I don't think that's historically correct. Maybe they were stopped after taking the natural gas and oil fields they were interested in. The initial goals succeeded.

I'm not saying Russia fared well since, but the initial progression was a blitzkrieg of specific POIs, which meandered and stalled at secondary and tertiary goals (like Odesa) due to resistance.

Russia doesn't have the manpower or technical capability to repeat the same maneuver for lesser goals, alone.

This article reads like clickbait. It ignores the context of the conflict in service of doomerism. It's vapid.

The conflict was about resources. Russia got what it wanted and stopped. People may think the war is about more than that, but it wasn't and isn't from Russia's perspective.

The incident described, was a guerrilla attack. A conventional attack that would provoke a nuclear response, from any nuclear country, would entail taking land from Russia (or a risk of national ground being gained) by a foreign force, capable of colonizing. That's what conventional means, not some checklist like "it must include tanks". Military losses are military losses during a war. Where they occur is incidental.

There's a question of what you mean. Is it, can they be corrupt? have they been corrupt? are they currently corrupt (because of the previous, or incidentally)?

Plato thought Democracy was corrupt and it's the least inherently corrupt system I know of. I would say they are fundamentally corrupt. The best you can do is try to limit it with a document (like the US Constitution) and setting up a multi-branch power structure capable of adversarial action. As you point out, the US does not have that and it's showing.

A reductive assessment (to a specific feature) of a novel idea, does not make it less interesting.

> It's because they do things that is why they score differently.

That was my point. Regardless of how you feel about UX, it's a value added set of features. The question initially posited, stands. Why would a company do any of these things?

> Coding hardness add features for user experience not for agent efficiency.

Pretending it was always about some metric you just decided was important is moving the goalpost. It's not compelling.

I think it makes more sense that it's Freemium Dominance or they act as Low-Cost Marketing tools.

https://www.endorlabs.com/research/ai-code-security-benchmar...

There's a lot of ways to configure agents and any implicit configuration to harnesses may have a non-trivial effect.

That is a specific US-internal stance.

There's a list of organizations that started in the US, ultimately having had to work around the US legal system, in pursuit of their missions:

re Planned Parenthood Global, WikiLeaks, International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Center for Reproductive Rights, selected programs of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, et al

It's already illegal to use in NK, but if it's the US, well it's time to steer the mission around it? Gross.

In Codex, GPT‑5.5 is available for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Go plans with a 400K context window.

> If this sounds unreasonable to you, that is because it is.

Those listed, are tame. I don't understand this kind of faux modesty.

> My goal was to build a complete, shippable first-person shooter using techniques that were common in the early 90s

Goes on to explain how they used 3D blender...which wasn't available until 1998.

A vanity cat project being tailored and submitted for nostalgia clickbait. I don't think there's anything useful to take away from this other than some color shade selection ideas.

How's that?

> The copyright holder's need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

Come at me Big Mouse.

Not to be crude, but this should be obvious. Similar to many poor areas anywhere in the world, but what else do you do all day hiding indoors (due to violence, poverty, et al) for entertainment, with very limited income? Physical intimacy is fun.

It's also partly because the society is agrarian by population, culture, and education. This is born out by behavioral signals "Despite high awareness (over 99%), access and choice remain challenges, with only 56.5% of married women using modern contraception according to NFHS-5 (2019-21)" - Children are a support system and a labor font. Growing wealth by growing a family is a historically successful pattern (albeit not a guarantee).

> Its never made sense to me why the birthrate was so high in countries with these hostile conditions, meanwhile the population in the United States with excellent conditions is declining.

What do humans do all day with all the creature comforts and an expectation they will always have them to some degree? They have less children in trade for better income, investment, and comfort. Industrial nations have been tracking this for decades.

https://www.thelifedoctor.org/the-narcissist-s-prayer

> 2. is nothing about "following established traditions"

> undermine the traditional system of attribution

Literally does.

Suffice to say, I find your interpretations to be surprising and disconnected and it has not changed my views.