untangle's comments

Nice. I would love to import the metadata from my Calibre Library. Calibre is great, but it is ancient and its evolution is glacial.

Same. Try the "books on the Battle of Midway" query on Perplexity. The results are great and include the book mentioned in the article (authored by the Naval Aviator).

I graduated from "Annapolis" (AKA USNA, "The Boat School") in the 70's. My second career was in high-tech here in Silicon Valley.

Let me state the "quiet part" of the Naval Academy's mission out loud: It aspires to train the Services' future admirals and generals. It is not a vocational school, nor is it really a college. It's something else.

It strikes me that the relationship between flag-rank officers and their civilian (political) leaders is fair game.

Having said that, the selection of this speaker is edgy. But it's the timing of the event that I think puts it in the bad-judgement-or-worse category. We used to call this "poor headwork."

My recommendation would have been to postpone the event until next year, and then reexamine the issue more closely. And to do all of the above quietly.

POPclip deserves its own entry. It adds an action menu popup to any selected text. I find it indispensable. (I'm told that IOS has similar features.)

https://www.popclip.app/

And Paypal stretched banking laws. And Youtube was built on the back of countless music and TV videos under copyright. And Airbnb played/plays free & loose with hoteling laws. And Uber with taxi rules. The list is long, and the excesses are large. Move fast and break things. Become too big to fail. This is nothing new. It is core to technological advancement and capitalist enablement.

"End of Programming" will look like a Mag-7 interview: [program design] + [leetcode].

The chart in this article tells a more balanced tale.

The size of the US EV pie doubled and Tesla's growth didn't. But while Tesla's share is not yet in freefall, the trend is quite alarming. The group growing share is fractionated.

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1134120_tesla-is-losing...

> taxing copyrights and patents

It's an interesting point. I believe (chatGPT4 agrees) that taxes on IP occur via licensing deals, on transactions, and/or through registration fees. But not through anything resembling a RP wealth tax. There are probably some corner cases though.

The USPTO grants human artists an early victory in their struggle with AI generation. I personally don't think that this ruling will withstand the AI tidal wave that's coming. But, for now, some shelter from the storm.

This is interesting but it's old news. Both the linked article and the "FBI PSA" are dated late December of 2022.

To be fair, Microsoft's "AI BING" demo wasn't exactly flawless either. But the popular press didn't seem to notice.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_err...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599007/microsoft-bing-a...

Interesting product. I first encountered this "data painter" paradigm in the 80's in a product called DataDesk. That software was created by Cornell professor Paul Velleman. Paul was a student of John Tukey and credits his influence on the product.

https://datadescription.com/

I use this category of tool all the time, and I've tried at least a dozen of them.

Based on about an hour of usage, Unclutter is my favorite -- nudging out my current tool-of-choice (Tranquility!). Great job.

I would obviously like for you to continue development. Having said that, I have no great monetization advice. Nor do I even have any burning desire for new features. While I would expect to make progress on the latter, the money thing will be tough.

Some thoughts on money: Since I'm a power user of this type of software, I might pay $10/yr or so for Unclutter. But I have been told that such a low price do not a business model make. I think that your tool is squeezed between the "it's a vitamin" and "lots of good free options exist" pincers. As a sidenote, social features don't appeal to me.

Whatever you decide, I wish you luck. I'm on Firefox/Mac BTW.

Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but "...sorry to inform you..." is just one post of many on the blog.

Those seeking more context should check out the home page and some of the other posts. Two items emerge quickly: the blogger left Utah several years ago and is now probably an atheist.

But the writing is great -- haunting and mysterious. Nice find.

> Pine Bluff, Arkansas

You know this now, but most crime databases have Pine Bluff as one of the most crime-riddles metros in the country. It rates a "1" on a scale of 100, with 100 being best (safest). Bummer.

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/ar/pine-bluff/crime

> there's nothing left to do besides the production migration.

And this is considered easy/low-risk?

It seems like the most frightening part, although perhaps less frightening as the crash continues.

Brave made $36M USD from an ICO in the middle of that hype. [0] BAT was a part of that "story." It's just a fish hook. That ICO is what's funding everything.

[0] https://medium.com/faast/brave-ico-review-600-in-6-days-b51d...

edit: added citation

I'm a former Marine F/A-18 pilot. I'll take your questions in reverse order.

(3) IDK what their vision model is in the simulation, but you are correct – keeping sight is vital in dogfighting. The F-16 is formidably tiny. It's practically invisible nose-on. (2) Air Combat Maneuvering ("ACM" or "dogfighting") training typically begins each engagement a mile or so abeam. I'd say that more than 95% of my 1v1 exercises began this way. So no radar lock, visual only. (1) See previous answer: the engagements begin with no radar lock and the turning characteristics of modern fighters rapidly compress the fight "inside a phone book." So there's a constant tradeoff of energy and geometry. Events often occur inside the missile-arming ranges. Radar and/or IR locks are fleeting.

Most radar/missile training is done in 2v2 (or sometimes mvn) engagements. These are usually commenced head-on, with "fight's on" signal given at the first pass.

One can argue about how representative or realistic any of this training is. But it does make you a better aviator. And fighter pilots love it.

Also, my experience is from decades ago. Take it FWIW.

You use the term "ATS" above the fold (in the headline!) with no explanation as to what it is. I found this confusing and wondered why I would even want such a thing.

> "...I wish that we...could have more federated and decentralized platforms"

We did. They were called newsgroups and forums. Reddit is just 1000+ forums stuck together to build audience and make money.