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km3r··on US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire
Us revolutionary war. China taking Tibet. US Mexican war.
km3r··on Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI
Society is better if we sacrifice one horse and buggy driver job for two engineering jobs. The drivers suffer from that, but the net win for society is so plainly obvious that it's a better investment to retrain the driver or just pay the off rather than support a job that dying anyways.
km3r··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
Joe Biden was 6 was israel was created. 6 year olds are not responsible for ethnic cleansing.

And yes, there is ongoing issues (from both sides), but solving the current situation is very different than solving the ethnic cleansing that happened in 1948.

km3r··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
Except those people are dead. Those who ethnically cleansed Arabs (and Jews) during the nakba are dead. Almost everyone who was ethnicity cleansed is now dead. At a certain point you need to recognize that a new generation has been born into this conflict, and with it, a change in circumstances. Attitudes like yours ignore that Israelis who were born there don't have another home to 'return' to.

That doesn't mean that Palestinians don't have a right to resist occupation, but the circumstances are significantly materially different today then 40 years ago.

km3r··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
What political/ideological goal does attacking the aid workers move forward? It's a war crime, no doubt, but terrorism has a meaning that doesn't include all war crimes.

> Killing unarmed civilians, kids, etc is also terrorist.

The vast majority of lethal force actions in Gaza are targeting Hamas operations. Civilians getting killed by those strikes is NOT terrorism.

km3r··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
“Roof knocking” is when the IAF targets a building with a loud but non-lethal bomb that warns civilians that they are in the vicinity of a weapons cache or other target.

https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/hamas/how-is-the-idf-minimi...

Non lethal not non explosive, I stand corrected. Now can you answer the question.

You even admit it's a smaller bomb than then say its double tapping? Those are two opposing things.

km3r··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
> the Israeli Army dropped a small bomb on a house

Roof knocking is using non explosive ordinance. It is, by definition, not a bomb. Attacking its use is wild, its a tactic that saves civilian lives, even if you disagree with the validity of the target.

> that means you think that Hamas sent these people on the roof to let the Israeli army execute them, not even to use them as a human shield.

Yes. That is what human shielding is. The unfortunate reality is that it is irresponsible to completely stop attacks when human shielding is used, as it encourages further use of the practice. Just like blaming Israel for all of those death is also encouraging Hamas to further use the tactic.

> What would be the military objective here?

Hamas has been very clear that deaths of their civilians further the Palestinian cause by causing the world to turn on Israel. The objective here is clear.

Now I turn it back to you: what is the military purpose of roof knocking?

No double tapping doesn't make sense here. You wouldn't use a non-explosive ordinance if the goal was "double tapping"

km3r··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Terrorism has a simple definition: using force against civilian life to further ones goals.

Target a music festival with no military value: terrorism.

Blow up a building because hamas has a tunnel under there: not terrorism. If the military value gained is disproportionate to the civilian cost, it is a war crime. But still not terrorism.

km3r··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
The spirit of the law is reducing the civilian cost of war. Its hard to argue that Israel's few incidents of wearing civilian clothes for special operations increased the odds of civilian costs compared to the same operation done in uniform. Meanwhile, Hamas's lack of uniforms has led to significantly increased civilian cost.
km3r··on The Problem with LLMs
I said that complexity can lead to intelligence, not that it must.
km3r··on The Problem with LLMs
I said "intelligence can emerge" not that it will.
km3r··on The Problem with LLMs
Because it's so entirely reductive and misunderstanding of where the technology has progressed. Hello world is s computer program. So it Microsoft Windows. New levels of "intelligence" unlock with greater complexity of a program.

Like look at our brains. We know decently well how a single neuron works. We can simulate a single one with "just a computer program". But clearly with enough layers some form of complexity can emerge, and at some level that complexity becomes intelligence.

km3r··on Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/rtx-video-super-resolution/

We already have some of the stepping stones for this. But honestly much better for upscaling poor quality streams vs just gives things a weird feeling when it is a better quality stream.

km3r··on Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
> My man, Israel had a blockade surrounding Palestine on all sides for years prior.

A blockade that was specifically accounted for the the preceding ceasefire agreement that was in place on Oct 6th.

> David and Goliath

Yet, it is David who keeps starting this fight, losing, then calling Goliath unjust because his ability to punch back is greater.

> And not ignoring Palestine, which had existed for 12 centuries before the birth of Christ?

Nope not ignoring. Both groups have a long history in the region. Arabs through colonization centuries ago. Heck, "Palestine" even comes from the Jewish word for invader (the naming is not connected to the arabization of Palestine).

km3r··on Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
That is an elementary understanding international law.

If after Oct 7th Israel went and killed a single child in retaliation, that would be unjust. Justification and proportionality are not measured like that.

Justification is established by a valid objective to go to war. Proportionality is measured in comparison to the military objectives. The Oct 7th attack clearly justifies the removal of Hamas. The proportionality of doing so is dependent on the size of Hamas's army (20k-30k), the size of their infrastructure (500 kms of tunnels), and their ability to separate their operations and operators from civilians.

km3r··on Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders
The UN has made no such ruling. Committees don't speak for the UN.
km3r··on How the cochlea computes (2024)
> one would suspect that the specific characteristics of the human cochlea might be tuned to human speech while still being able to process environmental and animal sounds sufficiently well.

I wonder if these could be used to better master movies and television audio such that the dialogue is easier to hear.

km3r··on The Majority AI View
The "Ai Ecosystem" has its flaws but this article seems to just provide a description of how it is now, and how they want it to be, without a path towards there.
km3r··on Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0
Not that its what should determine the ideal length, computing power has gone up significantly faster than the number of characters in Unicode (chatGPT gives me characters ^ 7 = flops).
km3r··on iPhone Air
Im never going back to non-foldable. The ability to have a full sized phone take up half as much space in my pocket is amazing. Consistently more comfortable moving around.
km3r··on Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
> At this point, it's becoming obvious that it is not profitable to provide model inference, despite Sam Altman recently saying that OpenAI was.

Except the authors own provided data says it cost them $2B in inference costs to generate $4B in revenue. Yes training costs push it negative, but this is like tech growth 101, debt now to grow faster leads to larger potential upsides in the future.

km3r··on Introducing Gemma 3n
Why not? Training isn't just "data in/data out". The process for training is continuously tweaked and adjusted. With many of those adjustments being specific to the type of model you are trying to output.
km3r··on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits
Yeah I had to flip the developer setting toggle, but worked flawlessly for my flight (American Airlines has a watch an ad for 20 minutes of free internet that only works once per MAC)
km3r··on The Gentle Singularity
What do you mean? I take a self driving car around every week. I got a mRNA vaccine that enabled us to get out of a pandemic much quicker. You can get fast internet in the middle of nowhere via starlink.
km3r··on The Gentle Singularity
And self driving cars. Real time ray tracing. WiFi. Cloud computing. starlink. Crispr. mRNA vaccines. Blockchain. Voice assistants.
km3r··on Apple M3 Ultra
Relatively, as in a Mac or a Lexus will depreciate slower than other computers/cars.
km3r··on TikTok should lose its big Supreme Court case
And you are being entirely pedantic or uninformed if you do not understand that the CCP controls TikTok with mechanisms like Golden Shares.
km3r··on ChatGPT Pro
Using 90/10 split: that 10% of the time before being reduced to only take 10% of that makes 9% time savings.

160 hours a month * $100/hr programmer * 9% = $1400 savings, easily enough to justify $200/month.

Even if 1/10th of the time it fails, that is still ~8% or $1200 savings.

km3r··on World Labs: Generate 3D worlds from a single image
Hey finally a use case (for the masses) for gigabit at home at least.
km3r··on Hacker Fab
There is a wide gap between TSMC's cutting edge processes and what a university lab would produce. The features on the microchip go from a couple nanometers (TMSC cutting edge) to tens of micrometers (1000-10000x larger). Large size means less transistors, but million instead of billions still is plenty for large complex chips, just not cutting edge.
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