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Praise to the old gods and the new, why?!

It took me a hot minute to understand what square packing really means (the Wiki is insightful) but TLDr: it's packing unit squares (1x1) into a larger, arbitrarily sized square. When the larger square has a side length that is not an integer, it becomes non-trivial to determine the most 1x1 squares that can be placed inside/packed.

Among The Thugs!!

Read it!! Some of the best literature of the late 20th century.

Hunter S mixed with David Foster Wallace mixed mixed with Tom Wolfe.

Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something?

Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.

Even if the peace holds the whole thing feels like a definite L for the following reasons:

Materiel - a huge amount of expensive and long lead time to replace missiles/interceptors expended - a $300,000,000 radar station destroyed - like 30 Reaper drones (approximately 1/5 of the total) - 1 AWACs destroyed and 3-5 others heavily damaged (we only have about 20 of them - tons of damage to infrastructure in the area (like refineries, ports, chemical plants)

Geopolitical - primacy of American military power shown to be truly questionable (I consider this as the biggest part of the L; can't decide if it's an unforced error or it was bound to happen under any administration) - Iran now knows it can leverage its drones and missiles to influence the region and world; they don't even need a nuke anymore to project power

I guess if there is a silver lining it's that the conflict has exposed how unprepared some of our doctrines and orders of battle are when dealing against an adversary that needs to operate on a more asymmetric level. But also it feels like that should be already known after years of monitoring the Ukrainian conflict.

Oh come on Jump, how can you deny it's not shady?

I could kind of agree with the argument that "well these companies stay private longer so they are more mature" but the float exemption with the seemingly arbitrary calculation to figure out weights completely belies that argument.

Something definitely seems rotten in The Kingdom of Denmark with respect to the price of oil but I guess the market knows best. What that knowledge is, I don't know.

If anything it's surprising the price of natural gas hasn't gone higher considering ~20% of the supply is going to be inconsistent for 2+ years.

Feels more like: can the bond market handle any potential outflows as money is rotated into these IPOs?

How can this ever be approved? Under the unitary executive theory he was suing and is now settling with himself.

IIRC Israeli special forces knocked out almost all of Iran's advanced radar systems last summer right before the nuclear program strikes so to say the F35 dominated is somewhat disingenuous.

Damaged is an understatement, its aft section was completely destroyed and the plane is in two pieces. We only have like 20 E-3s, half of them can't even fly at any given time, and this one was sitting out on a runway like a sitting duck and we've had weeks to learn since those KC-130s got hit in a similar situation.

It's frustrating that we're constantly being lied to about what's actually happening.

$300,0000,000 phased array radar stations getting knocked out of commission by a $50,000 drone traveling at 140 MPH which a $20,000,000 SM-3 can't intercept.

Weeks of 8,000 airstrikes leading to "complete annihilation" but now we need more weeks to finish the job with energy prices skyrocketing.

Asymmetric warfare is a bitch.

This feels like a misleading ratio, it's just saying the cost is the same in per capita terms but says nothing about the absolute cost or more importantly cost as a percentage of income, which matters for the majority of people in the denominator of the GDP per capita calculation.

It's not guaranteed to be the same outcome in Iran, we're just rolling the dice again and hoping it is.

What is the mechanism which turns these assemblies to do work and move/pull/push something? The inner screw is rotated by a motor, which causes the planetary roller system assembly to move, where the thing you want to move is attached to the moving roller assembly?

Yeah really does show you how it's now (actually for some time) just a label, conveniently morphing over time for people/groups you don't like, losing any actual meaning because it's applied so liberally.

And it's ironic because there are clearly "real terrorists" (i.e. 9/11 guys).

1000%, crazy to look back on spring and summer of 2020 and if he just played it cool and not rocked the boat so much, no doubt he would have been reelected. Not that I agree with many of his policies; if anything it speaks more to his incompetence and inability to remain calm than anything else.

Also friendlies for the record the person I was responding to mentioned millions of settings, which while hyperbolic, you and I know means just hard to find so please share all fishing tips and other notes.

For the record I am also with you that using WinDebloat is not the best way for the simplest reason that it all seems arbitrary.

Having fished I have found the fish hard to catch so thought I would ask from another fisher.

Can you expand on this? For example details on any tools to do this. I've been trying to disable features I know use resources and aren't needed but the native UIs to do it are hella confusing and feel purposely useless.

What's the inside angle on admitting liability like this? Keep it out of the courts and therefore no discovery and depositions that become public record?

Huh? Why, that makes no sense.

But seriously, if a comma is used it would be more like:

Nearby to a Netherlands' military base, known to store US nuclear weapons, suspicious drones were fired upon by defensive forces.

Alas, we must continue to train the LLMs in proper comma usage!!!

Stuff like this was kind of necessary on those early generation iPods, they had mechanical spinning disks. I remember dropping mine and hearing the click from the busted disk :/

Huh? Even if the farmer could save 100% of that daily $2 earning it's still 60 days worth of wages, which while not exactly $1,000,000, is still a lot for the the farmer.

I am convinced MS has code in Windows which looks for de-bloating and then purposely slows things down. Or the code base has gotten to the point where things are so entangled that de-bloating leads to the slow down as every app tries to connect to telemetry or hook into Copilot and stumbles when the bloat is not there.

Green account myself, it's an older code, sir, but it checks out.

Traditionally, defending a currency ends up with more defending of the currency. So best of luck to thee messieurs Bessent and Milei.

I haven't dug into this too much but the last time I set up a Windows 11 PC, I created a junk MS account, moved through the setup flow, created a local admin account once Windows 11 was configured and then delinked the aforementioned junk MS account.

What are the downsides to this approach or does it not work as I think? I have noticed things occasionally run slow and then it seems like the fan is blowing constantly when TaskManager says CPU is at like 30% utilization.

Can you share any details or samples of the code/prompts especially with regards to "Gemini with structured JSON output" and "LLMs hallucinate quarters and M&A tags. Solution: deterministic post-processing"?

I recently started using Gemini to perform perform classification tasks and I have been struggling with 2 things:

1) Documentation on the input/prompt schema when you want to require structured output 2) How to enforce outputs like "this key-value output must come from the supplied list of key-values"

It is really fascinating to work with this tool if only because it works well on 90% of tasks and then decides to go full stream of consciousness "hello good day, I know this is a horse race on TV but I cannot find the horse race in the list of car manufacturers you supplied" with a random schema for the output.