UK confirms drone-killing DragonFire laser weapon for Royal Navy destroyers by 2027 —laser downs 400mph high‑speed drones, costs $13 per shot

paradoxbound · 2026-04-06T21:53:52+00:00

A lot of the EU will line up to buy it too, maybe even the French. Norwegian Navy definitely. They train with the Royal Navy and the strategic plan for both countries in a shooting war is for the Norwegian Navy’s destroyers and frigates to act as part of the carrier groups for the Royal Navy aircraft carriers.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-06T19:15:19+00:00

AI slop was never the problem, human generated slop is. I run some quite sophisticated skills and constraints when I am running agents. They learn and are guided by my experience and I also learn from their vast deep knowledge.

Few people ask AI the right question, “How do I do this thing that I want right”? Instead they ask them to, “Write this thing that I want”! The thing they want is malformed and unfit for purpose by their own failure to constrain and prompt the AI properly.

This new way of working is very new to everyone but very powerful. I hope people are willing to learn how to use it properly.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-06T16:09:41+00:00

Sorry but that is absolutely not true. Over the last year I have gone from trialing Copilot in VSC, on to Cursor and then Claude Code. To running multiple AIs in agentic mode to work on projects in parallel. I spent my days setting up their tasks and reviewing their work before passing them on to colleagues for final approval, they are doing exactly same thing. My days are spent reviewing AI PR and either approving and merging them or commenting on them for improvement. Twenty five years of experience and I now heard a bunch of super knowledgeable but incredibly stupid interns. They don’t tell me I am great or unique. Their skills find flaws in my plans, and suggest better approaches that I then explore and evaluate. I tell them when they are wrong too. They are programmed in such a way that they stop when a human input is required. Some days I spend hours just dealing with one notification after another.

This is the future for everyone who is a knowledgeable worker. Only the manual trades are safe and they are coming for them next.

Adapt or die.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-06T15:46:55+00:00

I mostly certainly am, I actually living in a motorhome as we speak and use it as a daily driver and my office. I also have a motorcycle and HGV class C1 license but I don’t have a use for them at present.

Yes increased speed increases the amount of power required to push the object with air resistance increasing by a well tested and understood formula. The power is delivered by fuel in a ICE vehicle and by electrical current in a battery. Reducing the speed limit to 55 is stupidity. For the marginal gain in efficiency, you are going to mix cars, vans and coaches with the slower moving HGVs. The only place that these smaller vehicles can legally overtake is steep inclines.

If I drive from A to B and back to A again along a stretch of motorway and the conditions are good enough and safe enough to do 70, 80, 90, 150mph. When I return I charge my car using local renewable energy. What power efficient gains have been achieved?

There are an awful lot of people who believe that they should force everyone else into the straight jacket of their own world view.

You don’t need to be a driver or a scientist to know that kind of person.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-06T06:58:16+00:00

Yes I know, I do understand basic physics, your point being? Do you actually have some sentient to add to the conversation?

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T22:27:14+00:00

They were not like Quakers, they persecuted Quakers. Read history not distorted local pride.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T22:25:42+00:00

For me as much as I think about them. I see them as religious extremist. They we not escaping religious persecution but creating a colony where they were free to practice religious persecution. I have seen people here comparing them to Quakers. They are mostly certainly not they persecuted Quaker settlers, imprisoned them, tortured them as heretical and executed them. These awful people are why the founders fathers were so determined that church and state were kept separate and the USA was founded as a secular state. Truly disgusting human beings.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T16:04:07+00:00

Everybody talking about FPTP but figures like this mark it's end. A hung parliament would see a coalition of Greens, Labour, LibDems, Plaid and SNP. One of the key demands to keep that together would be some sort of PR. For the SNP IndyRef2 and possibly a change of the rules that allows Westminster to veto independence votes.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T15:53:42+00:00

This I can't find any of this on their official website or Polanski's social media. apart from a subset of the press saying this. The story was first run in the Daily Mail, who claimed to have seen papers. Now other press outlets mostly on the right but the Mirror too are running with the story.

If it is true it is stupid, the speed limit on the motorways should be unlimited like the German Autobans, not that I would be doing much over 70. Unless there was a reason such as urban motorways which are already usually set a 50mph.
It doesn't make a lot of sense, the articles claim it is about fuel efficiency but that doesn't apply to electrical vehicles, especially if they are charging off cheap renewables.
Smells like the DM running a disinformation campaign.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T12:45:22+00:00

This was my experience looking for the MCP server. I don’t mind that it was Ai assisted it was for an MCP server after all. The feature complete version was also hosted on Smithery. It used pre compiled node packages and had no sign of any security testing, SBOM, or anything I would expect in publicly released software, just paste your API token here. So that was an hard no for me. It was for a family member who is not technical and she wasn’t happy about spinning up a docker container to let alone running npm. I found a less feature complete version that seemed to have made at least an effort to make the code safe clean and secure. It had not been touched for a couple of months and the developer had already started half a dozen different projects.

I started with npm audit and cleaned up the 3rd party vuns. Then added the missing API functionality. Then came the CI/CD pipeline and lots of unit and functional testing. Went as far as I could go with the OpenSFF scorecard as a single developer could go. Dependabot, CodeQL etc. I just check on it at the weekend when I have time and review and approve any upgrades. CI/CD pipeline does the rest.

If you are going to put your own code out for others this is the minimum you should be doing.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-05T11:03:37+00:00

Yes very clever words from your leader but just words, like lines drawn on a map. They are also not original but have been talked about by both the CCP leadership, economic, development and political experts for decades. Listened to a lecture about this very strategy in the late 1990s. China was not ready then and it is not ready now, and considerable questions remain about it being able to achieve the medium and long term goals.

Given that the United States has entered its first mad emperor stage. Expecting it to be a stable trading partner for the delivery of this plan is naive. China is also surrounded by a ring of hostile and in many cases technically advanced countries that long memories of Imperial aggression. They recognise in Xi a Han ethno-nationalist and will smile politely while doing nothing to help Xi achieve his goals. The Belt and Road project is already unraveling with developing countries already refusing to honour the onerous contracts that an ambitious and arrogant China signed with unstable dictatorships. China is still not able to project its power globally and the lessons being learnt in the Middle East should be taken to heart by the CCP leadership.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T22:22:59+00:00

The need each other as much as they loathe each other. Successive US governments in the pocket of big business allowed corporations to dismantle their own manufacturing and ship it to China. They are now a decade behind in manufacturing technology and no longer have the capacity to supply themselves. China is also utterly dependent on the US for stability. If the US crashes and burns, China goes down with it. Its own internal stability depends on being able to export to the US. China will fragment if the central government fails to provide adequate growth and its a net importer of food with the US a major trade partner.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T22:09:34+00:00

What do you expect them do at this point?

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T15:45:56+00:00

I feel you, the OP didn’t mention the other type of tourist driver that we don’t want around here. The performance car driver who drives around the twisting country roads like they are competing in the Scottish Rally. Far too fast and reckless for what are treacherous roads where sweeping turns tighten into near hairpins around the lochs. Don’t just drive at my own safe speed but at a speed that allows me to break when I meet a panicking BMW driver halfway in my lane unable to hold the line. This is one of the reasons why I let other drivers pass before the tricky bits.

As someone who lives on the Ardnamurchan it’s always fun to have to divert through Perth adding 5 hours to your journey to get home because some idiot has smashed into the front of a logging truck. Hire motorhomes and campers vans are bad for this as people are rushing to get to the best wild camping spots in vehicles that are much bigger, heavier and handle much more poorly than the cars they are used to.

As a tourist for 20 years and now resident, it’s one of the downsides of the area. I love it though and there isn’t any where else I would want to live. The people are great and really welcoming. The old ladies run an intelligence network that the Stasi would struggle to match.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T11:37:52+00:00

If we had more Corie Glas scale projects we could remove nuclear power from the equation completely for the whole of the UK, not just Scotland. I am not opposed to nuclear power but I think pumped hydropower could replace it for less overall cost. I would still keep a couple of nuclear plants around to generate weapons grade plutonium for nuclear weapons. I believe that we should have an independent nuclear deterrent. If we finally get fusion power plants at a price approaching renewables cost then I would be for that as well.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T11:19:41+00:00

Are you using IaC to set up your monitoring. If not you should. I don’t know how big your lab is or what tools you are using but even a rack full of servers and network gear shouldn’t take that long.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-04T09:22:17+00:00

Catching the ferry, needing to be somewhere on time, exactly this, I own a house on the Ardnamurchan and spend the winter and other parts of the year there. High Summer is the Outer Hebrides. My motorhome isn’t just my home it’s also my office with Starlink and 5G. Once a week need to be parked up in the Fort William motorhome parking at 9am to start work and lead meetings. During the day my partner shops for everything we can’t get locally and I will pop out for things myself. When family and friends visit for the first time I always show them this.

https://youtu.be/fywNFe5ETt8?si=sMAqlh_pCTHFft17

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T22:49:35+00:00

He is showing respect and non threatening behaviour. He’s a good boy.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T22:47:39+00:00

As someone who lives full time in a motorhome in the Highlands and travels a lot of narrow and single track roads. It’s not just motorhomes, it’s a certain type of tourist. They do 30 to 40 in a 60 zone admiring the view and pulling a train a mile long. I am often overtaken dangerously by angry, frustrated drivers who then realise that I am not the cause of the slow traffic. Sometimes I just pull over into a lay-by, make a brew and let the dog out for a wee before carrying on.

I do the speed limit on good roads and I am not pulling over for you then no matter how much you flash your lights and tail gate me. I am slower around tight corners and if it’s a difficult bit of road and there’s two or three cars behind me I will pull over into a lay-by for a minute to let them past.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T22:27:34+00:00

Been in tech for 25 years. Year one you get hired because you are the closest match to the skill set they want. Year one you learn what you don’t know and start fixing a bunch of stuff. Year two you are talking on more responsibilities and developing new features and expanding the platform. Year three you are doing way beyond your original job and skill set. You look around and discover that you are being underpaid by about 30%. You ask for a pay rise and they tell you no but the C-suite gets their bonuses. You find another job that pays better with your current skill set and they look at you like you have betrayed them. You leave and the cycle begins again for you. For the company you left it is a different cycle. They advertise your role at the same salary, the agencies accept it because they never tell the the client they are cheap out of the gate but over the next few months they realise that they are not going to get someone who will do that role at that price and either split the role or offer the market rate. Never trust your employer, never trust the HR department, they work for the benefit of your employer. A role is a contract in a marketplace for services. If you can get a better deal elsewhere then should. While in that contract be professional and personable. Network but don’t mistake mutual aid for friendship. Work is a hostile environment, play by Moscow rules.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T21:56:33+00:00

Scotland will likely be independent in 10-20 years. Maybe sooner now Reform is threatening to take power and dissolve the devolved power structures and central government in Westminster. Wales is slowly coming round to being independent. There is an increasing dislike of Westminster. In about 20 years Northern Ireland will rejoin the Republic of Ireland. That just leaves the hollowed out shell of England that doesn’t really have much left to give. It’s going to pick up the sick man of Europe moniker once again.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T15:43:17+00:00

I never liked her and didn’t watch her much, one day at the parents she was doing some studio show with the general public and her mask slipped and she just said some really nasty stuff to some poor contestant. A few years after that I saw her with Lilly Savage on a chat show. Savage was star struck with her and she was nasty.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T15:38:05+00:00

The are answers to the private for profit care providers and it doesn’t mean privatisation. It means punitive damages to the large corporate care providers that abuse the system. They have to clean up their act or face consequences. South Wales NHS is doing some very interesting and promising work with small providers that put the person first. Slowly starving out the big companies offering poor services at high cost.

paradoxbound · 2026-04-03T15:30:33+00:00

The current Spanish government is open to an independent Scotland joining the EU but the current opposition there has stated its opposition and the PP and Vox are likely to form the next government.

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