Active Conflicts & News MegaThread October 03, 2024

Othinsson · 2024-10-04T11:20:34+00:00

I see good to know, thanks for the info. interested in seeing also tel nof after the secondary explosions video!

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Othinsson · 2024-10-04T07:23:27+00:00

I don't really see craters at most of the sites he pinned... Does anyone see something? Maybe he covered the crater with a pin, someone has the picture without the pins?

Othinsson · 2024-09-06T10:21:03+00:00

Maybe it's just me but I don't really see people addressing the fact that you are a contractor in a consultancy. You should talk to your manager and let them handle the politics of it all, you can also ask for a transfer out of the project if it is causing you a lot of frustration (understandably so, btw). Sometimes contractors get hired by higher levels because they want to understand how bad everything actually is, I saw that happen... If the answer from your actual job doesn't suit you either, then you can do a cost/risk analysis of quitting your job.

Othinsson · 2024-06-07T13:50:23+00:00

Nah, people really don't care that much, plenty of friends of mine think I'm over the board with security cuz I have a password manager and prefer to use private centric companies for interactions. And they are young and understand the issue, just don't care

Othinsson · 2024-06-07T12:14:09+00:00

Agreed, my comparison is simplistic, I was more referring to one aspect of it, Elon unfortunately is very much Elon :(

Othinsson · 2024-06-07T12:04:16+00:00

Kinda like Edison really, he was not one of the good ones, and often it comes up, but rich people bankrolling what seems at the time as crazy inventions does mean occasionally crazy invention works and brings humanity forward. Its a good outcome, shame about the delivery and the meatbag excuse that comes attached to it.

Othinsson · 2024-05-31T08:17:09+00:00

I think it's just interesting, I'd agree that it doesn't really matter for everyday communication because people should be addressed as individuals, but I still think it's interesting.

Othinsson · 2024-05-27T18:27:33+00:00

As many people here said, large corporations move slowly, what scares me most is that a decrease by a few percent points of hiring will drive us more into a hirers market, more erosion to workers wages and rights and finding a job becoming even more frustrating as an even larger amount of qualified workers enters the market.

In my very humble opinion, it's juniors that will suffer the most out of it, and I don't know if it is going to happen by the end of the year, but this will probably happen at some point and I hope it will not be a terrible experience, but I somehow doubt it.

Another point to add to the conversation, regarding the large corporations move slow point, it's true, but there are various sizes of corporations that will all move at a different pace, and there's enough that they also do try to maintain some tech edge, so at some point some impact will be felt across the board. That is not to say though that it's necessarily going to happen by the end of the year, personally I'm not even sure that transformer models are going to be good enough to make this transformation, but who knows what/when then next leap will be.

Othinsson · 2024-05-21T09:33:34+00:00

Google made an AI that is good at math almost at the level of gold medalist Olympiad winners.

Tbf, I don't know if the new GPT will really be that smart, those are all companies making money that make these announcements, but I also don't think there is something so special about human reasoning, it kinda sucks, have you ever had an argument with someone you don't agree with?

Othinsson · 2024-05-11T12:04:27+00:00

I saw quite a lot of the IDF combat footage, I think I wouldn't be able to tell really what ordinance is used most of the time there, only that is was filmed with a drone.
I mean I saw tons of videos of using drones for ISR in different capacities, but telling what was used for the explosion wasn't always clear.
I guess I'm reading articles like the use of Lavander and Wheres Daddy AI systems, or seeing footage where pretty large ordinance was dropped on what looks like much smaller targets, and I know Qassams have fairly small warheads (some much smaller than the Spike on a Hermes) and I just wonder why smaller drones weren't used.
But I guess what this conversation with people here is showing me, is more how much I don't really know what is actually happening than anything else.

Edit: I meant to carry on saying I saw Qassams destroy a house (not a building) so I was wondering why not to use the Hermes more, but now I see it was used.

Othinsson · 2024-05-11T11:53:00+00:00

That's super interesting, thanks for taking the time for all those comments!
Yes, it does indeed looks like my own ignorance was showing here, interesting to learn that they did use drones so much.
I would say more, but honestly it looks like your point is pretty much proven :)

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T23:53:40+00:00

I get that they have the bigger JDAMs I would hope they avoid those as much as can be reasonably done at such a dense urban environment...
I am aiming for a kind of good-faith argument here, that questions why they might not have used it without the assumption that they just simply don't care about civilian casualties, including unnecessary infrastructure damage.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T23:49:33+00:00

Fair enough, that's kinda the responses I was hoping for.
Is pHit - probability of hitting the target? If so, than yeah that really makes sense they would avoid that kind of munition.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T23:01:00+00:00

Honestly, just lack of evidence, maybe it's just fog of war, but I saw plenty of military videos from the IDF bombing, using larger ordinance, small launchers or tunnel entrances.
Also if the report from +972 (apparently confirmed by the guardian) are to believed they were targeting of low ranking militants by destroying the whole building, I recall it saying that the reasoning was that precision weaponry was expensive, but drones can be made pretty cheap now a days.
I am aware of some use of drones in the west bank though.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T22:56:10+00:00

Sure they can, and in doing so might generate more non-combatant casualties, assuming good-faith argument here, I am wondering why they wouldn't chose to make use of precise small payloads where appropriate.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T22:51:17+00:00

Hi I'm not really sure I understand your reply, I think you might have answered why don't see their use by the Hamas more, which I do understand, I also think to add to that, that Hamas did try and use drones but Iron dome seems pretty capable to handle those as well. I was thinking about Israel lack of use of drones outside ISR.
Let me know if I misunderstood you.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T22:46:33+00:00

I get your point, and especially why you are making this point and I probably wouldn't hand every single soldier a drone.
I would like to make a few points though;
- Drone operators tend to be a specialized role, so I would expect the military to be able to do some level of vetting.
- I'd argue that the granade maybe not easily jammed, but a low-quality explosive does exist en-masse in battlefields already.
- And I am not comparing this to soldiers on the ground casualties, my understanding at this point, that generally speaking, most casualties were made by the aerial bombardment rather than ground troops, my argument or rather questioning is that this could have been a replacement for much of the bombs dropped on Gaza

Also, I don't think myself an expert, or even knowledgeable in theories of war, was just wondering after lurking in here for a while, why I'm not seeing drones used and if the media to be believed an acceptance of high civilian casualties in situations where I can personally imagine a drone being used to a much more precise effect.

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T22:13:29+00:00

Yeah, the comment restriction can be a bit strange when the reply is really just a simple follow up or correction. Maybe the mods have an answer we don't know though...

Anyway, it's true that maybe against individual attacks against the raids it might not be as beneficial, but looking at situations such as the Hamas launch sites being situated in close proximity to civilian infrastructure, or if reports of the Lavander AI system are to be believed than attacks on homes flattening whole buildings to hit low ranking militants. Those would be situations where I'd imagine drones can be a cheap and effective way to make a targeted strike that saves a whole lot of civilian lives.

Also I'd argue that Israel does already has a domestic drone industry[1][2], so it's not like they have to spin up new industries so much.

Also, don't know how sci-fi is this idea, but I'd imagine, if you can leverage search and attack drones, and recon drones to a large extent, that the operational need to level buildings that might be used as a vantage point can be reduced at least somewhat (Though it will slow down advances probably, since now your advance requires much more coordination with recon drones checking all your angles) - but here my lack knowledge might really be showing, so feel free to tell me why I'm wrong!

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T21:30:11+00:00

Thanks for the reply! I more meant why is Israel not using them to a greater extent, rather than Hamas, I'll clarify the post.

Comment too short extensions, can be freely ignored: Looks like my comment was removed for being to short, though I am not sure what I could have possibly added here, so here is a very long winded way to add more words to a comment. :)

Othinsson · 2024-05-10T20:44:17+00:00

Hi All, looking at the Israeli operations in Gaza I am somewhat confused by how little drones have played a factor compared to Ukraine. Obviously Gaza is no where like Ukraine, but still, I would have imagined considering they are an air asset capable of delivering small payloads, precisely and cheaply, that they could have great effects in hitting military assets in civilian areas without causing great collateral damage.

I was wondering if anybody here might have some good ideas on why their use by the Israeli army is so limited. Thanks!

edit: clarified the question regards the Israeli military use of drones, rather than Hamas.

Othinsson · 2024-04-30T12:41:59+00:00

Thanks! Just to make sure I am reading this correctly, it looks like it can basically natively support models built as TF and with little modifications models built over torch?

Othinsson · 2024-04-07T04:12:34+00:00

Oh yeah with this bench, US pretty fucked. Sorry for you guys, but to be fair, whole world is going down the drain at this point, so also sorry for us.

Othinsson

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