Aleš Časar

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Ukraine will no longer send troops abroad for training, shifting all preparation to domestic facilities. The decision was driven by concerns over limited modern combat experience among foreign instructors.

A decision long time due... #Ukraine

I used to hang around the Bell Labs Murray Hill 1127 lab -- where UNIX originated -- sometimes when I was in the area. A fond memory is sitting at a terminal in there (probably a Blit) working on a program back on my L.A. system over the Net. I ran into a complicated C declaration issue. Sitting a few feet away at the next terminal was Dennis Ritchie (dmr) -- a wonderful guy. Well hell, since he created C, who better to ask about this. So I did, and he instantly offered me an elegant solution I would never have thought of. Years later, it occurred to me that this was the closest I'd ever be to getting advice directly from a god.

"Orbital data centers" are not, will not be a thing.

Musk is claiming he's going to launch them as a stock market scam before the SpaceX IPO. He won't. It's a lie.

And every other company claiming that they are going to do it are either lying or dupes.

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The Epstein Class believes that providing citizens with enough money to live a decent life while not requiring them to work will spoil them and turn them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and will actively tear at the social fabric.

Many experiments in Universal Basic Income have proven this to NOT be the case.

However, empirically, it turns out that giving someone 50 billion dollars causes them to cease making useful contributions to society, turns them into useless marshmallows with toxic ideas, anti-social behaviors, and they actively tear at the social fabric.

See normally when an algorithm requires The Entire Global Supply Of Ram, a software engineer would consider that not a good algorithm, and would try and make a better one instead of optimising the entire planet for paperclip manufacturing.

Unfortunately we accidentally gave a bad software engineer too much money

I feel we've reached a point where many if not most of the organizations we rely on are being overrun by toddlers.

We're constantly bring sold the belief that a chatbot is a viable substitute for thinking, skill, and hard work, of expertise and competence.

I've had conversations with people about AI agents and coding, how people want to have made something they've imagined without having to do the work of actually learning, designing and building. It's like a toddler demanding to be allowed to drive the fire truck without knowing how to drive, not being able to reach the pedals, and not knowing anything about fighting fires.

The want to be what they imagine a firefighter is from the perspective of a toddler. They don't know, they don't care, they just want to be in that truck and make the lights and sirens go.

That outlook is fine for a toddler, it's not acceptable for a grown adult drawing a paycheck.

I remember the days when a dumb terminal needed to connect to the network to function, whilst a smart computer could do everything locally.

Nowadays a smart fridge needs an internet connection and a dumb fridge can do everything locally.

Accurate

> yes we know the whole platform is down due to that zeroday bug, but we can't fix it because the platforms we vibe code fixes on is also down

A sentence I expect we'll soon see.