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If you find that interesting, look at Stephen Hayes' Relational Frame Theory which is the inspiration for his ACT theory of therapy.

But he basically breaks all communications into patterns like those.

Don't we have social media? </sarcasm>

IoT and clean comms do.

Yes random small arms make quite a difference in many scenarios. I can say this with zero commentary on whether one feels society broadly should have more guns.

Thx for posting the USAID article. The brazenness of it all is astonishing.

Thank God for the incompetence. It's like we're doing "Clown Show Mussolini".

I read the satellite has an omnidirectional antenna?

I'm just pulling stuff out of my butt here but is this an area where an fpga might be worth it for a particular type of model?

I'm not beating up on OP but I chuckled when I read the question. Literally the only place I see the phrase "no fluff" with any frequency is with Deepseek lol.

Nothing wrong with the phrase itself of course, other than the fact that it's like literally in every other reply for me lol.

I'll admit that my early morning eyes saw "CYA". Which I'll admit had me scratching my head...

Taken out of context, this line seems like a valid description of our ethos these days lol.

VBScript is a word I hadn't heard in quite a while! Brings back memories of editing 5k line .asp files to find an if statement and then a 1000 lines of html and such. Sadly, I dont' think web development is actual better 20+ years later, just different...

Recently became big Ada fanboy, ironic because Im far more a fan of minimal, succinct syntax like lisp, forth, etc and I actually successfully lobbied a professor in 1993 to _not_ use it in an undergrad software engineering class lol.

Still in the honeymoon phase granted, but I'm actually terrified that we have these new defense tech startups have no clue about Ada collectively.

Your startup MVP you wants to ship a SaaS product ASAP and iterate? Sure, grab Python or JS and whatever shitstorm of libraries you want to wrestle with.

Want to play God and write code that kills?

Total category error.

The fact that I'm sure there are at least a few of these defense tech startups yolo'ing our future away with vibe coded commits when writing code that... let's not mince our words... takes human life... prob says about how far we've fallen from "engineering".

I switched to the cheap stuff and now my palate is angry...

My hunch is that we do the same with memory leaks or other bugs in web applications where the time of a request is short.

> My 81 VW Vanagon is much more fun to drive even if...

Yes! I drive the snot out of my mom's '81 Vanagon when I was back in high school. I need one in my life again... Lol

Great writeup!

And as someone less knowledgeable about biological sciences than others, I think learned even more from your disclaimers!

p.s. If you know any good sources for adults to catch up on some biology basics, let me know.

I'm not disputing this but I'm not sure if I understand what it is they're doing or why but am curious.

I think this is my fav HN comment ever.

This might be the last of the weed talking but that's rich. I'm gonna have to chew on that.

And maybe even crack the WCAG docs. Wait... It's a trap...

Does Safari use less RAM?

Please tell me you're a troll and this isn't what you actually think a useful comment looks like.

Ngl, totally envious of a log cabin lifestyle.

I dated a girl who was a project manager for high end homes in SF. What hit me as sad was that a long list of things that are now ultra luxury were basically attainable by any hunter gatherer - a view, a fireplace, living near a lake or river, a large yard, indoor outdoor space, etc.

> If you can spend $100 BILLION on data centers, you have the budget to stand up a proper school.

That is a good point. Odd that our reactions, including my own given that I think the AI data center boom is pretty nuts, to that much being spent on data centers is "not surprising" while a company standing up a school sounds like something from science fiction.

That's too funny. Having just looked, the resemblance is totally there.

> This is about a certain group of people trying to control AI through OpenAI and other such startups controlled by them, without naming names or calling out agendas.

Not trying to argue, I'd totally like to hear who is trying to control AI though OpenAI et al.

Ha... I'll confess "don't use Rust" was my immediate reaction.

Yes but they'll make it up in volume...

I definitely second Andy Pavlo's lectures.

> (I do believe that climate change worries are also the root of the resurgence of authoritarianism, but that's a story for another time. Just in short the key hypothesis: adopting a hate ideology is just another type of looking away from the problem that has no simple convenient answers)

Oh that's an interesting insight. I'd be up to hear more if you're up for sharing...

Meanwhile, he's done deeper analysis than anyone else I've seen on financial statements and actual costs from AI for the large players and I absolutely don't think he's wrong.

Unfortunately, this seems to strike a chord for you.

Unless you get your eyes open to Intuitionist Math and then you realize math isn't "true".

Then again... where in the trillion or so parameters of any LLM is The Law of the Excluded Middle that classical math requires to be "true".

Even more comical is that there are certainly embeddings in there _about_ an excluded middle. With thousands of dimensions and billions of values in each one.

Lord help us all... Lol