>In a statement, board chair Tony Estremera lauded Callender for leading the agency for years.
>“His tenure is defined by integrity, transparency, and mission-driven leadership focused on safe, reliable water and responsible stewardship of our resources,” Estremera wrote in the statement released on Feb. 20. “At no time was Mr. Callender disciplined or forced to resign or retire due to any reported investigations.”
What did these board members who said stuff like this or signed an agreement to not say anything bad about this guy get out of that deal?
Everyone but the board member who refused to sign the deal to keep quiet should be thrown out.
Feels like Nvidia getting in the game here might just put them at more risk. If things don't work out they'll be out their money and future sales and so on.
It is bad enough AI sucked up so much investment money, hitting companies that do make profitable things hard if AI bubble collapses would be bad...
I wonder how accurate that number is. Are detected drones just blips on some detection system? Are they even drug running drones, are they even drones at all?
The current administration has staffed administrators who seem to choose "shoot first and ask questions later" and generally struggle to communicate / coordinate like adults.
While I think Trump political appointees have set the stage for these kinds of incidents generally by cutting back on training for DHS law enforcement officers (though I’m not sure if CBP has been impacted to the same degree as ICE), I’m not convinced that this kind of communication failure at the tactical level couldn’t have happened under previous administrations
The story of the El Paso airspace closure seems to have involved multiple chances to properly coordinate but they chose not to. Folks at the pentagon have claimed their use of lasers pose no risk and seem to be skirting or ignoring the law as far as their coordination with the FAA goes.
> I’m not convinced that this kind of communication failure at the tactical level couldn’t have happened under previous administrations
What examples do you have? There was a Chinese spy balloon that was monitored for a whole week before it got shot down - the exact opposite of what’s happened twice (!!) this month in the current administration.
Sure, like most things it's possible and yet it didn't and it's on top of a list of compounding failures of a similar nature: e.g. firing live artillery over an in use highway (while insisting it was safe, and then damaging the vice presidential motorcade) [1].
It's worth noting this screw up happened on the back of the FAA basically hitting the panic button when they realized the military was going to shoot at air targets with high power lasers near an active civilian airport.
The article just describes how they're ingesting the data, some Palantir rep is watching the deliveries remotely and what sounds like manually entering delivery data.
From there I'm guessing the "AI" part is an LLM interface is offered to ask questions about the deliveries?
This wouldn't be the first product where it just provides what a database already does just fine / more efficiently...
Yeah the AI thing sucks. I keep bumping their AI button on mobile and I can't find way to disable it. Also is reader mode is gone one mobile anymore, the AI icon seems to have replaced it :(. One great feature less accessible / maybe gone replaced by garbage...
Hanlon's Razor would point to incompetence, and from this administration as an explanation that fits the pattern / seems likely. I'd also throw in an assumption that they're reaching for any threat possible to shake them down / get bribes and so on.
I run an Orbi system (although it cost far less than $1k like the one mentioned) and I like it.
I'm not sure I agree with the article about scoring and how people should make decisions. I don't think there's any magic in online reviews that actually means a router with a 90% score is objectively better than one with a 70% for anyone. I don't even much trust those scores...
>Most people buy a router once and ignore it until something breaks.
If that's true then most people are doing just fine buying their router and getting what they need.
The more hops you send data over wireless the more interference it makes, the more chances there are to lose data from packet loss. Look, I understand it, the wives' union has obliterated home theater and people just want to have it all like Apple where it "just works" and you never have to run any wires -- except note that Apple has gotten out of the WiFi business because that ideology just can't deliver WiFi that works and Apple knows it.
That's exactly what is wrong with the WiFi market. Wired Ethernet is completely obscure to people today. So of course people are watching TV over their WiFi and wondering why it is buffering all the time.
Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective! I’ll do some more digging into the Orbi systems.
In my experience buying a product that gets mostly positive reviews from professional reviewers gets you a far better product than one with mixed reviews. I’m surprised that’s not your experience and that you don’t much trust those scores. What else do you make your purchase decisions on then? Purely specs?
The best ones write in depth reviews, describe their thinking process and fairly weigh pros / cons.
Ultimately it’s imo more about avoiding bad products than it is about noticing whether a product is great. Criticaster collects all professional reviews to get to an average critic score, which will more quickly and more accurately get you to a satisfactory product than any other approach.
for a long time whenever you did a search for "Best X" Google always sent you to a short list of spammy review sites. Google kicked most of them to the curb but for some reason left the Wirecutter.
Before Google decided to hand the keys to Forbes though there was a vibrant market in competitive spammy sites for topics like that but at one point Google decided that Forbes and The Wirecutter should win all the time so since then we've had uncompetitive spammy sites and no way you can make a better spammy site and win market share.
>“His tenure is defined by integrity, transparency, and mission-driven leadership focused on safe, reliable water and responsible stewardship of our resources,” Estremera wrote in the statement released on Feb. 20. “At no time was Mr. Callender disciplined or forced to resign or retire due to any reported investigations.”
What did these board members who said stuff like this or signed an agreement to not say anything bad about this guy get out of that deal?
Everyone but the board member who refused to sign the deal to keep quiet should be thrown out.
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