A “known good” training set should be a goldmine, or will be once ppl have been burned by the AI grift a few more times.
]]>It did a better first draft than I could find after 30 mins of LinkedIn searching.
As a frameworking / drafting tool it’s pretty promising.
]]>The concept they are pitching tax cuts to their membership who already barely pay any tax (most of their equity is in housing) would be mind boggling if they weren’t so serious about it. There are signs in pre-electoral polling that a outright majority of voters see tax cuts as disastrous whilst the country slowly falls apart.
]]>Had a Tim Powers-esque feel to it - which is clever since it precedes it in publication.
]]>The inverter option worked for F&MIL who live 10 mins from Newcastle suburbs but were without power six days recently because the local leccy company didn’t have their lines on their database. Inverter to stop freezers vomiting up rotten food and run lights & charge phones. Wood burner for heat. The more sane neighbours buggered off to the local TravelLodge for the 6 days.
]]>The Hive TL strikes me as a crappy elimination TL as it requires Rita to be in TL4 unless there’s also a direct access Knot for it.
]]>Of course Merchant Princes 2025 covering a cross timeline proxy war battle for the Spratleys is an option….
It’s also worth noting that the Dragons Teeth blood pressure fixes allow the US to out compete the Commonwealth in a jaunt enabled trade war even without mass production of Armband and is a much better use of spoilt brats than conscription. Getting parity on that has got to be a major priority - to the point where the doctors who know what the crispr fix are probably locked up in a luxury cell for the USA’s protection.
]]>And would ARMBAND for a sub be an orange inflatable with speedo written on it?
But it does beg the question at what point does gas density become too high to jaunt? Gas giant atmosphere levels or decompression chamber levels?
]]>I wasn’t thinking of cruise missiles as an option but it’s a valid point.
]]>Don’t forget a worldwalker can jaunt with just their foot wear isolating them.
Which begs another question for Charlie - what’s the mass limit that requires complete isolation from ground with a hovercraft or similar?
]]>That's what they actually did. (Using SLBMs, too, flying a ballistic path from the Pacific Ocean, thereby obscuring their point of origin.)”
My was presumption there were 2 things,
1 to show the Commonwealth they had Worldwalking nukes (pretty much says so in the text) 2 Against an unknown enemy en mass you’re going to need a relatively speedy and stealthy approach and that’s what the MIRV’s were, compared to a dude with a backpack nuke anyway.
Interesting question - is it possible to Jaunt a submarine? It would have been a lot cheaper to jaunt the sub over 2 timelines than 8 ICBM’s in terms of Armband units at least.
]]>Was that a genuinely held USA belief or just a narrow minded assumption by one character in the heat of the moment?
]]>I just finished Invisible Sun and enjoyed it a lot - a fitting finale to the series.
I particularly liked how even nearly all the villains were still humanly relatable - including Smith and Scranton toward the end. The only out and out loon was the Commonwealth Guard general.
I found the Forerunner Info dumps a little jarring at first but the Afterword explained why well.
Part of me would like to have seen what the 4th Chunk featuring the Hive would have been, but the completist is happy with the current end point.
Thank you Charlie!
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