Levels of programmer enlightenment:
- my software is shit
- all software is shit
- everything is shit
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Ivan-Assen Ivanov 
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CTO of Haemimont Games (Jagged Alliance 3, Stranded: Alien Dawn, Surviving Mars, Victor Vran, Tropico 3/4/5, Omerta, The First Templar).
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Реалии современной войны:
-группа противника почти в три десятка, пара БМП
-дистанция до ближайшей цели- 750 метров
-за полчаса дважды пролетел дрон
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I don’t believe this is still somehow a controversial thought in 2023, but yes, the hammer and sickle is an incredibly offensive symbol for many people from Eastern Europe, and yes, Ukraine (and several other countries) was absolutely right to ban it. It’s not about “persecuting
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For the above I just wanted to see what it would make on its own, but you can of course specify things to include.
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Brace for many years of war, pt. 2
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It may also require some form of demilitarized zone between the 2.
I've heard from a reliable Chinese insider source;
That a viable demilitarized zone can be as large as all Ukraine territories East of the Dnieper river
Here's my take:
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Brace for many years of war, pt 1.
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A scene from a kindergarten in Tambov this week on Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day. Kids were divided into teams "infantry," "pilots," "paratroopers," "sailors," & "border guards." At the end, the children throw pretend-grenades at "enemy tanks." t.me/horizontal_rus
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1/16 🧵 Last Day of Peace: the final 24 hours before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
This is a thread with the timeline of main events that occurred in the last 24 hours before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Provided in local time - Eastern European Time (EET).
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On a cold winter morning, a failing dictator holds a giant rally to whip up support. He collected 100,000 reluctant participants by bussing in workers, students, and government apparatchiks.
No, not that dictator, it was Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989, and he had 4 days to live.
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OTD last year, russian embassy in Kyiv started burning their documents. The guy recoding the video said last time he saw that in 2014..
you know, when russia invaded Ukraine and occupied territories first time.
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russians are throwing away Ukrainian books from the Pryazovskyi state university in Mariupol. Some are dumped right from the window. russia is systemically destroying all things Ukraine in the occupied towns. Great russian culture is erazing our identity
Photo: P.Andryushchenko
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My new favorite thing - Bing's new ChatGPT bot argues with a user, gaslights them about the current year being 2022, says their phone might have a virus, and says "You have not been a good user"
Why? Because the person asked where Avatar 2 is showing nearby
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all aboard the super panamax shit hauler
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Unfortunately a simple google search would tell us that JWST actually did not "take the very first picture of a planet outside of our own solar system" and this is literally in the ad for Bard so I wouldn't trust it yet twitter.com/Google/status/…
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Sadly you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
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Happy 5th anniversary to the Wagner Group getting absolutely curb-stomped. A grand tradition, long may it continue:
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Wait what do you mean *weekly*??
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Смотрите сегодня, 4 февраля, на канале ФЕЙГИН-LIVE, в 22.00 по Киеву (в 23.00 по Москве) недельное военное обозрение с Алексеем Арестовичем (Киев). Мы обсудим в прямом эфире 50-ую неделю войны и связанные с ней новости! youtube.com/live/oGYe9-nsu Не пропустите!
I'm not sure people realize how big of a deal this is. High-altitude balloons might not be as sexy as autonomous weapons or hypersonics but I think they have the potential to be just as revolutionary for warfare, if not more so. 🧵 1/10
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U.S. military’s newest weapon against China and Russia: Hot air politi.co/3Rbwiqr via @politico
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As West is fearful of RU nuclear escalation numerous UA cities, towns and settlements are reduced to ground with conventional means in such a way that makes difficult to say whether conventional or unconventional means were used employed. Hesitation is cart blanche to destroy UA.
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In the Moon's great cities there are neon lights and fires, and bright dancing drones painted like rabbits and dragons, and many wonders besides these—medicinal, they fill the sky, so we can't see the Earth at night, and mourn our empty home
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The Creation by Michelangelo
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I curse every pathetic fucker of a manager who was in the chain of responsibility that keeps an OS this broken a full year after release to miss a school recital of their kid because the fucking clock is stuck. Idiots. Stuff your Azure and JS and AI where the sun doesn’t shine.
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Turns out Windows 11 taskbar clock hangs under heavy load and remains stuck until you kill and restart explorer. What the actual flying fuck, Microsoft. Stop spending planetary scale money on LinkedIn, GitHub, Activision, OpenAI and fix bedrock functionality of your main product.
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Can't believe all the pressure being put on Germany to provide tanks to Ukraine, yet New Zealand gets a free pass...
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Ordered my 1st coffee at 10.30am, the 2nd one at 1pm. The Lebanese Lira lost value during that time, resulting in two different charges (the coffee price is pegged to USD) #Lebanon #inflation
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Our rapid realisation that LLMs can probably pass the Turing test despite having no understanding of what that means is a great illustration of the old joke that “AI is anything that doesn’t work yet”
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It's not iwrong, but it throws out a lot of context. Historically, AI was an academic research into inventing "intelligence", whatever that might be. Then in 90s(?) funding dried up UNLESS researchers could explain how their idea could be a model of how human intelligence works.
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This sounds vaguely related to the observation that an excavator isn't built like a humanoid robot with a shovel, only very fast, and a sewing machine sews quite differently from a human.
Also: would this change when we get nearer to the physical limits?
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This is a single tweet summary of an (also short, but good) article I came across recently: The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bitte). Time spent encoding human knowledge is better spent optimizing the computer solution.
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There’s an old engineering joke that a Russian screwdriver is a hammer - ‘just hit it harder’. This is what Moore’s Law does to tech - you start out with specialised hand-tuned optimisations, but over time it becomes more efficient just to hit it with more compute.
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