Dmitry o_O retweeted
I just made a crazy discovery in WoW Forever. I took my Skyborne to Fairweather Stables, jumped off, and used the Walk on Air ability. I glitched through the world and discovered a whole new zone
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> The only military option is a nuclear strike.
oh really? Have you seen Top Gun 2 guys?
oh really? Have you seen Top Gun 2 guys?
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
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Dmitry o_O retweeted
Tell Sam Altman that I use my 64GB of RAM to run print("Hello, World!"). I want him to know it's me.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead.
"From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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Dmitry o_O retweeted
A lot of programming is now like long division or solving a derivative.
Where in early math classes it's important you spend a month grinding through long division. Or spend multiple months calculating derivatives by hand then calculating integrals by hand.
To drill into your muscle memory a deeper instinct about what exactly is happening. Because then out in the real world you never do that EVER. You use the calculator.
BUT despite the fact you use the calculator you still have a deeper instinct on what exactly you are doing. When wolfram spits you back an anti-derivative, you'll immediately have a deeper instinct on what exactly that fully means and how to make the best use of it.
A lot of programming is like that now. It just makes no sense to type it all out line-by-line.
However, there is probably two years' worth of manual C programming every student should do before they get to use an LLM.
My short list of this would probably be:
- Implement a Vulkan renderer from scratch in C that can load some mesh and let you walk around. Type out all of the matrix math calculations. Type out all of the bindings and descriptors. Type the GLSL by hand.
- You need to implement some complex compute shader by hand that forces you to have to figure out the branchless implementation of something complex. Implementing Ambient Occlusion or some fractal is probably good.
- Implement a parser. Either JSON or a simple subset of C is fine. Where you have to fully parse through everything, distinguish tokens, collect them in a data structure.
- Implement a SPSC queue and a pool with generational handles from scratch in C.
- Implement some intricate immediate mode GUI for an app by hand with animations and hover effects and all the modern pizzazz.
- Implement a player controller for some game. 2D or FPS game or a racing game that "feels" comparable to something in a modern game.
- Implement some backend CRUD API for doing database operations entirely by hand.
I think after someone goes through all of those I'd have a base level of trust they could crap out a bunch of LLM code with adequate instinct to keep it under control.
Where in early math classes it's important you spend a month grinding through long division. Or spend multiple months calculating derivatives by hand then calculating integrals by hand.
To drill into your muscle memory a deeper instinct about what exactly is happening. Because then out in the real world you never do that EVER. You use the calculator.
BUT despite the fact you use the calculator you still have a deeper instinct on what exactly you are doing. When wolfram spits you back an anti-derivative, you'll immediately have a deeper instinct on what exactly that fully means and how to make the best use of it.
A lot of programming is like that now. It just makes no sense to type it all out line-by-line.
However, there is probably two years' worth of manual C programming every student should do before they get to use an LLM.
My short list of this would probably be:
- Implement a Vulkan renderer from scratch in C that can load some mesh and let you walk around. Type out all of the matrix math calculations. Type out all of the bindings and descriptors. Type the GLSL by hand.
- You need to implement some complex compute shader by hand that forces you to have to figure out the branchless implementation of something complex. Implementing Ambient Occlusion or some fractal is probably good.
- Implement a parser. Either JSON or a simple subset of C is fine. Where you have to fully parse through everything, distinguish tokens, collect them in a data structure.
- Implement a SPSC queue and a pool with generational handles from scratch in C.
- Implement some intricate immediate mode GUI for an app by hand with animations and hover effects and all the modern pizzazz.
- Implement a player controller for some game. 2D or FPS game or a racing game that "feels" comparable to something in a modern game.
- Implement some backend CRUD API for doing database operations entirely by hand.
I think after someone goes through all of those I'd have a base level of trust they could crap out a bunch of LLM code with adequate instinct to keep it under control.
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Dmitry o_O retweeted
Experts say you should wait 60-90 minutes after waking up before drinking coffee.
But here’s the thing.
No.
But here’s the thing.
No.
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