... I was thinking more like an IR/UV floodlight, than a laser.
Less chance of accidentally blinding someone.
Granted, you'd have to figure out a frequency range that would be 'super effective' against particular cameras, but... I would feel bad about accidentally giving someone a non consensual amateur lasik surgery.
Its ok lol, this whole catastrophe was so complex that the NTSB ... seems like it had to redo its whole report, or maybe a better way to say it would be that their initial report was incomplete, and the later report hsd a loooot more, and some just actually different analysis and conclusions.
There were many, many contributing factors to this.
ATC was overworked, made a mistake.
Later tried to correct it, but it likely wasn't heard because a huge truck hauling water... well its diesel engines spooling up are very loud, inside the cabin.
Systems... didn't specifically fail, they just didn't work correctly, due to not being fully implemented.
The drivers of the truck could have paid attention to the red strip of lights infront of them, instead of ignoring them - its possible that if they asked ATC 'hey why are the DONT GO lights on, ATC?', the ATC might have looked at the system controlling that and seen 'oh, the lights are red because a plane will be landing in 45 seconds'.
Another part of the reason that crash occurred was because the firetrucks didn't have transponders for the system that is supposed to be aware of all things that are, or about to be, on a particular part of the airfield.
If they had had them, this would have triggered with the system thats hooked into the radar detection of oncoming aircraft, that the ATCs did have, it would have started barking out warnings.
(ASDE-X is the specific system I'm talking about)
So... if you just ... plug in AI... to hardware sensors that dont actually exist... well they're gonna miss things too.
Kinda like how... it doesn't matter how much compute power Elon crams into a Tesla, the Autopilot based on visual cameras alone will be inferior to an Autopilot that also uses LIDAR.
(My source on this is youtuber Captain Steeeve, retired pilot, goes through the latest NTSB report)
It ain't exactly blazing fast, but it does actually work.
(Reasonably fast if you go down to the 2B param model, I can get the 9B param variant working, though this makes Steam Decky very hot and bothered.)
Yeah, you absolutely do not need Nvidia hardware to run an LLM, but we get blasted with their propoganda suggesting otherwise just all the time in the English speaking West.
Because if you don't need Nvidia, well, then, this whole AI bubble looks a lot more bubbly.
I stay informed of current events, wherein I am constantly reminded that the world is absolutely chalk full of far, far greater failures than anything I've ever fucked up, or am even capable of fucking up.
(I picked this one because I am a blatant Seattle Supremacist /s)
So yeah, you'd have to overlay this kind of a map with say, county level political maps for the US, apologies to Canadians, I do not know what the Canadian approximate equivalent of a county is.
But yeah, then look at rivers, origin points, watersheds, dams, other critical infrastructure, etc, to see how this could possibly shake out.
The Greater Idaho idea was originally to essentially carve off as many counties in eastern WA and OR, basically east of the Cascades, and... move them into Idaho:
I ... guess they gave up on trying to take Spokane.
But uh yeah so basically everywhere between the Cascades, down to Medford, down further to Redding... would potentially be a war zone.
Like, I5 south of Portland would be a critical artery and thus a warzone, probably same with I90.
Personally, if this happens, I'm counting it as yet another thing Deus Ex ended up predicting.
There's a conversation you can have with an ex NSF soldier, who tells you about how his squad got wiped out at 'Squalnomie', by other troops with thermoptic camo.
Squalnomie -> Snoqualmie, as in Snoqualmie Pass, I would assume.
Between 25% to 35% of the US population is Y'all Qaeda.
They're completely delusional, psychotic religious extremists, who literally believe that they speak and act with the authority of God, and thus cannot be wrong.
That seems like roughly an equivalent level of 'mission failed due to leadership derpitude' hahaha, obviously different in that its real world.
Yeah I've never used a real world PLGR, though I'm pretty sure ACE or an ACE submodule or something overhauled the AN/PSR-11s to make them work closer to how they actually do IRL, than in the vanilla game.
Having not been in the military, what I guess I mean by land nav is just: You have a compass, a map, and your eyeballs, you're 14, exploring during a camping trip. I wasn't even in scouts or anything... I just read some guides, including like old army field manuals from the 80s ish, probably?
But uh, you're gonna have to explain DS and DFAC to me... I can only emulate things so far... so many acronyms that actual vets use, that I have no clue what they are =P
I don't know how it isn't extremely obvious to everyone that the plan will be:
Get everyone addicted.
Raise the price exorbitantly.