And even missiles got better faster than the ability to identify what you were shooting at. The Sidewinder is from 1956!

Rockets and rappelling

Edit: FASTrope and Firesupport

It was pretty new though, it was in use for some 5 years when the Gulf War started.

Jawel, je mag alleen geen nieuwe meer kopen/krijgen.

Damn, that IS a great punk slogan

We rolled out the Patriot when it was still in a prototype, half-baked stage in Iraq, too – just that it was all we had that might be able to intercept a ballistic missile, and we really needed the capability right then – and it didn’t fare well either.

About 9% intercept ratio during Desert Storm, which was 30 years ago, but both the Patriot and the Al Hussain missiles were pretty much brand new. S400 is a decade and a half newer than ATACMS though.

Patriot did (a lot?) better in Iraqi Freedom, but the exact numbers are all over the place.

Just over two weeks. That’s almost 5 times as long as the entire special operation!

When your enemy is Ursakr Creed

LLMs work differently, statistically predicting the next token (roughly equivalent to a word) based on all those that came before it, and parameters finetuned during training.

Which is what a parrot does.

So, if you structure your data in such a way that using AI is completely unneeded, it’s the perfect system to use AI on.

Oh no, quickly, send another to go look for it

You don’t need to draw the fence along a national border, but yeah, I guess the front is a bit flexible.

But, Starlink terminals have GPS in them, surely? Aren’t they geofenced anyway?

An unfortunate reality is that while we CAN store things safely, that doesn’t mean they always will be.

In addition to hazardous materials regulations, I also do workplace safety, and this doesn’t surprise me at aaaaall. People get really casual around stuff that kills you slowly.

In pretty sure that’s just Africa, with some water in between because they never crossed the deep desert and didn’t realize it connects to the southern bit.

I mean, spent fuel is actually quite lethal when not packaged, but you get something like 300-400MWh out of a kilo of fuel. And that’s significantly more than I’ll use in my lifetime.

I’d gladly keep a kilo of dry-casked spent fuel in my house. It’d make an excellent coffee table or something, if a bit hard to move. I would absolutely not put a lifetime supply of benzene anywhere near my house.

Edit: it would make a shitty coffee table. 1 kilo of uranium oxide is just under 100ml

Oh yeah, you could totally just leave it in a giant pool and ignore it. It’ll react, evaporate and eventually break down into cyanide again, rain down, subtly poison the area, react again, evaporate again, etc.

And that’s great for the owner of the big pool of cyanide, and very bad for everyone else. Stuff that evaporates doesn’t disappear, the cyanide doesn’t magically change into cookiedough. You’re just spreading it around more.

If Russia and the west start shooting eachother, one of four things will happen.

1 - Russia grows a brain and backs down when they horribly lose a conventional war. (Unlikely, unless someone takes command authority away)

2 - Russia kept their nuclear arsenal up to date, and a tiny remnant.of humanity gets to enjoy the Stone Age again. It won’t hurt if you live in a city though.

3 - Only a tiny fraction of their nukes launch, and the west responds proportionally. A lot of people die, but at least we’ll fix global warming.

That’s uhh, not what that says. One of the two mentions of half life are your body converting cyanide into thiocyanate, which will kill you and depending on your last bowel movement, make your corpse into hazardous waste itself.

The other mention is hydrogen cyanide in air, which is lighter than air and will decompose back into cyanide eventually, scattering it over a large area. Which will technically make it go away from your site, but spreading toxic waste over the countryside is illegal for a reason.