JshWright (u/JshWright)

JshWright commented on Radar footage shows Hellfire missile fired by US Military bounce off UFO nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-... · Posted by u/eth0up

Metacelsus · 5 months ago

A Hellfire is an air to ground missile, why would they be shooting it at a UFO? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

JshWright · 5 months ago

They are capable of hitting aerial targets as well. They have recently been deployed by the US Navy as a cheaper way to counter cheap aerial drones launched by Iranian proxies (~$100k Hellfire vs a ~$1m SM2).

https://www.twz.com/sea/littoral-combat-ship-can-now-rapidly...

JshWright commented on The Gentle Singularity blog.samaltman.com/the-ge... · Posted by u/firloop

michaelbarton · 8 months ago

Regarding a super intelligence creating new cures: a million plus people die from malaria and AIDS combined each year. We have effective treatments for both, yet the USAID was recently shut down.

I enjoy technology but less and less so each year, because it increasingly feels like there’s some kind of disconnect with the real world that’s hard to put my finger on

JshWright · 8 months ago

TB killed even more than those two combined and is also on the list of “things we know how to treat, but as a society have decided not to”.

JshWright commented on Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C arstechnica.com/space/202... · Posted by u/01-_-

ceejayoz · a year ago

I'm not sure what you find unclear. Navigation was fine - "Athena knew where it was relative to the surface of the Moon" - but without a working altimeter it was kinda fucked for actually touching down.

Hard landing, skid, tip.

JshWright · a year ago

The top-heavy design didn't help things either. I'll be shocked if they don't go three-for-three on landing sideways given IM3 has the same tall design.

JshWright commented on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] youtube.com/watch?v=-qisI... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

JshWright · a year ago

Scott Manley posted an interesting video including some interviews and technical details on XB-1 (as well as some time in the XB-1 simulator near the end of the video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITGgRhjcHAM

JshWright commented on Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history lichess.org/@/Lichess/blo... · Posted by u/alexmolas

seanhunter · a year ago

That was a absolutely horrible finish to a really exciting championship if you ask me.

For anyone who doesn't know, there was a lot of drama because Gukesh was playing amazingly coming into this (eg winning the gold medal on board 1 at the olympiad in crushing style) and Ding had been playing terribly. Then there were 13 games of back and forth with stalwart defending and imaginative computer preparation by both sides, playing a lot of fresh chess and both of them going for the most critical and challenging moves in each position. Ding was playing a lot better than a lot of people had expected and the previous game had been one of the best games in a world championship for a long time. Everything was tied going into the last game of the classical portion and the "bar room consensus" was that since Gukesh was so young and doesn't focus at all on the faster forms of chess (rapid and blitz) and is therefore much lower rated than Ding in those formats, that if this game was a draw then Ding would be a substantial favourite in the ensuing tiebreaks.

The final game was a complex struggle, with Ding keeping everything in lockdown with the white pieces so as not to give Gukesh a ghost of a chance. Most of the pieces had been traded and it was the most drawish of drawn endgames. Gukesh was up a pawn, but they both had a rook and bishop and all Ding had to do was hang on to his pieces and keep them well away from the enemy king. On the stream I was watching IM David Pruess had just been asked by someone in chat whether Gukesh could win and he said "1% chance".

Then all of a sudden Ding made 3 bad moves in a row. The first two were just poor endgame technique, putting his rook and bishop both on bad squares too close to the enemy king, then the real blunder. Completely inexplicably he traded off the pieces. Now he was in an endgame that was just dead lost. After 14 games of 4+ hours each It had gone from being a dead draw with him a big favourite in tie breaks to all over in a few seconds.

JshWright · a year ago

> After 14 games of 4+ hours each It had gone from being a dead draw with him a big favourite in tie breaks to all over in a few seconds.

_Very_ casual chess follower here. Why was Ding a big favorite in the tie breaks? My takeaway from the match was that Ding seemed to always be worse on time, so wouldn't a shorter time control favor Gukesh?

JshWright commented on Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages old.reddit.com/r/redscare... · Posted by u/paganel

JshWright · a year ago

UHG had $22B in profits last year. They did it in part by having the highest claim denial rate of any major insurer, and things like (allegedly) using an AI based claim evaluation tool with a 90% error rate. UHG also includes other "middleman" companies that are purely extractive, like Optum.

"Profiteering" doesn't seem like that tough a claim to make here...

JshWright commented on Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre seriouseats.com/how-honey... · Posted by u/haunter

Alex3917 · a year ago

SnapDragon is a vastly improved version of Honeycrisp anyway. The only real issue with it is that only growers within New York State are allowed to grow it, so it's not nearly as available.

JshWright · a year ago

Yeah, as a resident of NY apple country (I'm ~20 minutes from Beak & Skiff, frequently voted one of the best orchards in the country), SnapDragon is the way to go.

JshWright commented on France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony lemonde.fr/en/france/arti... · Posted by u/Kuinox

q1w2 · 2 years ago

What a failure of our western surveillance organizations that the only spies we catch are the ones that are so bad at their jobs that they get drunk and brag about it.

How do we fail so badly to counter foreign influence, sabotage, and espionage operations?

The examples of successful foreign operations in Western countries is so long and embarrassing - high level people operating for DECADES, changing MAJOR western policies, and sending back to their foreign handlers CRITICAL data and intelligence.

If this continues, we are absolutely going to get destroyed.

JshWright · 2 years ago

How do you know that this is the only spy that was caught? It seems in the west's best interest from a propaganda perspective to paint the FSB in a poor light (to discourage cooperation), and they are obviously selective about what gets disclosed.

JshWright commented on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops old.reddit.com/r/crowdstr... · Posted by u/BLKNSLVR

FireBeyond · 2 years ago

As a paramedic, there is very little about running a code that requires IT. You have the crash cart, so not even stuck trying to get meds out of the Pyxis. The biggest challenge is charting / scribing the encounter.

JshWright · 2 years ago

lol, yep, that was my take on this... If you need a computer to run an ACLS algorithm, something has gone seriously wrong.

JshWright commented on UK has almost 1M EV chargers, with new public one installed every 25 minutes theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/Capstanlqc

simonbarker87 · 2 years ago

Sure:

- visiting family, 2 lots, both over 3 hours each away

- mountain biking, 2 to 5 hour each way

- friends wedding, 3 hours

- airport run, 4 hour round trip … twice

- overnight work trip 5 hours each way

That’s a pretty common 2/3 month period for us. Oh and when we had the PS2 there was a daily commute to one of two office between 30 and 60 minutes each way.

JshWright · 2 years ago

Wow, with that amount of driving you're going to be stuck with ICE cars for a while. I suspect you're a significant outlier though in terms of long trips per month.