The hardest part about air defense is making sure EVERYONE involved is trained, aware of the context and not bullshitting.

This is why you can’t bullshit air defense.

The only thing that can slow down the coming counter-offensive against russia from entirely shattering russia and taking large swathes of territory is Trump, and he will eventually stop it but it will cost russia and Trump material concessions to Ukraine do so.

Can’t wait to see lots of these being dropped on russians who are refusing to stop fighting.

Putin is Trump’s Daddy

Honestly I think they realized how hopelessly the russian war machine had already been broken before they stepped into the picture in force and once they realized how bad it was they started backing away slowly promising to help from further away.

Sufficiently desperate people can be found.

Weird I am not sure.

I always include the normal youtube url though.

Oops I think the Invidious link needs some time to begin working for a new video, I don’t know why.

edit it is working for me now

Oh true there could have been

Looks like someone did not correctly factor the height of a building into their flightpath. Definitely doesn’t look like that was the target.

This underscores the importance of developing basic object avoidance autonomous capability for automatically pulling up if something is sensed in the flightpath.

Edit a situation like this could also be caused by gps spoofing making the drone think it is somewhere else than it is by my point still stands.

We are going to lose everything eventually from the capacity for unexpected mass suffering and inability to predict it growing endlessly after killing NOAA and abandoning Climate Science.

They are artillery shells, they do not stay secret by design.

Kinda like field hockey I think.

The russian operator looking at the drone camera feed of this advanced multipurpose armed-to-the-teeth Ukrainian USV cruising along had to have been thinking “we are SO fucked”.

This is undoubtedly categorizable as a terrorist attack, plainly and clearly.

Sometimes Daddy learns a lesson from his little boy.

If at first you can’t succeed cheat!

I am not a professional programmer but it seems to me that the idea that AI is needed to increase the firehose of code being written to “improve” programming and how well computers work is as absurd as the idea that the point of a university degree in a language is to increase the raw amount of words being written in that language.

The point is to convey ideas with language not produce more language, same thing with code, the point is to solve problems not produce ever larger and larger amounts of code with automation.

Something I know without a doubt is that for many people who love language, they desire a great deal less of the fake, hurtful, useless words that drown out the good ones. People who love words and work in crafting and shaping them tend to think it is inherently good to shape useful words not just mindlessly produce combinations of words in as great a volume possible.

To put it in a more abstracted fashion, relying on AI to produce more and more code faster and faster feels like a Jazz musician saying they rely on AI to fill in all the empty spaces they leave between notes with complementary embelleshing notes. The point of a jazz musician is clearly not to produce the most notes possible, it is to convey meaning with notes.

To bring it back to a concrete example, how many times has Google built a new chat program/app from scratch and then abandoned it? Sure there is lots of code there of very high quality, an intimidating amount to be sure, but isn’t the primary job of the programmer here to say “hey, why don’t we stop writing new code from the ground up for every chat app a different part of the company wants and standardize it to a much smaller codebase with a set of customizations different parts of the company can apply to the same core chat program”?

It seems to me a good programmer would be good at framing problems from a perspective that requires as simple implementation in code as possible within reason, not be best at producing the program with the most lines of code fastest that still solves the problem.

Yes and no, russia is uniquely terrible at counter drone technology, at a macro doctrine level they are incompetent and unable to evolve to protect against it.

Drones represent a major new threat, but this different this is russia admitting it has decisively lost the drone war.

Don’t be too harsh on them, they are part of a religious cult known as Late Stage Capitalism.

Later after everything is dead and it is too late maybe we can re-evaluate but we should stick to moderate actions now and let them continue to destroy the planet to be safe and more importantly fair to everyone.