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Over someone who never fired any real weapon? Probably. You are not startled by violent sounds. You have intuition for ballistics, time to target, CEP, weather effects.

That's not how guided missiles work either…

Would a rifle marksman be a better artilleryman than someone who never ever touched a gun?

See the beauty of analogies is you can make one to support any point.

Math is not entertainment though. It's one area where a sole human can do some of the most profound contributions to humanity.

A world where there are fewer humans who can ever understand math is the world with less mathematics.

Channel your indignation into victorious dance.

Maybe Russia should have tried that on NATO if that's where it's beef is, rather than attacking a neutral third country. But Russia is a weak bully and weak bullies seek for weaker victims (and have weak, cowardly sympathizers).

I am not thinking that Ukraine is winning but I am a decent human being so naturally can't cheer for Russia.

Very possibly so! They've won all their wars over India too which is much more populous than all the Nordics too.

Eurasia wasn't used until the appearance of 20th century movements. But fine I'll rephrase: Pakistan, the greatest power on Indian subcontinent.

So we agree that blockade is not a problem then, goodie.

I dunno, maybe we should ask Pakistan, the greatest power of South Asia.

Speaking of overt acts of war, Russia just blew up a merchant vessel in EU territorial waters. A little blockade will do just fine.

Some are just worse that the others. Those C and D students have to work somewhere.

Sorry but it has very little to do with expectations. As a middle aged man you have very little opportunity to start a new career (regardless if there is even any remaining soon). In an absolutely objective way, physically and socially.

A comms blackout and other forms of blockade will severely hamper Russian influence ops in the West. That would make other forms of confronting Russia politically tenable.

For my end am fine with just glassing Russia today, you don't have to convince me.

I think it's banned in most of Northern Europe, with less enthusiasm in the South. However there's an effort to ban it across the bloc, which is likely to happen at some point.

https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-limits-russians-entering-bloc/338...

And anyhow, your question was what Europe can really do to end the war. I just listed some practical, low escalation options.

I am posting this from Norway. It most certainly bans Russian tourists.

I bet this "AI agent" has a name and it's not Claude.

Complete comms blockade with Russia. Complete trade embargo with Russia. Complete embargo of sanction breaching states. Complete sea blockade in the Baltic and Mediterranean. All within technical reach and no option of proportional retaliation by Russia.

If Musk/Trump truly commit to pulling Starlink for Ukraine this will spell the end of their licensing in most of Europe. Adjust your SPCX positions accordingly.

I'm not trying to somehow deny the merit of product management. It is a necessary job with own set of challenges. It also often comes with responsibilities that an individual developer never faces. However in comparison it to programming (or other skilled IC work) it was quite a bit easier purely technically. Lateral career moves for product managers between industries are common while for technical specialists it is a lot harder purely on the sheer amount of technical expertise you are supposed to acquire and maintain.

I delivered a number of complex products start to finish, in software and in hardware.

Product management is indeed an important but at the same time not very hard job.

The purges will continue until reported AI safety improves.

Luxury problems.

Green text ppl aren't getting invited

It's not like every disadvantaged kid now can solve a major problem just by sinking a hundred hours in their ChatGPT 8 instance.

I got Peregrine out of GPT-6 too. Huh.

How come it's a diary if you address it to a correspondent?