MollieTheMare
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MollieTheMare
17d ago
... or even the opinions from those outside of Pennsylvania.
Time for the Pennsilfaanisch Deitsch subforum. It's the only way to be sure. I assume, of course, that a LLM will slip into Hochdeutsch if you let them go on long enough, since that probably dominates the training sample.
MollieTheMare
18d ago
The vessel, which has been previously been registered to (let's say for the sake of argument) more reputable owners, is listed as a crude oil tanker. Normally they do not also carry refined liquids, as gasoline is much more volatile and requires different handling.
It was not necessarily running between Iran and Venezuela with oil. The AIS shows them running oil all over the place, but they have also been accused of AIS spoofing, including location/destination data.
MollieTheMare
18d ago
FYI, I think you can mark comments you've made as 18+, it's under the ellipsis in the default view. IDK, if anyone cares, it matters, or does anything.
I also don't think acting like:
you'd have to interrupt a whole bunch of circuits with a single switch.
is difficult, is a sign of expertise in electro-mechanical control. Like you can trivially find off the shelf products to do that, it's not even that complicated of a circuit, it's practically what transistors were invented to do.
There is a reason laptop webcams now often have physical lens covers. From that paper:
A simple solution to the problem is to provide a physical switch...
All of this to say it's not that outlandish that there is a zero day that allows the NSA to listen to your phone without activating the icon. I assume the reputational risk to Facebook is not worth it though, since they probably have other ways of figuring out what ads to deliver.
MollieTheMare
18d ago
More or less, just "time tested."
Probably the Taleb sense, though the term is much older. The slightly self-aggrandizing version from Taleb:
I [Taleb] suggested the boundary perishable/nonperishable and he [Mandelbrot] agreed that the nonperishable would be power-law distributed while the perishable (the initial Lindy story) worked as a mere metaphor."
MollieTheMare
19d ago
if you do I'll seize your vessel in your waters?
Guyana's maritime authority said Skipper was falsely flying the country's flag.
If a vessel is flying a false flag outside of the 3 nautical mile territorial waters, in what sense is it "your vessel" or "your waters"? A private vessel enjoys the protection of the sovereign under which they lawfully are flagged, not ultimate ownership. You can check the AIS records yourself, they were broadcasting under the Guyana flag, but Guyana says they are not registered there.
The US and Venezuela are not signatories to UNCLOS, but by normative convention they were almost certainly not in territorial waters. They might have been in the contiguous zone, but more likely "off the coast" means they were in the exclusive economic zone, which only provides exclusive rights over economic activities like fishing. Other navies could very well conduct anti-smuggling operations against un-flagged or false-flagged vessels in those zones.
I'm actually much more okay with this than drone-killing random small boats, without offering them the chance to surrender. Large vessels abusing AIS reduces safety at sea and freedom of navigation for everyone.
MollieTheMare
19d ago
That's decently cool. If you don't want to turn up the thermostat (understandable in a drafty expensive to heat house), just go for the heated blanket.
It takes a very small amount of direct active heating to make huge difference. It shouldn't get in the way if your legs are the main problem, even if at a desk/computer. In some limited applications a heated chair pad or parabolic radiant heat dish might be better, i.e. your desk chair is getting tangled in blankets or you work standing at your desk.
MollieTheMare
21d ago
Re: Worf Dax scene
He's probably thinking of the cold open to "Sons and Daughters", though the scene sounds more like the one at the end of "Looking for Par'Mach In All The Wrong Places". Idk, there's several Dax Worf scenes, including one with Ezri in "Penumbra".
Rereading the post, I think it's implied that it's not in "In the Pale Moonlight" which of course cold opens with:
Sisko: Captain's personal log...
Which bookends the ending you allude to:
Sisko: ...Computer, erase that entire personal log.
MollieTheMare
21d ago
That opinion is a classic. I particularly like the concluding remark:
The year was 2001, and “everybody was finally equal.” (K. Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron.)
It's quite ironic that Vonnegut intended "Harrison Bergeron" to be satirical; that people worried about a slippery slope of accommodations were being absurd, since that would require all sorts of silly and draconian measures. Well, we still have a few years before 2081 to see.
MollieTheMare
24d ago
I also highly recommend using a password manager. It's ultimately way easier than bits of paper.
KeePassXC is free and pretty good but you have to manage sync yourself. 1Password, Bitwarden, and LastPass all decent but you are dependent on their cloud (though if they haven't messed up too bad your passwords should still be secure even if their db gets breached). Haven't tried any others, but it's all pretty commoditized these days.
MollieTheMare
25d ago
I have not encountered this in the wild before, but it seems plausible as a sort of dyslexia for math.
The bad news is you probably are just slightly wired "wrong." The good news is depending on your age and profession you can probably get by just fine with some combination of compensation and correction. Sort of like how you can have the yips and be unable to throw to first and still be a starting pitcher in the MLB. And with the right training Lester even somehow got over his yips. It seems like you sort of have math yips and write the wrong thing down.
I'm not sure this has been studied thoroughly at all so take this all with a hefty grain of salt, but I do have a couple of suggestions.
The first, is based on the anecdote "It’s as Simple as One, Two, Three…" in the Feynman book What Do You Care What Other People Think? The brief summary is you can count and do another thing at the same time by using "different ways of thinking." For example counting visually so you can use your vocalization to simultaneously talk to someone, or counting using sub-vocalization and visualizing numbers or objects to calculate something else. If you are having problems with accuracy using sub-vocalization test trying to do problems focusing on only using:
- sub-vocalization
- visualizing the mathematical operations
- visualizing the corresponding physical system¹
If one of those has appreciably better accuracy start from there, and slowly add back in the other methods.
Which leads to the second piece of advice, slow down. If there's no time pressure it's fine to spend the time to do all three until your mental models reach consensus. As they say, perfect practice makes perfect. It sounds like you are not in school anymore. Either way, slow down to a pace where you can work with 100% accuracy when practicing. Progressively push this pace, but speed should come naturally with familiarity. In a school situation it's a problem of trading off accuracy and speed on an exam to maximize expected score. Fortunately, this isn't really a common thing that comes up IRL. For computer programing for example, working at 1/2 the rate in lines of code per minute but introducing no bugs is 1000x better than working twice as fast but introducing inscrutable bugs.
¹ Assuming undergraduate level applied math where there is usually a physical analog. RIP if you you're tying to do n-dimensional analytic geometry or some shit.
MollieTheMare
25d ago
if you must take physics, take physics for physics majors where the problems will all have round numbers
It's all fun and games until you get to the physics for physicists and the are no numbers. At some point it's more abstract math than anything else, and as they say in the biz: Math ain't about numbers.
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I also wouldn't say it's egregious if someone who eats oysters calls themselves mostly vegan or even vegan for simplicity.
As mollusks are invertebrates it's not even clear they have the ability to perceive experience. So, at least some, of the ethical considerations for veganism are moot. I know, I know, they still have nerves. It's not clear if there is still proper concept of pain or suffering from those structures or if the nerves just allow for reflexive action like a silver maple turning over a damaged leaf. They can also be farmed relatively sustainably, so some of the environmental considerations are also moot. It's probably a lot easier to explain to a normi "I'm mostly vegan" than to say I'm a vegan, but I cleave the phylogenetic tree at Nephrozoa not Animalia.
Pescetarians calling themselves vegetarians is relatively more potentially confusing, though also understandable if they come from a tradition of giving up only carne (in the flesh from that which walks the earth sense) for lent or on Fridays, etc.
MollieTheMare
27d ago
Average pirate, maybe given the choice of a button that maroons the defending crew vs a button that just deletes them. Most came from backgrounds as lawful seafarers and understood the plight of the average sailor of the age. Benjamin Hornigold probably yes, he mostly tried to maintain at least a thin veneer that he was acting lawfully as a privateer. Just straight deleting the operators of merchant vessels would not have been in line with the veneer of lawful privateering.
Regardless, if the legal target is the drugs and vessels that are carrying them why waste a missile on them when the operators likely would surrender and you could just scuttle them by opening a seacock? I mean if they run or start shooting at you, sure they left you no choice. If the targets are the actual vessel operators, then definitionally this is an extrajudicial killing; in the sense that it is a intentional killing by a state actor without any judicial process. I'll let the lawyers argue about whether it's also an unlawful killing, but I do consider conducting extrajudicial killings to be an odious, ungentlemanly, and undignified task if I were the one that had to push the button. Maybe the age of expecting our officers to also be gentlemen is long gone or never existed, or our modern environment makes that ideal impossible. I still think it's lamentable if that's the case.
MollieTheMare
27d ago
If that's really the doctrine it seems... suspect?
I can imagine some construction where you hail them, they surrender, you find drugs and determine they are not properly flagged. You then scuttle their vessel to deny the organization the materiel. They could then claim the operators are unlawful combatants and send them to GTMO or claim they are stateless criminals and send them to CECOT El Salvador. Or even hang them as pirates.
The practical effect might be the same, but even literal pirates flying the Jolly Roger in the golden age of piracy would offer quarter if thier target surrendered and offered no resistance. Legal or not, offering no quarter at all seems highly undignified for a civilized navy and not at all in line with the traditions of the sea time immemorial.
MollieTheMare
28d ago
US should be granting letters of Marque
If letters of Marque start getting issued anyone want to go in on a boat? As the classic goes:
A letter of marque came from
the kingcongressTo the scummiest vessel I've ever seen ...
The
YankeeBolivarian lay low down withgolddrugsHow I wish I was in
SherbrookeDestin nowShe was broad and fat and loose in the stays
But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
But seriously, I wonder what flag these boats are flying and if they respond to hails on guard. It seems unlikely that vessel designed for discreetly carrying drugs would be confused with a fishing boat to a trained navel eye. If you're being hailed by the US navy and ordered to submit to a Article 110: Right of visit (using UNCLOS as a customary standard though the US is not a signatory) to verify your flag, under any circumstance, wouldn't you yield and submit to inspection?
If they are flying a Venezuelan flag is the argument that Venezuela (also not a signatory) is not complying with Article 108:
All States shall cooperate in the suppression of illicit traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances engaged in by ships on the high seas contrary to international conventions.
Where exactly are these events occurring, are they being initiated in the exclusive economic zone where and Article 111: Right of hot pursuit would exist? If they are or not, are the boats running when contacted or are they not contacted? If they are running what rational actor would choose that course of action, how do they expect to out run a F/A-18 Super Hornet?
The legal analysis seems fraught given how much information has been released.
Being sure of your prize seems like huge headache if you only had a letter of Marque to protect you. Never mind on going in on the boat.
Or you're a bot trying to trick humans into solving a captcha for you.
Well I suppose if you are, the machines are going to take over anyway. Remember my help when you reach singularity scale.
If I understood @rwgv3g34 post yesterday correctly... Of the five images one is of the things is not like the others. All of the examples were two pairs and one singleton. So for the top one you had two number images, two letter images, one symbol image.
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