starspangled

12 ms·

91.
by starspangled 2y ago
No it isn't. Most of their revenue comes from starlink and rocket launch services that they sell in open markets. Significant improvement in cost and capabilities over competition that enabled SpaceX to capture so much of the market ha
92.
by starspangled 2y ago
I don't know, maybe. Maybe not if they're getting ideas for a new ATC system not applicable to day to day operations of the existing one, which is more like what the tweet sounded like. But I really don't know the inner worki
93.
by starspangled 2y ago
The tweet contained an open call for others to also collaborate. Is there any problem with SpaceX doing it or doing it first? I have to admit I get a bit of a knee-jerk reaction about even the appearance of conflict of interest, but if mone
94.
by starspangled 2y ago
The quote also doesn't indicate the SpaceX team is being "brought in to overhaul FAA systems", that seems like a big mistake if that tweet is all they are basing it on. The tweet says the FAA is tasked with overhauling their
95.
by starspangled 2y ago
I don't know actually, perhaps I didn't follow context closely enough to see which team you affiliated yourself with. Either way that's okay if you aren't capable of standing by what you wrote or arguing in good faith, t
96.
by starspangled 2y ago
> An entire political party has spent an entire mandate actively and vocally claiming the election was stolen Are you talking about the 2016 election or the 2020 election?
97.
by starspangled 2y ago
How is that related to a dictatorship though? The executive comes under the control of its democratically elected head, which is pretty normal and not considered a dictatorship. Forget the police, I thought the US president actually has muc
98.
by starspangled 2y ago
In fact governments are among the worst offenders I can think of in over promising and under delivering. And that's not just Trump's government either, how's this whopper? https://edition.cnn.com/videos/p
99.
by starspangled 2y ago
> In my experience, having watched friends enter that position, it's drugs which cause drug addiction. Mental health might play a factor, but if I gave the average HN user meth or crack every day for three weeks, their brain chemist
100.
by starspangled 2y ago
> The core problem imo is there is simply not good enough treatments for addiction (yet?). Isn't that still treating a symptom, rather than the core problem? If homelessness is caused by drug addiction, what causes drug addiction? U
101.
by starspangled 2y ago
Renewables aren't "new sources" by now though. They are existing sources. So if production demands more energy and renewables are the cheapest existing sources of energy, then you would build more renewable generation, not mo
102.
by starspangled 2y ago
I hear that a lot and maybe it is, but I can't see how it squares with numbers like these https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china Decades ago, coal was said to be in terminal decline. Years ago, coal was
103.
by starspangled 2y ago
> America needs better labor protection laws. Maybe so, although I don't know that Blue Origin is the best demonstration for the need. I doubt it's made a profit let alone returned investment. Bezos has supposedly been putting
104.
by starspangled 2y ago
> It crashed multiple times after his cuts and that was while dealing with a largely reduced flow of traffic. It crashed multiple times before he bought it too though. > Twitter has survived death, but it’s only a fraction of what it
105.
by starspangled 2y ago
> Sounds like a VP is under a tremendous amount of stress, and took it out on this one employee. It doesn't really sound like that to me. > But his day soon took an ominous turn, when he received a text from Garrett Monaghan, a V
106.
by starspangled 2y ago
This theory of yours in which Jokic is yet to become very famous and wealthy, what alternative universe is it set in?
107.
by starspangled 2y ago
The worldview of many atheists I know seems to depend on magical thinking, holding of contradictory beliefs, and blind appeal to authority when it comes to the government. I don't think there is clear cause and effect when it comes to
108.
by starspangled 2y ago
I suppose because they are catching them when they are at ~0m/s in the atmosphere so they're worth -8km/s worth of momentum to begin with. So you would have to fire them out a >8km/s to get a net +ve change in momentu
109.
by starspangled 2y ago
You've moved the problem from the last to the first element though. Surely people would prefer to be able to do this SELECT a, b, c, FROM ... ?
110.
by starspangled 2y ago
What do you mean by the rhetorical question?
111.
by starspangled 2y ago
Since the C compiler can hide that, for core kernel code I think the more problematic thing was Alpha's memory consistency model where (data-)dependent loads accesses did not imply ordering, which is unusual and more burdensome to the
112.
by starspangled 2y ago
No I wouldn't say that. If Rust or another language eventually proved itself more value than C and things were eventually all rewritten, C would go away. For that matter the C of Linux 10 years ago was not there to stay either, it has
113.
by starspangled 2y ago
Yeah m68k is still around too and it has more than a decade on alpha. People use and maintain them and they have very little impact outside arch/ nowadays so they're on the happy side of cost/benefit I guess.
114.
by starspangled 2y ago
> The changes required to bring C to a Rust level of safety would make it an entirely different language, even when restricted to the kernel's domain. Maybe. 1. It may not have to be "Rust-level of safety" to be good enoug
115.
by starspangled 2y ago
Yes, perhaps a C-only Linux would do that and die, and perhaps it would continue its customization of C flavor and runtime it uses (e.g., the various static and dynamic memory limitations and checkers) and closes the gap with Rust to a poin
116.
by starspangled 2y ago
Nothing in Linux is "here to stay", it always has to demonstrate its worth, and what it's worth is depends enirely on the technology and its developers, not Linus.
117.
by starspangled 2y ago
At that point a Democrat could vote yes to ensure those demands are not met, if that is determined to be the best of bad choices.
118.
by starspangled 2y ago
Let me be clear, folks. Lots of people contributed to their destruction, and Obama was one of them. One of the major players involved in those messes.
119.
by starspangled 2y ago
It really doesn't matter if you know how useful that metric is or not, it is what I was specifically talking about and what the parent poster asked about. I'm just glad to be able to blow their mind by proving these "huge all
120.
by starspangled 2y ago
Free as in healthcare.

More ›