This is probably not top-level worthy and I'm going to hell for this but this reads like slop. Maybe I have trust issues with content now, because everything looks like slop. But I am pretty sure I can get that essay out of claude and just sed the funny grammatical characters out.

I didn’t get the slop feeling. I could see some long winded argumentation that diminished the messaging. The important aspect in this is that someone with political inclination can use the powerful imagery of a scapegoat sacrifice to appeal to the psychological bias that we are better than previous people and fight a casus belli with another one.

I would argue the author even deliberately misunderstands engineering.

> Engineering is the commitment to understanding what actually causes what [...]

This sounds like science to me. Engineering is the exploitation of scientific principles for human reasons. Whether those reasons are "clean water" or "war" does not take away from the essence of their engineeringness.

Clickable paths is the unique feature of iTerm2 I use the most. It's called sematic history, for some reason, and converts a UNIX environment into something like an IDE. I let it trigger a bash script that opens my editor when I click a path in, e.g., a stack trace or in the output of a sequence of piped commands.

The developers of Kitty, Ghostty etc. are too much mouse haters to even acknowledge the possibility of this feature, so I'm stuck with iTerm2.

Use terminal.app. Since tahoe it supports 24bit colour and has key combos for the most common features.

then don't use it ? There are dozens of alternatives

> AI features almost forced on us until the community complained

This was a wrong take back when it happened and it’s even more silly to bring it up now. No AI features were forced on anyone, it was opt-in and HN lost its mind over a nothing burger.

“Oh no! This software has a feature I don’t like which isn’t even enabled by default, whatever will I do?”

nc /s

If you create a piv certificate on a yubikey and just plug it in while logged in, it automatically registers it as a login method.

Yeah but then it will only use the certificate on the yubikey and not ask for a password so we’re back to 1FA

What if you pay a lawyer whose entire function is to type your questions into Claude?

Nuclear burns uranium which doesn't renew much. Although there isn't really a shortage either.

The sun of course will run out one day but people don't really plan that far out.

Project Hail Mary was not bad.

Ban all data centers until they run off SMRs. Then you'll see nuclear take off like a rocket.

This is an insane take. Why would Netherlands do this when America exists? And even if they didn't rest on their laurels and let America do it, they would not be able to establish a kill chain the way USA can, and so they would need American support. And even if they forewent the support, they would be denounced on the global stage and suffer massively economically. You are massively underestimating just how much liberty USA has to say YOLO and do whatever it wants.

Russia has established that it cannot in fact do this! That is why the two week special operation has gone on for so long.

China? It remains to be seen.

For now the best assumption is that USA is in a league of its own when it comes to imposing its will on other nations.

> Why would Netherlands do this

Maybe the Dutch are willing to risk it all to annoy the libs so they will elect and transfer all the power to a complete clown and attempt to make some money on the stock market and betting sites in the process.

I don't think parent is arguing that is a wise or prudent thing to do, but merely that violence is very much accessible to the state as an option. Just because it is not exercised with reckless abandon like, especially more recently, in the case of US, does not mean it suddenly does not exist.

<< For now the best assumption is that USA is in a league of its own when it comes to imposing its will on other nations.

You are wrong in general on this point. European countries in general have a long and exciting history of imposing its will upon others ( unilaterally and not ).

> For now the best assumption is that USA is in a league of its own when it comes to imposing its will on other nations.

It literally lost and wasted huge amount of resources in the process. Everyone else politely nodded until insulted too much, but otherwise ignored what USA wanted. When insulted, they exchanged some words while continuing to practically ignore what USA wants.

> For now the best assumption is that USA is in a league of its own when it comes to imposing its will on other nations.

I don't think that is a correct take away.

assuming that this ceasefire holds (big fucking if) it proves that the US is unable to defend it's self and allies against sustained drone attack.

Part of the reason why the middle east's US allies are allied is the implicit deal that they won't fuck with the oil supply, and the US will protect them against their enemies.

In the 90s, the USA would park a few carriers in the gulf and project complete air superiority. They can't do that anymore, and now needs land bases controlled by allies who the USA openly despises.

China doesn't need to bomb places to make its will felt. It's slowly and subtly built out bases over the south sea, effectively fortifying areas that are not chinas. They have also pretty much compromised most of the telecommunications infra through the various typhoons. (I've also heard rumours that intelligence agencies are leaking like a sieve as well.)

Part of the reason that WWI happened was because a massive military power tried to crush a "primitive" opponent, they fucked it up and demanded help from its allies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cer this then dragged everyone into a massive fuckup.

EmDash is a stupid name