mkwt

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sadly most of the great maritime powers have signed onto the 1856 Declaration of Paris where they agreed to give up privateering as a weapon of war. The United States has not signed on, but has also not issued a letter of marque since that period. During the civil war, the confederates experimented briefly with privateering, but the Union declared that it would not.

In 2025, The Cartel Marque and Reprisal Authorization Act of 2025 was introduced in Congress. This bill would authorize privateering against "cartels" (apparently any cartel, like OPEC or the American Medical Association).

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

The compilation step should only be happening on reboot after updates. Of course, that may be the only time you reboot your device.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is letter edh, or eth. It's a consonant in Old English, Old Norse and modern Icelandic that makes the th sound in "the." There's another letter thorn that makes the th sound in "thin." Notice the difference between the two sounds.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If LLMs train on text output from LLMs, the results will degenerate into total garbage over time. The people that buy reddit data for LLM training know this. They will stop buying if they think there's a lot of LLM text on Reddit.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Non-Euclidean geometry was developed by pure mathematicians who were trying to prove the parallel line postulate as a theorem. They realized that all of the classic geometry theorems are all different if you start changing that postulate.

This led to Riemannian geometry in 1854, which back then was a pure math exercise.

Some 60 years later, in 1915, Albert Einstein published the theory of general relativity, of which the core mathematics is all Riemannian geometry.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

He can't let people poison the training data, or else his site will have no value to its customers.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

They're definitely throwing the whole book at her. But there's also a small nugget of a case here. Having been through customs a few times, I think it's clear that biological materials should be declared. In a normal situation, the infraction would lead to a long wait in the back room, a stern warning, and maybe confiscated embryos. Not felony charges.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I have a relative that was in Nam and wears that hat, but he claims he was POG. I have another relative who lied about his age to get into Nam, who definitely was in the shit, and he doesn't wear the hat.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But the dam companies are incentived to verify the accuracy.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait! What is that wire antenna thingy on that guy's helmet?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that the military understands in general that the bunker busters don't really work all that well.

I think the more relevant factors in this calculation are (1) B2 is a technology from the 1980s, (2) B2 still looks fricken cool, (3) Tomahawk was also a big deal in the 1980s, (4) Israel already did all of the work suppressing air defenses, and finally (5) the big parade the week before kinda sucked.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah. With this option, he still has to endure the death animation, which usually looks pretty painful.

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