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skillissuer, 5 hours ago

so this also means that if netanyahu loses elections, he can be just sent to hague

skillissuer, 2 hours ago

no, the video with him pointing at dead prisoners and complaining about lack of ammo happened a few months later

skillissuer, 9 hours ago

it must have been delivered before 1978

skillissuer, 7 hours ago

that’s not so certain. it also seems that he was supposed to be next supreme leader of iran, and crosssection of competent, fundamentalist enough to current big boss taste and having enough authority in irgc is almost empty now

and on top of that foreign minister that was also onboard was supposed to be next president. expect some power struggles

skillissuer, 7 hours ago

this is not a job for an useful idiot, this is job for next grand ayatollah and current one is 85 years old

skillissuer, 7 hours ago

at least it was when bits of heli were still on fire

skillissuer, 6 hours ago

well Raisi specifically was a serious candidate. Ahmadinejad fell out of favours with Khamenei as he was deemed too nationalist, and Rouhani apparently was too weak on foreign policy

skillissuer, 6 hours ago

oh absolutely, but things will become much less stable

skillissuer, 6 hours ago

well look it up for yourself, apparently Khamenei jr is most likely pick right now en.wikipedia.org/…/Next_Supreme_Leader_of_Iran_el…

skillissuer, 2 hours ago (edited 28 minutes ago)

They did, 50 years ago (Bell 212)

skillissuer, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

how long? until next sufficiently large solar flare, after climate change strains all infrastructure enough. not like we have that long left

skillissuer, 2 days ago

Has science gone too far?

skillissuer, 3 days ago

bits of ballistic missiles with NK markings and there’s some complaining by russians about low accuracy of NK 152mm propellant charges (variable amount of propellant, sometimes missing decoppering wire, decomposition etc)

skillissuer, 3 days ago

NK manufactures and stores empty artillery shells and fills them as needed, because scaling up manufacture of filling plant is easy but scaling up steelworks is hard. This way shell forged in 70s but filled in 2023 is still pretty useful

skillissuer, 3 days ago

You’d be surprised how much metallurgy advanced. Western shells from 50s and from 90s are completely different beasts, but difference is less in NK ammo, which means lower range and lethality out of comparable calibre. This way NK 180mm shell is less lethal and maybe shorter ranged than western 155mm, it’s closer to modern 105mm

skillissuer, 3 days ago

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68933778

skillissuer, 4 days ago

In a worst case scenario if my local lawyer can use AI to generate a letter and just quickly go through it to make sure it didn’t hallucinate

at which point it’s just easier to do the right thing straight away, that is pay a lawyer to do their job www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65735769

skillissuer, 3 days ago

so your process of getting legal advice is:

1. ask chatgpt, which will output convincing blob of text, with references and sources that might or might be not real, relevant, or make sense, some of which you won’t be able to judge
2. then, ask a real lawyer about this, which means that they have to make sense of the situation on their own but also dig through machine generated drivel, which means that they need more time for that, and this means extra cost/wasted effort

how does that simplify anything

skillissuer, 3 days ago

You understand that getting a list of sources and checking them is easier than finding them on your own, right?

that’s one weirdass assumption. when you know what are you looking for, the opposite is true. few months back i’ve authored a review chapter in my (very narrow) field, and while “getting a list of sources” part took maybe a day or two with a few scopus searches, combing through them, finding out what’s relevant and making a coherent story out of all of this was harder and took more time. if you don’t know where even to start, maybe you should ask a professional? especially when alternative is just going in raw into the court of law, defending whatever is at stake with a few paragraphs of possibly nonsensical spicy autocomplete output

skillissuer, 3 days ago

the perils of hitting /all

skillissuer, 3 days ago

dj khaleb suffering from success dot jpeg

skillissuer, 2 days ago

it’s well outside of his ballpark somehow, it’s like how Linus Pauling started all that megadose vitamin horseshit (starting with vit C), it sorta, kinda made a vibe-based shred of sense when you ignore all actual details, but he was hopelessly lost because he was not a biologist. what he had was nobel prize so he had enough cred for people to fall for it. many such cases!

skillissuer, 3 days ago

MS carbon emissions up 30% due to spicy autocomplete

www.theregister.com/…/microsoft_co2_emissions/

skillissuer, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

ah yes, aduhelm (aducanumab), probably first drug that FDA approved despite zero evidence that it works, but they wanted to push something, anything that maybe perhaps will show some marginal benefit (it was discontinued few months ago, but in time it was for sale they raked in some serious undeserved money). understandably this made a lot of people very angry, especially people that make drugs that work www.science.org/content/…/aducanumab-approval www.science.org/content/…/goodbye-aduhelm

skillissuer, 2 days ago

and can you guess why it was discontinued? it’s because that company has new, equally useless antibody, that also got approval, but has none of that pr stink around so they can repeat entire process again