Star Simpson
@starsandrobots
Eyes bigger than bookshelf. Aviation, Automation & a long tail of interests 🇩🇪🇯🇲 Work: Autonomous Air Freight @ThereCraft__ (YC) Repeal the Jones Act ⛔️🚢
TIL: in terms of attendance (600k people during 1 week) @EAA AirVenture aka Oshkosh is a 6x bigger gathering than the Super Bowl — or alternatively, is a ~Super Bowl every day for a whole week.
An incredibly exciting day for aviation and humanity. Congratulations to us.
HUGE. The MOSAIC rule is out. faa.gov/newsroom/MOSAI… Biggest bombshell is the stall speed limit for airplanes moves from 54 knots clean to 61 knots with flaps down. This covers MANY more aircraft. It is a huge deregulation of general aviation. /ht @starsandrobots
HUGE. The MOSAIC rule is out. faa.gov/newsroom/MOSAI… Biggest bombshell is the stall speed limit for airplanes moves from 54 knots clean to 61 knots with flaps down. This covers MANY more aircraft. It is a huge deregulation of general aviation. /ht @starsandrobots
If you have seen me in person in the past few weeks, it's likely that I was ranting to you in an incoherent, wild-eyed manner about FAA's MOSAIC rulemaking. It's awesome. We're gonna get some sick planes. Here's the blog post version. elidourado.com/p/personal-avi…
jack dorsey's flickr page is still up and it's this incredible time capsule from 2006/2007
It’s still insane to me that Apple just has zero serious AI initiatives or products. You have insane market share. Unlimited money. You control the OS and all the hardware. And you give us fkn Siri and “you can use ChatGPT with your action button.” Just incredible bag…
Straw bans solve a non-problem while repeatedly antagonizing people against actually solving environmental problems. The “evidence” was provided by an 8yo and a viral photo of a turtle. Meanwhile, the same groups block dense housing in cities and factories for post-oil tech.
The biggest problem with the straw bans is that not that they antagonized people but that there was no ROI. Like are plastic straws even 0.1% of the waste in waterways? Nope. No cost-benefit analysis here, just moralism
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Paper straws are such an incredible let-down, and frankly they simply don’t work. I am reminded of how impressive plastic is and how transformative plastic consumer products must have been when first introduced every time I end up in a situation like this.
Returning to these now- just about 2 years later and ChatGPT can now do so much more than generate the landing pages.
I’ve been using ChatGPT lately to make basic landing pages for every idea on my “would be fun project if I had time to do whatever” list and it’s terribly addicting.
I just wanna see one grocery store put in a busy board for children at the checkout
Honestly, I feel sad for people who deliberately choose not to have kids, especially because they think it’ll ruin their lives. It’s incredibly hard but it’s also by far the most incredible life experience. Nothing comes close to raising your own kids and watching them turn into…