The rise of the drone in hot wars like Ukraine is one of the most important technological shifts nobody is talking about.
Thanks @johncoogan for the great explainer. The stirrup changed the world. The drone is next and I worry America may be behind. https://t.co/NvB9XcAqq5 pic.twitter.com/rC8vPlywLM
— Garry Tan ้ๅๅ ด 🛡️ (@garrytan) June 13, 2023
I said nearly those same words to my partner the other day. The rise of the drone will change nearly everything about warfare.
This is very modern poppy but still a fun song and video.
I've worked in-person for three different startups. I've never ever witnessed one of those serendipitous "hallway conversations" that turned into a meaningful product. What I have witnessed are:
1/4
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) June 10, 2023
I’ve worked for startups, small companies and large companies. I’ve also never even once had or witnessed one of those almost-certainly-apocryphal productive hallways conversations happen ever. And that’s because they don’t.
This is just a ploy by the micromanagers and MBA losers to get us cooped up back in the office, doing unproductive shit like they do all day.
When I started the department I work in had zero documentation. Not the first thing. Now we have many hundreds of pages of it, all used frequently.
It has saved countless thousands of hours. It’ll save countless thousands more. I personally have written much of those docs. All told, I probably spent a hundred or so hours on them. But it means many other people are 10-100x as productive as they otherwise would be, and don’t have to bother others to complete their work (which further reduces productivity greatly).
Everything your team does should be documented. I make it part of any new task I assign. Before a work ticket is closed, documentation must be created.
This nonsense is about a 24-year-old woman:
Anyone who believes a fucking 24-year-old woman is still in adolescence is a clownish dipshit. Nevertheless, a lot of Gen Z does believe absolutely crazy shit like that. In fact, a lot of them believe women are basically children until they are 40-45.
Way to regress, fuckos.
Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian Bm-21 Grad with a M30A1 GMLRS AW. pic.twitter.com/c1nqAcNTLi
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) June 10, 2023
Damn. Look at that shockwave.
What's interesting about the "MR-2 Victor" purchased from Czechia for 🇺🇦 (Essentially ZPU-2 dual 14.5mm HMG mount on a Toyota Land Cruiser with day/night optics) is that they seem to be very stable when firing, more so than usual craft-produced technicals.pic.twitter.com/i0CYlDgIk4
— Cแดสษชสสแด Oสsแดแดสแด (@CalibreObscura) June 11, 2023
Looks that way. I don’t know anything about that particular vehicle, but that means a nearly-complete suspension change and probably a lot of frame augmentations (additional cross-members and the like) for that kind of stability. Usually those technicals shake like a leaf in a thunderstorm firing those kind of weapons.
I knew the republic was lost when being fat, weak and dumb came to be valorized.
just learned that a cute account posting pics of huskies quit twitter because too many zoophiles were sexualizing the dogs pic.twitter.com/3ndJJtbiwW
— pagliacci the hater 🌞 (@Slatzism) June 10, 2023
I’ve seen a lot of things. But now…now I’ve seen everything.
This is clown shit. It contains a lot of unevidenced assertions and highly dubious ideas it takes as obvious.
I do high-level cognitive work. I design complex networks and cloud architectures. I am not at all able to be productive when gladhanding MBAs drop by my desk every 15 minutes to talk about sports teams I don’t care one little fucking bit about.
Back when I was forced to work in an office, I’d sit there all day and do basically nothing because there were way too many distractions to think. Then I’d go home and do my real work for 4-5 hours every night. Alas, I did this for many years. I refuse to do this ever, ever again. I will never take an office job again. Not fucking ever.
I am 2-3x as productive in work time spent at home. Sometimes more. I’d warrant most people are too, unless they are those gladhanding MBAs. It’s no surprise really that the very least productive people are forcing RTO because most of their status and advancement is based on office politics and throwing others under the bus rather than actually achieving anything.
The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate.
Just a few years ago nearly everyone was saying that this was “impossible.” Remember that? It was ubiquitous.
Policy matters. Incentives matters. Everything else is just doofuses with status quo bias.
Today I was putting together a bit of self-assemble storage. In the reviews, people said it was really hard to snap together. Seemed quite easy to me, though.
Then I realized, things aren’t so difficult when you’re 2-3x as strong as the average person.
Fuck I love being strong again. Being weak sucks and is terrible.
Guys, whats the weirdest thing a girl has said to you thinking it was a compliment.
“You’re pretty cool even though everyone hates you.”
THANKS RACHEL. (This was in early high school and we were assigned as lab partners.)
Census Bureau is switching to a chained price index for its household income measures, a good idea which will probably spawn some conspiratorial takes.https://t.co/9Fchkmi8Ur pic.twitter.com/NJe0hJkFbt
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) June 8, 2023
Ya fuckin’ nitwit, this will conceal actual inflation. Clown ass motherfucker.
Chained CPI does represent what consumers actually buy. But just because prices increase so much that someone can only afford ramen and unbuttered toast is a bad representation of anything at all useful. It thus misrepresents inflation enormously and is a terrible measure for understanding what’s actually happening in the economy.
If there were a World Dipshit Competition, it’d be a tight race between Yglesias and Welsh. I really am not sure who would win. Nor do I care, really.