Favorites June 26th 2024
Someone else described this as the 'funniest coup attempt in history'. Complete comedy of errors: the general leading the coup was upset about being fired for being too militant about his support for the existing administration.
It doesn't actually use a battery, although there are other battery electric excavator models that do, they're big, but not quite this big.
Berkeley is right next to San Francisco and is over a thousand acres, UCSD is in La Jolla and is 2000 acres. That could be... a lot of homes.
This is really cool, but also, how did they get the video? Is someone holding a drone steady next to him? Very impressive all around.
Longer Reads
• Article discussing how we can try to think about LLMs capabilities by comparing them with search engines.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– interesting point: profit is not a measure of tech progress. There's no massive solar power company because there's tons of competition pushing down prices. (src)(cached)
– Youtube is rolling out a Community Notes equivalent. It's one of the best remaining parts of Twitter, will be nice to see it in other places too. (src)
– Shipping container with 126 kamakazi drones that can be launched directly from storage. Honestly, I'm quite worried that something like this could be used against infantry or even civilians if it gets a bit cheaper and a bit smaller. (src)(cached)
– Fun moment of baseball, as a coach asks the umpire to remove him from the game. Great video (src)
– Significant reform to allow licensing and construction of new US nuclear power plants. (src)(cached)
– This blog post by Louie Mantia about the subtlty of a good dark mode icon really gets into the precise details of how you make a good icon. (src)