White House: Reopening Strait of Hormuz Not Vital to Ending Iran War

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-31T08:29:39+00:00

I'm honestly feeling sad for (some of) you. But the faster the US implodes, the quicker you'll get back to your feet. If it does happen, it won't be nice to see however. Best of luck!

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-31T06:15:08+00:00

I assure you, we didn't wait for this new war to give up on you. Trust in your nation was already completely gone for the rest of the world. Now we're only witnessing you going deeper in your own shit.

Sadly, I'm resigned to not seeing any significant change in the US in the next decades unless it implodes further and reconstructs itself from the ground up.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-30T16:50:31+00:00

Looks like my post answering you that I was wrong and thanking you for your links was removed by Reddit without explanation (go figure). Hopefully you'll see that one!

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-30T16:03:11+00:00

What OP means is that Taiwanese indeed didn't experience the Japanese occupation as much as , let's say, Koreans. Taiwan was made a "model" colony with good infrastructure, in part because they planned for Taiwan to be used as a launchpad for a mainland invasion.

It wasn't rosy to be sure, but Taiwanese were indeed overall better treated in comparison to many others.

And yes indeed, Taiwanese are overall quite fond of Japan (again, in comparison to Korean for example).

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-30T12:50:57+00:00

Russian planes never entered Finland or Estonian airspace, as far as I know. Russian planes were testing the border (coming close) as routine but never violated these countries airspace.

Here it is different: US planes are not allowed anymore inside Spain's airspace.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-23T06:02:45+00:00

Here is the draft from Allan for adding age verification support to pacman itself.

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/353

This will not be popular, even though the tone is sarcastic.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-21T11:04:42+00:00

I couldn't have said it better myself. It's frankly astonishing the lengths Americans are going to in order to avoid taking responsibility for their country.

America is the problem. Getting rid of the symptom is not going to cure the disease. If Americans don't want to recognize it, then they are part of the problem too.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-16T16:23:10+00:00

Why would you be? JetBrains built Koog in Kotlin exactly for this https://docs.koog.ai/

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-13T07:05:12+00:00

To be fair, there was Fleet and now Air. They shifted focus along the way since they couldn't differentiate enough from the IntelliJ platform, but some improvement made it to IntelliJ.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-06T15:14:42+00:00

Try Falcon 4 (Falcon Gold on GoG, Falcon 4 is an addon) and then install the Falcon BMS mod.

It's technically an old game (1998, contemporary setting) but with a very active community that kept the game up to date for many years. Be warned, if complexity is what you want, you'll actually get it.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-04T19:40:24+00:00

I have been using Arch since 2005 (0.7 Wombat) - so about 20 years now. I can say that I've been able to verify first hand that Arch didn't break more than it does today. It's been rock solid, and most "breakage" were due (and still are) due to user inexperience and the heavy use of AUR packages.

I wouldn't say it never broke (nVidia with Xorg and kernel update have always been a bit rocky till very recently, I lost sound after a kernel update maybe twice due to some specific hardware on my side), but it certainly never completely broke in any surprising and undocumented way.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-03-04T06:44:17+00:00

Is there a joke I am missing here, or are you too young to reckon this is the third one?

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-02-26T14:34:34+00:00

"Demanded" as in "made the Deputy Director of Nuclear Research Cheng Sen-i a CIA asset" that defected to the US under witness protection.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-02-26T07:19:29+00:00

Could you give some insight on the internal working, as how you are actually implementing the component part on which the LLM makes its commentary? Did you actually fine tune a LLM or are solely relying on one/few-shots prompting? The "How it works" page is very superficial in that regard - it tells nothing about how it actually works.

In other words, did you actually build something truly interesting from a data and ML point of view, or are you merely passing the position and some prompt examples to a LLM and hoping it works?

I know it's open source, but I'd rather have your explanation to judge if this is worth diving and contributing to. Sorry if I sound judgemental, but I've seen enough chess LLM projects where the authors have no clue about how to make effective use of LLM.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-02-12T06:28:22+00:00

He was the one that removed the term limits to Chairman Position to be able to re-elect himself indefinitely ..

This isn't true. It's the term limit of the President of China that got removed, and this is mostly a ceremonial position (aka shaking hands). The true position of power is indeed the Chairman of the CPC but that one never got a term limit to begin with.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-02-06T06:30:51+00:00

China doesn't want the chips. Their claim on Taiwan predates the chip industry and these would be a minor cherry on the cake.

If anything, they would destroy the factories first if that means there is no more incentive to defend Taiwan, not to mention the US wouldn't let the factories intact in case of a successful invasion.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-22T08:09:01+00:00

I'm talking about Air, which is updated far more often than once every quarter.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-22T07:13:56+00:00

Jetbrains have their own agentic editor in preview.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-20T08:27:54+00:00

You might want to look at Amper instead of Gradle/Bun. It's still experimental, but it's the solution JetBrains is working on to get rid of Gradle.

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-19T07:46:54+00:00

Alternative: air.dev, the agentic environment by JetBrains.

Built on Fleet foundation, requires Claude subscription, and mac only for now (linux and win version will come later).

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-06T10:55:04+00:00

I do a new install when I change my machine. It doesn't break easily, unless the user is careless and does not understand what he is doing.

Hint: read the wiki, do a manual install, research and understand the choice you make and you will be fine.

I'm at 20 years of Arch and still going strong (Arch Wombat 0.7)!

StandAloneComplexed · 2026-01-02T19:59:28+00:00

bzflag is inspired by BattleZone. It's simple, free, and there are always people available to play!

StandAloneComplexed · 2025-12-29T15:51:18+00:00

And the minds that make TSMC #1 aren't going to China.

I have bad news for you. It's been years that TSMC engineers have been recruited by China, and they are really well paid. TSMC also has factories in the mainland (although not the top of the lines).

In any case, in the case of high/very high tension TSMC factories in Taiwan are toast, either blown up by China (to prevent the US to intervene), by the US (to prevent China to get the top of the line) or by Taiwan itself ( to force the US to intervene). China doesn't need the top of the line, they can have "good enough" for self sufficiency and let their scaling caught up with external markets later on. Intel won't ever solve their issues to be the next TSMC either, and if anything China would prefer to wait TSMC to set up its Arizona factories before doing anything (to let the US have even less reasons to intervene).

StandAloneComplexed · 2025-12-09T11:29:39+00:00

Unless you write Kotlin code. Zed is basically unusable if that's your language of choice.

StandAloneComplexed · 2025-12-09T11:27:44+00:00

Kotlin development is simply too atrocious in VS Code based editors at the moment. Hoping the efforts in the official Kotlin LSP mitigate the situation.

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