While they're waiting for the construction of their headquarters to be completed, Space Systems Command are working out of a yacht that was blown inland by a recent hurricane.
Interesting phenomenon: The stupidity of governments can sometimes be a source of power for them.
nitter.moomoo.me/matthew_d_green/status/1629535808607735811#m
Google search is simultaneously threatened from two different directions: AI, and this.
Three if you count the threat from within: the internal resistance to shipping software, which is not merely a custom, but embodied in a bureaucratic class who…
Excellent way to make coffee when travelling: piped.moomoo.me/watch?v=lpHAIp60…
**Response to @paulg:**
That's one of the big differences between raising money for a for-profit company and a nonprofit. There's much more competition among investors than donors.
Unless there's competition between funders, the only limit on the pain of fundraising is the endurance of the applicants.
**RT @JonHaidt:**
The evidence just keeps coming. Here's a 7th quasi-experiment, from UK. As high speed internet arrived in different parts, teen well being dropped, esp. for girls.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/JonHaidt/status/1629489507916566528#m
**RT @stevenstrogatz:**
"How would you explain the concept of eigenvectors to a child?" asks @JayDeep_1729. A few years ago I tried to do something like that – to explain eigenvectors intuitively, in five minutes, with no pictures, just words. pi…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/stevenstrogatz/status/1629302168430817281#m
**Response to @paulg:**
I strongly recommend hanging a picture of Taft in your house. It does a lot for a room. You'll see.
10 yo is a big fan of late 19th and early 20th century presidents. He was delighted with the picture of Taft I found to hang in his room. Because Taft's expression is ambiguous, we're able to pretend he's reacting to what we're saying: that he's eit…
**Response to @paulg:**
Kids know adults hide things from them, and the smarter ones are desperate to find out what. So I predict that for those kids, comparing Dahl versions will be an eagerly pursued activity. And what they find will seem hilario…
This is not only an upstanding move by Penguin, but may even leave us net ahead, because now, by comparing texts, everyone will be able to see the absurdity of the edits made to the censored versions. With any luck they'll serve as a high-water mark…
"Removable Luneburg lens type radar reflectors are sometimes attached to military aircraft in order to make stealth aircraft visible during training operations, or to conceal their true radar signature."
theaviationgeekclub.com/thes…
Interesting that revenue per employee rose consistently till 2010 and then flattened out. What stopped in 2010?
nitter.moomoo.me/yuris/status/1628767324391231488#m
Two of the worst traits left in ambitious teenagers' heads when they arrive at adulthood are the arrogance they acquired by acing easy tests and the pretentiousness they adopted because it fooled their friends.
**RT @yuris:**
This chart is going to need a title change from $1M to $10M due to AI
**RT @tlbtlbtlb:**
TODO
[x] Become citizen
https://nitter.moomoo.me/tlbtlbtlb/status/1628550454509703168#m
**RT @amasad:**
Now that AI can read your code on Replit, your errors, and can even eval in the REPL it can send you fix diffs 🤯
https://nitter.moomoo.me/amasad/status/1628546489843863555#m
**RT @thetimellis:**
7 years ago, I remember at @ycombinator our mentor @sama told us we were absolutely crazy for trying to simultaneously invent a brand new manufacturing technology and an orbital rocket, which is already super hard. Now we are o…
https://nitter.moomoo.me/thetimellis/status/1628450273395113984#m
"The worst thing you could say to Carter if you wanted him to do something was that it was politically the best thing to do."
nytimes.com/2023/02/20/opini…