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There’s a lack of capacity, but it’s a generalization to a very large cold-war style conflict. ie - you are right NATO has identified shortages, but it’s more of a concern for conflicts on world war scales.

Just searching around, the USA alone has 500,000 JDAMs sitting in warehouses. I knew it was a lot because of the recent quotes on what Israel has stockpiled. They are much more effective than artillery, don’t miss, and can be used for deep strikes on stealth aircraft.

My main point here is that Ukraine is a bad example of supply shortages, so I don’t want to lose sight of that. That conflict is a good example of shortages for _part_ of the military supply chain in an unexpected use-case. Full NATO involvement or support would have seen the end of the conflict by now one way or the other. The reason I say that is that Ukraine has put a major dent in Russia’s military with no modern air force, no navy, world war 1 tactics, and at best mediocre support from other countries.

That’s true, but the US and Europe also haven’t structured their modern capabilities around artillery. It’s a component of their doctrines, but wasn’t expected to be required in such large quantities as Ukraine has required.

They have astronomical stockpiles of other weapons like JDAMs able to be delivered by F-35, etc.

I think Ukraine is just in a weird situation, because they are fighting WWI-style. NATO has strongly aligned their doctrines with total air superiority, and Ukraine hasn’t been able to take advantage much in that area.

There’s a very big difference between what the USA does in proxy wars vs direct conflicts.

Ukraine doesn’t have air superiority, and is basically getting shipped leftover or soon-to-be disposed equipment. You have some really good points, but I would be cautious about extrapolating over Ukraine.

As a counter-point, you can look at what happened in Iraq when it was basically a large military power entering the Gulf War (and stealth fighter/bombers were in their infancy).

As permanently mobile as a wife and young kid allow. We spent 3 months on the road 2 summers ago and had a great time!

I expect our radius to get smaller as our child gets older and goes to school, but we are very passionate about being outdoors as much as possible.

For example - I helped build a mutually accessible structure in a national forest, and my favorite work days are out there. We installed solar last summer, so it’s workable year round now.

As with most things, I think the answer is “it depends.” I have seen some very efficient storage systems designed around S3/R2 object storage where applications run in ephemeral containers, and storage is abstracted.

I have also played a role in running an on-prem SAN that worked well mostly.

Vape concentrates can be worse based on what is used during extraction/added for flavor, etc.

I agree it’s worse than doing nothing, but I am curious if herb vaporizers end up being similar to edibles in harm levels. Especially herb grown in an environment with no pesticides, etc.

Probably some mental health damage from Covid lockdowns as well.

To the downvotes - I’m not saying lockdowns were a bad thing, but they did take a toll on many mentally. I’m personally still struggling to recover to my pre-Covid levels of mental health. It was very tough personally on me, and I took the lockdowns very seriously.

I’m not sure how I feel yet. Rapid rate of change can uproot systems pretty quickly. I guess I’m just holding judgement to see if this is a new Industrial Revolution, and fallout that might occur. Ideally this wouldn’t be a worry, but we don’t live in an ideal world.

I personally use AI as a tool, and feel more productive FWIW.

Yeah - I’m just shocked I didn’t get a hallucinated response for the query.

Sure, but it’s pretty amazing to me that ChatGPT didn’t just hallucinate a response to a generic request to decode a string. It recognized the string as base64, wrote a valid program to decode it, and returned the correct response.

Maybe I’m just old and amazed, but that seems pretty cool (terrifying?) to me.

I basically said “decode this thing.”

I’m just surprised it hit all the steps properly rather than hallucinating a response.

Holy cow. ChatGPT 4 actually decoded this. It went into analysis mode, wrote some python, ran it, and gave the correct answer.

I don’t have unlimited PTO, but it sure is nice to shut my laptop at 5 and be somewhere beautiful. I don’t have that luxury at home and it’s a huge perk with my current job.

When I’m on PTO, my laptop doesn’t go with me. I absolutely use all my PTO every year.

It’s the same argument for the cloud. With Backblaze, I pay $x/month and someone else deals with OS/Software updates and hard drive failures. If I don’t outsource, I handle it myself for less.

It’s just a trade off based on how much time and comfort you have as a personal user.

I’m not extremely productive, but I have 2 use-cases I’m excited about.

1. Having more screen real estate in my small home office. I often dive into spaghetti code, and seeing more of it helps me maintain context.

2. Working in my RV. I can’t take my extra screens with me (it’s a multi-use family RV, so I’m not mounting anything. Plus, there isn’t room.), and I’m so, so excited about having more screen real estate in there. We lived/worked in it for 3 months last summer, and it was really nice coming home to more screens at the end of the trip.