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Bir sorum var.

Türkiye’den Kanada’ya göç ettikten sonra, F35 hakkında çok farklı bir tartışma görmeye başladım. Bir kere, Kanada kendi isteğiyle programdan çıkmış. (Gerçi sonra sipariş etti, Rus tehditi yüzünden) Platformun bir çok sorunu olduğundan bahsediliyor. Kanada’nın kutup sorunu da var, tek jet motorlu olmasının kutup şartlarında bir dezavantaj olduğu söyleniyor. Maaliyeti beklenenin çok üstünde.

Bütün bunların üzerine, bir de Hürmüz Körfezi ve Rusya’nın Donbas işgali yeni teknolojilerin savaş tekniklerini değiştirdiği söylemi var. Hava üstünlüğü hala önemli, deniyor, ama sürekli jet uçaklarının havada dolanması, yerdeki dron operatörlerine çok fazla etki etmediğinden bahsediliyor. Yani mesela yerdeki gruplar piyade veya mekanize birlik olsa, bombardıman uçaklarından korunması lazım, ama dron operatörleri çok daha küçük, pahalı platformlarla bunların vurulması ekonomik olmayabilir.

Bunların ışığında, F35 Türkiye için gerçekten önemli mi?

Who are you and what makes you supportive of the idea of CANZUK?

I’ll go first: Canadian immigrant. My main concern is realpolitik, I see it as an option and maybe a very important tilt in the post-American-oriented western world. Definitely no monarchist implications from my point of view.

(I think that this subreddit will keep things civil - I am hoping to get few-sentence summaries of how people see this, not any frivolous back-and-forths)

I read the series. Then I read the series again, this time, with notes. This is what came out of it.

1. I think that most of the subreddit agree on this: >!Alecto is the souls of the people of the earth put into the body. However, there is a connection between Alecto and Harrow as well. This is apparent from Jod's scribbling on the sand, E -> A -> H. This is Earth -> Alecto -> Harrow. It is also apparent from the John passages, he is talking to Harrow, but makes mention of "hurting [Harrow]" in reference to the nuclear apocalypse that he brought about.!<

>!Related to this point, it is important that Jod knows the circumstances of Harrow's birth. He makes it very clear. So there is more to the birth story than we know, something that connects Harrow to Alecto directly. She is more than just necromantically-augmented, she is connected to Alecto in a very particular fashion.!<

2. Mercymorn also knows something about this. >!When Harrow wakes up in HtN, she asks her "how old are you?" I believe this to be a very critical moment, because The Body [Alecto] clearly says "lie", and Harrow says 16. She is actually 19. Mercymorn believes her and seems to be relaxed, Muir makes this very clear. So, there is something pertinent about Harrow's birth that Mercymorn suspects, about the timing. (In fact, maybe Job came back thanks to Harrow's connection to Alecto? I dunno.)!<

3. I think that Alecto is >!also a source of thalergy for Jod. That is why he can come back from being disintegrated by a Lyctor. I think that's pretty obvious, but only in the aftermath, Augustine and Mercymorn are not aware of this as they plot. It's not thanergy as they initially thought, it's thalergy. Alecto is not persistently dying like "Dulcinea", she is very much alive.!<

4. Throughout NtN, >!Jod is talking to Harrow. The cutoff at the end of John 5:20 and the beginning of Chapter 7 makes it clear - so we know that it is Harrow inside Nona. But we find out that at the end, anyway.!<

5. The blade is important, >!and more than just because of the connection to Gideon Nav. I think that the blade actually was haunted by Commander Wake for a while, but has a previous possession situation as well, related to Alecto.!<

Some questions remain for me:

1. There is a note in the Canaan House, "500 into 50. It is finished". I believe that this is actually in Anastasia's room. Is this the creation of the revenants of the Canaan House? Or something else?

2. There is something weird about >!"Born in the Morning"s name. Nona fails to pronounce it correctly, there is a passage about it. This is one of Muir's breadcrumbs, I am sure, because it does not seem to serve any other purpose, but I have no idea why or what...!<

3. What are the beasts of resurrection? >!Number Three is said to have a "green eye", this has to be another breadcrumb.!<

4. In GtN, there is a reference to a symbol on one of the doors in the Canaan House, "a collection of dots joined together by a line and 2 half-circles". >!What is this? I took that to be description of a pentagram by somebody who never saw one, like Harrow. There are other "Christian Devil" motifs in the skulls as well, but I could not piece it together yet.!<

5. I could not find a reference to Harrow's eye color... Seems important, doesn't it? I am assuming dark, like everyone else, but I failed to find the reference. >!She is Anastasia's line, and Anastasia also has golden eyes, so that is... interesting. Is Anastasia genetically related to Alecto? Augustine puts this together of course, but in relation to Gideon. I am also wondering, if the Lyctoral process did not work with Harrow, if they share the eye color with Gideon, the Lyctors may not have noticed anything... I may have gotten this very wrong here, this is just musings.!<

6. Right after >!the lobotomy, Ianthe goes "to see a man about a queen". Is she meeting with BoE about Coronabeth? Or does she make a petition to Jod? What's going on here? It's never explained? If correct, Ianthe has a very deeper level of plan, different from everything we see in NtN. !<

7. Anastasia, >!after the Lyctorhood, has been "asked something even more horrible". This is what Jod is saying. Has anybody figured out what?!<

What does everyone think? Am I reading too much into certain things here?

Hi, I am an individual with 12 GB VRAM and high hopes.

Should I attempt to fine-tune a smaller model with my Dungeons & Dragons map collection?

I can get AWS instances with 16GB memory, but whether I can afford to depends a bit on the hours required.

I can also increase the number of maps I have.

Does anybody have similar experience?

(I will also ask Claude, but I am seeking a human experience here.)

Just beautiful… My favourite is the 90s version, so romantic…

https://www.instagram.com/p/DYr8jGiDOa5/?img\_index=5&igsh=MWEza2xqZG51bzJiZA==

(I apologize mods for the “low-effort” post, but I thought it is worth sharing.)

Does anybody have experience comparing Sonnet and Opus?

I have been using Sonnet for a good while. One of my concerns is that it keeps adding try…except Exception blocks in Python. This catches all errors, and while it works immediately, it means that many future errors in future environments are simply ignored. I consider this to be an anti-pattern.

Does Opus behave differently? I am asking because I don’t want to spend tokens on larger projects where I can actually observe the issue.

… the department head would be on top of him, telling him to publish articles rather than “a novel”.

But if he did publish LotR and it became a success, then they would be happy to have him.

Le sigh…

The first time I am hearing this story. I am guessing it’s reasonably accurate? It sounds amazing, does anybody have more information on this? (I could always ask ChatGPT but it’s kinda more fun to discuss among us humans, no?)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYsGQLlMfGb/?igsh=b3VyZnlhYWNkMzlj

They also have Byzantine era remains, the post says…

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYe8ZJytWWz/?igsh=bzUxbzVldjZzbmR4