Carter Wickstrom

or, I suppose, "loitering munition" would also be acceptable.

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@sifu.tweety.fish made the original observation, I think

also, Waymo! At the Costco is the name of my new chipcore band.

yesterday, someone On Here observed that driving is more about intention than rules, and I have never felt that more than watching a Waymo in the parking lot of our local Costco.

fortunately, at melee range, rules are a damn good substitute.

one of our dogs spent about a month staring at my head when I wasn't looking after I shaved my head. I would turn around, and she'd look away quickly when she noticed that I noticed her.

...and cutting package size by 20% at the same time, I presume?

Acknowledging how seriously complex this challenge is can also do something really vital right now: let your teams effing RELAX a little bit and learn and experiment. Those teams that can do that without the Velocity Gain Set By a Vendor Benchmark whip cracking over their heads will do better.

I totally agree. Long-term behavior change is really difficult and while I can't say I've done a large-scale survey on this or anything (and don't trust most of the industry work on it), the defining theme for me is "extremely mixed usage." The WAY people are using it varies

we have a camera on our garage that regularly gets the spider treatment - but we had our first banana slug wriggle across the lens the other night, and it looked like we were making First Contact or something.

if the Mariners want to make the chicken strips ferry boat authentic, it needs a miniature BMW with an alarm that goes off for a full 15 minutes

unsalted butter. it tastes like toffee, even with garden-variety, supermarket dates.

depends a lot on the date varietal! there's a range of texture and sweetness out there.

this totally tracks with my experience with Lucene - the foundation to do this has been here for a while.

not just domestic violence, interpersonal violence as well. the firsthand stories that I've heard about brutal, casual violence from people who grew up in the 1920s and 30s are as mind-boggling and utterly alien to me as my stories of playground violence are to my adult kid.

Step 0 (DO NOT SKIP) make sure your allies (most, preferably all, but definitely more than one) are on board with expending real resources

it's not limited to consulting, it's endemic to software. 🫤

I regularly read stuff online and, while no place I've ever worked has been perfect by any stretch, I barely recognize what I see; it cuts across sectors: games, SaaS, internal enterprise development...

“Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

rude

on paper (and ideally, in practice), a Light Infantry Division is supposed to have certain capabilities, including its own air defense artillery, field artillery, etc.

these are "organic."

no, it means part of the same unit by design and training and leadership, as opposed to "attached," which would be an outside unit filling in operational gaps.

an organic unit should know about the capabilities of its organizational peers.

the Iron Triangle in Puget Sound!

I would like to [redacted] the author of The Polio Fraud with my wife's stepfather's wheelchair - the one he needs due to post-polio syndrome.

'round here they wear their
mirrorshades

hey, free cop car

see also the big-ass rings of master keys that you can order 🙃

14 usually

US Army branch insignia for Ordnance. Enlisted insignia is on top: two brass disks, one with "U.S." and the other with a stylized flaming grenade. On the bottom, officer insignia in brass and blackened brass, depicting just the flaming grenade.

also the branch insignia for US Army Ordnance

and grenades

beats getting sliced open to count!