I think it was more than three, I don’t recall the reference of 3 horsemen being used. Lynda Weinman and Seth Godin were influential (Godin from a marketing and SEO perspective). Also Krug and Allsop.
Also Molly.com
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meigwilym commented on Cows get GPS collars to stop them falling in river bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/zeristor
If I recall correctly, Cambridge City are using off the shelf grazing tech to help with a one off problem.
These digicowbells have a more common application of managing grazing herds in order to rotate them evenly through pastures without having to go out and redeploy fencing every week. If you want Daisy et al to let the north half of the field regrow you just draw a line around it in the app and it’ll get left ungrazed. Popular in large commonland projects too where you want to dynamically leave parts of the land fallow.
It’s also just handy to give your cattle a mobile device. You can monitor their health and breeding status. In the spirit of the dad joke about asking if iPhones “can also make phone calls!?”, it wouldn’t be crazy if these things shipped one day with some kind of two way communications. If Gertrude gets stuck ten miles up the valley it could be handy, perhaps, to see what the problem is before you fire up the brummy quattro (Land Rover.)
This is a great idea. A drone would also work, but would need favourable weather.
A simple search shows that this is widely reported. Here's a BBC link: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779
Thanks!
I would love for this to be true, but who is the Farmingdale Observer to make these claims? A quick search suggests it's a small town American newspaper.
No sources cited in the text, a quote from an "activist". It's not much to go on.
meigwilym commented on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1... · Posted by u/bko
Peter Navarro on CNBC reacts to the shrinking GDP number by insisting it's actually good news because if you strip out the effect of tariffs "you have 3 percent growth. So we really like where we're at now."
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/trump-trade-navarro-us-gdp-d...
Was he the guy who claimed if the USA stripped out gun crime from it's crime stats, it was lower than all the other countries?
How does that prevent coups? Like the reason a military coup works is because the military has a shitload of weapons. How does having the secretary of defense not able to be in on a military coup prevent a military coup?
At that point they’re bringing an org chart to a gun fight.
Probably to stop the personality. Coups are often driven by "soldiers loyal to...". Having a civilian in the role would pre-empt that.
OTOH a waiver undoes all of that. It shows how much of democracy depends on people following conventions and traditions.
Ha, I love the "rescue ops".
This will not primarily be for rescue ops. This will be for supporting Marine standin operations on and within the first island chain. The marines have been trying to figure out how they can handle sustainment and logistics in that environment.
You can read some wonkish article about this (back in 2022) https://warontherocks.com/2022/09/sustainment-of-the-stand-i... . You'll note that the article does suggest revisiting seaplanes as a distribution option.
With a few hundred miles range, these craft would be suitable as one way island to island hoppers, or 2 way over the horizon ship to shore transports. For a sense of scale, its ~140 miles from Luzon to Scarborough Shoal (one of the contested islands in the South China Sea).
The "Viceroy" craft that Regent has mocked up on their website claims 180 mile range, 3500lb of cargo / 2 crew + 12 passengers.
EDIT: And to be clear, the article title says "to get", but the article makes clear, this is basically a testing and development contract. There's no certainty that the Marines will get this capability in any meaningful way. Probably better to replace with "to test". This is particularly important because the commercial version of this craft is also still in development and testing.
> This will not primarily be for rescue ops.
The "radar-evading" rather gives the game away.
meigwilym commented on Coding Isn't Programming socallinuxexpo.org/scale/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Oliver Heaviside[1] was rejected when he attempted to join the society of telegraph engineers because they said he was a clerk and not an engineer. Thing is, noone cares about them and his achievements live on.
People protecting titles by putting an arbitrary barrier associated with possessing a piece of paper rather than actually having skill and knowledge should be treated with scorn in my opinion.
[1] “Heaviside step function” and the “Coverup” method for partial fraction expansion when doing integrals are among his discoveries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
I understand your point, but having an engineering degree is not just the possession of a certificate. It's a piece of paper that testifies that the holder has the skill and knowledge, and has passed exams designed by experts in the field.
The response given to Heaviside does suggest that snobbery was a more likely reason for refusing his membership, but that's just my impression.
meigwilym commented on OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules finance.yahoo.com/news/op... · Posted by u/jonbaer
I think one of the things about growing up is accepting personal responsibility and not looking at the government/daddy to protect you from everything. If I sell 400 million skateboards - do we need a regulatory board to approve skateboard design changes?
I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine.
The market doesn't protect all those kids who were maimed or died trying out your regulation-free skateboard.
A basic level of safety might mean that your skateboards sell faster, now that parents don't have to risk the health of their offspring.