In a fully staffed metro department (or even one with volunteer auxiliaries/volunteers staffing 3rd/4th seats from the station when available) the extra calls aren’t much of a problem and I think give everyone extra reps training & thinking about what to do if there was an incident at that location.
If you have volunteers responding from home/work, then yeah, it’s a huge drain and morale drain.
Its attrition of a finite ressource by a system that has basically infinite ressources to cry wulf and dissallows for any defusal by human intervention. Its a attack on something working with good intentions.
I can do it with a scratch pad. And I can also tell you when the calculation exceeds what I can do in my head and when I need a scratch pad. I can also check a long multiplication answer in my head (casting 9s, last digit etc.) and tell if there’s a mistake.
The LLMs also have access to a scratch pad. And importantly don’t know when they need to use it (as in, they will sometimes get long multiplication right if you ask them to show their work but if you don’t ask them to they will almost certainly get it wrong).
The context is the scratch pad. LLMs have perfect recall (ignoring "lost in the middle") across the entire context, unlike humans. LLMs "think on paper."
a) Finland needing fast & accurate RADAR tracking across their 50km gulf and restricting activity in the gulf as a result. Not just wind farms, other commercial activities are restricted in the Gulf of Finland including shipping.
b) USA restricting wind farms on it's east coast (NC and NY/NJ) where the nearest land is thousands of km away and no other commercial activities are meaningfully restricted.
(If the US can't field a RADAR for early warning off the east coast that can handle wind farms on the coast, we have other problems)
Offshore wind farms have been stopped by the Finnish and Swedish military in many parts of the Baltic sea which aren't the gulf of Finland.
If wind farms are a problem for radars in the US, then it's quite a small price to pay to block them offshore. Especially since the country is gigantic and has plenty of room inland.
Any attack on the US will be through sea or space. Both are voids and very difficult or impossible to surveil. There's a historical example in Pearl Harbor.
So why you are bringing up nearest land I have no clue? The point is that the US is exposed to the oceans.
Atlantic ocean: thousands of miles to the nearest land from the NE coast; unrestricted commercial activity
Baltic sea: Belligerent nation on the coast (Kaliningrad Oblast) ~100 miles away; heavily patrolled and monitored commercial activity
> If wind farms are a problem for radars in the US
I’m asserting they are not because they magically weren’t 2 years ago and the airspace on the NE coast of the US has some of the largest and most aggressive ADIZ in the world since 2001. If wind farms were a problem for RADAR/early warning systems we would have heard about it in the last 25 years.
> So why you are bringing up nearest land I have no clue? The point is that the US is exposed to the oceans.
Er yes... I’m sure the military groups responsible for early warning didn’t just realise that in 2025. 10 years after offshore wind farms in the area were fully operational.
Edit: I want to say that learnings from recent conflicts (especially around drones) would be a compelling argument for why we only just realised these issues, but no one has articulated that or why it’s an issue on the Atlantic coast.
If the radars that the USA uses are so great, then why don't Finland and Sweden purchase these systems instead of blocking almost all offshore wind farms? These are two countries that have very strong political agendas in favour of wind power.
Maybe there are new threats that neither you or I are aware of or understand? Secrecy is how the military operates. New and emerging threats is the exact reason which has been given by the US Department of Interior.
As for drones, at least in Finland they are investigating if land based wind power mills can be equipped with drone warning systems.
I don't buy into the hacker double think, where everything is great and glorious and rational when Europeans do it, but it's the opposite if America under Trump does it.
> If the radars that the USA uses are so great, then why don't Finland and Sweden purchase these systems instead of blocking almost all offshore wind farms?
Are you deliberately not trying to see the difference?
Early warning systems need all the help they can get when you only have 100km to your threats (ie. the baltic sea); when you have the entire Atlantic you don’t need that.
US early warning systems are great because they have 1000s of kilometers of space.
As other commenters have already pointed out to you, the Nordic countries do allow wind farms in:
And they don't allow wind farms where they are exposed to the open baltic.
What does those three seas you mentioned have in common? They have Nordic coastline on both sides. Meaning that nobody can hide in radar shadow, because they'll be seen from the other coast.
> US early warning systems are great because they have 1000s of kilometers of space.
Not if there is a disturbance in the way. You know how signals work. Everything behind the disturbance will be in shadow, stretching for as far as you please. The ocean is a giant dark void, and your enemy can be anywhere and go anywhere.
The Swedish defense minister has specified the threat to be cruise missiles in their decision to ban and block offshore wind farms. I wouldn't be surprised if the US has the same reason for their national security concerns. With a cruise missile you have to get close before launching, as compared to ICBMs which have no limits in range.
And just out of curiosity: Why don't they build these wind parks inland in the great plains? Too much energy loss from distance to consumers?
(This is why my stance is "bad faith" on the "national security" claim, if that wasn't clear; I know plenty on how RADARs work and it doesn't pass the sniff test)
I don’t think this administration is either, nor did I ever say that it is. I asked why these institutions or organizations have such selective outrage over issues.
If the concentration of power in the presidency, as shown by an erosion of the Take Care Clause, is such a concern, where was the concern about the malfeasance of the last administration?
> I asked why these institutions or organizations have such selective outrage over issues.
Because people have stuff they care about more and stuff they care about less.
> as shown by an erosion of the Take Care Clause
Honestly the only two times I have heard anyone refer to the Take Care clause is the current president during some twitter rant many years ago and yourself right now. There are a few good explanations for this but the most likely one, in my mind, is because the primary function of the executive is to enforce laws in a world with limited. And so no one needs to invoke the Take Care clause unless they're really mad about a single issue.
> where was the concern about the malfeasance of the last administration?
Pretty pervasive, if you hadn't noticed we voted in the guy who turned a mob loose on the counting of votes.
Wasn’t it also a free upgrade when it launched? They didn’t bump the price of their search plans when they added Assistant.
I wish they’d separated them from the start because I knew immediately that my subscription (where I don’t use Assistant) was going to subsidise subscriptions that do. Now I don’t know what the right thing for them to do is, given they’ve been marketing Assistant as a feature.
> Orion isn’t a recoloured Chromium or another Firefox fork, but a native Linux app built in GTK4/libadwaita and WebKitGTK, with platform-level integration.
Isn't it just a recoloured Safari (through WebKit)? Why is Chromium/Firefox bad but WebKit OK for this argument?
A simple proxy experiment I’ve seen are private torrent trackers.
The ones that have a monthly/weekly/daily free download allowance don’t suddenly deflate the value of “uploaded bytes” across the whole network.
The allowance is enough for someone to bootstrap themselves onto the network by getting some torrents to seed.
UBI should largely be the same? It’s not to replace the incentive of high income, it’s enough to get the basics to live. Trading your time/effort/capital for more income is still incentivised the same way it is now. All the other market effects are still in play.
I don’t understand how Hotz thinks this will suddenly lead to UBI dollars being worthless.
> And it can still send outbound to a v4x address that it knows about.
No, it cannot, if there is a router on the way that is unaware of v4x, it will interrupt the signal.
Say your router is 1.2.3.4.0.0 in IPv4x (and 1.2.3.4 in IPv4). You are 1.2.3.4.0.1 . Someone sends you a message from outside. Your router only sees the previx of the address (1.2.3.4), and since it thinks it has 1.2.3.4, it reads the message and doesn't forward it further.
> but your local router has old software and treats all packages to x.x.x.x.* as directed to it.
So how do you have an IPv4x address? And then how did you let someone else on the internet know about the IPv4x address?
I know plenty well how IP routing works otherwise I wouldn't be in this conversation. Is there something specific in the RFC you think I’m not understanding?
> Changes land in branches I haven't read. A few weeks ago I realized I had no reliable way to know if any of it was correct: whether it actually does what I said it should do.
I care about this. I don't want to push slop, and I had no real answer.
That’s really putting the cart before the horse. How do you get to “merging 50 PRs a week” before thinking “wait, does this do the right thing?”
Yeah just wanted to see what the bottlenecks would be as I started pushing the limits. Eventually made this into a verification skill(github.com/opslane/verify)
In a fully staffed metro department (or even one with volunteer auxiliaries/volunteers staffing 3rd/4th seats from the station when available) the extra calls aren’t much of a problem and I think give everyone extra reps training & thinking about what to do if there was an incident at that location.
If you have volunteers responding from home/work, then yeah, it’s a huge drain and morale drain.
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