#warstories — Public Fediverse posts
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The Moral Fog: Stories of Ethical Dilemmas in Combat
A night of flares and confusion becomes a moral fog where clear choices vanish. Follow two urgent, human dilemmas: a medic who must choose between treating a wounded enemy child and protecting a convoy, and a pilot ordered to strike a target that could be a hospital.https://igottaknowyou.com/2026/07/13/the-moral-fog-stories-of-ethical-dilemmas-in-combat/
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The Moral Fog: Stories of Ethical Dilemmas in Combat
A night of flares and confusion becomes a moral fog where clear choices vanish. Follow two urgent, human dilemmas: a medic who must choose between treating a wounded enemy child and protecting a convoy, and a pilot ordered to strike a target that could be a hospital.https://igottaknowyou.com/2026/07/13/the-moral-fog-stories-of-ethical-dilemmas-in-combat/
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Griffith’s Private Michael Paice and the war medal he never talked about
In February 1945, Private Michael Paice was in the jungle of Bougainville, in the Solomon Islands archipelago, with…
#Australia #AU #Austrlia #distinguishedconductmedal #Griffith #michaelpaice #veterans #war #warhistory #warmedals #warstories #WorldWarII
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No Easy Day isn’t just about the raid. It’s about how men are made for the hard roads. It’s about what they carry inside.
#WarStories #NoEasyDay #Readers #books
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No Easy Day isn’t just about the raid. It’s about how men are made for the hard roads. It’s about what they carry inside.
#WarStories #NoEasyDay #Readers #books
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Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do
#HackerNews #Palestine #Conflict #HumanRights #WarStories #ChildrenVoices #NewsCoverage
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Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70n2x7p22do
#HackerNews #Palestine #Conflict #HumanRights #WarStories #ChildrenVoices #NewsCoverage
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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Friday, February 27, 2026
Russian FPV drone on fiber optic cable reaches Kharkiv for 1st time since start of full-scale invasion -- Orban's election campaign strategy: blackmail EU & Ukraine over Russian oil and hope for a fight -- Fact-check: No, Ukraine's attack on Russian oil pumping station is not an attack on NATO -- Swedish military jams suspected Russian drone near French nuclear aircraft carrier ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-27-2026/
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Discover real stories from patrols, meetings, and late-night strategy sessions.
#OperatorsBookReview #WarStories #MilitaryLife
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Discover real stories from patrols, meetings, and late-night strategy sessions.
#OperatorsBookReview #WarStories #MilitaryLife
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Discover real stories from patrols, meetings, and late-night strategy sessions.
#OperatorsBookReview #WarStories #MilitaryLife
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #430: The HMS Cambeltown.
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When I hear about AI-based programming, I think back several decades to a time when I was dealing with a hairy set of data, and I wrote a pretty complex bit of code generating an even more complex bit of SQL. I don't remember now if it ended up proving useful or not, though I think it did. But that's not the point.
The point was when I came back to it after a few months ... I couldn't figure it out at all. Neither the generator, nor the generated code.
And I HAD WRITTEN IT. Myself, from scratch, sorting out what I wanted and how to get there.
There's a principle in programming that debugging and maintenance are far harder than coding. Which means you should never write code that you are too stupid to debug and maintain. Which is precisely what I'd failed in my anecdote.
And of course, Management, in its infinite wisdom, typically puts far greater emphasis on new development than on testing, or Heavens Forefend!!! maintenance. So all the brightest talent (or so perceived, at any rate) goes to New Development.
(There's a great essay from about a decade ago, "In Praise of Maintenance, which you, and by "you" I mean "I", should really (re)read: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance-rebroadcast/).
With AI-based code generation, presuming it works at all, we get code that's like computer-chess or computer-Go (the game, not the lang). It might work, but there's no explanation or clarity to it. Grandmasters are not only stumped but utterly dispirited because they can't grok the strategy.
I can't count the number of times I've heard AI referred to as search or solution without explanation, an idea I'd first twigged to in the late 2010s. That is, if scientific knowledge tells us about causes of things, AI ML GD LLM simply tells us the answer without being able to show its work. Or worse: even if it could show work, that wouldn't tell us anything meaningful.
(This ... may not be entirely accurate, I'm not working in the field. But the point's been iterated enough times from enough different people at least some of whom should know that I tend to believe it.)
A major cause of technical debt is loss of institutional knowledge over how code works and what parts do what. I've worked enough maintenance jobs that I've seen this in all size and manner of organisations. At another gig, I'd cut the amount of code roughly in half just so I could run it in the interactive environment which made debugging more viable. I never really fully understood what all of that program did (though I could fix bugs, make changes, and even anticipate some problems which later emerged). Funny thing was when one of the prior Hired Guns who'd worked on the same project before my time there turned up on my front door some years later ... big laughs from both of us...
But this AI-generated code? It's going to be hairballs on hairballs on hairballs. And at some point it's gonna break.
Which leaves us with two possible situations:
- We won't have an AI smart enough to deal with the mess.
- Or, maybe, we will. Which as I think of the possibility whilst typing this seems potentially even more frightening.
Though my bet's on the first case.
#AI #AiProgramming #Hairballs #WarStories #Maintenance #TechnicalDebt
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When I hear about AI-based programming, I think back several decades to a time when I was dealing with a hairy set of data, and I wrote a pretty complex bit of code generating an even more complex bit of SQL. I don't remember now if it ended up proving useful or not, though I think it did. But that's not the point.
The point was when I came back to it after a few months ... I couldn't figure it out at all. Neither the generator, nor the generated code.
And I HAD WRITTEN IT. Myself, from scratch, sorting out what I wanted and how to get there.
There's a principle in programming that debugging and maintenance are far harder than coding. Which means you should never write code that you are too stupid to debug and maintain. Which is precisely what I'd failed in my anecdote.
And of course, Management, in its infinite wisdom, typically puts far greater emphasis on new development than on testing, or Heavens Forefend!!! maintenance. So all the brightest talent (or so perceived, at any rate) goes to New Development.
(There's a great essay from about a decade ago, "In Praise of Maintenance, which you, and by "you" I mean "I", should really (re)read: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/in-praise-of-maintenance-rebroadcast/).
With AI-based code generation, presuming it works at all, we get code that's like computer-chess or computer-Go (the game, not the lang). It might work, but there's no explanation or clarity to it. Grandmasters are not only stumped but utterly dispirited because they can't grok the strategy.
I can't count the number of times I've heard AI referred to as search or solution without explanation, an idea I'd first twigged to in the late 2010s. That is, if scientific knowledge tells us about causes of things, AI ML GD LLM simply tells us the answer without being able to show its work. Or worse: even if it could show work, that wouldn't tell us anything meaningful.
(This ... may not be entirely accurate, I'm not working in the field. But the point's been iterated enough times from enough different people at least some of whom should know that I tend to believe it.)
A major cause of technical debt is loss of institutional knowledge over how code works and what parts do what. I've worked enough maintenance jobs that I've seen this in all size and manner of organisations. At another gig, I'd cut the amount of code roughly in half just so I could run it in the interactive environment which made debugging more viable. I never really fully understood what all of that program did (though I could fix bugs, make changes, and even anticipate some problems which later emerged). Funny thing was when one of the prior Hired Guns who'd worked on the same project before my time there turned up on my front door some years later ... big laughs from both of us...
But this AI-generated code? It's going to be hairballs on hairballs on hairballs. And at some point it's gonna break.
Which leaves us with two possible situations:
- We won't have an AI smart enough to deal with the mess.
- Or, maybe, we will. Which as I think of the possibility whilst typing this seems potentially even more frightening.
Though my bet's on the first case.
#AI #AiProgramming #Hairballs #WarStories #Maintenance #TechnicalDebt
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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Nothing Less Than Full Victory! – War Stories: Rendezvous With Destiny
#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #WarStories #WWII #WW2 #YearZero @FirelockGames @FreeLeaguePub
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Nothing Less Than Full Victory! – War Stories: Rendezvous With Destiny
#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #WarStories #WWII #WW2 #YearZero @FirelockGames @FreeLeaguePub
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Nothing Less Than Full Victory! – War Stories: Rendezvous With Destiny
#BoxcarNation #Review #ttrpg #WarStories #WWII #WW2 #YearZero @FirelockGames @FreeLeaguePub
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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"This is an intensely readable book and one that was impossible to put down." Readers' Favorite
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