Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
20hr ago
What you say is more about wrong policies (which is interesting in itself). Their real estate policy was a mistake, as is belt and road probably, but no one doubts that chinese can pour immense amounts of concrete in various shapes and lay tracks with the best of them. I am more interested in the moonshots that failed than the roads they did not take.
Lizzardspawn
21hr ago
Amelia
Damn. Dylan Mulvaney has really let himself go.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Here is one for you - Chinese failures. We write a lot about china successes in the culture war topic and it is not undeserved. But what about the other areas - that are structural, important, the government is keen on them succeeding, but they fail. So far the only thing that comes to my mind is civilian aerospace. They are way behind, rely on western parts, doesn't seem to be able to be waned off them and everything is way behind schedule. And that in a moment in which the lead times for delivery of aircraft approach 10 years. The market is hungry, China wants to provide, but they can't.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
AI is business class. What I figured out recently is that while AI is making my development more comfortable it doesn't make me more productive. For me dev work has always been primary problem solving and writing the code secondary. So I spend more time on logic, understanding and occasionally debugging. And human brain does seem to have limited capacity for decision making and understanding per day. It is like long haul flight - arrive at the same time at the airport. But the seats are nicer and you can nap in the full flat ones.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Umm Louisiana purchase and Alaska fit quite well in the way US has done things. Find a nice chunk of land you want, wait until the remote power that controls it is in vulnerable position, acquire it for penny on the dollar with vague rumblings about just taking it.
What people don't understand is that what USA is doing is mostly return to form. What donald trump is doing will probably get critique from Teddy Roosevelt about the style, but not about the substance.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
First homework is stupid. Even worse it is pointless. It takes the most valuable time of your life for some absolutely marginal advancement in academic performance. If someone can't grok quadratic equations - solving 200 more at home will help? Making them suffer trough war and peace or crime and punishment will make them appreciate literature? That somehow staring at the physics handbook will make them understand relativity?
We treat knowledge as goal not as a tool. Tell the little ones that at the end of the course they will know how to make total synthesis of cocaine and you will have the most attentive chemistry class in the history of the world. And they will do their homework without even being assigned.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
The irony there is that the vast majority of Jews who were exterminated were not the integrated, typically pretty secular, educated urban elites
Yup. It was mostly the "Ellis Island" style jews from the Russian Empire that were purged.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Exactly. For LLM quality of data is more important than quantity. So we have more shitty code on which to train. Which means we are moving slowly towards AGI. One more of the benefits of Java, JS, php and C++
Lizzardspawn
7d ago
Nothing is going to top fresh Maine lobster, Italian tomatoes, actual access to fresh fruit or whatever.
Every other tomato grown in the Mediterranean region. Same with olive oil. Italy is just better with marketing.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
The Chernobyl power plan did the five year plan - petiletka - for thermal energy production in 34 seconds.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
I don't think it is net positive if you account for all inputs.
Lizzardspawn
8d ago
Except that is bullshit, because you can start with lower smarts than humans and still have the parabolic curve. It is not that you need human level intelligence. Also humans have become worse at coding in the last 30 years.
It is just sensationalism from their part.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
A bit of a side question - Do you think that they will succeed in martyring her? I see the tries, but to me it seems it probably doesn't have the needed dry biomass it had in 2020 with floyd. Like it is not getting much traction and only the true believers are really active.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
Punisher War Zone. It is a masterpiece. Close second is The crow. The old one.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
The problem with dark knight is that if you remove every scene heath ledger is not in it becomes even better movie.
Lizzardspawn
9d ago
They all have exactly as much democracy as Iran.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
If not for the Islam, the muslim women would have been part of the thicc latina belt. Because everyone loves thicc latinas, everything that hurts islam and non secular rulers is good because it will bring more thicc latinas into circulation.
Lizzardspawn
10d ago
The United States props up lots of countries that are less democratic than Iran.
I will bite - list lots of countries less democratic than Iran that US props up? We have saudi arabia probably and ? The Khamenei regime cuts off people hands because they have tattoos, Khamenei regime blinds women because they don't wear hijab, Khamenei regime kills rappers for the act of rapping, Khamenei regime sits on top of some of the richest resources in the world and still can't provide the basic needs for their people. And the majority of people didn't vote for that in elections.
It is not about theocracy or whatever - it is about stupid. And Iran rulers are.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
This means if the suspect attempts to run and gets far enough away, the wire tightens and slices/strangles the officer.
Good morning, how can I assist the police today instead of running is not hard. You have a lot of rights when it comes to police, fleeing doesn't seem to be one of them.
Lizzardspawn
12d ago
Old Eastern European method - the two two two program. Two blankets, two space heaters, two glasses of hard liquor. You will sweat it out during the night.
Lizzardspawn
13d ago
Windows 11 has gradually become unusable so I am migrating to Linux. So far it is on the same level of shittines than windows, but at least you know the pain will end at some point. I was hoping for it to be better behaved after so many years, but there is progress. Does anyone know how gaming with legally owned backups of games work?
Lizzardspawn
15d ago
If Trump tomorrow conquers Greenland and says it is US territory - do you think that future 2028 democratic president will return it or the usg will drag their feet for the next couple of centuries on the matter?
I have always thought that nuclear weapons program by itself should be casus belli for nuclear strike. If more nations start trying - I can assure you that the big five will come to my opinion too.
Lol, Mr. and Mrs. Maduro additionally charged with possession of machine guns and destructive devices. Apparently even foreign heads of state need a US firearms permit.
More interesting question - which is the jury of Maduro peers ...
Lizzardspawn
17d ago
Except those things already happened.
Post lobotomy Jill Biden will have more ability than Kamala Harris on her best day. Harris is not cut of leadership clot.
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