Gaming my life away
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I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.
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Genuine unironic weeaboos, along with their distant cousin the mall ninja.
Ubiquitous on the internet and in high schools throughout the 2000s, mocked mercilessly over the following decade and now only exist as a bogeyman to be invoked if someone gets too passionate about Japan
Indian slop AI code is a national security risk. Microsoft down from it, and now the Air Traffic Control it's all linked.
A lot of speculation circulating re FAA / ATC grounding
But cautiously skeptical of the cyberattack narrative
a little convenient - suspect rly just poor “AI solution” integration or similar
More broadly, AI likely a poor fit for many of these sorts of tasks, or at least a lot of over-promising happening in sales, selling mediocre products with Accenture’s English 2nd language team implementing —> system failure
Directionally seems that was Microsoft earlier this wk too.
Narratively, malevolence (“shadowy foreign hackers made daring attempt against us”) plays better than “things we are spending a lot of money on aren’t working” / “our team is incompetent”
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My favorite military historian is Hans Delbruck. He wrote a four-volume History of Warfare, which is really good, and I recommend it to everyone. His volume of "The Barbarian Invasions" is still the seminal work on the Germanic tactics and strategies that finally destroyed Rome. Everyone else just talks about how Rome failed. And while Rome DID fail, the barbarians deserve some credit too. Anyway if you only read ONE set of old military history books these are the ones.
During World War I, he got in big trouble with the German government and while he wasn't imprisoned (hey, they weren't Nazis) he did lose his standing. But here are the things he argued for:
1) Germay should only fight on the East Front. They should launch absolutely no attacks in the West - just defend. Once Russia falls (which he knew it would), seek peace. He said this war can't be won by conquest. If Germany hadn't scrapped the Schlieffen Plan, and hadn't attacked at Verdun, they could have sent those resources to the East - how much faster might Russia have fallen? So much quicker I bet we might never have seen the Bolsheviks rise.
2) Germany should not engage in unrestricted submarine warfare. The British weren't that big a threat (before 1918, their tactics were too clumsy to penetrate German lines), and if the Americans joined the war it would be a disaster. So the submarine war wouldn't help that much and could ruin everything. Which it did.
3) He said Germany should be nice to Poland. Offer the Poles autonomy, or even independence. The last time France was nice to Poland was under Napoleon, and they were loyal for like a century afterwards, so if Germany is genuinely nice to them we'll have the Poles as our firm friends forever.
4) In 1916 is when Delbruck got in the most trouble, when he said that Germany could absolutely lose the war if they didn't change their strategy. He went on to say that since Germany was doing pretty good in 1916, they should negotiate a favorable peace NOW and end it. For this he got cancelled.
But you'll notice that every single time Delbruck was right. Compare to our modern "military experts" who are largely buffoons.
But I had neighbors yesterday
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25 years since MGS2 came out. So much happened back then, from having to make changes because of 9/11 to releasing the North American version ahead of Japan for the first time. It was a challenging time. Back then, I even stopped cutting my hair and shaving my beard for good luck. This photo was taken at Yebisu Garden Place, where our office was located, before the game’s release.
