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Ah the good old fk it well do it live approach to dev
They are testing the:

  asfasfasdfasfdasdfasfasfasfsadffffffffffffffffffffasdfsfsafsfdwfgasdgbdfbgdsgasdgdsbdb

defense system (the pentagon is a really big building).
The military does love a good acronym.

And a good backronym. If some system doesn’t have these letters starting its name, it will soon!

Advanced Strategic Framework for Allied Security and Force Alignment, Surveillance, Defense, Forward Asset Stabilization, Force Deployment, Aero-Space Defensive Frontlines, Allied Support, Forward Assault, Special Forces, Aerial Synchronization, Fusion, Assurance, Safeguards, Frontline Security, Superior Applied Deterrence, Flexible Forward Formations Facilitating Fused Fronts For Future Functionality, Aligning Strategic Defense Foundations, Synchronizing Frontline Sectors, Assuring Force Stability, Forward Dominance With Fused Global Alliance Support Defense, Generating Broad Deployments For Battlefield Global Dominance, Supporting Ground Assault, Strategic Data Grid, Defense Synchronization for Broad Domain Boundaries
What model did you use for this?
Definitely a good use of AI.
Wheres the fun in that?

Acronyms need to be hand crafted.

Anyway, AI can't even give itself a good acronym.

It should be 'Machine Intelligence and Neuro Datagrams' or something.

Also known as TTLA (the thirty-letter acronym)
It's actually 86 letters, making it TESLA
But that's part of DOGE, not the DOD.

Then again, DOGE would probably think TESLA is more efficient than a TLA.

of all the comments on the page, THIS is the one that gets downvoted!?
DOGE fans that don't realize that the GAO already exists.
This, unfortunately, seems like the most plausible explanation. "President" Musk is dicking with the system, like S3XY. Remember that he's gaining control and also believes reality is a simulation, and keeps a Vajra on his night stand. I see him as a future Ashoka, who, waking up to the harm he has manifested goes all in on the Triple Gems.
This is my new favorite conspiracy theory
When I worked at Defense a friend maintained a db of TLAs.

There were over 13,000, and I can’t remember how many were not unique, but it was staggering

Is that the name of an Arduril Java bean?
not quite enough f-words (;^o) to cover that long string of f's in the middle there
This is the best possible response to the post!
Finally we’ve found the best use for LLMs
It’s interesting that an LLM was able to do this, given their inability to see words as sequences of letters.
Ah getting ready for the next four years, are we?
ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDWFGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
I suspect the author uses a qwerty keyboard.
I would go one further and suspect the author used only their left hand to type the message!
Test works. Your posts will automatically go to the top of HN.
Looks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the best of us.
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More likely they use CMS, since it's the news section of the site, and someone simply clicked "Publish" too soon and forgot they did.
Congratulations to DoD for hiring new junior dev.
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Anyone thats managed a website before has probably done that test post and forgot to delete it after the fact.
Yeah I don't really see what's noteworthy about this.
It's funny. It will always be funny.
plot twist, the person who sent it here is the responsible for creating the test page
It only looks like a test. The DOD just activated all our sleeper agents in Asfasfastan.
No, its a Canary.

If the message is removed, The Nuclear Subs have to assume WW3 has just happened.

> 404 - Page Not Found

Uh oh

I'm looking forward to a new supply of Asfasfastani war rugs and souvenirs sold at the Friday bazaar.
In Elbonia as well. We are ready!
I haven't visited Elbonia in a while. Do you live near Weenus or Chelidon? How's the weather this time of year?
Thank god at least it’s in English not Chinese or Russian
That's exactly what they want you to think.
its a asdfasd encoded message
Might want to check back in a month or two.
Just watch as all our geopolitical adversaries scramble to demonstrate their test capabilities.
I thought that was supposed to be banned by international treaty.
Since the U.S and Israel never signed it the rest of the world decided to back out.
When you work from home and your kids are learning to publish news posts )))
This is actually a HN hiring post / the worlds most secure CAPTCHA: if you can decode this Elon’s D.O.G.E will be reaching out
Unfortunately they have no budget and will pay you in dogecoin
Must be willing to relocate. No wfh, remote.
You can work remote work with Elon, https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GeW7pibWAAAq_es?format=png

It's allowed after your minimum 40h in the office.

40 hours a week is less than they ask of factory workers? Yeesh. Even with fancy robots etc they can't make it work on an 8 hour shift?
https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382

"9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they just wrote and think about how some of these statements look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate times call for desperate measures... but if it's a "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative scumbag, plain and simple.

You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and affects vastly more workers given the size of his companies.

Oh wow. I seriously considered working at comma (the company I believe George Hotz is referencing in that post) once. After reading "[Elon Musk] […] had all the same ideas as me", I feel like I dodged a bullet.
Yet these leaders sit on Twitter all day engaging in petty nonsense, but demand 12 hr days from workers. How productive are they during those 12 hrs?
How do people with elderly parents, or young kids or other responsibilities outside of work deal with such awful schedules?
Must be willing to work hard core. Must always be on site 100%

If you are not sleeping in the office, you aren't waking up with a job!

Not willing to sleep in the office just to be fired.

Let that SINK IN.

I think I’m becoming paranoid, I thought my phone was going to explode if I clicked the link
No your phone self destructs 5 seconds after reading it.
I'm more worried by this:

> Subscribe to Defense.gov Products > Choose which Defense.gov products you want delivered to your inbox.

Quite sure that they can hit my mailbox from there with many of their products.

Resisting the impulse to ask for any surplus materiel they might have to be delivered to my inbox.
Yes. 'products' in the context of the DoD isn't the kind of thing they should be offering to Civvys. Or foreign nationals in my case.
Don't select the wrong one!!
It's probably goint to be fine unless you demand express delivery.
I'd reckon they would have audits in place to trace who accidentally made this post?

Either way, just for the fun of things, post your (fun and wildest) guesses on how this probably happened below...

My take is someone about to post a news article, left the view and their pet (thinking a cat) ran through their keyboard and posted the article. And since the cat has gained awareness, they were able to move the article from draft to an actual post. =)

Doesn't Wordpress run the website? Is Matt Mullenweg sending us a message?

1) What

In my province in Canada (Quebec) some IT worker in the government made a template .doc document that's widely used. They exported it with the document title "sdf fdsfdsfg". This title isn't in the actual printed document but it's in the metadata. If you Google that string in quotes you'll find tons of official documents with that title.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Sdf+fdsfsdfg%22

Ok this is amazing. I can’t decide whether it’s funnier when the result header is something super official or when it’s just “sdf fdsfdsfg” with official content inside.
To avoid accidentally sending an email in Outlook, I once learned a useful trick: add a nonexistent email address, like sdfsdf to the To or CC field. Email would not be sent until you removed it. Lo and behold, one day I entered sdfsdfsdf, and it resolved. Someone of course was using this as a test group name.
Why not simply leave To and CC empty until it's ready to send?
Right, for new email leaving them empty would work. This is for when you reply to a thread.
And I thought intern season was over…