If the US wants to abdicate their position as a global hegemon of every waterway and trade route this seems like a good way to do it. The US is much less dependent on the Strait of Hormuz than its competitors.

Ten years down the line it may be the case that India will sail up and enforce toll-free waterways instead. That will never happen as long as the US puts up the resources for it. The American taxpayer will be better off if the burden of global free trade is borne more equitably.

Grand Theft Auto Ledger is a marketplace / Economy tracker startup for GTA 6. It will allow players to Buy, Sell, And trade Owned items they have In-Game through our marketplace as well as update our market Intel and Item catalog with their In-Game observations. It's going to be super Bada$$!

Hyphens here are meant to be formatting. You would be correct if this was a literary piece, but handbooks and sheets don't need to use these rules.

This is fundamentally a failure of political leadership. You don't try to achieve a goal when you don't have the military means to achieve at a cost you are willing to bear.

There are endless numbers of military objectives that the US military that could have been sent on where they would have had no chance to succeed. That they generally weren't is a function other administrations, however bad, not being so embarrassingly incompetent as this.

Pretty well, between all the hallucinogens

Because it's not true. CENTCOM can reopen the strait whenever they want, but doing it is slow and expensive, so there is insufficient political will to do it. It's still a strategic defeat, but for different reasons than what you are saying.

Recommend studying the public comments of General MacKenzie who was the previous CENTCOM commander, comments from Admiral Cooper before he was appointed to current CENTCOM commander, or previous Joint Chiefs of Staff.

They've all given public interviews about Hormuz during the current war or before it over the last decade saying the same thing about what's required and whether it can be done.

Which implies that you cannot reasonably serve the "disfavored" cohort (self-funded startup or small business). In other words, you have admitted that I was correct in that the business model is deliberately aimed at businesses that likely can absorb surprise expenses, and it's not appropriate for others.

Unexpected Star Wars! A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one :)

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Specifically, not overestimating their own abilities and thus biting off more than they can chew. “Stepping on their own dicks” is a superset that includes all sorts of buffoonery like constantly making empty threats and backing off, but the basic assumption that the US Military is flawless and omnipotent and we can act accordingly seems to be our most fundamental error.

Reinforcement learning can solve a Rubik’s Cube. A LLM that hasn’t been trained to solve a Rubik’s Cube can not.

One great application of AI design is patent poisoning. Use AI to churn out masses of variant designs, make them publicly visible on a web site, and if future patents come out use any collisions to invalidate them or at least restrict their scope (generalization of a patent is limited by prior art.)

Who still purchases a warranty a la carte?

Hasn't it been clearly established for at least a couple decades now that all of these are de facto scams?

We're learning that people are way too lax with where they apply the term "intelligent". LLMs aren't remotely intelligent, but people are trying to ride the hype train and call them intelligence.

you know that's not what I meant. also, avgas.

Of course market participants agree?

Exchanges have calculation rules for every type of mark and payment and will always specify rounding.

I'll never understand people who think endemic disease is a win or not a problem.

Yeah, the internet was originally an extension of the real world, and it probably should have stayed that way.

Ha yeah I totally agree, that's actually one of the future posts I have in draft : the other downfall of GenAI in cyber. You can't outsource learning, and a lot of learning opportunities in the Cybersecurity industry are getting totally ruined by llms (ctf, low hanging fruit bug bounties, foss software getting burnout by AI slop and closing the gate to potential newbie willing to get involved, etc.)

So many SCADA terminals and HMIs just hangin out on the internet.

> Controlling and securing shipping routes has been a fundamental function of a navy

this function is outdated since u-boat appearance, and now cruise missiles and drones. More important modern function of navy is projecting power.

I built VideoGenr, a SaaS tool for AI-assisted short-form video creation.

It is aimed at creators, marketers and small businesses that want to create short video content faster with a structured web-based workflow.

I’d appreciate feedback on the product idea, landing page, positioning and potential use cases.

I expect this will be a far more consequential loss than Vietnam for the US in the long run. This has been a spectacular defeat and likely means the US will be forced to exit from the region because everybody can see now that American bases cannot be defended and they put countries hosting them at risk. This is a major geopolitical upheaval.

It's a good indicator but absolutely no guarantee. I've had to tell project managers this because they didn't understand this concept.

I’ve been experimenting with a pet project that aims to solve this problem. “AI detectors” are certainly unreliable, I’m not sure they’ll ever get to a state where you can trust them.

I think concepts like this are the only reliable way to prove something was written by a human. A full replay like this is one way to do it. I think there are some other feasible ways to achieve this, maybe in combination with a full “replay”, but some sort of “proof of work” is the way to go I believe. As LLMs become more ubiquitous, I imagine products that solve the problem can be a real business opportunity.

It might be correct, but it's harmful to the discussion because it makes people defensive. People sometimes confuse "true" with "productive." Something can be true, but also needless or expressed in a manner that isn't helpful.

This is something I had to learn the hard way: there's a difference between being honest and being abrasive, and the latter is harmful to you and to everybody else, regardless of how correct you are.

I think the main issue is devices treating SDR as inherently dim, and then upgrading HDR to extremely bright. I want my SDR white as bright as the brightest HDR white -- or at the very least configurable to that. Then HDR wouldn't be such a flashbang. And I wouldn't be leaving most of my display's capability on the table in daily use -- it's super annoying that my display is capable of more than doubling its brightness, but just doesn't, whenever I don't happen to be watching an HDR movie. To me, brighter is better as long as it preserves color accuracy. There are third-party apps to increase the display's brightness, but it causes weird issues on my MacBook's MiniLED display by making the cursor a noticeable drop in backlight intensity. Hopefully, the OLED MacBooks fix this, one of these years -- I always hated how obvious MiniLED's backlight zones are

Not new. These drones were in production in Iran since 2016 after the capture of the downed Reaper Drone in 2011.

What is new is Irans willingness to use them. Which skyrocketed after a few missiles assassinated their supreme leader.

We're getting into tinfoil hat territory here.