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  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    R Gammans @ 91: I'm not convinced that the creation of new ideas is a counter-argument to human being at least in a large pat stochastic parrots. That's why I specified theories, not ideas. The difference between relativity and quantum...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Ovid @11: Perhaps we're all stochastic parrots, but merely so advanced that we can't recognize this in ourselves. I think scientific theories are a pretty thorough debunking of the idea that all humans are stochastic parrots. There are numerous examples...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    David L @ 881: As someone who works with small businesses your view is to be mild, very simplistic. The description I wrote was, indeed, very simplistic. Properly worded would be more like: "Most inflation that most Americans experience derives,...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    David L @ 868: And guess what. D voters are pissed off about inflation. Bidden MUST FIX. Of course they don't want to understand that when the practical minimum wage goes from $8 to $15 in many areas that you...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    Richard H @ 501: dressing it up to look like a gun is completely unnecessary ... It's not going to be so very directional (the wavelengths involved are a few centimetres) that it really needs MIL-STD 1913 rails for mounting...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Heteromeles@218 With regards to Russia, I for one find myself hoping that the Russian Army hasn't instituted the original Red Army (1920s) policy of sending conscripts to the front line, with loyal troops stationed well behind them. The loyal troops...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Substitute Twitter for the post room... I think you mean substitute Fox for the post room. Fox proved quite shameless about talking directly to the IQ45, generally with resulting action quite soon thereafter....
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    meanwhile Crew Dragon is quietly ferrying astronauts to the ISS and has put the wind up Roscosmos, who are worried about losing business to it from Soyuz. I think that's putting it a bit lightly: before Crew Dragon, NASA was...
  • Commented on Omicron
    I think I see some parallels between H. W. Bush + team -> W. Bush + team and Bismark + Moltke the Elder -> Kaiser Wilhelm II + Moltke the Younger. Last time it was a short, victorious war! Plus,...
  • Commented on Omicron
    icehawk@83: Would you know? Serious question. Here in New Zealand I believe we're still genome-sequencing all positive Covid cases, so we know exactly what's here and if you get Covid they'll know which cluster you are in, and quite likely...
  • Commented on Fossil fuels are dead (and here's why)
    ghastly coalition of Jeff Bezos, Exon-Mobil, BP, and Aramco It's worth keeping an eye on the newcomers: Rocket Lab and/or Relativity might surpass Sue Origin. The latter has been having morale problems for a rather long time, and the latest...
  • Commented on On inappropriate reactions to COVID19
    I do get annoyed at people who, after I've given them information, ask for it again, as if they are robots who can only follow a script. Quite often they are being forced to act as if they're a robot....
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    First mistake: letting Britain and France get away with the Sykes-Picot treaty circa 1918-19 I don't think the US could stop Britain and France from doing that. Certainly not the US of the 1910s and 20s. Internationally, it was still...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    (What's really implausible is spam in a can on a battlefield dominated by combat drones, but I digress.) Who controls the drones and from where? It'll be a long time before people are comfortable letting computers control weapons with a...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    More seriously, combat engineers could used powered suits better than most infantry. Currently the research appears to be more focused on logistics people; exoskeletoned stevedores can load and unload vehicles faster and with less damage to their bodies than either...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    But, would we be able to tell the difference, anyway? I mean, they are both entirely content-free ... What is GPT-2? Taking those in order: SOMN's posts have a characteristic structure and relate in some way to either the topic...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    Yeah - having learnt the hard way in '14-18 - we did that as well the 2nd time around. I heavily suspected that would be the case, but decided to not get into it given my lack of knowledge on...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    True, except that the breakdown of the US Army in 1941-45 was 39% volunteers, 61% draftees. Apparently this ratio was more or less reversed in Vietnam, with volunteers being the majority. One of the things that makes this analysis complicated...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    NFT ?? Uh? It stands for New Formation of Technoshit, where people wrapped an old idea ("I'll sell you London Bridge") in new technospeak. It has two uses: fleecing rubes and laundering money. P.S. I still can't get my head...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    apology to the international astronomical community whose night skies you just vandalized with Starlink If you think Starlink's been bad, just wait for Kuiper and OneWeb! That said, Musk is the most likely of the three to both want to...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    It's a LOT more than a count! It's used for government social planning (and, yes, there is still some, even in the UK) and a huge range of statistical purposes. By calling it a count, I was trying to call...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    But, for official record-keeping purposes, the former is important 1. Is theoretical permanence worth inaccuracy? For a census, how important is it, actually? We aren't talking a government database built to ensure the person identifying themself as Greg Tingey is...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    My possible bad There are IIRC 16 possibilities - so it's a list - but it's also a count, because it's usually "two" ( XX / XY ) but it can also be "Three" or sometimes "Four" can't it? (...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    Saw this link on a news site - weird in a Suarez 'Daemon' sense. I'm unfamiliar with the site below and have zero understanding of how bitcoin actually works, i.e., thought bitcoin was untrackable in addition to being uncrackable. Both...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    So - I put two separate questions, neither of which is sufficient on its own, & you deliberately ignore one of them? You are quite deliberately looking for a fight to participate in empty virtue signalling & do you know:...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    You completely/totally/utterly missed the point about TWO SEPARATE questions, didn't you? And the comment that this is tied to census data? Every census question needs to be examined from the competing perspectives of what do the designers want to learn...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    Y'all are no fun. I was having fun. I learned some things. (Among other things, there were fewer things designated M50 than I expected. After all, the profusion of M1s, M2s, M3s, and M4s is somewhat legendary.) While it was...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    There's an M-2 .50 cal machine gun and an M-60 machine gun, but I've never heard of a M-50 machine gun. Going off of Wikipedia, there are 6 weapon systems designated M50 (and a gas mask): M50 joint service general...
  • Commented on What happens now?
    The "Tourniquets, 4 Pack Emergency Outdoor Tourniquet First Aid Tactical Life Saving ..." is a much better choice. The way things are going I'd much rather have them. Flexi-cuffs are USELESS for stopping bleeding. If I recall correctly, you have...
  • Commented on Submarine coming through!
    My experience as an undergrad in the early 10s was a mandatory ethics course for every engineering major plus computer science. Very much driving home "The rules are written in blood; try not to be the reason for a new...
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