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by hgoel 5mo ago
Welp, better get rid of all nutritional facts, allergy warnings, medical side effect notices and all the other signage mandated by government for your safety.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Really not convincing that you know what you're talking about if you're taking the DCX prototypes flying up to 3km as meaning that we had landing orbital class boosters sorted out in 1991. That was a hopper vehicle comparable to t
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by hgoel 5mo ago
SpaceX doesn't have the vehicle at a point that they can worry about the details of the crew compartment beyond concept renders and operations planning. As it stands they don't even have a plan for carrying large non-starlink payl
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by hgoel 5mo ago
We use technology to do many things we are not biologically capable of. If we can use technology to remotely explore inhospitable environments, we can also use technology to wrap ourselves in a hospitable environment.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
What I was trying to imply is that it wasn't R&D. That it was routine testing, verifying that your machine is working fine. Static fires put more stress on the rocket than an actual launch because the rocket is stuck on the ground,
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by hgoel 5mo ago
For decades, Americans have been propagandized into the position that they alone are exceptional. Thus, anyone that challenges that belief becomes the enemy. It's gotten so bad, that "China might get there first" is the only
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by hgoel 5mo ago
As mentioned, Apollo suits are neither safe, nor in working condition now. Even the EVA suits on the ISS (which are only usable for space walks) are decades old and just barely being kept going. The US simply hasn't been able to bring
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by hgoel 5mo ago
High profile failures that take out launch infrastructure are undesirable because the cost to that is much much higher than just losing the rocket. It means having all of your R&D and production pipelines stalled for at least months, us
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I've seen plenty of people at my job that have tried to spice up their research seminar slides with some chatGPT-generated images, the only time they don't suck is when someone uses the images as a joke. There's always someth
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by hgoel 5mo ago
It doesn't really feel like an image model fits with the "theme" of Anthropic's products. I see Claude as much more of a productivity tool than say, ChatGPT, so if they were to release an image model, I would expect it t
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Yes, in that sense SpaceX has really benefited from having the Starbase site. My understanding is that one of the reasons pad rebuilds take so long at the Cape is that they have to work around everyone else's schedule.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Only their most recent explosions have been planned. Anyone who followed early Starship, and even before then, remembers how much unexpected exploding, bursting and burning it, and previous SpaceX projects, have done to get to their current
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I was speaking mainly off my reading of the discussions on the internet in recent months, but I'm assuming the impression stems from this OIG report https://oig.nasa.gov/news/artemis-lander-program-faces-sched...
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by hgoel 5mo ago
>Blue Moon is one of the two lander contractors. But pretty much everyone thinks Artemis is Starship HLS or bust. That isn't my impression of NASA/government opinion. Starship HLS is seen as the eventual option, as is obvious f
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Ouch, losing the rocket is unfortunate, but the damage to the launch infrastructure is going to easily mean over a year of repairs. I hope they're going to take this as an opportunity to update the infrastructure from lessons learned f
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Might as well use a dumb phone I don't get what you guys are doing to be so bothered by notifications. I get them on my wirst and even then it isn't enough to take away mental bandwidth.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I don't see how anyone can think Trump is a temporary phenomenon, it's been a decade since he got into politics and things have only gotten nastier. On the scale of a person's life, this is definitely not a temporary thing.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
The fuck is going on with HN that a comment making up completely fantastical numbers is on top?
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by hgoel 5mo ago
People still like to talk about the interesting problems they solved and how. Issue isn't SO having choked itself out, issue is that even the major search engines are pivoting towards AI answers instead of surfacing small blogs.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
That's the thing, why does everyone seem convinced that the guy who has been making up pie in the sky projects and breaking his promises, won't find himself wanting more money? Have IPOs ever been about just a one time cash inf
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by hgoel 5mo ago
If you mean they need to lobby the US government to be less schizophrenic, I agree. Though I suspect the government would just decide to start more wars. If you mean they need to lobby the other governments, I don't think that'll
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by hgoel 5mo ago
The argument for the IPO was to fund their space datacenters project, if Musk could afford to ignore the stock price, that wouldn't be needed.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Shame they're risking that ability with the IPO. We've seen how irrational and ignorant stock traders are from other publicly traded space companies. Even scrubbed launches cause the price to dip.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Same, on top of that multi-agent workflows just cost too much to make stopping and correcting them to feel worthwhile, compared to one or two manually managed chats
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by hgoel 5mo ago
One off web app for scrubbing through some data, that, once done, will never be run again?
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Ah you're right, I mixed up immigrant and dual intent.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Isn't this about applying for a green card directly from a non-immigrant visa, e.g. student? H1-B is an immigrant visa.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
Ah yeah, the starscape changing was very cool, being able to actually go to the Pleiades or to various nebulae also caused me to better understand where different things are relative to each other in the night sky.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I thought the portrayal of scientists was a lot more true to life than most media. Millennial and older Zoomers are old enough to be in these positions now, they aren't going to talk or dress like boomers.
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by hgoel 5mo ago
I think the movie also did a decent enough job of conveying that preparing enough astrophage for just one ship was only barely possible in Earth's environment. It was the entire reason for making it a one-way trip.

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