- You're agreeing with me, or rather I agree with you.
I consider Desert Storm an unqualified victory in an engagement that is in the same conversation as a Vietnam or Korean war, but still not quite to a WW level in scope or complexity.
- Those might be the only ones? Desert Storm being the one that I'd probably call out, Just Cause was just so small.
One minor win, every major operation being a loss doesn't change the conclusion though imo.
I think it's also instructive to look at each of these operations and note that the two that were won were small, had clear objectives, and were executed quickly to meet those objectives and had no scope creep.
- A punishment that was felt by decision makers but was unable to be offloaded as a cost to the public, except maybe in the form of rent. Prison :)
- I've found Google's default Weather app to be quite poor starting around six months ago. Consistently off by two to five degrees.
On the advice of someone here on hackernews I tried out weawow, and though it is a terrible name it is _very_ accurate. So much better and consistent. Love it so far.
- You may be surprised (or not?) at how many important scientific and historical works are done by armchair practitioners.
- Typically you incorporate union representatives onto boards of companies, make the members shareholders etc. You tie incentive structures together.
Even so, I'm a reject your framing to a certain degree. Employees, and by extension labor unions, typically want to see the company they work at succeed. Labor always pays the price, e.g. forgoing wages during a strike.
And even when a deal is struck, employees often put the interest of the company ahead of their own, e.g. trading away already agreed upon wage increases in a labor contract in order to keep the company solvent.
Are there examples of both situations? Of course! I've seen both first hand, but it certainly isn't completely one or the other. Some companies have a good relationship with their unions, others are very antagonistic.
- How would you prefer to write those examples?
- > The founders were right that nobody can be trusted to neutrally enforce “the law.”
Well my point is two-fold. First, what you say here is my point, all branches need an _enforcement_ arm. Today Congress has the Sergeant at Arms and courts have bailiffs and may deputize members of the Executive Branch.
However that's clearly inadequate in the face of the Executive's current balance of power. A rebalancing is necessary imo.
Could that result in a Roman-esque problem of the three branches having "tug of wars" with each other's law enforcement arm, but I don't think so. We have this problem today with the dozens of law enforcement organizations within the Executive...which brings me to my second point!
My second point is that carrying out the law in the Executive was clearly the wrong choice. The Legislative branch should actually carry out the law, i.e. USPS should live under a committee in Congress, and mail fraud would continue to be prosecuted by the Executive.
I'll caveat that I'm had waiving a lot here, but I hope we can all agree at least on the problem statement; too much power has concentrated in the Executive and _drastic_ measures would be required to resolve that situation.
- Turns out that separation of powers was incorrect. Each branch needs its own enforcement arm and our plan of having the Executive carry out the law instead of just enforcing the law was a bad idea.
- My precise location data and credit card transactions are freely available on the market.
Just by companies listed on the stock market who got that data "legally" in our current walled and "safe" garden.
I appreciate a lockdown for kids and elders, but let's not pretend our data is locked safely away in this walled garden.
- haha great proof that humans don't follow the law all the time just like Waymo.
Yes, if you see a school bus with its flashers on, you may not pass it. Period.
- Yeah you'd have to pull in a lot of case law and perform a lot of fine tuning on expert tax advice (you'd probably have to create this training data).
Would be neat (and still legally fraught!).
- I'm relatively well versed in "the divide" so to speak. But I'm trying to understand what you mean by the Plymouth and Jamestown split as it relates to our modern country today.
It seems like both the spirit of Plymouth and Jamestown are inside the big tent of the Republican party today. But that doesn't sound like what you intended it to mean. Or maybe it is?
That's the part I'm curious about; who is Plymouth and who is Jamestown in 2025 in your eyes?
- Oh definitely not trying to make a point, I'm really just curious about how it is working out in case it is something I should update in my recommendations to customers.
Seems like y'all are doing well with it!
- I'm kinda struggling to understand how this relates to our makeup today. I can't find the thread.
What cultural group today is Jamestown and which is Plymouth?
- As someone that works in the auth space (Stytch), this is the first time I've _ever_ seen someone's landing page be a login screen.
I have to ask, how's that going? Genuinely curious to know!
- Wow! 3x is huge.
I've had great experiences with gpt-oss20b on my laptop, a genuinely useful local model.
3x probably doesn't get my Pixel Pro 9 to being able to run 20b models, but its getting close!
- I've been using Cactus for a few months, great product!
Makes it really easy to plug and play different models on my phone.
If anybody is curious what a Pixel 9 Pro is capable of:
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Sure, here's a simple implementation of the Bubble Sort algorithm in Python:
def bubble_sort(arr): n = len(arr) for i in range(n): # Flag to detect any swap in current pass swapped = False for j in range(0, n-i-1): # Swap if the element found is greater than the next element if arr[j] > arr[j+1]: arr[j], arr[j+1] = arr[j+1], arr[j] swapped = True # If no swap occurs in the inner loop, the array is already sorted if not swapped: break
# Example usage: arr = [64, 34, 25, 12, 22, 11, 90] bubble_sort(arr) print("Sorted array is:", arr)
This function sorts the array in ascending order using the Butbble Sort algorithm. The outer loop runs n times, where n is the length of the array. The inner loop runs through the array, comparing adjacent elements and swapping them if they are in the wrong order. The swapped flag is used to detect if any elements were swapped in the current pass, which would indicate that the array is already sorted and can be exited early.
- Apple is very well positioned since they also sell you a super computer in your pocket.
One of my biggest annoyances is the OS on the Ray Ban Metas. If they just served as dumb I/O they'd be an incredible product and everything else about them, e.g. battery life, weight etc, would be so much better.
OP didn't mean to say this, but yes, unfortunately they do. Anything that "increases affordability" will result in an eventual increase in the principal value for things that are supply constrained.