christ, sounds like mcnamara. the americans killed north vietnamese faster than they killed americans, so how come they lost?

Because the North Vietnamese were not bombing and destroying American home soil schools, apartment blocks, utilities, etc. on a daily basis.

Lacking any real home soil peer citizen engagement the US saw the Vietnam War as a costly pointless loss of money, resources, and life on the far side of the planet.

The Ukrainians are somewhat more engaged.

The difference is, as the other comment points out, the Americans could have (and eventually did) leave South Vietnam any time they wanted with no negative consequences. It was a pure war of choice.

Everyone on the Ukranian side knows that their options are: victory, death, a deeply miserable time in a POW camp, or abandoning their life and becoming a refugee. Regardless of what your rank or social status is.

Different situation. The Americans were killing Vietnamese in Vietnam. There was a near unlimited number of those, including innocent ones.. The Ukrainians are killing Russian soldiers in Ukraine. There's a limited number and if they don't like it they could go back to Russia.

It's rough on the killed soldiers but that's really Putin's fault - I think he was basically the only one who wanted the war. Most Russians looked horrified.

this is one of the great insights of photography and we can all apply it. no one gives a shit about another picture of the leaning tower of pisa in your photo album. its the weird, candid, accidental shots that are most interesting and enduring. but its easy to not grasp that in the moment - the tower is what you're there to see, and its stunning, so of course it's what you photograph. those spaces in between though, like that iphone video, are what secretly transcend

i do wonder if the world would be a better place if instead of lawyers we had cage matches

Southwest Airlines got sued by some other company over, IIRC, color schemes. Southwest's CEO (Herb Kelleher) made an offer to the other CEO: They skip the lawyers and settle it with an arm-wrestling contest. The other CEO agreed.

Eventually, they wound up selling tickets to the match, and donated the proceeds to charity.

Now that's a civilized way to conduct a lawsuit.

lol who is this guy talking to

i can't even get youtube to load with ublock.. theres a years old thread with hundreds of comments on the github -- what are people actually using today to preserve their sanity on youtube?

edit: the issue with ublock is the black screen - sometimes the video loads after 10 or so seconds, sometimes it doesnt. i dont consider hiding the ad while still having to wait around for it to finsish playing behind an overlay the same as "blocking" :|

Using ublock and umatrix both on firefox with full tracking protection enabled. Don't recall ever having any issues with youtube. Sometimes an alert will pop up "see why you're experiencing playback interruptions" and it clicks through to a page about how this is due to my adblocking extension but the joke is on them because I don't recall it ever actually being interrupted. It's just this erroneous alert that occasionally pops up.

Still using ublock. Recently there's a delay starting vid sometimes, about 3 sec. I can deal with it.

Ublock origin for whatever reason never blocks ads before video for me. IDK what is up with my parameters because I know it works for other people.

I have the same issue. Perma-black loading screen that resolves as soon as I disable ublock origin. Using Firefox on Debian.

Thats interesting. If you’re on Chrome I’d try out Firefox just to see. I haven’t had any issues for a long time.

Works fine for me, FF Win11

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yep, can confirm. we pay for the service, we use an ad-blocker and we are the ones affected. oh the irony... i now have ublock disabled for youtube.

image generation kind of reminds me of video games or any cgi in general.. the progress is undeniable, and yet with every milestone it seems the last gap to "photorealism" is infinitely wide

reminds me of a friend who had IBS and was desperate to try a fecal transplant but no doctor would offer it. so her partner gave her one and it worked

uh ohhh... forgot how to think..

I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete.

All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.

I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.

You’re not wasting time by being deliberate about what you build and having to choose what to dedicate yourself to. Vibe coding is not synonymous with productivity, and a lot of what we call “productive” today is just a different form of wasting life that is more socially acceptable.

I made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.

Thank you for spending your time and effort on something fun you believe in and that explores a point about human nature, and for showing we often underestimate how much we can get done in so little time on our own when we set our attention to it.

Should that be a criteria for deciding whether it's cool or not?

Criterion.