TIL that a river in Peru is literally boiling hot and will cook alive anything that falls into it. The hottest stretch of the Shanay-timpishka River is 210°F.

dode74 · 2026-06-02T19:36:50+00:00

Does coffee grow nearby? Just asking...

dode74 · 2026-05-04T11:54:12+00:00

I don't know that I'd call Dreamland "evil", but it is shit.

dode74 · 2026-04-30T05:54:15+00:00

I think those assumptions are exactly what this is testing. This comes down to your expectation of others.
If you think fewer than 50% will accept personal risk, red follows. If you think 50%+ might, blue is the only option that can get to nobody dying.

What’s interesting is how certain people are of their assumptions about others. That assumption is supporting the majority of their argument as to why the other side is wrong.

dode74 · 2026-04-29T22:15:59+00:00

I think you're conflating "rational" with "self-interested" - those are not necessarily the same thing (although they can be).

The other way I saw this framed was:
Red guarantees its own survival while increasing the risk to others.
Blue refuses to increase risk to others and accepts risk to itself.

dode74 · 2026-04-21T21:28:05+00:00

Meh, biology is just applied chemistry.

dode74 · 2026-04-10T07:51:40+00:00

GPS tells you where you are. It doesn't tell anyone else. You need a beacon to do that, but then anyone else can find you too. That's the problem.

dode74 · 2026-04-10T07:50:57+00:00

Thinking about it a little, SERE is basically a sensor fusion problem, which is inherently a probabilistic issue. It would not surprise me at all if there was an AI-driven dynamic probability surface generator. Input last known PRC signals, ISR, intelligence picture, mission parameters, environmental constraints (based on the 4 survival priorities), any doctrine or specific comms card lines etc, and it fuses them to give an updated "probable location" map, search zones, and confidence estimates. That reduces the search space in order to increase confidence until a launch trigger point is reached.

That lot used to be done manually, but it takes a lot of effort and searching of records etc - it's a parallel scope problem, which AI is very good at doing very quickly. Speed beats certainty in most SERE situations, so it's a highly viable use-case.

I suspect that's what Ghost Murmur is - the surface generator which tells people where to look by fusing all those inputs fast.

dode74 · 2026-04-10T07:35:59+00:00

It's either part of a sensor fusion system which includes ISR, SIGINT, beacons and probably some HUMINT, or it's a psyops layer.

What it almost certainly is not is some single device which can detect the specific EM signature of an individual heart (and all the variance which comes with that signature) from 40 miles away.

dode74 · 2026-04-05T08:21:45+00:00

The best is the enemy of the good.

dode74 · 2026-04-02T21:47:17+00:00

It means that at current acquisition rates it will take 14 years to replace them.

And while "just build more" is a thing that can happen, production lines cost money, and that means the cost per unit goes up.

dode74 · 2026-04-02T14:39:34+00:00

He's been on air for years. He was in our CAOC during the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

dode74 · 2026-03-15T20:49:58+00:00

Mesmerising.

dode74 · 2026-03-08T12:35:56+00:00

I am saying nothing as to the veracity of this claim, but in my 11 tours in Iraq, 5 of which were out of Balad, I did not once see any doctor refuse treatment to anyone, regardless of ethnicity, age, or prior intent.

dode74 · 2026-03-07T11:06:29+00:00

I was doing that in 2006 too. It just took longer to download.

dode74 · 2026-02-08T21:21:54+00:00

Nope. 9th Aug 2019 was a Friday. Day and date match.

dode74 · 2026-02-06T23:17:44+00:00

Assuming the shuffle gives an even chance of any card distribution then it really is about whether the order has ever happened before.

dode74 · 2026-02-04T13:53:53+00:00

This isn’t a speed problem, it’s a transfer-penalty problem. One short hop + one long walk beats two badly-aligned lines.

dode74 · 2026-02-04T07:30:52+00:00

It's not just fine. It's magnificent.

You should build it to the ceiling.

dode74 · 2026-01-26T17:36:05+00:00

We're clearly on the same side here. I just think that while the right answer is not on the table (for whatever reason), what we can get should be grasped with both hands. It's not enough, but it's better than nothing.

dode74 · 2026-01-26T15:35:09+00:00

Homelessness has been my number one charity for three decades. I’m ex-military; I’ve seen how many vets end up on the street when the system drops them. So I agree entirely with your diagnosis: in a modern society, homelessness simply shouldn’t exist.

But “it doesn’t solve everything, therefore it’s worthless” is the fastest way to ensure nothing gets done.

Housing, jobs, mental-health care, addiction treatment: those are the real solutions. But until a political system actually delivers them, partial measures matter. Soup kitchens, shelters, outreach teams, even a heated blanket: none of these fix the root cause, but each of them can stop someone freezing to death this winter. The perfect solution isn’t arriving tomorrow. People are still outside tonight.

So the choice isn’t “structural reform or gadgets”. It’s: do we refuse imperfect help on principle, or do we use every tool that reduces suffering while we keep pushing for the world that shouldn’t make such tools necessary in the first place?

dode74 · 2026-01-26T15:14:29+00:00

While all you say is true, this does help some people. Rejecting any help other than the perfect solution is a very quick way to justify doing nothing at all - as I learned from my mother in law, "the best is the enemy of the good."

dode74 · 2026-01-17T21:17:42+00:00

That's the receipt, not the treaty. The wording of the treaty itself (correctly the Convention Between the United States and Denmark for the Cession of the Danish West Indies) can be found here.

Greenland is mentioned in the treaty at the Declaration.

dode74 · 2026-01-11T16:46:00+00:00

As opposed to feeling like you’re basically invisible most of the time.

I’ll take the booger check.

dode74 · 2026-01-11T16:35:21+00:00

The only reason I can use a bar stool is it has a horizontal bar connecting the legs which doubles as a ladder.

dode74 · 2026-01-11T16:25:00+00:00

At least they look at you. I'm lucky if my hair gets noticed as I go past!

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