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"heavy duty", "hardcore", "falcon heavy", "cybertruck". Those terms relate. I guess he means appreciating programming down to the electron, photon millisecond w
by abudabi123 4y ago
"heavy duty", "hardcore", "falcon heavy", "cybertruck". Those terms relate. I guess he means appreciating programming down to the electron, photon millisecond when debugging a lost rocket launch three times in a row burning his money in the sense of physics and not some kind of marketty arbitrary opaque name for flavor of framework, platform package container combo.
- rurp 4y agoHow much "photon millisecond" level rocket debugging has Elon personally done?
- discardable_dan 4y agoAbout as much as anyone else at SpaceX: none at all.
- spoils19 4y agoAgreed. I'd expect the average HNer to emphasise with those terms as we all work in complicated and intense industries, but I guess there will always be disappointment as non-Conservatives join the World Wide Web.
- Fatnino 4y agoThe name falcon heavy is a direct riff on the name delta 4 heavy. ULA just slaps 3 delta 4 first stages side by side and that's the heavy variant. Falcon heavy is the same thing but with falcon 9. I don't think it has anything to do with heavy duty.
- lamontcg 4y agoLaunch vehicles are categorized into small-lift (<2t LEO) medium-lift (>=2t LEO), heavy-lift (>=20t LEO) and superheavy-lift (>=50t LEO). Falcon Heavy is capable of 57t (recoverable) to 64t (expendable) which makes it actually superheavy-lift. (Although the Falcon Heavy has never actually demonstrated this ability)