Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft
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So this is the Land Warrior concept that keeps going?
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A friend of mine was working at a company with contracts for them when they released their first drones back in the early days.
At work, they watched the trailer for the fancy drone.
He made the joke: "At least we know what will be coming to gun us down in ten years."
That joke went down like a brick with his coworkers. No one else seemed to understand the severity of what we were buidling up to
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Iirc IVAS made like 50% of soldiers nauseous to the point of throwing up. So let's shoot some more billions at this, sure
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It's made by the same kind of techbros who are angry that the "future doesn't look like the future", that got us the Cybertruck and the other recent Tesla abominations.
When artists/writers design future tech for their cyberpunk dystopia, coolness is a greater factor than usability, especially as most creators don't have much experience with product design. I just go with the "rule of cool" and aesthetics, even in cases where stuff would look obsolete by today's standards, because some powerful people in the tech industry decided everything must be touchscreens and voice commands.
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Peter Thiel is a Lotr fan
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[email protected] 's world coming to reality
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The Canucks won’t stand a chance
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Why the hell would a flashlight need firmware?
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This is pretty much the story of the entire Land Warrior program. Nobody ever expected it to be a Real Thing, it was always a pie-in-the-sky boondoggle to make a shitload of money for the MIC.
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These have been a huge failure so far. But some guy in a suit thinks it would be cool so keep spending
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Yeah, totally didn't understand the morality of the book and thinks sauron is a good role model
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Yep, senior Haskell developer here and I have had their recruiters hounding me many times, even though I have told them to fuck off again and again.
I always find it so funny that they chose Haskell. They are desperate to hire, but no one in the Haskell community actually wants to work for them. I'm in a discord server with a bunch of veteran Haskellers and everyone there won't touch them with a 100ft pole.
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My first thought was the reliability. Can you rely on this new tech in a life or death situation. I didn't even think of the batteries.
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