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Where the rivers meet
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Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
I hate to say this because it goes against everything I believe in. But people are going to need to take down public firmware images for critical infrastructure, like yesterday.
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A SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished
The head of NASA just cryptically teased a new X-plane with an image that looked a lot like the iconic Blackbird. Now a very particular SR-71 is missing.
twz.com/air/a-sr-71-blackbir…
Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
Joe Thomas says he cried after playing a perfect game in a 30 point loss to Tom Brady and realized he had spent 10 years fooling himself into believing the Browns were a Super Bowl team before each season
“The way I entered every season was like, if I need to get the most out of myself, I’ve got to convince myself this is a Super Bowl roster. That’s the mentality I have to have when I’m training, when I’m practicing, when I’m going through film study. And so you trick yourself every year, but after a while, you’re not that dumb anymore”
“Going into year 10, we had traded away the first overall pick. We were trading guys away, saving capital for the future. The writing was on the wall that we were in a pretty significant rebuild. I kind of knew at that time, even though I was still trying to trick myself, in the back of your head you know you’re not going to be any good”
“Then, about midway through that 10th season, we were playing the Patriots. Tom Brady comes to town, and I fucking hated Tom Brady, as everybody did in the league. I hated the Patriots. I just wanted to smash him so bad. We lost like 30 to 0. And I remember sitting in the car after the game, and I was just crying. I had ice on both elbows and knees. I was in pain, my wife was driving and I was just looking out the window. It was that moment when I realized I’d been kind of fooling myself for a while, and we were not going to win no matter what I did”
“She finally said, ‘Are you okay? Did you have a bad game?’ Then the tears really came because I said, ‘I played a perfect game, and we lost by 30.’ It really sunk in at that moment that you don’t control the situation anymore. That feeling of loss of control is really hard. No matter what situation you’re in in life, it just feels like everything I’m working for, I have no control over the outcome. That’s a bad feeling”
“I ended up meeting with the team psychologist and talking to somebody about it because it had been almost 10 years built up to that moment when you come to the realization that I’m kind of fooling myself. We’re not that team and we really don’t have a chance. And I don’t impact this game the way I’d hoped”
Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
After Sam Darnold won his 1st game as Jets QB, Todd Bowles had this to say, trying to calm people down: “We won one game. I can tell you after about 100 more of them whether we have one or not. Right now, it’s a little early.”
The Super Bowl will be Darnold's 101st game
AI will replace expert humans
not when the AI is good enough to outperform the expert human
but when the AI is good enough to impress the non-expert human who makes the buying decision.
How do I trade credit default swaps on subprime software startup technical debt?
“The Big Short”, but for AI slop.
Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
The fastest way to lose your best people? Make their prize for doing good work cleaning up after people who don't.
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🧵How to get into the RF world: a short thread for beginners.
As promised, here’s my tips to get into RF as a hobbyist/beginner.
Disclaimer: RF/Radio are my hobbies, but I'm not a professional RF engineer (My profession is “security”, and I studied computer science; I use RF/SDR for my job as well) so these tips may not be for you if you want to pursue it academically/professionally, or if you are already into RF.
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Doodles are the iPhones of dogs
All other breeds are various android models
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An introduction to Software Defined Radios.
A thread for beginners on:
1. What a SDR is
2. What you can do with SDRs
3. How it plays a role in the security/hacking world
4. How it’s used in ham radio.
5. How to choose/buy one
6. Link to more reading material
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It pains me to report that the new Costco Canada smoked meat sandwich rates a 3/10. I had high hopes.
Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
An excellent primer (and then some) on "target triples," a concept that most systems-level programmers must have a good grasp of eventually. I fumbled my way through understanding this over the past many years but this resource is a great starting point: mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/targe…
Many people are saying the emperor has incredible clothes, the very best clothes. Unlike any clothes they’ve ever seen before. Beautiful clothes, people are saying.
Andrew McCoubrey retweeted
i was recently having a convo with my buddy (largely as a joke) about how to truly succeed in bureaucracies.
we discussed how one of the biggest mistakes ppl make in very bigcorp life, especially in bloated orgs, is thinking simplification is the goal. it’s not. simplification is punished. it reveals too much. it threatens power structures, uncovers incompetence, & removes the need for whole teams. simplification will create enemies.
the real game is complexification. not in a chaotic way. it has to be fashionable complexity. complexity that looks like intelligence. introduce ambiguity. spin up cross functional workstreams. launch studies with no end state. raise questions that can’t be answered. build “alignment” across 12 stakeholders. this is how you win.
if you want to succeed in bureaucracies make things seem hard. then make them even harder. inject process. delay clarity. make your presence essential to navigating the mess you helped create.
that’s how you get promoted.
The pieces are starting to come together. Eventually it will all make sense.
