maxlin

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by maxlin 3y ago
I basically get what you're asking but having followed Musk for a long time and having a similar personality, this would be very similar to asking him to lie and break his principles, on which I think is motivation -> progress of hi
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by maxlin 3y ago
This is a very engaging question. No idea why anyone would flag this.
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by maxlin 3y ago
This has to be the most ignorant comment here. Elon has been heading SpaceX as a Chief Engineer for a LONG time now, with undeniable success. How on earth would what he asks X/Twitter to do affect this, even if you considered that bad
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by maxlin 3y ago
-Not being dependent on Earth for survival of the species as Starship in its huge capability and reasonably cheap cost, among with refuelability on Mars begins the road to believable planetary colonization -Asteroid / Moon mining -Over
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by maxlin 3y ago
If you research this a bit more it becomes clear that the survey has been the blocker, after the direct FAA checklist was cleared. Just google around, this has been bouncing around as an annoyance for a while in the space enthusiast circles
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by maxlin 3y ago
Checking the transcript, it is not unreasonable to say that "Next year we'll have 1mil robotaxis on the road, the fleet wakes up by OTA update" means "Robotaxi-capable in hardware" which is the main sell, IE that yo
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by maxlin 3y ago
Has Elon actually promised something concrete about this? Elon's not the first guy ever to hype the hyperloop idea. On its basis it is hard to think we won't this at some point as it promises essentially orbit-like capability on t
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by maxlin 3y ago
> 1 engineering or physics related thing
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by maxlin 3y ago
Did you read the question?
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by maxlin 3y ago
This. A thousand times this. Even for just US itself, the Spaceship program might well have a chance to prove to be as existentially important as the Bikini Atoll tests (if we consider that it increased the believability of MAD and prevente
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by maxlin 3y ago
This doesn't in any way even contest the original point. Timeline maybe, but we all know Elon(r) Valve(r) time, it's the kind of time we all hope would move faster but most don't rip their game pants out of impatience. About
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by maxlin 3y ago
Again, Falcon 9 wasn't dependent on reuse and was profitable as-is. As Starship has a clear design goal of quick reuse, it's being designed a different vehicle altogether. The reuse isn't only for profitability on earth, it g
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by maxlin 3y ago
Everyone knows that, but Falcon 9 is extremely successful and Starship is the main project that's been in the making doing good strides once in a while, and the whole "chopstick" lift tower has already been built, with the cl
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by maxlin 3y ago
I bet the chance would be low even if Starship somehow "flew" on the surface of the water for the whole boost period. And even then it should be ridiculously easy to determine it is more beneficial for humanity to revolutionize ma
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by maxlin 3y ago
I'm more interested in what that will make the rocket do, like move, though.
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by maxlin 3y ago
Starship is designed with way faster turnaround time. Falcon 9 had optional reuse, while Starship aims to be the 747 of space access. Elon said in 2020: > Starship is being designed to be relaunched an hour after landing, with zero nomin
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by maxlin 3y ago
Didn't even realize there already was a comment for this. Pointed out the exact same timestamp independently in another comment. Talking of the more reasonable bureaucratic hoops, SpaceX has done quite a job filling all of FAA's r
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by maxlin 3y ago
But more important first is to put headphones on seals and play sonic boom sounds to test and make sure they aren't startled by the scary rocket sounds. (Ok, stretching a little. That is what a seemingly similar survey did at Cape as a
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by maxlin 3y ago
Urgh. People not understanding LINQ misusing like exposed here is painful to watch. Sure, It took me a few head scratches myself originally to understand lazy/unintentional multi-evaluation, but for the original article to still push a
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by maxlin 3y ago
Can I ask what is the exact point of adding more NIC's? Considering one can just hard reset the machine remotely, a network card driver goof (like I've gotten with maxwell 10gbit cards) should be clearable. Unless you mean a separ
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by maxlin 3y ago
While reading this I realized this is exactly the kind of form that makes up many of the YouTube videos I end up watching, with just a good narrator voice and any amount of editing this would be good content. I do also get the opposing poin
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by maxlin 3y ago
I once wanted to build one like this, but for console devkits. That situation was and went, but I did end up wanting to have the same for all windows machines at work and home (Unity dev, so workstations, test runners even servers are deskt
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by maxlin 3y ago
Well said. It's a bit disheartening that there's no other companies as capable as SpaceX, but man am I happy we have them. When the company I was a cofounder was still up an year ago I would have rather had it founder than SpaceX.
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by maxlin 3y ago
Saying putting 1% of earth's resources to have a chance, of let's say super pessimistically, 15%, of actually surviving as a species through and beyond an otherwise species-ending catastrophe, to be "waste" is so stupid.
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by maxlin 3y ago
I have a healthy appreciation of the person. If he was an AI, or an anonymous council, I would say the same. But these entities tend to be exceptional humans. I have had largely the same opinion of the man for ~10 years and understand where
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by maxlin 3y ago
Aged like milk. That article backfired so badly, if something it points out the amount of bloat a company with an inflated "ego" can have.
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by maxlin 3y ago
Not really? Only if you amplify the bad and hide the good. That way you can live in a fantasyland
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by maxlin 3y ago
There's also an argument to be made that humans can live on photons alone. Didn't turn out well.
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by maxlin 3y ago
Because the thing's wasn't built too well originally. Twitter/X has been hard at work the last year making itself more efficient, check @XEng: This has been a year full of engineering excellence that sometimes can go unnotice
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by maxlin 3y ago
The most innovative and bold tech companies in the last 20 years are successes because of Government programs? Rofl.

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