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Do you want to win defense contracts like @anduriltech does? Partnering with @DiracInc can help.

@PhilipJohnston Many such cases!

Hahah we now get the same regarding our preseed at the end of 2023 (slide below) where investors that passed now say “Oh, if I’d know you were going to build thiiss…” I used to finish every pitch with this slide and say all compute is going to space once the launch cost hits a certain point. Some seem to have forgotten! For context, we were raising $2M at $10M cap SAFE and had at least 100 investors say no. Thanks @FinnMurphy12 for leading and @russelllong for being the first ‘yes’!

@zanemountcastle Yes

the equivalent of YC's first batch photo for hard tech

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Good photo of us

@nicktrimmer @caelin_sutch 👀

@FilArons @caelin_sutch Had to sew on a velcro backing so we could add it to the wall. Just wait until you see the design we'll have cooking for Dirac's next launch 👀

Im surprised tech doesn’t do more challenge coins these are awesome

@nicktrimmer @caelin_sutch 👀 the Dirac BuildOS v1 Launch Patch!

@FilArons @caelin_sutch Can't forget the patch that started it all

Manufacturing Engineers Run The Factory

Unfortunate to say: the CAD “exploded view” has set Western manufacturing back by 40 years

@Winterrose That’s just regular AI?

@FilArons Imagine AI that just turns everything into passive heat pipe systems

Everybody wanna vibecode CAD, ain’t nobody wanna build no heat exchangers or condensers

The vapidity of the Reddit-millennial request to “like, just be nice and be good person, dude” is fairly consensus. People reacted by reviving and advocating for definite, competing moral frameworks that clarify the nuances of Good, particularly when Goodness precludes niceness. This seems better until you realize how pervasive disingenuousness is among advocates of these definite frameworks or religions. Anchoring your morality in something systematic facilitates self deception about the extent to which you’re moral. I’m a huge offender myself. So, the millennial-redditors were “right”: the best instruction is: just be a good person. While their sentiment was off because they used the broad signifier “good” to refer to a specific perversion of neoliberal humanism, the instruction is still better than adopting a pharisaical construct that allows you to tell yourself you’re holier for knowing of it, irrespective of your adherence to it. For all intents and purposes, everyone knows what good means and you don’t need critical theory or Jordan Peterson or Immanuel Kant to dissect the meaning. You don’t need intellectual metaphysics to define then justify a definition of goodness before committing to act good. Deep down you know what good is, whether you’re being good, and that you can immediately choose to be. So be good (I say this more to myself than anyone else, as I am routinely not good). Technical caveat that will lose people at the one yard line: the extent to which you can be good is dependent on Jesus’ grace, and your “decision” to be good is only possible because of him, no matter whether you call yourself Christian. See Romans 2-3.

Many such cases

Interesting

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@drydenwtbrown 🫡

the world needs another $1T software company

@nicktrimmer @caelin_sutch Epic

@caelin_sutch We're bringing mission patches back

One of the most fun parts of building @DiracInc over the past few years been educating VCs about the difference between Manufacturing Engineers (the folks we build for) and Mechanical Engineers. They still keep getting them mixed up, but at least they’re trying!

Many such cases

Progress is a series of S-curves