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Comment Re: "Mis-information" = BS Madup word ;-D (Score 1) 110

So an actor playing a doctor in a movie is fraud in your mind?

My dear, fine friend, your logical fallacy is the ridiculous example.

YouTube is mainly an entertainment platform, just like movies. Sure, it gets a lot of content that is actually educational. However no one in their right mind should be thinking of it as anything other than entertainment. There were a lot of medical professionals who were banned from YouTube over posting accurate information during the covid panic.

Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 39

I use ChatGPT-5 constantly for assistance at work (cloud engineer) -- only because it's much quicker and efficient than googling and reading man pages -- and, while helpful, it constantly hallucinates "proper" answers and as a matter of course I need to double-check and verify what's being fed to me. Albeit, it's still faster and easier than doing the research myself, it's nowhere near human-replacement level. Anyone who's used it would know this.

Comment Re:Can the F-35 do anything on time and budget? (Score 1) 57

The issue has nothing to do with f-35 shortcomings and is related to the EMALS on the Ford carrier. They didn't have the necessary information for the F-35 when the Ford was built. The EMALS will be updated during a refit that was scheduled for later this year the last time I heard. All upcoming Ford class carriers will be capable of yeetng F-35s off the deck when they are commissioned.

Comment Cable security drones (Score 1) 40

It seems like this would ba a good use case for drones. A fleet of RTG reactor powered submersible drones following ships watching for them dragging anchors seems like a good job for a drone. If it finds a ship dragging an anchor near a cable it phones home and a remote operator fires a torpedo. Problem solved.

Comment Re:Why not use low earth orbit satellites instead? (Score 1) 40

That would just cause indiscriminate mayhem. You'd take out your own satellites too.

Taking out all satellites would do more harm to the US than any other country. The US relies on them a lot more than any other military. Obviously they have backups and contingencies. But it would degrade Intel, targeting, and navigation. The Navy had to make changes because they got too reliant on GPS.

Civilian navigation would be a disaster in the US. I still keep a road atlas in my car. But I know a lot of folks who can't read a map

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