WW2 bombing was much less accurate, and hence more indiscriminate. We see a clear pattern here of targetting energy infrastructure over a long course of time, which in theory should disrupt things like R&D and defense production. Whilst you are likely correct about impact being short lived of each strike, the timescale and specivity of it is unprecedented I believe, likely leading to a much more effective campaign than 85 years ago wrt to military objectives. I’m sure that the people are also now so long suffering (The London Blitz was 9 months or so, Russia has hit Ukraine each winter for the past 3 years) that I’d be curious to know about resolve vs weariness vs preparedness

Has there been any other targetted prolonged campaign that we know of for a more direct comparison that we know of? Military history junkies are going to have a literal field day when the war ends, there are so many lessons and learnings to be had

Yes, there is an import feature that works really well now, very simple to add books and connected to a few catalogues

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Yes, history will not be kind to Starmer. But he won’t be Liz fucking Truss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYLTb82YJYM - gonna leave these guys here

We are underprepared in the west for sure. But that’s probably all right. One of the big points from WW1 was that large standing millitaries meant they needed to be used. Armies beget war as much as any other factor. This is why NATO is so important. The collective force of it means that we don’t need to be as prepared. Which has seen unprecedented levels of peace in the west since its inception

Isn’t that just joining the army?

Art of the deal

Trump always backs down, Zelensky should call and see what he’s holding at this stage. Russia has always been the USAs biggest bogeyman, I can’t actually see them pulling out completely

That’s why I have a 65" and sit barely 2m from it. Stick on a 4k Dolby Vision encoded file through Jellyfin. Looks fucking great!

RIP Westwood

Total Annihilation on a LAN

Red Alert cut-scenes

Halo on a LAN

Battlefield online with voice comms

Couch co-op gears of war, and Army of 2

Finishing Mass Effect

Worms, hot-seat

Instagib. Oh fuck, instagib is pure adrenaline

Just one more turn

Last 5 in Battle Royale, never yet finished last!

You have died of dysentery

Hitting that last alien

Something with gears. Like a cranked egg whisk. Huge amounts of science went into this, but all of it should be replicable in a few generations of experiment with even bronze working. And it should inspire inventors of the age too

So you can likely earn in another role. The key is to make them believe that you chose to be here, rather than anywhere else. And that may involve lying because management don’t want to hear it’s because of your short commute and relatively easy workload. But, maybe you are there because you think that they are doing good work in whatever field? Maybe they do offer you great experience for your career. Maybe you do have a great team?

And maybe you don’t. In which case it is platitudes time, tell them what they want to hear and volunteer for things more. But also, maybe time to get that CV brushed up too?

And it will fuck up around half of even the simple formulas. This is really bad, and the idiots in charge should feel bad. Excel basically runs the world and they are about to fuck it up

LLMs lose context over a short session. They all have input limits. Very small input limits usually. Best it can probably do is suggest formulas for you based on your natural language, maybe some copy/paste. Which means it can beat a 9 year old, great news everyone! Or show a help article on pivot tables (which the help function already does!)

Excel is very simple to work with, hence its ubiquity. LLMs also get shit wrong about half the time, way more than half with difficult things ime. Meaning they cost experienced operators time, a few studies are showing this now with coding. And are expensive as fuck. And slow as fuck. And reduce capacity for learning. Meaning they actually cap what excel can achieve, as the user won’t grow at the same rate, renoving the one advantage excel actually has: the learning rate is phenomenal

The C-Suite which insisted on this integration is basically an subservient idiot themselves at this stage who doesn’t understand their product, their market fit, or their userbase. They should replace thenselves with an LLM

LLMs can’t count. Can’t add. Can’t deal with actually large datasets

How is excel a good fit for vibe-coding?

Nowhere close to any junior ime. Grads learn very quickly. Interns only job is to understand. Code academy career switchers understand requirements and will ask questions. Subservient AI does fuck all of any of those things

They are more akin to yet another Rapid Application Development wave imo. Go see how the previous iterations have done. Lots are still with us (rails ftw!). I’ll bet most will outlive LLMs

And a festival on the 6th of June. Great local Cider

This is a money game, how much are you willing to invest?