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Steve Young says Reggie White was so dominant that he could sack you whenever he wanted and would ask how your family was doing as he helped you up
“Whenever I played Reggie, we had to talk about it all week. Like, what are we going to do? How do we make sure that we have enough people? Where's the 12th person we need to try to take care and help? That was always the conversation because Reggie was the kind of guy that could literally, at the line of scrimmage, just take people and throw them and move them around. And then I was down on the ground.”
“The other thing about Reggie is Reggie was loud. He was all of that size in how he played. As I would drop back to pass, he would rush me, and you could hear him. He was just loud. And so as I'd drop back to pass, I would hear him, and I could hear him getting closer because you knew his proximity. And inevitably he would hit me. And as he hit me, he'd grab me. He was just a mammoth human. He'd grab me, and then he would turn back and fall backwards and let me fall on top. And then he wouldn't let go. He'd kind of hug me. And then he'd say, 'Steve, how you doing?'”
“I still remember. Reggie passed away of sleep apnea. So tragic. Just me saying the story makes me remember him very well. And he's like, 'Steve, how you doing?' I'm like, 'Not so good.' We had made friends as rookies—well, actually as seniors in college. We went to an All-Star game together. He was University of Tennessee, Baptist preacher. Here's this Mormon kid. And so we were just two peas in a pod. My dad helped him find an agent because my dad's a lawyer and he'd helped me, and so they got to be friends.”
“And so he'd have me, and then a few plays later he'd grab me again and pull me over on his back. And he'd be like, 'How's your dad?' And I'd be like, 'Reggie, let's talk after the game. I don't want to talk to you anymore.' Because I felt like he was trying to get to me because he hadn't seen me in a while, to catch up. He was sacking me to catch up.”
“But the reason why I tell you the story is that you've got to understand what it was like to be on the football field in front of 80,000 people. You've got to understand the adrenaline and the money that's paid to the individuals to get a job done. So the intensity would always grow as the game went on, especially as it was more important.”
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Another one who gets it:
"There is just nothing like this anywhere, and the competitors are just inexistant" – at Santa Barbara, CA
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BREAKING: United CEO says customers are switching from other airlines because of @Starlink
“We already see customers moving from other airlines today”
United will cross 50% of flights with Starlink this week and expects to finish its full fleet rollout by the end of next year.
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Ben Horowitz: “The most dangerous thing going on in AI is Anthropic and Bill Gates”
“Anybody can go say, ‘AI is going to kill us,’ and you'll be on every major news station and every newspaper and so forth.
I think it's extremely dangerous, though, when it comes from Bill Gates because he is so credible, because he did build Microsoft, and people think of him that way, and then certainly he's been a big political donor, so he has a lot of political juice, particularly on the Democratic side.
The big risk that everybody talks about is that the models are going to recursively self-improve, and then they're going to take off, and then they're going to become so smart and run away from us.
Well, what would be the preconditions for that?
Ali Ghodsi from Databricks had a great formulation of, ‘Well, what would be the preconditions for that?’
And he had four preconditions.
One is that the next model has to require fewer GPUs than the last.
The second thing is the next model has to take less time to train.
And then the accuracy of the next model has to be better than the last, so it's got to be a better model.
And then finally, it's gotta keep happening again and again and again.
Zero of those four have been met.
We're not on track for any of those four to be met, and so we're really talking about a risk that's entirely theoretical at this point that we're not mapping to.”
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You found it. 🍌
The banana at the Next Gen Roadster reveal wasn't an accident. It was an analog stopwatch.
A laser triggered the drop the instant the tires started to roll. We hung it at exactly the car's 0-60 time at the time of 1 second.
Banana hits the ground. Car hits the laser wall. Same frame.
Here's how we did it 🧵
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Okay, okay… I have to admit it. 👀🔥
The Tesla Roadster opens up some absolutely INSANE possibilities.
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Roadster event livestream xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…
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Bryan Cranston pays tribute to RJ Mitte
“I’m in deep despair as I write this tonight. RJ Mitte, my sweet son on 'Breaking Bad' has died. I met him when he was only 14 years old when he was cast as Walter White Jr., a part he played with such joy and enthusiasm. Born with Cerebral Palsy, he never – ever – allowed that challenge to be an excuse for anything. He met the demanding shooting schedule head on with great determination"
“Always listening to the advice that his TV parents (Anna Gunn and myself) gave him – but being a teenager, sometimes mischievously ignoring the counsel in order to learn the hard way… He was one of the stars of a hit TV show – but still a kid. That kid was pretty raw when we started shooting the pilot in February of 2007, but little by little we watched him grow into a really fine actor. He parlayed his experience on the show to be a vocal advocate for performers with disabilities, and was the head of a philanthropic organization with a focus on helping the disabled community. All that promise and potential now is such a loss"
“It is especially devastating to hear that he took his own life,” he wrote. “Why? We were texting each other just a few weeks ago – figuring out when we could meet for lunch. I don’t know if that lunch would have changed his future… But I do know that I loved him, and thoroughly enjoyed being with him throughout the years on the series, and after the spotlight on 'Breaking Bad' dimmed… I’ll miss you, son"
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A retired NASA engineer who had worked on the Space Shuttle program for 25 years was hired by SpaceX at age 62. He described the first week as the most disorienting experience of his professional life.
At NASA, a design change required 3 meetings, 2 committees, a review board, and 6 to 18 months of documentation. At SpaceX, his new supervisor said "if it works, build it. If it doesn't, change it by Friday."
He sat at his desk after the first day and called his wife. He told her he felt like a man who had been swimming with ankle weights for 25 years and someone just cut them off. He could move. He could decide. He could build something in the morning and test it in the afternoon. The constraint that he had accepted as the nature of aerospace engineering turned out to be the nature of bureaucracy.
Within 6 months he had contributed to more design iterations than he had completed in his last 5 years at NASA. Not because he was working harder. Because the time between having an idea and testing the idea collapsed from months to hours. The same brain. The same knowledge. A different operating system.
He described a specific moment where he proposed a modification to a Raptor engine component. At NASA, the proposal would have entered a queue. At SpaceX, the modification was machined by the end of the day and tested by the following morning. He watched his idea become a physical object in 18 hours. At NASA, 18 hours would not have been enough to schedule the first meeting to discuss whether to schedule a meeting.
He told an interviewer: "I didn't get smarter when I went to SpaceX. I got faster. The intelligence was always there. The system was in the way."
The difference between SpaceX and NASA is not talent. NASA has extraordinary talent. The difference is the time between a thought and a test. SpaceX compresses it. NASA elongates it. The same engineer produces 10x more at SpaceX than at NASA because the bottleneck was never the engineer. It was the meetings about the meetings about the work.
Starlink as a failover WAN on UniFi, carried over an existing switch uplink on its own VLAN. Step-by-step guide, including the simple case where Starlink plugs straight into WAN2.
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My son and I are sitting in the ER alive tonight thanks to my Tesla and God's grace.
On our way home from @theXtakeover we were on the freeway when a wrong way driver hit us head on at freeway speeds.
I remember parts of the accident. Seeing the trucks headlight, my airbag deploying, and the emergency response calling the car.
I escaped through the passenger door to grab my son. All the while other cars were crashing around us.
I am still really shaken but realize that the safety features of my Tesla saved our lives. DPS and firefighters were shocked that we walked away.
This is a true testimonial to how safe these freaken Teslas are. Thank you @Tesla, @elonmusk, the Tesla Engineering Team, and my almighty God.
Be safe out there everyone. You never know when something like this can happen. God speed.
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Up close with Starship 40 rolling by while returning to Starbase after an incredible journey around the world.
10/10/26
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I have no words.
Go from a high to a deep low in seconds!
KICK THE BALL THROUGH THE ENDZONE…DONT LET THEM RETURN IT!! Fine…then TACKLE!!
Holy sh*t! This was one of the most brutal losses I’ve ever seen from this team. They actually deserved this loss! #flyeaglesfly
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We announced an agreement to acquire a nationwide low-band spectrum license portfolio that will pave the way for @Starlink to become a major mobile carrier in the US.
With this new spectrum and our Gen2 constellation, Starlink Mobile can ensure Americans have access to high-speed mobile broadband no matter where they are → spacex.com/updates#starlink-…
