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by fastball 6mo ago
Not actually sure that is true. Entirely possible that just by re-using Superheavy and expending Starship they could get to a price point lower than F9 (which also has an expendable upper stage).
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by fastball 6mo ago
Which part of running a vending machine do you think would be hard for a SOTA model?
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by fastball 6mo ago
The argument was "why do you even need Starship?", not "will it be fully re-usable at the end of the day?"
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by fastball 6mo ago
> that doesn't translate to more expenditure that could be captured by the launch company. Of course it does. With Starship, SpaceX could've charged NASA/ESA more to launch a bigger JWST than the cost to launch with Aria
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by fastball 6mo ago
> The question is whether those markets are not already adequately served by Falcon 9 What does that even mean? Almost every single Falcon 9 customer will prefer launching on Starship if/when it is available, because the cost will b
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by fastball 6mo ago
That article is two years old. In traditional space launch terms that is a very short amount of time, but in SpaceX terms that's quite a while. They've already progressed to Starship 2 since then and are going to launch Starship
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by fastball 6mo ago
> because there exists a useful upper to the size of payloads that companies actually want to ship to LEO in practice This is only true because we are so completely beholden to the tyranny of the rocket equation with the current status q
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by fastball 6mo ago
Of course not. If the P/E was 1, every single public company would be immediately gobbled up by Private Equity firms, who would make their money back after a few years of operation and the rest would be pure profit.
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by fastball 6mo ago
I don't just mean stylistically, I mean with clearly constrained knowledge, etc.
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by fastball 7mo ago
That's not how resources work. Resources that are used for space exploration aren't magically available for anything else when you don't do space exploration. The economy is not a zero sum game and human capital is not fungib
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by fastball 7mo ago
What opportunity is being lost out on because of space exploration?
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by fastball 7mo ago
I wonder if you could generate synthetic Victorian-era training data.
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by fastball 7mo ago
Why isn't DigitalOcean the DigitalOcean of Europe? Regardless, I believe you can provision VPS on Hetzner Cloud via their API.
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by fastball 7mo ago
Cloudflare isn't providing Turnstile as a service in a vacuum, this is a direct response to bad actors who can trivially abuse the web.
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by fastball 7mo ago
Legal matters are almost never black and white. If someone does something illegal using my service, and some other 3rd party sues me as party to that illegal behavior, from a legal perspective having a clause like "no criminal behavior
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by fastball 7mo ago
If you don't think this is a DDoS with archive.today visitors acting as an unwitting/unwilling botnet, how do you think this normally works? It's not any more sophisticated. There is not much functional difference between som
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by fastball 7mo ago
By telling visitor browsers to DoS the site.
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by fastball 7mo ago
I think you are 0/3. - Bun just got acquired by Anthropic, which has seemingly accelerated development. Last release: 4 days ago. - Deno is still kicking as a company, this blog post notwithstanding. Last release: 3 days ago. - Rome wa
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by fastball 7mo ago
Would be interesting to see if there is other personality overlap with people that feel this way, which people could use as a pre-test for whether or not they would enjoy the experience of having kids. I wonder if there would be something i
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by fastball 7mo ago
Why would you ban data brokers?
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by fastball 7mo ago
Off by an order of magnitude.
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by fastball 7mo ago
That is... not what AWS data centers are primarily used for in 2026.
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by fastball 8mo ago
I don't think MCPs have legs long-term, but they are a great middle ground during this somewhat turbulent transition period we find ourselves in, precisely because they are not the existing tooling (they are greenfield). An existing
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by fastball 8mo ago
Most APIs and CLIs are not setup with clear separation of permissions, and when they have those permissions are mostly designed around human access patterns and risks, not LLM ones. The primary example of course being read-only vs write acc
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by fastball 8mo ago
You can pre-migrate if you want, just by hitting every actor with a request as soon as you deploy the change with a migration. Personally I think the benefits of lazy outweigh the downside of that single 30s request, but to each their own.
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by fastball 8mo ago
We recently replaced an isolated feature built on Durable Objects with Rivet Actors, to allow for much better interop with the rest of our infra (which is built on AWS/Vercel), and are happy with it so far. There have been some small i
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by fastball 8mo ago
It is not a false dichotomy. Reducing headcount via attrition is a subset of "prolonged bleeding", if you've already decided it needs to happen.
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by fastball 8mo ago
It is not 5x bigger, it is 5x more valuable. Obviously Stripes 2x higher revenue is part of that equation, but not all of it.
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by fastball 8mo ago
I believe it is less that they stopped caring, and more that most piracy these days is web streaming, which is much harder to detect than torrenting or similar. AFAIK most major American ISPs are still fairly strict about pirate torrents.
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by fastball 8mo ago
Anthropic has definitely been banning accounts for using non-Anthropic tools with subscription OAuth tokens.

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