Supercool, thanks for sharing. I geeked out over the video and its production quality too. That top speed is pretty insane but I suppose it does have a 3 minute flight time. How long before we see this technology popping up in military use? Isn't Anduril or Shield AI doing something like this?
That’ll be a lot of people who are streamers on twitch with it listed on their LinkedIn profile. I’d ballpark closer to 2,000 actual employees — maybe 1,500 as a conservative estimate.
In the case that this was not a poor joke, please do consider calling 988 if in the US or any equivalent service in your locality: https://988lifeline.org
There is more to life than work - and it may be hard to see that in the face of cost and running out of money.
Have you considered any adjacent or post-software gigs? I know some folks who have left to go study a particular science or end up in teaching. A good friend of mine left engineering to become a substitute and then full-time teacher.
For those looking for additional data and more comprehensive coverage on the topic I would point you to Our World In Data's entry on outdoor air pollution.
Pretty fun read. PNR / reservation / confirmation numbers are a pretty interesting method for allowing quick changes. Obviously sharing them is ill-advised. However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?
> However, how is the general, non-technical layperson supposed to know any better?
Exactly the point made by the former Australian Prime Minister, Tony "speedos" Abbott when he rang the blog author directly to discuss the boarding pass issue and gave permission to post about this.
Or, as Former PM T. Abbott put it:
“You could drop me in the bush and I’d feel perfectly confident navigating my way out, looking at the sun and direction of rivers and figuring out where to go, but this! Hah!”
( Cut to Simpson's Bart gets the Boot in Australia episode scene where "Asking the PM" involves yelling out a window to a guy floating in a tyre in a dam )
Abbott the luddite, gave us copper internet and spent 400% more than promised to hobble the national broadband network purely for Murdoch's profits and favours.
Abbott stopped the nationwide FttP rollout (that had just begun after years of preparing) at about 5% so his political opposition predecessors got no credit for a nation building project (and Murdoch profited maximally and his media loves Abbott and the Liberals ever since)
He gave us a lot of other things as well. 10 years of climate wars among much else. I though he was the worst PM in my lifetime, but then along came Morrison…
Yeah, Turnbull. Who you’d have hoped would have known better having previously been CEO of one of the country’s largest ISPs. I seem to recall a video where Mark Pesce publicly called him out on how short sighted his decision was and Turnbull just scoffed.
I've been doing this ever since I discovered my OnePlus 5T years ago generated a QR code to share WiFi details.
It's more of a cool factor with friends but still pretty convenient. Folks in my age group almost intuitively know how to point a camera / get the results.
When I left high school for college (to pursue engineering) I was quite envious of my friends in the liberal arts - they were assigned papers all the time and I had no outlet for writing (something I enjoyed quite a bit).
I have realized that written/technical communication is a great differentiator.
I journal every day but specifically to your question I would say just start writing.
Knowing your audience is key. I usually include an executive summary section at the top of any design document or product requirements document for a high level view of why people should care. Then I dive into a background or history to give context. At the end of the day it's a narrative and follows similar arcs - just with more direct prose and specific facts. I'll also drop this resource here from the Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. [0]
Couldn’t agree more that narrative is the key. If you’re telling a compelling story (which can look very different for different audiences), you kind of get the rest for free, because you will have the reader’s attention.
I lived not far from here when I was in Detroit. Honestly this guy is lucky not to be seriously injured.
The highway, M-10 or the Lodge Freeway, in my opinion should be converted to a boulevard that supports multimodal transit. This freeway cut off my neighborhood from the more vibrant (as it can get for Detroit) downtown and midtown neighborhoods.
Saw that story this morning and it really took me back. Further up that freeway there is another bridge that my sister and I crossed each day to go to school. For Detroiters on here it's Edison Elementary and unlike a lot of Detroit schools it's still open;<). The difference is when we walked it the bridge was fairly new. Sure hope that there's a state agency watching at least old bridges that school kids use.
From the article, MDOT is supposed to be doing yearly inspections on all of these bridges, but they clearly skimped on that the last couple of years or they would have closed this one sooner. They are kinda responsive to heavily trafficked ones -- I used to have to take I-96 to M-39 (Southfield Fwy) and the ramp between them had a large hole you could see the next layer down through for a couple weeks before they repaved, and it was only like 6 more months from when that happened that they redid the whole ramp, making my commute unbearable for a month.
Well then someone isn't doing their job! I wonder if the past two years if they got to work from home?
Remember a few years ago when the freeways flooded and they found out copper thieves had stolen the copper out of their pumping stations! They should have known to check because one of them who was a bit learning deficient electrocuted themselves and it made the news.
Not really applicable, as Detroit is one of the blackest cities in the U.S., with ~80% black population. It's a high-speed corridor from the northern and northwestern suburbs to downtown. The east, west, and south also have freeways heading downtown.
Isn’t it sort of a gift to be cut off from downtown Detroit? I’ve never been there but I’ve got an acquaintance who was held at gun point while fueling in “vibrant” downtown Detroit…
I live in Detroit, a couple of miles north of downtown. I wouldn’t think twice about wandering around downtown, anywhere downtown, at any hour of the day or night. It’s just not dangerous at all.
There are certainly neighborhoods where I wouldn’t do that, but the most surprising thing for me when I moved here was how aggressively friendly everybody is, and how off-base the “Detroit is a crime-ridden wasteland” comments are.
Yep. It's not like crime doesn't exist, but you're probably not going to encounter it unless you're a criminal or unlucky. Almost all of the murders are about drug money.
The main thing I'm getting from that list is that I sure don't remember Fremont being some kind of mecca, of safety or otherwise. So that's surprising.
The thing about the cities in really bad shape is that all we get is the reported crime rate, which tends to be lower. Murder rates are a more accurate statistic since you can't ignore a body like a jacked car or a rape.
I was listening to Dan Snow's History Hit podcast [0] where there was a guest episode on oligarchs & oligarchy in general. They mentioned Caesar because he was also an oligarch, like most of the other generals/Senators of Rome. Jeff Winters also wrote a book on this topic [1].
Caesar threatened the oligarchs of Rome by crossing the Rubicon with his legions which was heavily frowned upon by the others. Caesar threatened their power structure for sure and likely led to his death.
I’d say it takes two to tango. Caesar didn’t cross the Rubicon with his legions because he was a mustache twirling villain. He did so because the Roman senators (rightly) feared any man who commanded the respect of a large portion of the legions. Caesar has just pacified one Romes oldest fears, the Gauls, and the people loved him for it. He was told to disband his legions and return to face the senate, a move which certainly mean death, so he did what anyone who wanted to keep living: he invaded.
I really wouldn’t say Caesar’s death had anything to do with oligarchs. Sure he threaten their business interests but what he did was so much worse in their eyes. Remember Rome was built on overthrowing a tyrant, the Senators believed any man who refused to disband his army was an aspiring King and aspiring kings can’t be allowed to live.
Of course Caesar was an aspiring king after the Rubicon, whether he was before will be debates too the end of time, having triumphs where he tested how king like he could act to his subjects (Mike Duncan has an episode on this where he says, “the Roman’s could learn to love autoarchy, but they wouldn’t accept monarchy.)
