everfrustrated

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Rocketlab acquires Iridium(investors.rocketlabcorp.com)
473 points by everfrustrated 3mo ago|308 comments
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
RocketLab gains spectrum + profitable satellite company
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
Your entire life is subsidized by those wealthier than you. Get off your high horse. Did you build your own house? Did you build your own car? Do you make your own power? What really has been your contribution to society.
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
It wasn't long ago that every city had a coal power station right in the center of it. Things aren't nearly as bad as you suggest.
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
The difference is Europeans expect government to "fix" things. Americans expect companies to do that. Eg, the disastrous energy policies all across Europe which have made price of energy insanely high with no hope of ever coming d
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
Welcome to European thought
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by everfrustrated 3mo ago
You are correct in the sense that they can stop work in a way many generic server use cases can't (which is seen in lowering power supply reliability requirements as the article mentions), but running expensive servers at 50% utilizati
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Container pulls are slow. Lambda starts fast as it's not unpacking your container to a local disk on every start.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
The established AI players have no financial interest to make LLM available locally. They aren't hardware companies and if running LLM requires paying them to host the models as well then they can naturally capture more of the value ch
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Yup. And I bet all that got reported internally within Elastic was how AWS was "undercutting them on deals".
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
If he was in the military I presume military police has some jurisdiction. I would also presume there's some mutual law where if a foreign military member is on another countries soil (if you're in the military you can't just
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
For the longest time, elastic didn't even have a cloud offering. And by the time they did it was far far too late. In the early days AWS elastic offering was very weak. It had lots of foot guns and operational problems. We tried hard
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Custom in Europe - where debit cards are the most common - is to settle the hotel bill on check-in.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Backblaze stock up 38% today (so far)! Nice.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
The mobile client now supports viewing emails offline.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Sadly the same happened to modern publications of Enid Blyton. Best to find old editions.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Someone else being rich doesn't make you poor.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Only if you overlook the time it was a republic 1649 to 1660
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Teslas allow setting separate mirror position configurations for forward and reverse direction. Very handy.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
Might not be GB metered, but it is metered by the port-size/Hour at a very heavily marked up rate.
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by everfrustrated 4mo ago
There are other non-US equivalents to Lets Encrypt.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
The fact they're even doing a recall tells you they care. When people buy from Alibaba and resell it on Amazon, they're not bothering to issue recalls.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
One of the best usb chargers for the money is the 40W IKEA charger. I trust their quality control.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
Or put another way, are subsidized by others.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
It will never stop at $50M. Once the law is created it is sooo much easier to just lower the threshold. Even if not lowered, in 30 years inflation means it will capture a whole different number of people - maybe you. Maybe it will bankrupt
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
The US already claims jurisdiction on all launches from US and NZ (Rocket Lab). Every one of these had to get approval from the US to launch.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
Ditto. I also actively avoided hybrids as being worst of both worlds.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
My main takeaway from the video is just how terrible Toyota was at marketing this.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
This refinery is situated miles away from any other Tesla factories.
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by everfrustrated 5mo ago
Full details https://cursor.com/blog/composer-2-5

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