I agree. This is a very Jordan Peterson-esque line of reasoning. (I'm sure this has a lot more history than that, but it strikes me as a current flavour)
This thing is true now, so it has always been true, and it must be true in the future.
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This thing is true now, so it has always been true, and it must be true in the future.
The DJI is an absolute stunner with fantastic range and video transmission. The build quality is far superior than anything I have seen home built.
I would never recommend racing it, as I am ok with sacrificing my own drones because I can repair them easily, but as an introduction the DJI is an amazing platform.
It's possible that this type of sensing equipment isn't used when they are in hostile environments?
There are certain things that a country, or group of allies, absolutely should retain control over. Communications infrastructure is absolutely one of those things.
There is a reason China and Russia both have their own GPS alternative.
There is probably no good reason to distrust Huawei. But equally there is no good reason to trust Huawei.
My father got married and his wife was excited to come on the road with him (there are many "trucker couples") and for a few years it was great. She loved seeing all the new places, meeting people, etc.
Eventually she did get tired of it, as 99% of us would, and she thought "ok, we will settle down" and even had one of her friends find something nice that they could afford in a town she wanted to be in.
My father went along with it, helped with the downpayment etc but then when she was like "ok, time to find you a job in this town" he basically said "yeah, umm... just get the divorce done and I don't need anything."
... and he hit the road ...
The work itself didn't sound great. You basically have to sit around and wait for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 hours. You are always managing against the clock because if you time out (maximum working hours in a day) and can't get your load delivered on time, that's on you. Even if the schedule wasn't very realistic to begin with.
For him the lifestyle, seeing weird and interesting places, and getting to meet new people every day was what he loved and it made up for all that downside.
He's retired, but when the pandemic hit and there was a shortage of drivers, he and his buddies relished the chance to get back on the road. I thought he was doing it because he needed the work, so I tried to send him some money to cover rent etc. He happily took the money (he's no fool) but was perplexed as to why I thought that would mean he'd stop driving.
In terms of bathrooms, most of the good truck stop chains in Canada not only have bathrooms for drivers, but "VIP" lounges with TVs, very cheap showers, etc.
I received the email a few days ago telling my that those cloud based services, which were advertised as part of the product when we purchased it, would be switching to a subscription service.
Thew new service appears to be offered for FREE to us because we already purchased the devices. Phew!
That said, I think this is going to tank their sales going forward. The TCO on the device has now increased dramatically.
I am by no means in to literature in any significant way, but russian literature truly is something special. I've read a few chapters of War and Peace as well. Very different styles, but there is clearly some commonality in the way the authors use elaborate descriptions to create very robust mental models for the reader. I never feel like I get that in western literature other than some of the stuff like Chatwin and Carra from the 70s.
His ability to explain the complexities of Pascal, Basic and eventually C++ totally changed my life. I never became an amazing programmer, but I was a hacker at a time when that was valuable and it completely changed the trajectory of my life.
He set the bar for simplification of a subject and edification of an individual. It's something I look for and at some understanding someone's ability to explain something became the primary way for me to assess their intelligence.
The best way to do that? Ask really stupid questions.
That has really really worked against my in some contexts. I spent a lot of time working for a large US company and while many of the smartest and most capable executives LOVED those conversations where would explore the outer bounds of their new ideas, many of the mid level mangers truly thought I was a f$#ing idiot. They could not get past their impression of my after one simple, stupid, question.
I still don't know how many people I have left in my wake who truly think I am dim. I don't really care, but it took me a lot of years to realize how it was perceived.
If the strategic importance of a company like ASML hasn't taught western governments how much is at stake when it comes to getting a technology edge then I'm not sure what will.
Budapest was no standard of cleanliness at the time (late 90s), however Belgrade was truly still in its post-war phase and had all of the energy, anger and edge of a place that had been pretty beaten up.
We were robbed, given a pistol in a nightclub (still have no idea what was going on there, I just remember being really surprised that pistols came in styrofoam and shrink-wrap packages when they are new... Being from Canada I had never even seen a pistol before), were surrounded by really beautiful people who we thought wanted something from us but who were only generous and kind, and .... the smell.
The smell of that leaded fuel was everywhere. It smelled sweet and was so unique. It's what has stuck with me 20+ years later.
One other side note from that trip. We were in the countryside (mean to be meeting a friend from home in his ancestral/family village but took the wrong bus) and someone in the village directed us in to a pub that was basically an old barn. Inside there were many middle eastern guys and a mix of Serbian and english speaking people. I was given a pin by one of the middle eastern guys after I threw an excellent game of darts on the dartboard next to him.
Years later I had a job for a defense contractor and the subject of that trip and the pin came up. I showed him a picture of it and he recognized it instantly: al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. I looked it up and so it was.
We were put up with a local elderly woman who served us some type of soup in the morning and then someone gave us a ride out of town to a bus stop that had service that day. We waited only an hour until the first car came along, reeking of leaded fuel.
That none of them would, or could, do anything to ease his suffering even in some small way is disappointing. I hope I could do better in a similar position of authority.
Thank goodness it didn't go the way I thought it did for a second there.
Finally they spoke to one of their preceptors. The advice? Double up your shifts for a week and grind yourself down until you absolutely are sleep deprived (they are all generally sleep deprived in this program, but have stretches of 3 or 4 days off). It seemed almost sadist to me, but they did it.
We were all surprised when it more or less worked. I would say it bought them a month here, a month there when needed. It seems like a terrible strategy over the long term but something was definitely going on. They called it a "big reset" and also insisted that they had an overall sense of euphoria for a week or so following each "dosing".
They don't do it anymore, after trying a few different medications a particular SSRI really seemed to click and it's been 20 years now without a major recurrence.