nednobbins

I sure as hell wouldn't want the job of securing logistics in the northern woods with a bunch of angry Canucks running around.

This guy seems like he might know what he's talking about but is there a version that isn't a 3 hour video?

Like an article or something?

talk to their parents first

This is key. It's one thing to stop a child from harassing your pet. If you "teach them a lesson" after the fact without the parents' permission, there are now two wrongs that need to be dealt with.

They do work. They've been using them to blow up tanks.

The way they're used there isn't much time for that. With regular drones they hunt around for something to kill and then dive in. The wired drones stay hidden until the target comes into range and then they just come out for the strike. The defenders only have a few seconds to react.

Wire guided missiles have been in use since WWII.

Markus Reisner has a pretty good explanation of how they're deployed in one of his videos.

They have much shorter range so they basically set them up as ambushes. The wired drone gets hidden somewhere at a choke point. An other operator flies a recon drone at long range. When they report that a good target has come into range the wired drone takes off and hits the target.

I thought this would be a thread where we post our unhinged snacks.

My goto smoothie:

• 1 banana
• 2 scoops of protein powder
• 3 heaping tablespoons of Benco cocoa powder
• 1 heaping spoon full of peanutbutter
• 2 cups of whole milk

Clocks in at about 1000 calories. It's great if you're the type of person who chronically forgets to eat

Ikea really managed to pull off a magnificent marketing stunt.

They have the same furniture quality that you can get off of Amazon, Wayfair, or Walmart but you have to go get it out of their warehouse and deal with the logistics of getting it to your house. But they hand out some meatballs and give everything funky Swedish names; so people get the impression that it's a fancy European experience.

China is the single largest manufacturer of Ikea products. I found that when I went directly to the source, I could get the same item cheaper or a better item at the same price. That deal is likely to die with the new tariff regime but that same regime will have similar impacts on Ikea.

I really wish we could retire the phrase "tech bro".

It actively alienates allies that we desperately need.

The average techie does NOT fit the mold of "tech bro".
They tend to be very liberal https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Santa_Clara/122582/web.345435/#/summary They tend to be more LGBTQ friendly than most industries https://www.spiceworks.com/hr/diversity-inclusion/guest-article/top-lgbtq-friendly-industries-in-the-us/

There's a loud minority of tech leaders who qualify as "tech bros" and they're not representative of the industry. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-20/california-silicon-valley-andreessen-zuckerberg-musk-donald-trump

If we continue to lump that large majority of nerds in with that group; at best we're wasting time yelling at allies, at worst we're driving them to the other side.

Don't care

It's easy to ignore the suffering of others. Have you spent any time in villages where the richest people live like medieval peasants because the whole town hasn't had any infrastructure improvements in over a century? "Rich" in those places just means slightly less desperately poor. They're quite egalitarian, it's just that they're all broke together.

I've never heard of Siemens referred to as an "automation company".

That's technically true but they're much more into heavy industry. They build power plants, trains, ports and industrial automation equipment. They've had to lay off some of their own employees but I'm not aware of any cases of their business putting other people out of work.

Weight is a pretty poor predictor of planning and effort.

The overwhelming evidence is that for some people it takes far more work to maintain a healthy weight than it does for others.