lwansbrough

I guess we shouldn’t do anything because Brookfield exists.

You might be, but cycling adoption is strongly linked to safer riding conditions. Protected bike lanes are demonstrably safer. So perhaps you should be more concerned about people blocking roadways with their garbage?

0.1nm please. It's x-ray lithography time!

TASTWDYCPI: Trump always seeks the worst deal you can possibly imagine

I think I’d prefer AI slop comments to comments like this.

That can’t be aero.

On a serious note there’s a marketing problem in my view: who out there who chooses to buy a bell even considers that their might be a loudness problem? It’s not immediately obvious that I need this and I’m sure there’s a premium price attached.

That is what it means. Unless you're losing an argument on the internet and you need a word to hide behind. ;)

I won’t be taking responsibility for the scrapers that are molesting the free and open web and destroying its economic viability. Somebody else is doing that.

1 step at a time until the Americans wake the fuck up

May need triple redundancy for MS Outlook for the next mission.

Could probably extrapolate positions based on heading and speed, to do some fake "real time" positions.

I think generally people regard a harness as the system instructions + tools made available to the LLM (and probably the thing that runs the LLM conversation in a loop.) An agent is collectively, the LLM plus the harness.

Huh, I just did basically the same thing. My requirements were not due to spending $300k/yr on parsing (lol), but I was amazed how far I got just asking the AI for progressively more functionality.

My use case is a bit different. I wanted JSONata as the query language to query Flatbuffers data (via schema introspection) in Rust, due to its terseness and expressiveness, which is a great combination for AI generated queries.

Well let’s hope, as Bush once said, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… can’t get fooled again.”

It’s just embarrassing at this point. How long will the Americans put up with this humiliation ritual?

It seems some people in this thread are not :)

This is genuinely the least of my concerns. I just want the OS to be fast and lean.

No. The greater deterrent is to make the world so complexly integrated that such actions carry an enormous cost.

I never mentioned the Cuban Missile Crisis. You’ve misinterpreted what I said.

The USSR getting nukes in the first place lead to several incidents which were a judgment call away from armageddon. With the benefit of hindsight the correct call would have been to exhaust all options to prevent the soviets from acquiring nukes.

We just got lucky. Whether it was the Cuban Missile Crisis, the soviet early warning system malfunction in Sept 83, or Able Archer 83 in November, there was a lot of dumb luck.

Proliferation will bring the end of humanity. There will be too many actors, too many variables. You can get lucky with 2 actors. You can’t keep getting lucky. The only option is to ensure you don’t have to be lucky.

You realize how much work has gone into ensuring that didn't materialize in those 40 years, right? JCPOA... Stuxnet?

The Pentagon agrees that Iran is not officially pursuing nuclear weapons. However, there are CIA reports that indicated there may have been covert operations taking place that were exploring cruder nuclear weapons. I imagine that was the basis for the US bombing of Iran in 2025.

I have faith that the Americans will right the ship. "Americans will always do the right thing, only after they have tried everything else."

The USSR acquiring nuclear weapons was the closest humanity has come to complete annihilation. We were one bad day away from extinction during the Cold War. I'm not sure I would point to that as something we should do more of. Not to mention the potential for accidents and mistakes.

I don't think bombing a country should be the first course of action. Diplomatic action should leave no stone unturned. But if all of that fails, it is strategically advantageous and safer for the world to prevent countries from acquiring nukes by any means necessary.

If you set the example that the cost of pursuing nuclear weapons is unbearable, countries will find better things to do, like enriching themselves in more productive ways.

Iran themselves are an NPT signatory! And yet they pursue nuclear weapons while countries like Japan, Germany, Canada and Netherlands do not.

Take it to the final form. It's game theory. The US is promoting system that enables a Nash equilibrium. By playing by the US' rules you empower yourself and you empower those around you. And the US takes a service fee for operating the market.

The alternative is trying to fight that, and if you're picking a fight with the strongest player, you're playing to lose.

We can agree that starting a war with Iran is sort of the magnum opus of the worst administration in American history.

But I do feel obligated to interrogate the idea that the US is responsible for this escalation. Iran is seeking to expand its power and influence in the region, and employs violent means upon people - even its own people - to achieve these goals. The regime is, fundamentally, amoral.

The US gets to decide if it wants to put a stop to that. But left alone, the world gets more dangerous the stronger the Iranian regime becomes. The same cannot be said about the United States. The period of history belonging to the unipolar US liberal order was probably the most prosperous and peaceful time in history.

It shouldn't be that complicated to acknowledge that Iran's proxies are about as cut and dry terrorists as they come.

There is no alternative. Just be thankful it's not the Soviet Union.

I think most people in the middle east will tell you that Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is bad. As I'm sure you're aware, they are a major supporter of terrorist organizations.

As far as I know, most countries don't require such an agreement because they don't develop nuclear weapons. Are we forgetting that Iran has autonomy?

I'm not American. There is a host of publicly available proof of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons. It is not, and has never been, a well kept secret of the regime.