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Do you think threats and missiles from an adversary are insufficient cause for war?

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It is pretty obvious that the current war was started by Israel and USA.

I somewhat understand Israel's agenda and objective, even if evil and selfish depending on the point of view (or selfish, for Netanyahu to avoid legal scrutiny while acting as prime minister).

I don't understand the USA attacking here at all. With rising prices I think Trump should pay compensation to the rest of the world for his decision here. This is now similar to the build-up to Vietnam though - I don't see Trump being able to withdraw, without looking incompetent, so he is now committed to the war, similar to why Putin can not stop his invasion of Ukraine. Two criminals, one thought.

122 A-10s have been lost outside of combat over the years. 8 have been lost in combat.

If their actions have made this level of blackmail possible, then said actions are the worse thing because that's what made this scale of blackmail possible.

Their actions are the foundation for everything that came after.

The way I've been doing that is with Shamir Secret Sharing and encrypting keys until glass-breaking is necessary.

Indispensable app. Works extremely well.

I use ESP32s extensively. I also use wifi extensively around the house - I have about 8 wifi access points around the property, with a ton of commercial IoT stuff powered on including sensors, lights, cameras, you name it, I got it. It's about as wifi-congested as any house can get.

So, I was measuring about 250KBit/s on an ESP32, and I decided to test everything that might increase the speed. I tried all the available antenna options for the ESP32 including many exotic antennas using the IPEX antenna connector variant of the ESP32, the stock ESP32 pcb antenna, and several chip antennas. A couple of them got up to 300KBit/s.

I also decided to see what happens when I power everything else off except for a single wifi router. So I did that, and I found that the stock ESP32 pcb antenna still got only 250KBit/s, and the other antennas measured exactly the same as they did before shutting everything down, too.

So, I don't know... 2.4ghz seems fine to me from my anecdotal tests.

> America is at near full employment [2]

That can’t be further from the truth

Any cloud engineer worth their salt is going to have their programs be stateless and their data replicated across multiple data centers. Many cloud engineers are not worth their salt, but working in Big Tech, this has been table stakes for 20+ years. There are regular disaster drills, both scheduled and unscheduled, that test what happens when a datacenter disappears. Ideally everything transparently fails over, and most of the time, this is what happens.

The bigger problem is that a war is likely to hit multiple levels of infrastructure at the same time. So the datacenters will come under attack, but so will the fiber cables, and the switching apparatuses, and the power plants, and likely also the humans who maintain it all. High-availability software is usually designed for 1-2 components to fail at once and then to transparently route around them. If large chunks of the infrastructure all disappear at once, you can end up in some very weird cascading failure situations.

> Vietnam - actually has great relations with the US and we won the peace.

They won the peace (and the war). You didn't win shit. You lost, badly. The wound in the American psyche by this defeat will never heal, to the point we have to witness claims such as yours.

> Afghanistan - We wanted to provide schooling for little girls and stuff like that and, well, the population didn't want it. So at some point you cut your losses.

So you lost. Mainly because you went on a military adventure, with unclear goals, with a population you didn't understand. Much like in Vietnam!

And here you are, in Iran.

I think the one lesson you did learn is to heavily control the media and the narrative. Body bags and mission failures are bad press. Lesson learned.

"these tools put an outsized strain on our systems"

AKA when you fully use the capacity you paid for, that's too much!

It's a poor choice imo, biases, tropes, and the like

Murdoch would be as well, but on the other end of the spectrum

It's like intelligence analysis. You get various bits of intel. Some are true, some are false, some are biased, some are fake. Intel is evaluated in terms of source reliability and information credibility, which are separate.

Bracketing helps. If China Daily and Breitbart News agree on something, that's reasonably solid. But check to see if they're getting their info from the same place. Distinguish between two independent sources and two paths from the same source.

When both sides are too far apart, digging for more data is needed. It's often available, and best obtained from sources close to the situation. Not pundits.

Recognize that you're not going to be sure. Accept that and realize that the goal is to get good enough quality information to make a decision. Being too sure is an error of its own.

Here's a basic article on the subject from the CIA.[1] Much of this is about the problems of being too sure.

All of this is way too much work for most people.

(This is not something I've done professionally. I have worked with people who did.)

[1] https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/Article-Principles-...

GPT 5, 5.1 were bad which affected its reputation and most people went with Claude because it actually worked. There is no reason to switch if you are happy with Claude.

From the article I assume D5 was used simply because it was battle tested and proven, and a an additional Z9 was picked because they fancy the camera and they want to know if it can also be used.

Maybe there's more to it? Otherwise I think personal camera preferences other than radiation performance decides.

What is? No coddling? Little tolerance toward laziness? Zero toward entitlement? That's closer to the opposite of being patronizing, I would say.

They point to documentation in response to the kind of request I've seen closed with RTFMs elsewhere. They'll expect one to read it, and try one's hand at whatever one is trying to accomplish — and they'll feel slighted by a refusal, given how much work they put into it.

And yet, they go to great, unexpected (given the fame) lengths to help someone actually making the effort; they don't try to put anyone down in order to feel bigger than they are, but they don't sugar coat things to appear more likable either.

In short, no, knowing what one is doing isn't a prerequisite; it's more about not foisting onto others the responsibility for the effort required to move from where one is to where one wants to be — whether in knowledge, maturity or tools.

The D5 has been used on the ISS since 2017, including EVAs:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cameras_on_the_Interna...

The ISS now (also?) has Z9s. So they're both generally known-quantities.

Very cool. How’d you build?

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But you cannot repurpose those credits or your subscription on other slot machines that are not owned by Anthropic.

The house (Anthropic) always wins.

Sort of! We came up with a backronym just in case: Scenario Oriented Reasoning and Outcome Simulations.

100%; absolutely. Search your name and an old (or current) email address on any search engine. Prepare to be horrified when you see address, DOB, social media presence, etc. for you AND YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY neatly linked together.

One people search engine had ALL of my emails and screen-names, even the ones I created with my first Internet account as a kid in 1996. Wild stuff.

Why would that be any casus belli?

How much does it pay on average? And how is the payment broken down/do you earn per mile or package?

Or in Gaza, and it is not an accident. As far as they are concerned it’s working great. Israel is in a state of permanent warfare, which completely silences any kind of debate about what country it wants to be, enables racist nationalists who can freely go about burning villages, and it keeps Bibi out of prison. None of what has happened in the last 20 years or so in the region strikes me as particularly well thought out with a long term strategy besides keeping all their neighbours in the Middle Ages.

Fair enough and I think you have done the right thing - opnsense is pretty decent - and the clear delineation between collision domains helps avoid showing too much ankle to the internet 8)

I think your initial setup was perfectly valid. Then you diagnosed a fault and fixed it with aplomb, in a way that you could verify. The key point is: "in a way you could verify" and you failed safe. Well played.

Proxmox itself has a useful firewall implementation too, although it takes a bit of getting used to because you can set it at the cluster, host and VM levels. I personally love it because it is easier to manage than individual host based firewalls, which I also do, but I'm a masochist! For smaller systems I generally use the cluster level to keep all the rules in one place.

I think there is a case going to the supreme Court on this, for a red light camera.

The gist is that it shifts the burden to the accused to prove they were not the driver at the time, whereas when you are pulled over, the police are verifying it right there.

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