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FOHF @fohf.bsky.social · 7h

These two should not go together…

One senior OpenAI executive said
"[investors] expect you to have a five-year model", but added "right now I'd say there's lots of fuzz on the horizon, and as it gets closer and it's going to start to take real shape"

These people said it is exploring "creative" plans to raise new debt

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 21h

„Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope”

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Sexy Henry Kissinger Costume @mightygodking.com · 1d

reading how foxes are self-selecting now, on an evolutionary basis, for "sociable with humans" and then seeing a flood of "this fox decided to be fwiends with me" videos and it's like foxes finally decided that that one particular group of wolves had the right idea when they decided to become dogs

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I know, after the massive (and disastrous) Don bend tank battles, it was just a useful headquarters to collect and command new units coming from Stavka reserves. And it’s not like German panzer armies (other than two taking part in Blau), were not increasingly looking like this too.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Heh, Tankovaya Armia without tanks.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh, there is a Splinter Cell animated tv series on Netflix! I like Liev Schreiber, but Sam Fisher will always have Michael Ironside’s voice for me.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Stalin, noted hater of procrastination.

However, Stalin had grown increasingly frantic as news of German forces advancing into Stalingrad kept arriving at Stavka. At 2230hrs on 3 September, he sent a telegram (Stavka Order No. 170599) to Zhukov and Eremenko, stating:
The situation at Stalingrad has worsened. The enemy is situated 3km from Stalingrad. He can take Stalingrad today or tomorrow unless the Northern Group of Forces renders immediate assistance. Demand the commanders of the forces standing north and north-west of Stalingrad attack the enemy immediately and go to the assistance of the Stalingraders. No sort of delay is permissible. Procrastination now is equivalent to a crime.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, would have been surprised with a different result.

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Ken Tindell @kentindell.bsky.social · 1d

*deep sigh*

This was the nightmare scenario when I was designing OTA update mechanisms with Volvo. Now, 25 years later it’s apparently business as normal for the “cars are phones on wheels” business.

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

arstechnica.com

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Iron Bull feels sad and forgotten these days.

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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 1d

everyone say thank you to Leigh again please

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 6d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

on.ft.com/3KOUh07

Key para.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

W samym artykule jest jeszcze lepsza koncentracja salwy dla 6 cali u Japończyków. 8 cali mogło za to być lepsze dla wsparcia ogniowego desantu, chociaż pewnie dyskusyjna kwestia, czy lepiej więcej, czy mocniej, w takiej sytuacji. Ogólnie 6 vs 8 to był wtedy budzący silne emocje temat.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Heh, recognized that those massive buildings look somewhat communisty, got „Wuhan 290 km” on second try and gave up-no point in blind guessing.

Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

True, but ranges for both guns are beyond what even radar controlled fire could have managed at the time against moving targets.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Paradox of WW2 light and heavy cruisers (here Japanese ones): 6 in. guns could fire faster and more of them could be mounted, so light cruisers have a larger broadside per minute (or DPS in modern video game speak), than heavy cruisers with 8 in. guns. Penetration is the only advantage for heavies.

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Adam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to all who have watched, liked, and shared the VFX video.

Neither @tvaziri.com nor I could have ever anticipated the response, and it means the world to us that our silly idea has left such an impact.

youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 1d

H/t @michaelstahlke.bsky.social

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

"C‘est normal", shrugs the worldly and contrarian diplomat/ columnist, demonstrating his superior mind by never, ever being surprised or shocked.

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 2d

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 1d

Jaki dobry gospodarz, jak tylko usłyszał o darmowych kartoflach, od razu przypomniał mu się biedny emeryt któremu pomaga i kompletnie zapomniał o swoich trzech tonach.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 2d

You will absolutely never guess what the context is for this rather ominous passage

www.thenational.scot/news/2553640...

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 2d

Almost the same, but with 2 yellows-bit embarrassing since I flew over it countless times in Falcon 4, somehow forgot that it has a major river next to it.

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 2d

Found a very nice drawing of this weapon, though at least somewhat different from what we see in the photos.

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