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I used GPT-6 yesterday[1] to generate a paladin, based on a generated texture. The front looks impressive, but then you look from the side, and... well: https://imgur.com/a/VN2g34D

I'm hoping this will do better than my setup.

[1]: using the BlenderMCP + a bunch of skills I found online


Absolutely scathing results, and rightfully so!

That being said: I can imagine that IF any of them generates the design of a new drug that cures _any_ cancer right now, it will still take several years before seeing results - creating the drug must be feasible, then it must be lab-tested on animals, then on humans, get approval, etc, etc.

So I'm crossing my fingers on this one, but I won't hold my breath because 5+ years is a long time.


> Hizballah

Is that Hezbollah's little brother?


Hizballah and Hezbollah are different spellings of the same thing, with Hizballah probably being more accurate and the one regularly used by the US government.

Oh...the US government. That clarifies a lot...

It clarifies what, exactly? That there are a myriad of spellings for a group whose name is originally in Arabic and couldn't care at all about how we spell it? I was just correcting the person who thought it was inaccurate to use the spelling "Hizballah".

Are the Dutch more clarifying for you?

https://pt.icct.nl/article/hizballah-africa

Or how about the Brits?

https://search-uk-sanctions-list.service.gov.uk/designations...

A worldview of "America dumb" is a boring way to go through life, especially with topics about which you clearly have a very limited understanding.


https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...

Check the <li> near the bottom. Some are named, such as Armed Proletarian Justice, Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, and Jane’s Revenge, but some unnamed ones as well (at least their actions have been described).


Because as we all know, the US government (and especially this one) would never lie.

How are the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq doing?


I heard MS13, and Tren de Aragua.

Gotta love how you provide a clear, cogent answer to his question, and so people downvote you.

A/I wasn't like protonmail; they specifically provided IT support to terrorist groups, who would often be violent and would sometimes kill people. I mean to thoroughly vet your users and then make the services anonymous is a wild thing to do, all while encouraging violent users to use your site.


In the energy world, this should be such a boon over the classic NWP (Numerical Weather Prediction; complex ML models), but I've not seen it implementated. Anyone with experience of these models over classic NWP?

Why should they be such a boon? High-resolution, regional NWP with fast refresh has been a standard tool for over a decade.

Its not there because a lot of the providers werent providing until recently, and higher spatial resolutions, referesh times and higher compute costs meant that no one used them in prod. We tried with ECMWF-AIFS however ENS + IFS was bettter better.

A few weather forecast sites in Europe have them on their websites. It's just another forecast you can select and compare in an ensemble.

Problem is that the WN3 grid is still quite rough (5km) - but a that's a brutal improvement for many places compared to many other global models.

Quite a few country-scale models go down to a 1-2km grid nowadays. This is very helpful in complex geography like mountains and alleys.


> Problem is that the WN3 grid is still quite rough (5km) - but a that's a brutal improvement for many places compared to many other global models.

That's a pretty apples-and-oranges comparison. One would almost always use a high-resolution regional model if you needed certain details for different forecasting applications like renewable energy.

It's also worth noting that the 5km outputs are from a model decoder head that was trained against temperature and dewpoint at surface stations. According to the Rasp et al (2026) preprint, this head was designed for continuous sampling; the choice of a 5km grid is arbitrary. What we don't actually know is how well the model handles shocks like a frontal passage or impacts from things like outflow from storms - or even evaporative cooling from precipitation. We are limited to the output that DeepMind publishes; we can't run the model and stress test these things on our own.

That's all a long way to say that the 5km resolution is (a) limited to temperature fields, and (b) we don't know if the "additional" resolution has any impact whatsoever on the phenomena that one would typically use a mesoscale-resolving forecast for.


You could use this model as another input into the country-scale models.

This would not likely be a great idea since you reduce your ability to understand inputs except for a few parameters. Explainable inputs become very important for many down the line processes used by government and industry alike, because said inputs and their predictive certainty can be quite informative, even critical, for accurate mesoscale prediction.

If model members were available, with all the usual measures, thats a fantastic place to start looking at serious inclusion. It doesnt seem thats the case, however.


> compression levels -1, 1 or 2

Are the available compression levels not 1-22? Though that might depend on the specific library used - the official lib at least uses 1-22: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/programs/zstd.1.md...


There's negative levels for faster decoding and compression. level -1 uses half the CPU of level 1 and with a custom window size can be really good for streaming compression. I think the negative levels go down to -7 if I remember correctly?

Speaking of pigz, I've run into pigzpp[1], or rather its paper: "pigzpp: Fast, Parallel, Portable Compression for the Whole Stack"[2].

Turns out we can squeeze quite a bit more compression performance out of DEFLATE - ~10x in certain instances, 2x as a base minimum (read the paper for details).

[1]: https://github.com/thammegowda/pigzpp

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24153


Preventing potential version/feature issues?

> Yes a plumber can be more easily outed as anti-gay and fired

Why would I care if I don't notice? I'm paying them to fix my literal plumbing, not to proverbially suck my dick. If they do the job I pay them for, and they're not giving me shit for who I am, why would I want to get them fired?

This uni-context feels like a very silly idea in practice.


If Hitler would fix your plumbing would you give him money, or would you look for another plumber because giving money to Hitler is bad? Now scale that principle down.


But isn’t it actually better for the world if Hitler was to spend all his time fixing plumbing rather than shun people like him from society entirely and give him all the free time and reasons to take action on his vile opinions? After all, a common theory is that if he simply got accepted into art school, the entire world would be different.


Yes, but it's worse for the world if Hitler saves up his plumbing income to fund the Beer Hall Putsch which makes him famous and leads to the Holocaust.


This doesn't seem very compatible with societies that have a Germanic majority as population. _Maybe_ the USA can be the pluriformity that adopts this, but I don't see this as an attractive idea for my society (Netherlands) at large. "Act normal, and you're already acting crazy enough", and all that.

I want to be able to discuss taboo ideas in private, without getting globally cancelled for something I that might be discussed out of my mind. No thanks to the uni-context.

context-bound > uni-context, for at least the Germanic-speaking world.


What about "Germanic" society are you saying is incompatible with this? (English is a Germanic language, by the way.)


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