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by randallsquared 5mo ago
One of the major reasons for fans of space exploration to be concerned about all this was the dilution of control that seemed inherent in an IPO, but since that seems to be fixed, I don't hate the idea any more.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Agreed that you can still rescue dualism in that case, but I still think it's literally "strong evidence". A model involving the spark of awareness being received by the brain, but personality, memories, and motor action deci
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
I think LLMs have brought it roaring back for a lot of people.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
If you aren't conscious, and if no one else is, either (in spite of their reports of such), the solipsism still need not be true. It's a reach, I guess.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> Imagine the easy problem of consciousness is solved The hope for resolving this, I think, is that once we understand all processes in the brain, there will be some process that clearly is the self-referential "person" that
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
The article leads with a photo of something far more complicated than the subject matter.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
The edition of Marooned in Realtime I read in the late eighties or around 1990 was my introduction to the concept of the Singularity, and it had an essay in the back of it by Vinge asserting that the reader would likely live to see the real
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Elon put out a musing akin to a blog post on Hyperloop.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> would constitute the most management-favorable governance structure ever brought to the U.S. public markets at this scale The "at this scale" is doing a lot of work here. The SpaceX IPO will be $1.5T to $2T, and the next h
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
I have a lot of miscellaneous quibbles with your assumptions and numbers, but even if you grant many of them, 40 launches is not many for Starship's planned cadence. HLS is going to require 10-16 Starship launches just to get it fueled
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
In fact, not even 1% of the power usage of a datacenter... Right, but SpaceX has already filed plans with the FCC to launch a million of them, which is to say, 10K of your datacenter units. Tying back to the article, this plan is defini
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> glad the American taxpayer is doing it. For Starship development specifically, the American taxpayer is mostly not doing it; Starlink customers worldwide are contributing most, if I understand correctly.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
I am totally sympathetic to the "this isn't a legible link for machines". After all, this utm_source implies that some human is looking at the logs manually (or at least, trying to decipher aggregated utm sources manually). H
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> Because that’d probably be a perfectly reasonable referrer Well, it might be better than no referrer, but if the app is a mail app or feed reader or something, it doesn't really mean much more than "Safari" or "Ch
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Indeed! On Starship v1, that's what they started out doing: each tile was the same, and there was awkward placement and notable gaps, especially along the fins. I think they were hoping that this would be good enough, but that dream wa
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Yeah, the tile complexity is worrying. I hope they're able to simplify that or fully streamline the manufacturing and attachment. From the outside, the tiles seem like a Shuttle re-run, and refurbishment of those was one of the long po
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
It is common to find all of those in real life "forums", like conferences and meetups: name and company on the badge are very common, and rough location is typically easily deducible.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
If you must use POST with a idempotency-key, then my suggestion would be to use it like you'd use a PUT: you generate a guaranteed unique URI on the client, according to a spec agreed upon with the server, along with some idempotency-k
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
In the case in the article, the request is being rebuilt again by the client, and may be slightly different. Typically, the server doesn't have to care about any of that if it's just "did we get something for this ID?" a
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
In the case of a PUT or DELETE, the key is in the URI. /custs/12345/orders/20260510T153023.239 for example.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
I skimmed the article earlier, but going back and looking, it doesn't appear that the article mentions the spec at all, or links to it. In fact, the first paragraph is literally "People talk about..." Some help for others to
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
No, the sensible policy is to have the code operate idempotently for every request with an idempotent method. This is a design decision, not something you slap on top afterward with a special key.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
If the second request is different, then idempotency doesn't apply.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
GET is not supposed to make changes on the server. The usual idempotent verbs for making changes are PUT and DELETE. One thing that's confusing, here, is that idempotency only applies for the same request, but the article implies that
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
If they should have been illegal, then we should oppose the actions, or if they shouldn't be, we should oppose the regulatory capture of making them illegal or wrapping them in red tape afterward. No need to agree on which are which to
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> examples of the ideology that powered and continues to power tech Would that it were so. Semi-connected rant: What happened to so many startups to kill the mood was the pattern of: Do something technically legal (or technically illeg
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
The price is so low that it makes no real difference at this point. I barely go to my local CostCo (on the edge of being worth the annual fee myself!) because it's so incredibly crowded at all times that the savings are only worth it f
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> If the point of an engineer is to know how things work behind a piece of software That might be the point of an engineer in some orgs, but mostly the point of an engineer is to ship a product or release that matches someone's vi
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
Well, I meant existing or previous here in May 2026, though "mid-2020s" could definitely be interpreted to mean 2023-2027 or so.
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by randallsquared 5mo ago
> This was all due to Antropic not wanting to take on a military contract, right? No, they already had a contract (since 2024, revisited/renewed by the Trump admin in mid-2025) which included military usage. That contract, though,

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