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Thanks for the recommendation.

You got me there.

>The USA has never been defeated. It's never been taken over by force and forced to submit to a foreign power. War getting a little too expensive or politically unpopular for their…

Those are interesting points. The US military is optimised for limited strike "special military operations", which it does all the time, and deterrence. Neither of those require a …

The health care issue in the USA isn't due to lack of funding, the US spends more on health care per person than any other country, double that of many European countries with sing…

That's why I like the PBTA approach. All the rules you need are right there on the character sheet and a couple of pages of quick references sheets. Even with it's stripped down sy…

I just picked up the books, after finishing playing in a short campaign. It's a great setting. The rules system is a bit bare bones, but you could easily run Dungeon World or prett…

I’d have thought the effect would be the opposite. Support Ukraine because it’s only going to be a short war, as Russia will be giving up soon, so why let them get conquered?

Why would Putin want people to think that Putin is sick or infirm, and his ability to lead might be compromised? His entire schtick is that he's a strongman leader and the only rel…

There’s always the hollow earth!

I know, let’s modify our DNA so if we’re wiped out nobody will ever know we existed!

I think it's a way of inflicting a lot of pain on the Russian population in a very public way, without actually killing lots of Russian civilians. Obviously it's in no way bloodles…

The general point on air power is a real thing, but I don't think we can directly conclude that bombing will always harden civilian resolve. It very much depends on the population'…

It has, but I think in both directions. It used to be assumed that playing chess would require the same level of general purpose problem solving cognitive skills that the best ches…

Sure, but they're still LLMs and still do the same things largely the same way they did 3 years ago. There are some architectural changes, and maybe these will merit a re-assessmen…

It's slammed. HN strikes again.

It is, and it's not impossible there was some, but we have pretty decent records of her ancestry, we know the Ptolemys were shocked by the idea of intermarrying with the local popu…

Because they cannot comprehend the factors that meant it took the Android team 3 to 5 years working flat out to even vaguely approximate technical parity with the iPhone OS of the …

Or Ryan Gosling. https://youtu.be/TeONP37qsSo?si=cPLF_UpcuW7dfruT

Because being in a building Nazis have been in is just like making an actual Nazi salute. Twice.

The whole point of gamepass is that you don't buy the games. If enough people are playing it through gamepass that shows it supports the value of gamepass, if not sure that's a pro…

They still get usage stats.

She says she can usefully steer LLMs, but how would she know? What knowledge of the research topic, methods and their applicability would she use to judge that, if all she’s doing …

That is irrelevant for the laptops Asahi currently support or are working on supporting.

It basically just has to look like macOS in some trivial sense, it doesn't have to be macOS, there are no obstacles. The system is designed specifically to enable booting custom co…