A certain kind of mind deals with stress by devising solutions, even if one cannot put them into action.Seeing people in Israel, Iran, the general Middle East as well as the Ukraine live in fear of drone strikes might have incentivised this person to come up with a potential way to deal with these threats.Cheap air defense would equilibrate drone warfare again:Currently drones are much cheaper that the systems that take them down.

I would invert that statement.The fact that home made drones can cause such havoc to even the best funded military is an equalizer when the military with all the power is actively trying to completely eliminate the otherside.There are no home made devices a Gazan can build that can protect from a 2000lbs bomb.

> The video ends with shots of Russian drone war, and, bizarrely, photos of David Koresh.You're omitting that the end of the video also features pictures of Martin Luther King, Vietnamese civilians during America's invasion of their country and Afghani Mujahideen freedom fighters during the Soviet Union's invasion of theirs; I think he's trying to make a point about technology enhancing the capabilities of people who are in any conflict with conventionally powerful forces, not an endorsement of

Correct. You’re also assuming I have no friends…

Their account that has been posting for over 15 years and has made numerous comments with real insight into the times under discussion? I know it's necessary to have a healthy bit of skepticism when being on the Internet but I think we could agree this is one of the weirdest, longest, dumbest cons in the history of confidence games if this is not Ray Ozzie.HN has a fairly wide group of "famous" contributors like Woz, etc.

Of course!There was a time we were encouraged to be friendly with Russia, and many Russian devs were on Fidonet. This was actually how some I knew were recruited to work for western companies.

As with so many old things, it's still alive, but it's down to the die-hards. I still miss it, though - I participated in Net 232 (Champaign-Urbana) for a while, then Net 115 in Chicago. We had some great gatherings back in those days, but in the Chicago area, the scene blew away pretty quickly when the internet opened up.

FidoNet was a simply wonderful innovation, and it was a reflection of the creativity of its author - Tom Jennings - and his views of community and identity. https://grokipedia.com/page/tom_jenningsTom was working on FidoNet in 1984, the same time my Iris co-founders and I had begun work on what became Lotus Notes. Architecturally, those of us who were working on collaborative systems in that era were shaped by the decentralized architecture of USEnet - inspired and motivated by the observation

Can you give me an example (real or imagined) where you're dipping into a bit of light formal verification?I don't think the problems I work on require the weight of formal verification, but I'm open to being wrong.

I upvoted, so maybe that restored the balance.

This is where LLM advertising will inevitably end up: completely invisible. It's the ultimate "influencer".Or not even advertising, just conflict of interest. A canary for this would be whether Gemini skews toward building stuff on GCP.

Rubber duck debugging is a null-llm offloading to your gray matter for the other half of interlocution. A fancy way of recruiting your other brain matter into the problem solving process. Perhaps by offloading to a non-null LLM, there is decreased activation/recruitment of brain regions in the problem solving process, leading to network pruning over time. Particularly in the event you take the position that the "tool" isn't something worthy of having it's inner state reacted to and modeled via m

I realize my situation isn’t typical, but I’m retired and have dealt with depression most of my life.The thing I miss most about work (yes, you really can miss work) is collaborative problem-solving. At Microsoft, we called it “teddy bear debugging”—basically, self-explaining a problem out loud to clarify your thinking. [1]These days, when I’m stuck, I open Claude Code and “talk it through.” That back-and-forth helps me reason through technical issues and scratches a bit of that collaborative it

My breakfast recipe this morning, thanks to this article:- 1/4 c. milk- 1/2 c. flour- 4 eggs- 1/3 c. sugar- some salt- cinnamon- cloves- nutmeg- poppyseedsDid the first two cakes without baking powder, turned into something between a crepe and a tortilla. Did the last two cakes with baking powder and they were just a very squishy pancake.