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New comment by dudinax in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

dudinax — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:13:09 +0000

War games aren't useful for guessing the real course of the war. 'Iraq' was able to prevent a US invasion in pre 2003 wargames.

New comment by dudinax in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

dudinax — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:39:17 +0000

I once ran multiple bots on Ancient Anguish that would do simple quests for cash and follow other player to steal their gear if they dropped anything. The bots would then find my main and hand everything over.

The mods teleported my chars into a dungeon and virtually tortured them while trying to get me to admit one person was behind the lot.

New comment by dudinax in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

dudinax — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:56:04 +0000

With the understanding that generated code for X may never be mergable given the limited resources.

New comment by dudinax in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

dudinax — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:13:02 +0000

Global warming was understood for almost a century by 1980

New comment by dudinax in "God created the real numbers"

dudinax — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:38:43 +0000

We do not know whether work time and space are continuous

New comment by dudinax in "Revisiting Moneyball"

dudinax — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:25:24 +0000

There's a pitch clock now? So much for the Jamie Moyer rule that "the game doesn't start til I start it."

New comment by dudinax in "I deleted my second brain"

dudinax — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 07:09:20 +0000

personal notes become cryptic team notes when you leave. If something ought to be team knowledge before that, it needs to get translated into a form that more people can easily read.

New comment by dudinax in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

dudinax — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:35:11 +0000

Because he's not either of those things. He's a self serving tyrant. He has no philosophy of governing the state because he doesn't care about governing the state.

New comment by dudinax in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

dudinax — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:28:57 +0000

Has there ever been an empire that committed suicide at the height of power?

New comment by dudinax in "Planetfall"

dudinax — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:22:34 +0000

I don't think he designed alpha centauri.

New comment by dudinax in "The Cannae Problem"

dudinax — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:28:10 +0000

A democracy has to protect itself from coup attempts

New comment by dudinax in "The Cannae Problem"

dudinax — Fri, 02 May 2025 22:25:19 +0000

They had bombs in Hezbollah pagers. At this point I'd need to be convinced mossad didn't know about thousands of hamas soldiers massed for an attack.

New comment by dudinax in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

dudinax — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:19:02 +0000

Trump had much superior social media targeting.

Muslims in Michegan were convinced Harris is a genocidal maniac, while most everybody else heard she was in bed with hamas.

Liberal suburban housewives heard she was a merciless prosecutor while others learned she was soft on crime.

New comment by dudinax in "Migrating away from Rust"

dudinax — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:20:30 +0000

"Hard" maybe the wrong word.

Tasks that are simple in most other languages, like a tree that can store many data types, are going to take a lot more code and a lot more thinking to get it to work in rust.

Generics and traits have some rough edges. If I rub up against them, they're really annoying. Otherwise, if I can avoid those then I agree with you that rust is smooth, and the trade off is worth it.

New comment by dudinax in "Migrating away from Rust"

dudinax — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:40:22 +0000

My feeling is that rust makes easy things hard and hard things work.

New comment by dudinax in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

dudinax — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:49:16 +0000

Every llm output is a hallucination. Sometimes it happens to match reality.

New comment by dudinax in "Obituary for Cyc"

dudinax — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 05:42:38 +0000

What did you mean when you said "Have you ever not hated LLMs"?

New comment by dudinax in "A university president makes a case against cowardice"

dudinax — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 04:13:47 +0000

And yet the US has some of the best universities in the world academically.

New comment by dudinax in "Why is the world losing color?"

dudinax — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:27:54 +0000

It's the Seattlefication of the world.

New comment by dudinax in "Electron band structure in germanium, my ass (2001)"

dudinax — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 22:43:59 +0000

The kind of prof who never coded a useful program in his life.