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This Kind of War (reading list Marine Corps commandant 2026 Vietnam War) suggests the answer is that the US fought crusades through WW2. Then they got Korea; not absolute war, not …

Shuffling zk (Zettelkasten) cards is just fine. [1] The meaning of a note is largely determined by its connections, and so approaching a note through a different set of connections…

A tax deferred is a tax avoided. (common wisdom)

You're talking to a dude. (in my case.) I mentioned 8 books. I won't tell you exactly what to do, but one way to do it is to measure your surprise with me choosing each of those 8 …

If I provide that list, a (real) person doesn't ask me if I've read the Hobbit.

I don't know. I entered, trying to be popular but at least slightly? opiniated: Tigana, Hyperion, A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Moby Dick and I got a list. Sure, read all that …

Other than capital does a lot of work in that argument. Companies will not pop up and optimize much less micro optimize the tradeoffs. This isn’t a stock exchange; it’s a real capi…

Counting in people rather than people-days is problematic, and then you get to qol-people-days. Saying murder is not helpful; see how folks have responded to you.

Line: The ADR of standard colonoscopy decreased significantly from 28·4% (226 of 795) before to 22·4% (145 of 648) after exposure to AI Supprt: Statistically speaking, on average, …

France is from the legal past that the US emerged from and it's a criminal prosecution so seems relevant. Offering inconsistent defense has got to be thing in France, particularly …

Louisiana is the only jurisdiction which does not adhere to the general rule that a defendant may rely, in a criminal prosecution, upon inconsistent defenses. (In other words: prov…

Yes? That is just obviously correct given the judicial system for hundreds of years. I get why you are outraged, but also: inform yourself. This is exactly what even minimally comp…

How far do cables generally move power now in terms of hours, meaning time zone offset? This might seem like an odd formulation, but. I /think/ formulating the problem this way mea…

I can drive several large trucks through that sentence while answering no, so: no. There are so many ways to create a no there is an important point. Related: you are in an audit. …

To point out something that is a fail: I don't want to hear about how you simulated 10M particles on the GPU without acceleration forces.

I am currently limiting myself to 500 lines of (particle engine) code while listening to visual artists talking about their workflow in UE5 or Houdini, and Odin+Raylib are lovely t…

Probably you are missing sth because it’s so one sided.

It’s always you are running too fast. Slow it down, walk more, figure it out. You simply shouldn’t feel bad or even breathe hard unless you want to when doing 2 walk/2 run. If you …

One of the hard things to do when building a game is to figure out why it's fun. It's hard enough that, in general, most folks just remake another game that's already figured out t…

Assumption: wanted feedback, saying kid was not saying shibboleth.

Games are a series of interesting decisions. That’s one formulation. Being asked what x+y is with some graphics is not an interesting decision. Perhaps an interesting decision come…

(computers generating hypotheses beat non-computer aided humans generating hypotheses should adequately engage a large class of arguments that your comment seems to suggest that yo…

The "just" a hypothesis-generating step is THE HYPOTHESIS. Generating THE HYPOTHESIS is THE non-scientific step in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. To not undersell this: where the actual fu…

Chipotle ensures all paths lead to a customer-pleasing Burrito, which is kind of sort of the same Burrito once you squint in the way Chipotle slants. Choose away; it does not matte…