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A “fun” thing to exercise is what would we do if a U.S. territory like Guam were to be hit? Sure, it's not part of the 50 states, but we went to war with Japan over their attack on a territory with an important Navy base called Pearl Harbor, after all.
Well why don't you just say what you really mean, and leave the dog-whistling to the racists and fascists?
Yeah, Chelsea Manning deserves some thought here re: being used, but not Snowden.
Am I the only one seeing coffee prices go weird? This is in northern Virginia in the DC area for Folgers.
He wasn't even the best Virginian general who fought a civil war in the 1860s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...
“Was Lee or Grant a better general?” Well…
at last we have an answer as to the question of whether a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich
Yes, especially because it's hard to honestly claim Trump is a black swan when he got elected twice (and came damn near to winning the 2020 election despite everything!)
I don't think we should hand it to him. There's a reason the EV I've owned for 5 years isn't a Tesla. But you do need to pay attention to the kind of person who cook up Mecha-Hitler from scratch in 24 months, or destroy in months state capacity that took decades to build.
And even more recently! With xAI / Grok it felt like he got into the AI game late just to prove a point to the other SV billionaires. He founded that *2* years ago and they've already shipped competitive AIs. Whatever your opinion on AI, you can't just snap fingers and do that.
Potentially, but I was having a discussion with a specific person who I know understands this. When I talk to other people, I speak to them in terms they understand as well. This used to be considered common courtesy.
Long before this was part of the culture war there was a concerted push to write legislation, regulation and policy in "plain English" as much as possible, because a democracy is made stronger when people are not artificially excluded from the discussion through choice of language.
Sometimes we talk about things that are not common as if they are already common (e.g. the famous XKCD xkcd.com/2501/). That's an impedance mismatch at best, and at worst can actively drive people away by signifying that they're not already part of the club.
I think the thing is that common concepts have common terms, often short and well-known. Why invent a new word when a good term exists? Sometimes you do need a new term, but by definition the thing you'd describe isn't 'common'. E.g. I like this depiction of a Ph.D. matt.might.net/articles/phd...
OK, so factor out the conservatives from the discussion since their behavior won't change. For the people we're left talking to, you still want to use plain English instead of the latest output from the social media rhetorical device factory.
No one's asking for people to sound "believably dumb" either, and if that's what you heard then that's just yet another indication of the cloud that these terms have added to our thinking. Do you really think that people who say "hungry" instead of "food insecure" are dumb?
As put so eloquently in Contrapoints, they don't want to acquire power, they want to *critique* power.
If you don't believe words can make people think then I implore to read through some of President Lincoln's old political speeches so that you can learn about the power of oratory and rhetoric, used well.
I scrolled right past this until I realized who was on the right.
It may not be how Dems speak, but those who do speak like this vote for Dems and staff for Dems, and that reflects on votes later. Is this all the #1 problem right now? No, but stuff like this comes up when I talk to my family who voted R, even if they only knew of few times this language was used.
But we have laws on the books already to use "plain English" in dealing with citizens, for things precisely like this. I'm glad you seem to agree that those using academic speech as a cudgel are in the wrong though, but that memo hasn't fully gotten out to our allies.
I guess my argument is that you have to reach the mass of voters by including them and not othering them, and that includes code-switching and letting them use words that you and I both know damn well what they mean. I'm not asking you to police anyone's speech.
This thread is filled with people going "well what other words could we even use then???". I'm sure Democratic leaders aren't foot-stomping these terms, but they have long since leaked out into the public discussion, and voters do pick up on it. And to use one of those terms, they are "othering".
I ended up getting the BM side of potty training done for my youngest as well. Though my solution ended up being way less original than messing with the lights.
I think we should include the military term "self-licking ice cream cone" in high school English classes because it so perfectly encapsulates B.S. like this. "What is liberalism? Oh that's easy, it's the thing that came from the genesis of liberalism!"
Cleaned out some bedroom air filters. Yuck. I forget to do it so there's so much clumped up, but that just reinforces why I'm glad it's caught in the filter and not my lungs.
I'll have you know that a Subway at NAVPWRTRAU CHARLESTON got me through 6 months of shift work as a student nuclear propulsion plant supervisor. It was the only restaurant on site so they even had an expanded menu including pizzas and breakfast and stuff.
Oddly enough (given the publisher of the linked article), this is an example of the private sector adopting what that socialist paradise, the U.S. military, already does. Paid training often carries obligated service requirements, whether for occupational or personal development.
Honestly it might be broadband Internet, lol. Cities make it harder to use cars, not easier.
OK so that's 5 people who won't be impressed, but for everyone else who don't know shit about poetry it's very much a good showing (side note: love the PFP).
Honestly even the backdoored one would still give better random numbers than you or me because it still has to at least look random. You'd never come up with better random numbers off the top of your head even compared to the backdoored Dual EC DRBG.
"Active duty" is definitely frequently confused with active/regular but it's not the same as "active component". It's actually funny because I feel like Navy has mostly squashed "Regular Navy" from the vocab in favor of active component, so that Navy RC aren't labeled as being 'not regular'.
To be pedantic, "active component" is specifically not "active duty"; it is the term used by Congressional committees & others to refer to 'regular' branches (and the term 'regular' is *not* used, as I understand it to avoid the implication that the Reserve / NG is "not regular").
Intent is not the same as outcome and it's a hard lesson to find out. You can pour tons of time, effort and love into a fresh-cooked meal and have it still taste bad. Recognize the effort, but don't force people to eat something that came out bitter.
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Great way to see the difference is with an electric car where you actually do have to pay the energy bill no matter what. Your mileage drops like crazy in the winter but will hold out surprisingly well in the summer compared to no heat/AC in spring/fall.
I would even push back against calling it 'inefficient'. In any system where we want it to supply services on demand, it is a mathematical certainty that you will need to have more capacity than the steady-state demand to make that even possible. More variability needs more excess capacity.
Real nostalgia heads know that the maroon red Plymouth Acclaim is where it's at. Preferably with half the grille gone from that time dad ran into a deer at night.
However true that may be, if your self-worth depends on there being no one having it better than you, you are in for an unbearably bad time in rest of your life.
Yeah, the company that got axed was on a "by end of FY26" timeframe because that's when the data center was set to be closed down forever. No clue what's going to happen now, there's no quick way to rewrite for a whole new selection board support system with a new contractor.
Which was how he was finally caught. He broke into a server closet, got himself on camera, ended up being physically caught when he came back to collect his hardware implant. Until then no one knew it was Aaron Swartz rather than something for more sinister.
30 years was like the upper end of possible sentences, it was never going to be that long. They in fact offered a plea deal, IIRC with no jail time at all, but Swartz refused as he'd still have been a felon. Nor was it *just* downloading things, he broke into Harvard's network multiple times.
It is only true that labor costs will go up if labor can/will choose to go to higher-paying jobs in response. It may end up that consumers end up paying all these costs instead, which means savings go down or we stop buying "wants" due to higher cost of "needs".
"At this point, women have been cleared out of all of the military’s top jobs" By a former long-time Naval War College professor
The question we need to ask is not whether this was actually good cybersecurity. The question we need to ask is whether this resulted in an Authority to Operate under DOD instruction and NIST policy. We Followed the Process™ so whatever comes out of it must be good... right?
It's really fun when we go on about how it's today's poor education system, when the voters raised under the supposedly superior Great Society-era education system voted even harder for the conservative position. Maybe there's more to politics than high school after all?
This is sort of ironic to me because you can't do the stats if you don't get the data, and explore/exploit is a particularly good way to get the data! And even when you can't just try things out first, the data guys have tools for that too, which let you start from calibrated gut instinct!
It could be fun in a way. I remember many an hour spent in this Star Trek ship simulator called Begin2. It was the very fancy version with high-res VGA tactical layer on top of all the text.
Wow, Ken just went up in my estimation.
I have both an EV and a ICE vehicle and wouldn't you know it, the ICE is the one that has to make trips to the auto shop, while the EV just goes from point A to point B. Speaking of which I probably *should* replace the wipers, it's been awhile since I had to worry about the EV for anything...
This is also a recurring antipattern in government now. They try to avoid competing solutions and pick winners upfront instead. And I'm not saying this because I'm a Reaganite, but because I think it hampers public service delivery and makes what we do deliver incredibly more expensive.
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
Text 11 is just the age old "Message to Garcia" seen in military leadership training, in a different form. E.g. a Navy submarine officer wrote on it more than a decade ago in jorules.wordpress.com/2013/06/15/b...
As Peruvian fascist president General Óscar Benavides said in the 1930s: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, THE LAW.” Trump’s “friendship” has a price — and it’s payable in crypto.
It's even nice on the other end! If you've had more than 10 comments you've probably already been added to a blocklist. And that's great, imagine all the future arguments with people you'll never have because they blocked you!
Lots of parallels to the Comp. Sci. question of whether P = NP. If P ≠ NP (as most believe), then there are problems we can verify solutions to in "reasonable" time, but which we cannot solve in "reasonable" time. "This is true, and we know it's true, but I can't quickly tell you how to derive it"
Steam is not your friend, especially if there's any question as to the maintenance done on the boiler and steam piping: www.nationalboard.org/index.aspx?p...
The answer ended up being time.sleep(30) btw. At least one-half minute between every call to the LLM.
Taking a GenAI training course on Amazon, and I have to say like I'm getting the accurate experience: the sample code in their Jupyter notebook keeps crashing from throttling exceptions. Now I'm adding time.sleep() calls of increasing length like if I was writing my first threaded C program 😆
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
Time to do more to promote Amazon Q’s CLI tool than AWS Marketing has all year: Add this cursed function to your shell profile: fukken() { qchat chat "$*"; } Then skip the dumb keywords and just ask the damn question: fukken tell me how many S3 buckets I have Yes, it works. Yes, it’s glorious.
Person Inventing SysML: “What if I could discover a formal language for brain damage?”
Even with the bugs, that era of Mac had immaculate vibes. It sang out you when it turned on, it was happy and cheery (and unafraid to be those things instead of staid business). You'd get to school excited to use the computer lab even though your dad had a 486SX with Win3.1, cuz KidPix > Solitaire.
I don't know, I had my wisdom teeth pulled by the Navy and the one that sprouted too late from them to catch in boot camp was done by a civilian dentist out in town, and that was a *significant* upgrade in quality of care. I'm overall grateful for Navy med but it's not always an upgrade.
There's a big difference between intent & action. There's an even bigger difference between action & results. We used to teach this in the military, that just making a lot of effort wasn't the same as accomplishing a mission.
oh no
I'd honestly respect Xorg error log output on Arch more if every stack trace ended with a "thank you for your attention to this matter"
“On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
does this make 'gamers' the identity slur?
I remember it vividly myself, and although Bush was pushing for it there's a lot of ignorance of how much of the public was pushing for it too, independently of Bush.
It's fun for everyone! The one time in my OCS class I was glad the class got dropped for pushups was when we were passing an ODS class that could barely form up in one spot. Our drill instructor did it to stunt on them 😆, and we accordingly put on a really good show.
Every service has a DCO-style "fork & knife" school. You need it if only to teach rank and customs/courtesies, how to handle being in uniform among the troops, etc. Crazy that they aren't even doing this minimum level of integration.
A crew of masked federal agents arrested NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander at the courthouse downtown after he asked them to produce a warrant. www.amny.com/news/brad-la...
Whaaaaaat the fuck
One of the cases we reviewed in a Naval war college class I took was about a group of scrappy rebels, supported by liberals around the world fighting for decades against a government oppressive to their ethnic group. The government finally ignored international criticism and pressed hard... & won.
Few institutions in the Navy have received more scrutiny than the pay enterprise—and for good reason. usni.org/magazines/p...
Yeah, this is competence on the part of the DCoS, and common advice to staffers writing for execs, e.g. knightcenter.jrn.msu.edu/lessons/writ...
The parade could be better, my Navy OCS rifle drill had more military sharpness. But it took weeks to get to that, and it makes sense for the Army to have instead spent those weeks of training on things that make them effective on their actual mission set defending America.
Maybe unconventional warfare?
The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT
The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.
The strategy is to do your Constitutionally-approved job and make them stop you. Make them show the world that they violate the Constitution. Make them show where they draw the lines and how they want to exercise power.
Defense Department Conducting Review of AUKUS Security Pact - USNI News news.usni.org/2025/06/11/d...
Lol. Lmao, even.
Reminds me of submarines, where flooding is a deadly emergency requiring immediate action. Now, sometimes little drops of seawater would make it in past the valve stem packing... but you'd NEVER EVER call that flooding because it's not the same thing!
I think it allows people to forgive themselves of doing nothing. When victory is possible, the obvious conclusion is that you have to act to help bring that about, but action opens the door to failure. Better to blame the world for being evil than yourself for not meeting the moment.
I kept the SuSE 7.2 I had bought at a Navy Exchange in like 1999 for years, but I think I did eventually throw it out.
Happy D-Day to all of those that celebrate!
I think it's this one: itch.io/b/2613/bundl...
Usually with probability and modeling. Probably some Bayes as well. A politician doing unpopular stuff is a data point you can stack along with the other data points you have. How much you use that data point to adjust your prediction is a judgment call, yes, but so is ignoring the data.
I don't know, it would fill me with a sense of old-timey wonder to go with the dread.
So I have this weird Linux kernel memory leak driving me crazy. Recompile the kernel. Recompile the Mesa graphic drivers just in case. Nothing. Eventually find the "page_owner" mega debugging stuff. Turn it on to finally catch the culprit in the source code. The memory leak goes away. :(
Honestly I'm happy for the Navy to stay far away from this goatrope, thank you very much.
The minikube distribution of Kubernetes was breaking in weird ways for me as I was trying it out. I don't know what specifically I did that fixed it, but I do know it involved enabling a whole lot more nftables features in my kernel config than what I'd previously been using.
Been sick with a gastro bug for nearly 24 hours now. Everytime I'd think I'd gotten over it I'd end up needing to lay down again. But someone emailed me a patch to a software I wrote and said how it had solved a problem they were having and all of a sudden I feel good enough to hit email... :)
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