I've believed this for a few decades. WWI & II were really just one war, with a pause between, and almost every consequence of them was terrible.

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"Quantity is its own quality" was attributed to J. Stalin -- and it applies here. The counter to such numbers has to be first economic. You can't shoot down 1000s of $50k drones with $1M missiles.

Note they didn't even bother to cover California -- likely it's off the scale

My takeaway from this video is that drone warfare has barely begun to begin to transform the battlefield, and the stuff coming out of Ukraine is the equivalent of those primitive tanks and airplanes in World War I that were barely proofs of concept. War is going to get weird.

Commentary on this accident in Salinas, California is fascinating -- it calls for, among other things, banning ebikes and raising the cycling age to 25. The vehicle in question is a gasoline-powered off-road-only motorcycle. The rider is violating more than a half-dozen CVCs.

The plan calls for CarPlay to live in a box within the Tesla operating system and not take over the full screen like in most cars. It works wirelessly and is standard CarPlay, not CarPlay Ultra. Still, a huge win for Tesla, Tesla buyers/owners and Apple to get this done.

Having bought a 2026 Tesla MY, even without CarPlay, I wonder how this would work? Would there be a window on the Tesla screen reserved for CarPlay when used? I would enjoy the better integration with Apple Maps, Apple Podcasts, Apple Music and Audible. Even though Tesla has apps

I also suspect this says something about the state of negotiations between Apple and SpaceX concerning Starlink-direct-to-cell services. While CarPlay on Tesla meets a demand on its own, it's also a card in a larger game.

Karpathy recently posted on how impressed he was with Tesla FSD version 13 on a new model X he just bought with hardware 4, the latest. As he used to run the program, he knows it's come very far since he left!

The prices will really start dropping when Starship is flying regularly and RocketLab has become the third American company with a reusable booster -- that's when survival-level competition kicks in.

It was less than 10 years ago when the idea of recovering a 1st stage was extremely controversial. Now it's absurd to even consider anything else. Today, the same skepticism surrounds 2nd stage reuse, but it won't be long until that, too, is archaic.

Good distillation of the Artemis program, and how we got here.

The map was prepared by Arthur C. Clark in his 1962 book Profiles of the Future. A little optimistic on early space travel, but not that bad, really.

The killer app for autonomous robotaxis and Tesla’s Optimus robot might be synergistically the same thing: package and food delivery. Which suggests Tesla needs to make a van pronto. And that Zipline is the real competitor.

The great thing with high-power regenerative braking is that you de-emphasize the friction brakes. At Bond Mobility, we saw the end point for e-bikes as having two wheel motors, and only an emergency friction brake.

A strong argument can be made that Concorde and Apollo were more mistakes than not.

Jason Stiebs The big advantage we saw for ebikes was that full regenerative braking at max decel would allow you to incorporate ABS functionality without additional cost. The front motor and controller were conceivably cheaper than a conventional ABS system.