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• Post #660687

  More expensive, but still autonomous which is very precious.

• Post #657085

  Also optical fiber is used a lot on battlefields now. It just remains there. There’s a lot to be assembled.

• Post #640952

  Apple M-series are ARM64. Are they not competitive?

• Post #625524

  The bright side - they can also be used to mask pseudonymous users. Guess how.

• Post #625095

  No, that’s you happily laughing at the nonsense you yourself said attributing that to me. I said that RAM compression in MacOS is an OS feature, well-tested and always on. You can play with something similar under Linux and find out it really makes things better. Which means you can fit more there. Like 10%-20% more is notable enough. And I said that unified memory is a feature of their hardware, which is correct. Which is the reason Intel and AMD were playing with that X86-S idea (a new arc...

• Post #617431

  In Russian “мокросовт” (mokrosovt), as in “wetly poke”.

• Post #598053

  There’s another’s Tolkien notion, one expressed by Eomer, how Rohirrim don’t lie and thus are hard to deceive. The concept of some insight, mystery, deeper knowledge in that context seems similar to lies for me. Perhaps Hegseth’s approach and tooling are enough to be as significant as the evil that Tolkien’s characters did put some effort into defeating, not waiting till it defeats itself.

• Post #567459

  Somewhat funny i actually realized this dynamic when watching star trek. Whenever they need to do something illegal they simply put their badges on the desk and just like magic they are no longer bound by federation ethics. That’s the main reason I don’t like the “good people in uniform as beacons of virtue” trope. That always happens. Every time I see that on screen I immediately imagine the morally inverted version of the same plot. At least in Babylon-V such a decision is something not r...

• Post #567332

  You clearly don’t understand how finance works or don’t understand how leveraged these incestuous deals are. It’s perfectly possible for AI to make killbots and for an AI economic crash to happen. You might want to consult a history book. There are a few recurring themes there, silent leges inter arma and vae victis capture most of them. New weapons might change the intensiveness of wars all around the world, because they help those owning them avoid loss of life whatsoever and those not owni...

• Post #545280

  The one where a wife was killed was really progressive, though. It’s a shame it’s dead.

• Post #544160

  People are talking about AI killbots and upcoming crash at the same time, and complain about AI slop and vibe coding. Sorry, but if something is usable for making killbots, there will be no crash. And AI slop proves that for someone it’s useful to make slop. And vibe coding proves that someone makes things working in production with those tools. Saying that quality suffers is like saying that cobb houses are not comparable to brick houses and vice versa. Both exist. There are places where tech...

• Post #543348

  Which will happen regardless. Also where there are AI safeguards, they are usually in place because of chain of command and authorization, and those mattered so much because all most likely applications of any AI during the Cold War had a very steep damage curve. Small killbots don’t have such a damage curve. If they kill someone by mistake, the rest of the population learns to be careful and not raise attention of those operating them. Same reasons as with nukes and radars, where you need c...

• Post #470016

  instead I’m here boning up on the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. I mean, Ferengistan is Europe and in wider sense the West in Farsi, so - pretty logical. (Which is why I don’t subscribe to the theory that Ferengi are an antisemitic trope. They are a subversive futurist trope, “seeing ourselves through the eyes of others the same way we often see them”.) Everyone likes to see themselves as the heroes of some universe. It’s also true for some Soviet science fiction, like things by Strugats...

• Post #467542

  Well, that something common in Russia as a metaphor is also common in Estonia wouldn’t be a surprise, but in English seems a bit less common. Anyway, that wasn’t the point of my comment.

• Post #466179

  it’s literally the guy that runs Signal having a pop at his competition. The right kind of pop, saying only the obvious and nothing more.

• Post #37590

  Capitalism works fine if it’s regulated either by governments or by workers through unions. Both at the same time, and the third necessary component - customer associations, three independent forces as a minimum.

• Post #35087

  What followed in the 40s and 50s was an abnormal period created by the implementation of a significant number of socialist policies that stemmed the desire for blood by the disposessed masses. These fuckers have been working to dismantle them ever since. It’s not quite true, USA and Canada were also far more anarchist in government traditionally, because, well, at some point they had too much territory loosely controlled and too many developing settlements and too thinly spread populations, a...