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Huh cool https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/science/nasa-perseverance-rover-cheyava-falls-rock/index.html
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Lots of cope in this memo “Before long, Harris’ “honeymoon” will end and voters will refocus on her role as Biden’s partner and co-pilot.” Trumpies underestimating the extent to which Biden’s unpopularity was due to sheer age and Clinton-Obama baggage rather than his admin’s policies. Harris is still likely to lose but her polling gains are real, not a transient sugar high. https://cdn.nucleusfiles.com/9f/9f5bada8-1641-4603-83ad-2e5ef9c481fb/7-23-24-harris-honeymoon.pdf
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In my defense, things mostly do get done but it looks uglier and more degenerate with every sprint. This is also why I quit regular career and became a consultant. They expect you to stay in First Week mode throughout. Second Month imo is the right level of project management. Everything else is either overmanagement or undermanagement. I spend about 50% of my time there. If I can get it up to 70% I’d consider myself a good PM. The priority is to eliminate undermanagement first (end of semester state when clothes don’t even get cleaned instead of cleaned in an overorganized way)
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The evolution of my project management technique over the lifecycle of a project https://xkcd.com/1066/
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cozy signals
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Eee https://media.tenor.com/tMWnrxFLU1wAAAAC/jonah-hill-yay.gif
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Apparently GenZ likes to crochet? Iirc millennials were knitting in like 2009 https://www.exeterenigma.com/nonfiction/2024/2/3/subtly-subversive-is-crochet-gen-zs-answer-to-punk
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Excellent 8-bit Donald Duck
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Well… https://bricknerd.com/home/barely-legal-building-lego-with-dubious-connections-7-2021
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yes I posted a photo in that thread
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Lego is the matlab of physical design Zero mucking around with configurations and environments. Just fire it up and go, most things are intuitive and don't need any/much lookup, and for the few things that do, there is excellent documentation. Zero code/low code is actually a bullshit engineering goal. What you want is zero/low configuration. Coding is actually easy, even for lay people, once you give them a design language that's fit to the domain in a way that draws on intuitions. Nobody really needs to be "taught" the syntax or grammar of Lego. It is self-evident. It is configuration that is a nightmare, and if you can get it to zero, you have a winning engineering dev environment.
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Done. Took about 10-12 hours. Creepy little bugger. But turned out more fun than I expected in the end. Learned several interesting construction techniques to generate curved geometries and articulated joints.
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Analog, power, and RF electronics feels like a dark art compared to digital electronics, which feels like midwit ocd nerd stuff. Something badass about anything where entropy enters at the design stage in a very fundamental way.
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Futuristic drone war is here. It’s just unevenly distributed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cne4vl9gy2wo
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2 second raters on stage with no fire
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Fireside chats are bullshit
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You don’t have to stop making meaning you just can’t make it here I suggest shelbyville
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I’ve been quieter than usual lately, as I was über-busy conducting airport inspections over multiple days. 13K steps per day instead of sitting in front of a laptop broke not only my casting habits, but my fitness ones, too. I’m sharing this as an excuse to say that I love airports. No, not the pitiful excuses like those found in the US or Europe. I’m talking about Asian airports, in all their chaotic neutral glory. Airports are the epitome of liminal spaces (as this picture taken today illustrates perfectly). A place between places. A rendezvous spot to connect and also part ways. A bridge between cultures, codes, and norms; only with underpriced retail, overpriced food, and an endless spectacle outside the windows for aviation geeks. Truly, what’s better than an airport?
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