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I think you could just ship generic robot dogs in a container and have local contractors straw-purchase firearms, 3d-print cradles, and combine them. None of the contractors would need to know what they were doing.

"It takes infantry to hold territory" is still true I guess, but now it's a single operator in a bunker.

Perhaps in the dead man zone, not sure this would work well where there is civilian population.

I haven’t heard “dead man zone” (although I don’t really engage much with military stuff so maybe it is just an expression I’m not familiar with).

I think “no man’s land” is a pretty popular and similar expression. Out of curiosity, did you translate “dead man zone” from another language?

I just find it interesting because it seems conceptually similar but much bleaker, so if it comes from, like, French or German or something maybe it reflects an even bleaker WW1 experience.


You can call it whatever you like: kill zone, gray zone, dead zone - everyone usually understands what does it means.

Good article on what it is: https://texty.org.ua/projects/116021/20-kilometers-of-the-gr...


It seems like there could actually be a difference between them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man_zone - is related to bush fires but seems like it could apply to a battlefield?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_man%27s_land

Something more akin to actually being in "measure" or strike distance vs just contested territory in between?

Edit: Sibling comment I think clears it up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_zone


> I haven’t heard “dead man zone”

It's the space between trenches. I've been watching a WW1 chronological documentary where they use it, but it's also been said in various ways, as you say.

Said playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB2vhKMBjSxOb_127vxja...

Time Ghost makes awesome chrono documentaries for the major wars. And a ton of mini series on special topics.


> I think “no man’s land” is a pretty popular and similar expression.

No man's land is generic and is used in other non-combat scenarios, it could appear in an HOA pamphlet.

I like "dead man's zone" or "kill zone" as it clearly communicates both the contestation and lethality very clearly.


During WW1, many bodies which remained in the zone between the trenches, unable to be removed, so it became an accurate description

"Office, messaging and verbs" was excellent, thanks for the recommendation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579407


Saw this for the first time when @dcre mentioned it.

Really enjoyed this quote:

> a clerk in a large insurance company in New York, and so here you see his office - drones laid out at desks almost as far at the eye can see. Each desk has a telephone, rolodex, typewriter and a large electro-mechanical calculating machine.

> In effect, every person on that floor is a cell in a spreadsheet. The floor is a worksheet and the building is an Excel file, with thousands of cells each containing a single person. The links between cells are made up of a typewriter, carbon copies ('CC') and an internal mail system, and it takes days to refresh whenever someone on the top floor presses F9.


Great questions, I will reinstall Factorio for research purposes and get right back to you.

The Revolution allowed a new system to be built, but it is a teleological fallacy to point to the current system as the result. Centuries of trial, error, and institutional hardening led to the system current Americans would judge.

The first post-revolution organizational system of the US, described in the Articles of Confederation, is very different than the difficult and contingent pivot to a federal system. Almost a million US citizens died in the transition.


Phew, I'm glad "inserting them into your nostrils and braying like a walrus" isn't on the list.


waruburashi


odobashi?


SNORT


Don't, you'll get chopsticks in your sinuses


and that's a faux pas, for sure


I think it's number 9 in the list


sacrilegious lol


Agreed. The United States had an election in 1864, while the states were literally at war with each other.


Yeah... because Lincoln wasn't a wanna-be tyrant like Trump. The leaders in charge of the elections are diametrically different people. Lincoln fought to keep the Union together; Trump tried to cause a coup to stay in charge in Jan 2020. My god.


The name of Lincoln and Trump cannot and shouldn't be used within the same sentence. Lincoln's story is inspiring and you can see him worried about his country and he grew up learning law books being poor and rose up to power.

Lincoln says, "With malice toward none, with charity for all"

Trump is the exact opposite of Lincoln being "With malice towards all, with charity for none"

The irony of the situation is that they are from the same party.

He believed that the greatest danger to America came from within, warning that if the nation faltered, it would be due to self-destruction rather than external forces

Lincoln's famous speech: , "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Lincoln was ahead of his time and might as well have predicted something like Trump.


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This is just not thought through.

If I try to rob a bank with a plastic toy gun, the charge which I would be arrested for would not be "bad behavior that had no chance of accomplishing anything", it would be "bank robbery". Just "bank robbery", full stop. The abject failure of my attempt would have no bearing at all on that charge.

The argument that "he had no chance of accomplishing anything" has no bearing at all on intent.

"He didn't try" is not in any sense the same thing as "he was nowhere close to succeeding". The goalposts have moved between those 2 statements.


Really enjoyed this:

> In the centuries after Archimedes invented the Archimedes' screw, developments of propeller design led to the torus marine propeller... it was invented in the early 1890s

"the centuries" indeed. :)


MCPs are deterministic, SKILLS.md isn't. Also run.js can run arbitrarily generated Node.js code. It is a trivial vector for command injection.

This might be sufficient for an independent contractor or student. It shouldn't be used in a production agent.


> MCPs are deterministic, SKILLS.md isn't.

MCPs themselves may provide access to tools that are either deterministic or not, but the LLM using them generally isn't deterministic, so when used by an LLM as part of the request-response cycle determinism, if the MCP-provided tool had it, is not in a feature of the overall system.

SKILLS.md relies on a deterministic code execution environment, but has the same issue. I'm not seeing a broad difference in kind here when used in the context of an LLM response generation cycle, and that’s really the only context where both are usable (MCP could be used for non-LLM integration, but that doesn't seem relevant.)


LLMs are not deterministic though. So by definition MCPs are not deterministic.

For example, GPT-5 doesn't support temperature parameter. And even models that do support temperature are not deterministic with temperature=0.


Yeah, this isn’t meant to replace your real tests it’s more for quick “does my new feature work?” checks during local dev. Think of it like scriptable manual testing: Claude spits out the Playwright code faster than you would, but it’s not CI-level coverage.

And for privacy screenshots stay local in /tmp, but console output and page content do go to Claude/Anthropic. It’s designed for dev environments with dummy data, not prod. Same deal as using Claude for any coding help.


If you're going to use claude to help you respond to feedback the least you can do is restate this in your own words. Parent commenter deserves the respect of corresponding with a real human being.


You don’t understand what you’re talking about enough so you have to ask llm to generate a response for you?


MCPs aren't deterministic...


Yes, they are. Like any standard API, it is an orchestration layer that, given a specific input should always execute the same logic and produce a consistent output. Its job is deterministic execution.

The agentic system that uses MCP (e.g., an LLM) is fundamentally non-deterministic. The LLM's decision of which tool to call, when to call it, and what to do with the response is stochastic.


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