Nathan Porter

Saving the world one shell script at a time.
OH: "Had to vim into the yaml, as one does"

`bitcoind -daemon`

he/vim/sats

[CRANZILLA ⚡CYBERTRUCK @CranzillaX]

Dear @elonmusk We don’t need flying cars, bruh! We need bigger cars, bruh! We are stacked in here like sardines, bruh! 😅🫶 #TeslaRoadster #Tesla

[The Boring Company @boringcompany]

The Boring Factory floor is a great classroom! The @uaustinorg Applied Engineering class, taught by TBC engineers, currently has students competing in teams to design and build rovers to tackle an obstacle course.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Once upon a time, I set out to solve one of marriage’s great mysteries.

Armed with a notebook, a recorder, and the confidence of a man who had absolutely no idea what he was getting into, I began my investigation into why men always forget the weekend plans.

Here’s what I found.

Now, I’m making up this exact conversation, but it generally tracks.

Me, making plans:

“Hey, hon, I’m going fishing Saturday at 7 a.m.”

“With who?”

“Frank and Jim.”

“When will you be back?”

“I don’t know. Probably between 10 and noon.”

“Where are you going?”

“On Jim’s boat.”

“Which lake?”

“I don’t know.”

“I thought Jerry’s wife was sick this week. Is he sick too?”

“I have no idea. All I know is that I’m leaving the house at 7 a.m. Saturday.”

“Are you having breakfast first?”

“Yes. Before I leave. At 7. On Saturday.”

“Okay, but you have to be back by noon because—”

“I will leave at 7 a.m. Saturday and be back before noon.”

Notice what happened here.

I communicated two critical pieces of operational intelligence:

Departure: Saturday, 0700.
Return: no later than 1200.

And then, like a military radio operator confirming coordinates, I repeated them six times.

Now let’s flip the script.

Her, making plans:

“This weekend there’s a flower festival I want to go to, but Sue also invited me to that yoga class I’ve been wanting to try, which I think starts at 10, but it might be canceled because the instructor is a single mom and her son Franklin, who is seriously the cutest boy ever especially when he’s wearing glasses, has band rehearsal, so the class is Saturday but could get moved to Sunday afternoon, which I can’t do because—”

“So you’re doing yoga Saturday at 9?”

“No. You never listen. It’s Saturday at 10. I think. Let me check the calendar. Oh, that reminds me, we need to reschedule the teacher meeting Tuesday, but don’t worry, she’ll probably be at yoga, and I hate bringing up work on the weekend, but maybe I can ask her there.”

“So…10. Got it.”

“No, that’s not confirmed yet! But if I do go, you need to pick up bagels at the grocery store, and make sure you get the ones without onions this time. We don’t need cream cheese. We still have some from last week.”

And that was the breakthrough.

Men tend to communicate plans like a flight plan:

Time. Place. Mission. Return time.

Then we repeat the coordinates until everyone acknowledges receipt.

Women communicate plans like an intelligence briefing assembled from six agencies:

There is a primary plan, an alternate plan, a weather contingency, three supporting characters, a child named Franklin, a teacher conference, grocery requirements, and several unresolved diplomatic issues.

Somewhere inside that 11-minute briefing is the actual time she plans to leave the house.

Your job is to find it.

This is why a man can listen attentively to every single word his wife says and still, 20 minutes later, ask:

“So…what time are you leaving?”

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@Brand0n @teslasi I don't have v14.1 lite yet, but I see this behavior on my daily drive on v14 lite. Bummer, I'd been hoping that 14.1 would resolve it.

[Aidan Gold @MrGoldBro]

The scale of what Elon is building in Bastrop is not well understood.

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@HistoryBoomer @CathyYoung63 Intentionally misunderstand harder.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Some people are a thousand times better at furiously improvising than other people. Some are a million times better.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Five dimensional chess doesn’t exist. Everyone is furiously improvising all the time. The future is utterly uncertain.

[Dustin Nickerson @DustinNickerson]

It’s crazy that gas right now is the actual price they used to try and scare you with if you didn’t bring the rental car back full.

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@elonmusk @teslasi Exciting! But when v14-lite for AI3?

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@elonmusk We need 7-seat vehicles that can fit a family

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right, and if you don’t understand this you have no business in law enforcement or government.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Carrying a firearm is not a death sentence, it’s a Constitutionally protected God-given right.

https://t.co/xZ07oXtoIS

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

One weak excuse I hear for why Congress should abandon its Constitutional responsibility to vote on committing war against another country is it would give away the element of surprise. This post shows that’s false. BTW, Congress voted on Iraq and Afghanistan BEFORE the attacks.

[Riley Brown @rileybrown]

Hey @YouTube I would pay an extra $10/month on top of YouTube Premium to disable shorts.

I don't want to see another short ever again. Please let me toggle them off.

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@elonmusk We need a 7-seat SUV on the same platform

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@Tesla @elonmusk Our next vehicle has to be a 7-seater that can seat teenagers and my wife hates the "gaudy" falcon wings. Help me out here. YL in the US? CyberSUV?

[Nathan Porter @n8manAfter]

@TheBabylonBee The Florida man meme has been eclipsed by Minnesota man

[The Boring Company @boringcompany]

The first Engineering Co-op with the University of Austin is complete!

Over 2 intense weeks, these 10 ambitious students got muddy working around the clock on real-world underground detection and communication technologies.

Thanks so much to @uaustinorg.