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  • Oh for sure, I’m just saying they don’t even need to hit any targets and they’d still be winning long term. They are capable of much more, and Israel can’t fight Iran without US.

    Satanyahu is betting on forcing Trump to agree to war with Iran on his watch. Avoiding that is thankfully one of Trump’s main priorities, hopefully they don’t succeed in changing his calculus on it.

    And they aren’t able to and won’t be able to maintain media blackout much longer, Iran has stated that they will keep going and will go harder, and we’ve already seen some seriously damaged neighborhoods. As long as Iran keeps it reasonable (and what is reasonable has changed tremendously in the last two years of genocide and western media going hard to defend and justify Israeli war crimes), I think Trump can tolerate way more destruction of Tel Aviv than netanyahu thought he would.




  • Different types of AI, different training data, different expectations and outcomes. Generative AI is but one use case.

    It’s already been proven a useful tool in research, when directed and used correctly by an expert. It’s a tool, to give to scientists to assist them, not replace them.

    If you’re goal to use AI to replace people, you’ve got a bad surprise coming.

    If you’re not equipping your people with the skills and tools of AI, your people will become obsolete in short time.

    Learn AI and how to utilize it as a tool, you can train your own model on your own private data and locally interrogate the model to do unique analysis typically not possible in realtime. Learn the goods and bads of technology and let your ethics guide how you use it, but stop dismissing revolutionary technology because the earlier generative models weren’t reinforced enough get fingers right.






  • It’s not really begging for censorship, it’s begging for healthier consumption.

    The issue is entirely one of parenting IMO. I’ve seen what’s on YouTube kids and my kids aren’t allowed to watch anything on YouTube without my supervision.

    Gross sexual stuff, violence, and cruelty is being pushed to your children as fun with flashy colors and silly sounds. Go watch YouTube kids for a while, click on the random kids channels not the corporate ones.

    We’re not talking about sex education and more mature topics, these shoes are promoting sexual violence, violence, bullying, and it’s all being pushed in a fun way.

    It’s a parenting problem, and the parents need to be educated on it. They don’t see the problem, kids have their own phones, and Google doesn’t give a fuck they will push the must engaging most addicting most disturbing content to your kids to keep them watching.



  • It is. It’s just… how do you know you’re actually talking to the fingerprint sensor and not a fake one that’s been plugged in?

    Think of it like a locked mailbox: the fingerprint sensor might securely match the fingerprint and only unlock if it’s correct—but if anyone can swap out the mailbox with their own lookalike, and the OS just blindly accepts the “unlocked” signal, the whole security model breaks. Without an attestation mechanism (like SDCP on Windows or secure enclave-backed verification), the OS can’t prove it’s getting input from trusted hardware. Match-on-chip helps, but it’s not enough unless the result is cryptographically signed by the sensor and validated by the OS through a trusted, authenticated channel.

    That’s the gap in Linux: there’s no widely adopted standard for verifying that trust path end-to-end.



  • Sure. And you’re entitled to yours. But words have meaning and this isn’t MY OPINION, it’s objective reality. It follows strict rules for predictable output, it is not nonsensical.

    You’re entitled to think it’s nonsense, and you’d be wrong. You don’t have to like implicit type coercion, but it’s popular and in many languages for good reason…

    Language Implicit Coercion Example
    JavaScript '5' - 1 → 4
    PHP '5' + 1 → 6
    Perl '5' + 1 → 6
    Bash $(( '5' + 1 )) → 6
    Lua "5" + 1 → 6
    R "5" + 1 → 6
    MATLAB '5' + 1 → 54 (ASCII math)
    SQL (MySQL) '5' + 1 → 6
    Visual Basic '5' + 1 → 6
    TypeScript '5' - 1 → 4
    Tcl "5" + 1 → 6
    Awk '5' + 1 → 6
    PowerShell '5' + 1 → 6
    ColdFusion '5' + 1 → 6
    VBScript '5' + 1 → 6
    ActionScript '5' - 1 → 4
    Objective-J '5' - 1 → 4
    Excel Formula "5" + 1 → 6
    PostScript (5) 1 add → 6

    I think JavaScript is filthy, I’m at home with C#, but I understand and don’t fear ITC.


  • It’s not nonsensical, implicit type coercion is a feature of JavaScript, it’s perfectly logical and predictable.

    JavaScript is a filthy beast, it’s not the right tool for every job, but it’s not nonsensical.

    When you follow a string with a +, it concatenates it with the next value (converted to string if needed). This makes sense, and it’s a very standard convention in most languages.

    Applying arithmetic to a string would be nonsensical, which they don’t do.


  • but it’s also not right to expect scholars to lower their standards, simplify their analytic framework.

    A livestreamed genocide where the perpetrators were unapologetically genocidal since day 0 and with the 100 year history of colonizing Palestine, any “genocide scholar” who was held back by their standards was a glorified record keeper, waiting until it’s widely recognized as a genocide before labeling it as such themselves.

    And you’re white-washing their cowardice as scholarly integrity and standards. Bullshit.