Jeff Lyttle

@bort789 @KaiserLoengramm Common German tactic was two waves of fighters. First wave draws of fighter escorts. Second wave pubes on the bombers downing a lot of boomers. You need fighters that were not going after the first round of fighters. The goal of an escorts is to minimize bomber losses

@jlyttle1 @KaiserLoengramm Incorrect. The primary goal of fighters is to shoot down the other fighters attacking your bombers. What do you think they’re supposed to do? Sit there and get hit? Bombers had plenty of machine guns - fighter escorts were there to dogfight.

The Tuskegee Airmen were, objectively, the worst fighter group in the entire US Army. They were flying P-51s, a highly advanced and superior long range fighter escort, they lost many bombers, and their combat records speak for itself. The Tuskegee Airmen were the original DEI.

@vip__dc @wil_da_beast630 @stillnotking75 The article does not state they have emotions. The model can recognize when emotions are used and account for that, but it's just representating emotions as a mathematical concept.

@wil_da_beast630 @stillnotking75 anthropic.com/research/emoti… weirdly, yeah they actually do. As a byproduct of the training it developed emotions which light up when relevant situations emerge

Of course it isn't, and this is important. I've talked to Grok engineers and coders, and what we did with AI was PROGRAM a by-definition-not-sapient data scraper to mimic conscious behavior......despite having no attached "experience having entity" - no body/brain combo that feels love, pain, etc. Midwits are now expressing frank amazement that the ~robot programmed to act conscious acts conscious.

@EyeOnStalk @greg_price11 You just described new jersey. 45% of the state aren't democrats and we don't have a single republican representative.

@greg_price11 It has nothing to do with whether a black person is elected. It’s about ensuring that a state where 45% of the voters are Democrats doesn’t have 100% of the House seats go to Republicans.

The actual argument from Callais' detractors is that black people in America don't truly have equality unless congressional districts can be drawn specifically for the purpose of giving black voters a majority where only a black person can be elected-- something that has neither statutory basis in Section 2 of the VRA, nor is constitutional in any way.

@TheHatedOne01 Also the movie comes out to steaming 3 weeks later. They could help themselves just by delaying movies going to streaming for a year.

Wanna know why no one goes to the Movie theater? 1. Hollywood has no more original ideas. They just remake great movies from the past and royally fuck them up 2. Theaters charge way too much for a ticket 3. The food and drinks at the concession stand is way over priced. 4. It’s way cheaper to stay home and stream a movie. You can pause it, use the restroom, Make your own food and beverages. Theaters are obsolete due to greed and wokeism.

@zapatas_mom I get a lot more for my money living in the suburbs vs the city. I wouldn't be able to afford to own in the city but I can outside of it.

Americans… this is a good faith question. I’m not baiting or trolling. Why are you so scared of condos and walkable cities? Does not having to drive for your groceries freak you out? What about it makes you uncomfortable? Please be honest.

@bankertobuilder Great idea. You can bleed excess heat of too the apartments. There would be no heating bill!

Pleased to announce the world’s first mixed-use data center AI data processing on the first floor, luxury apartments on floors 2-4, and a spacious parking garage for tenants Breaking ground on this just 50 miles outside the city center of Olathe, Kansas A peaceful paradise for commuters!

@BorjomiDrinker @QuasLacrimas And I assure you they're were plenty of men's room that did not have it.

@QuasLacrimas No the changing tables in men's rooms are very much appreciated

Yes. A major feminist issue-area in the 1990s and '00s was that men didn’t have to wait in line to pee due to the much higher space-efficiency of urinals vs stalls. It was an explicit demand that men’s rooms be made smaller. This is also the era that the rarely-used changing tables were added to every men’s room

@BradRTorgersen I love that Hal went homicidal because of bad prompt engineering.

I will say again (as I have in the past) that 2010 is the superior movie, to 2001. Which was very much an art film, and deserves recognition for its groundbreakingly realistic space effects. But the story (as told on screen) is a snoozer. The story of 2010 by contrast is much more engaging, and we have a much more interesting cast. Everyone in 2010 does a great job inhabiting their parts. And the dilemma over HAL is made especially poignant because Dr. Chandra regards HAL and SAL as children. Which they are.

@lowlandsapien There are no clothes where the wound is. In the napoleonic wars they knew they had to get all the clothing out of a wound or it would get infected.

An interesting tidbit with leg spearing: You see in all of the very early records that natives, especially Tasmanians, were known for super fast healing. It is thought by some that the germs for causing infection were introduced and in the contact era they hadn't proliferated yet. “Spear-wounds… were far from being so severe… and in most cases… rapidly healed.” “Marvellous stories are given of the recovery of men left for dead.” “Spear wounds… were not regarded as very dangerous, and generally healed rapidly" “The wounded man will draw the spear from his body, bind the wound with grass or bark, and resume the fight or flight.” - James Bonwick “Their wounds heal with great rapidity, and frequently without any treatment whatever.” “I have known instances where a spear has passed completely through the body, and yet the native has recovered.” - Eyre “They are strong and hardy, and able to endure hardships… beyond what we conceive.” - Dampier “Severe spear wounds appear to heal readily, and men who have been pierced through the limbs or body are frequently seen again perfectly recovered.” - George Grey “I have seen men pierced completely through the body by a spear, who nevertheless recovered.” - Thomas Mitchell

@VisionaryVoid I visited Seattle in the 90s and did a tour of party of the underground. Pretty wild.

The "Inverted" Pyramid of the Seattle Underground: The city that decided to build on top of itself. In 1889, the Great Seattle Fire turned the city's central business district into a graveyard of ash and charcoal. Instead of just clearing the rubble, the city’s engineers made a psychological and logistical decision that sounds like urban fantasy: they decided to rebuild the city one story higher. Because the original town was built on tide flats that constantly flooded with sewage and mud, they constructed massive retaining walls around the old streets and filled them in, effectively burying the first floor of every surviving building. For decades, the "Seattle Underground" became a subterranean ghost town—a maze of original storefronts, sidewalks, and hotel lobbies that were perfectly preserved beneath the new pavement. People would walk on the "new" sidewalks while, just ten feet below them, the old city remained in a state of suspended animation. The twist occurred when the underground was officially condemned in 1907 due to the plague, leaving a hollow, dark mirrored version of the city that became a haven for the counter-culture and the forgotten. It remains a physical manifestation of "Institutional Layering"—proving that when a system fails, we often don't fix it; we just build a new, shinier version directly on top of the rot.

The 4 year old girl probably had a fit about using the men's room. If she is usually with her mother then from her perspective the women's room was the correct one. You don't see it as much now but when my children were young it was very common for there too only be diaper changing tables in the women's room. Then what do you do if you are a man with a baby with a diaper that needs to be changed?

I was in an airport restroom when a man knocked and said, “Dad with a 4 year old coming in!” He sounded mortified. He kept his back to everyone, stared at the ceiling like it personally offended him, and speed-walked his daughter into a stall. A woman whispered, “Unbelievable.” What’s unbelievable is expecting a preschooler to brave the men’s restroom alone in a crowded airport. He did the respectful thing: he warned us, kept it brief, and focused on his child. Sometimes the safest choice isn’t the most traditional one.

@ODaly195689 @JasonBedrick @DailyMail They don't drink anything with caffeine. They will drink decaf. As I recall something like 75% of the decaf coffee in the US is sold in Utah.

Mormon's don't drink coffee? Why not? I am fascinated...how can they live without coffee? Now I am tempted to form a new religion: Cofflism - based on the art and necessity of drinking coffee...gallons of coffee. I will march the minions forth to the four corners of the earth with caravans groaning from the weight of espresso machines and bean grinders and froth makers and...you get the point... And yours? Absolutely brilliant!

Famous Palestinian activist calls for dogs to be banned as 'indoor pets' in NYC because they are UNISLAMIC trib.al/HLE3rbW

@DonShift3 @oskar_zimmerman He paid off the navy he hired to hunt down pirates

@oskar_zimmerman He got it back, but I don’t know what he did with it.

Julius Caesar was kidnapped and taken captive by pirates to be ransomed. He ended up befriending his kidnappers and convinced them he was a lot more valuable than the paltry sum they asked for. He convinced them to increase their demand. When the ransom was paid, ended up going back, hunting them down, and killing them.

@axiochrono You are proposing the Virginia plan. It failed.

@honor_dennis @money_cruncher I use credit cards since you have protection from fraud. With a debit card they can clean your out if they get the right info.

My wife and I do the exact same thing anytime we’re making any large purchase. We use a credit card and then we pay it off the following month because we already had the funds to pay for it but by using the CC we get the points that actually is cash that we put towards our next large purchase. We let the banks pay us!

CALLER: I put $3,000 worth of monthly expenses on my credit card and pay off in full. I get 2% cash back, so that's $60 back every month. DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid of the card. You're telling me that you spend $3,000 on a high interest credit card, just to get $60? That's not how you get rich! CALLER: I don't pay interest, I pay it off every month and get $60. DAVE RAMSEY: Get rid the card, use debit cards ONLY! CALLER: So give up the $60 I get back monthly? DAVE RAMSEY: That's not how you get rich! In reality, if you are resposible, USE credit cards. It's not just cash back. It's also liability protection. Every dollar matters.

@Sotales @vxunderground Hard drive? I had two 5.25 inch floppies and 128 k of RAM

@vxunderground My first PC had a 6GB hard drive.

When Microsoft published Copilot to the Windows desktop at mass-scale I unironically gave it a shot. First, I poked it with a big stick to determine what it does under the hood (I used ILSpy to reverse engineer it). Second, I used it as I would any other LLM. My biggest criticism to Copilot is that it is network based. All messages, responses, data transformation, etc. are stored in the Microsoft cloud. Hence, using Copilot is LAGGY and SLOW. My machine has 32GB of RAM, an NVIDIA 2080, (can't remember the CPU), and a 1TB NVME. My computer isn't super 1337 compared to newer hardware on my the market, but by all reasonable standards my computer is pretty rock solid. Despite these specs, it is deemed insufficient for Copilot, thus everything is handled on Microsoft's side. Unrelated note, when I was a teenager my computer had 2GB of RAM and 128gb SATA and I thought technology had peaked. It was surreal. Anyway Using Copilot is slow. Ridiculously slow. Attempting to scroll up to review previous messages also invokes web requests, thus ... it is slow... Slopya Sloptella, if you want people to use your product you must 1. Make it not slow as fuck. 2. Don't force it on people. 3. I hate you need it now for Visual Studio Intelligence 4. You're now Slopya Sloptella, CEO of Slopsoft

@AgathaChocolats Cat goes up, tree goes down

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity #Christmas #cats

@nostalgiaa I did some small talk programming right around then!

Golden Boy (1995)

@davidsettle @TheIndexInsider And long cold winters

@TheIndexInsider The countries at the bottom of this list are some of the least religious countries in the world combined with very attractive people