a fever and dumping him in a bathtub full of ice. The winter kills off a ton of photosynth
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
One genuinely poisonous aspect of Israeli policy is that the more Jews as a people are persecuted, the better Israel as a nation does: demographically, economically, and diplomatically[1]. It was true in the days of Avraham Stern, and it&#
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
"What fool will sell us his secrets?" is what Stalin is said to have replied when Khrunichev (aviation minister) and Yakovlev proposed buying British engines in 1946 for their Mig design, which (with British Nene engines) would
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
9/11 was arguably the most effective asymmetric attack in the annals of military history, in terms of simple weapon effect. At the same time, it spells out the limits of seeing the world in terms of weapon effect: an American populatio
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
Russia's desperately terrible internal financials, applied to any nation lacking strategic deterrence, would have brought them a lot more pain. I sort of jokingly contend that they're floated by a theoretical "Blood Standard&
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
I've always sort-of-joked[1] about a "Blood Standard": your status as reserve currency is proportional to the percentage of the world population your nation can murder in 12 months. Puts a hard floor on nations with strategic
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
AKA why Component Content Systems usually fall flat on their face over time.
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
If the rest of the world stayed still, that's a hard "maybe". Since the rest of the world isn't , what we're actually watching is the "Western Flavor" of the Soviet collapse. The fact that these destruct
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
I've always taken particular note of how wisely scope-limited Pandoc is. Markup that aligns with natural language convention[1], is tightly converted, but the further from natural language, the less fidelity Pandoc can promise. Until,
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by lopsotronic 1mo ago
As an unapologetic generalist[1] this has also been my experience. Many tools that would have been "eh maybe if I get bored over Thanksgiving holiday" have become "hold on, gimme fifteen minutes". Tiny, isolated, but awe
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
Have they thought about the expenses in running continental Death Pits? OK, dumb attempt at funny over, but certainly someone is thinking about instability costs? Even if everyone is super cool with literal Death Pits, they don't run f
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
It's arguable that - pre-Exile - the majority of the vague coalition we today refer to[0] as "Israelites" did not practice monotheism outside of rural cult centers[1], if then. Deuteronomy 32:8–9 (Qumran/LXX) Elyon appo
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
He's definitely a messenger of something but I'm not sure I can speak its name. "A narrow head, bulging, watery blue eyes that seemed never to wink, a flat nose, a receding forehead and chin, and singularly undeveloped ears
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
Yeah, I was going to point out there's a few "big bombs" out there that aren't useless at all . . Someone will break the First Use taboo, but I wouldn't put money on it being Russia, at the moment, not for Ukraine,
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
I think that the problem might be even more fundamental than that. Ownership of a strategic nuclear deterrent seems to short circuit some of the internals of the modern Westphalian state apparatus. Possible mechanisms include 1) centralizin
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
What I'm seeing here, reading this thread, is that "intelligence" isn't a thing. "Thing" in terms of a quantifiable that you can measure with tools and reason about, reproducibly. Everyone's got some idea
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
I can't believe I had to scroll down to see this. Victory always flows down; you can have the most badass of technical equipment or cunning tactical victories in the field, then still quite enthusiastically lose the war, due to bad str
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
I have heard it confidently stated, repeatedly, by extremely technical coder types, that "once we have enough data, we don't need Statistics" It's a pretty funny sentiment. It's also, unfortunately, reflective of
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
My first decent *NIX computer was an SGI Indigo that I rescued from a dumpster at a military-adjacent subcontractor that was also my first tech job. Hmmm. Probably it wasn't sterilized by the book. I took that beast home and loved it
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
One of my favorite horror films of the 1980s, Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 Possession . One quote I heard about it, is that some movies are about madness, and other movies seem to be themselves mad, and Possession is one of those movies.
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
The sheer quantity of "mislabelled"[1] PRC origin parts passing through the logistics chains as Primo-A-grade-American-Made - even in Defense - is deeply disturbing, and that's the stuff that they do catch. Transshipment i
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by lopsotronic 2mo ago
You also have to ponder how it looks when you remove the Chinese supply chain for all those commodity parts. Which will almost certainly be the case if we decide to punch that dance card. Having a boundless cornucopia of servos and radios w

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