Err, no. The consensus and available evidence including washed up components seems to be that it crashed in the Indian Ocean, that's the (also vast) space between ~Australia and ~Africa, bounded in the north by Indonesia, the Indian subcontinent, and Arabia. It crashed somewhere in the eastern portion, not far from Indonesia and Australia. Currents then took parts as far as the Maldives/Sri Lanka, IIRC. The Pacific is the other (eastern) side of Australia, which stretches from the Aussie-Kiwi approach to the South Pole to Alaska, and Vladivostok to Tierra del Fuego.
> Currents then took parts as far as the Maldives/Sri Lanka, IIRC
Some bits ended up on a beach of the Réunion island, closer to Madagascar than Sri Lanka. I am not disagreeing, it’s just that the whole story is fascinating. It’s easy to think "well, it just crashed into the sea so of course some bits would show up on a beach" until you look at the Indian Ocean with a proper projection and figure the scale.
Floating is a powerful physical configuration! You get currents plus windspeed. If you're in to this sort of thing, I can recommend The Seacraft of Prehistory, We: The Navigators, and Archaeology of the Boat approximately in that order.
Are you making the same point as the person you said "err, no" to, or are you correcting the inconsequential details while not addressing their main point?
This is destroying and devaluing the app ecosystem on all platforms, discouraging companies from treating it as a stable target, right when Apple is gaining dominant market share.
Is it really worth executing payments, maps, geospatial APIs, etc. on one platform if >30% of your customer base can't use it and it changes every 6 months (because that's what they've engineered)? No. Who wants to maintain that?
Then what is the interface people are pushed to? The browser, where Google historically dominates.
Speak to anyone in China and they're less happy this year because the economy is heavily depressed. This is not reflected in the chart. COVID doesn't even appear on most countries' charts despite huge impact globally. I am very skeptical of their process if it results in such questionable macro-narratives. I wonder if their interviewees are "business owners capable of answering the phone in English" or some similarly skewed dataset.
Love the name. Perhaps an angle you haven't considered is rapid quantitative data gathering for site inspection for rapid setup of non-traditional infrastructure like wind and solar. Should be zeitgeist with gas prices shooting through the roof. By actually being 250-400ft above the proposed site and taking real measurements you get actionable insights. Multi-season survey ideal but raw data from a specific site has gravitas and seasonal inference is straightforward within a confidence interval.
Interesting! This is new to me. I know wind farm inspection is another really solid market (smaller land areas and high frequency - could be 1 pad for a whole farm), but I am not familiar with the rapid setup renewables. Can you share more?
Maybe open show some fraction of your data on your website with a nationwide map or something, so such prospective customers can see exactly what you can provide. Then charge for the full dataset
Replying before reading anyone else's responses because I want to provide an honest response. I absolutely love it. I've spent my career as a generalist focusing on architecture and plumbing problems, mostly on Linux and embedded. Coding was something I did to get things done, now I can get things done in new languages incredibly fast, debug annoying problems rapidly, and work on new architectures very rapidly. It does a lot of the annoying research work: interpreting novel build chain failures, tracking down version-related API changes, gathering evidence of popular reports on the large plurality of Apple kernel lockdown changes that perenially break embedded work, etc. I'm working in hardware. Electronics. Physics. Mechanical. Supply chain. Software. EVERYTHING. It's a goddamn superpower. I can't get enough of it. It's like every teacher you ever wanted always available with infinite patience. I've stopped typing a lot of prompts now and started using local voice transcription. It's fantastic.
Honestly, the question may have been a bit more on the programming (generating lines) side, but I've always described programming as a lot like cleaning. You enter the room, figure out the nature of the mess (the interesting part) and come up with your strategy for solving it, then spend ages cleaning, sweeping or mopping up which is largely boring. Now you don't have to bother. Thanks, LLMs.
I was looking at the fungi in my garden recently and realised there's such a variety of forms, there's no obvious reasons for many of them to exist. Are the fuzzy ones fuzzy because it creates vortices in the air affecting spore distribution? Or is it simply to avoid being eaten by certain types of critters? Are the tiny ones tiny because they are resource-starved, because their strategy is to avoid greater dehumidifying airflow and direct sun exposure above the grass-protected layer, or because they somehow produce greater viability spore distribution and don't need the volume of surface area to do so? Or are they planning to be eaten and have spore travel through digestive tract of slugs? The same question could be asked of huge ones, which are often found with chunks bitten out of them. Then there's some sort of weird fluffy one that occurs on moist ledges where you'd normally only expect bryophytes. Then you've got the slime molds which are sort of proto-fungi that just spam spore everywhere when it rains. All this makes me want to study them or possibly model some of the forms or strategies with biomimicry to better understand them. The main thing I take from all this is: if you have a large plurality of disparate fungi in your garden, it's healthy, because it's a bioindicator of multiple successful strategies in the local micro ecosystem.
First, keep in mind that Fungi is one of the Kingdoms; it separated from Animalia after they collectively said goodbye to Planta. It's BIG, and it's OLD.
Now, keep in mind that 99% of the cell mass of most fungi exists as sheets, globs, or relatively uninteresting white mycelia - tiny meandering threads. Apparently not a lot of differentiation is needed there for their jobs!
But for reproduction, a mass of white threads that even mycologists can't identify without DNA equipment can suddenly (in hours to a couple days) sprout a GIGANTIC (0.1-6 inch tall!) fruiting body, that is either white, yellow, orange red, purple, blue, green, brown, gray, or (rarely) black. Or mixes thereof. Sometimes emerging from an egg-shaped wrapper like an Alien(tm); sometimes erecting a lattice structure to speed construction up; sometimes building itself into a ledge a 200-lb human can sit on.
It's as if you could take home from the big-box DIY store a small, gray pellet, and when you soaked it in water it would transform overnight into a shed, or house, or driveway, or supporting wall, or French drain, or lit walkway (Oh, yeah: mushrooms can visibly glow!), or stairs... Only thing is, all the pellets are in one giant bin.
Yet, despite that huge diversity, there are only about 7 "kinds" of mushroom bodies worldwide, and all non-antarctic continents have all the kinds (mushroom, bag-o-spores, creepy thick hairs, mushroomy but with teeth instead of gills, I forget the rest). The antarctic continent has at least two kinds: Agaricus bisporus (pretty much all the ones you've ever eaten), and another kind generally brought in as spores...
Yes you can. However, international waters are a physically challenging environment and getting there requires navigating national waters which have regulatory restrictions. Of course, enforcement is probably nonexistant if you're small, barely visible, and heading straight out to sea... so, solve the "invisible awesome robot that can survive in tough conditions" problem, stock the "multi-day batteries for energy continuity" load, buy the "expensive communications" solution, and then yeah - you too can play with the big boys in the bathtub. Or ... just stick to your actual bathtub.
Now I'm wondering, those people that sail say from SF to Hawaii in a small sailboat, do they do drop routes... "take my drone to the ocean and release it"
FYI Samsung was paid by MS to add DRM to the Galaxy devices ~2010. Source: I was part of the team that had to implement the customer-facing part, carrier billing integration and backend 4-way revshare accounting in zero time. Harder than it sounds, and probably never repeated since unless you're preloading it's against terms to introduce payments on Android. IIRC the real heroes were the Indian embedded engineers who were 10x better than the Koreans.
I agree with the premise, and note well: food has just finished its Brand Age. The combination of dark kitchens and last mile delivery has shown clearly that consumers have little loyalty to brands and simply want convenience at a reasonable cost. From this lens, nearly the entire QSR industry which dominates food particularly in America is about to tank, and indeed many of them already lost 30-80% value in 2025 (Sweetgreen, Krispy Kreme, JITB, Cava, Shake Shack, Portillo's), but the new reality isn't yet priced in. The vast majority of them operate on a brand and franchisee model meaning they're structurally incapable of exiting the paradigm. We're about to use automation exploit that: zero brand investment, 100% CVP. Now seeking capital partners for at-scale GTM. https://infinite-food.com/
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