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by AnotherGoodName | 2026-02-02 23:15:21+00:00
That launch cost is remarkably cheap to someone that's handled a $1.5million dollar 5U server filled with GPUs and RAM that weighs under 100kg.

Obviously the solar and cooling for the above would both weigh and cost a ton but... It's feels surprisingly close to being within an order of magnitude of current costs when you ballpark it?

Like i don't think it's actually viable, it's just a little shocking that the idea isn't as far out of line as i expected.
by defrost | 2026-02-02 23:15:23+00:00
This is very much a root cause.

Not just the fact that Scottish wind farms prevailed, also that he was relentlessly mocked, ridiculed, and protested against in unavoidably visible ways by the Scots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NNWmZwObZc

( Note: while a recent youtube clip, the anti Trump protests in Scotland date back to well before his campaign for his first term as POTUS )
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by chaos_emergent | 2026-02-02 23:16:24+00:00
I grew up on a rural farm in California with a dial-up connection that significantly hampered my ability to participate in the internet as a teenager. I got Starlink installed at my parents' house about five years ago, and it's resulted in me being able to spend considerably more time at home.

Even with their cheapest home plan, we're getting like 100 Mbps down and maybe 20 to 50 up. So it's just not true at all that you would have connections that are a megabit or two per second.
by mrmuagi | 2026-02-02 23:16:33+00:00
I just was mainly motivated in replying to your accusation that the original poster couldn't read -- I feel like that claim is pretty disingenuous from the get-go and if I'm being accused of it, well, I'm in good company.

I don't even know what to reply to here, but I'm in general agreeance with most of what you wrote. I just don't agree users type "vim" alone their first time, I'd wager it's following some guide/tutorial online that already has 'vim filename.txt' snuck in there. The fact that people get stuck in vim feels like something intentional to weed out people, otherwise it's a funny problem people run into on other programs like ftp, ssh, screen, even the python interactive shell. There's no unified lexicon on cli tooling, except maybe the gnu clis. It makes you appreciate good GUIs.

The real big brain approach here is to divorce the idea of vim from the command line editor and use it as a plugin in an IDE. Best of both worlds.
by kortex | 2026-02-02 23:17:06+00:00
Satellites can adjust attitude so that the panels are always normal to the incident rays for maximum energy capture. And no weather/dust.

You also don't usually use the same exact kind of panels as terrestrial solar farms. Since you are going to space, you spend the extra money to get the highest possible efficiency in terms of W/kg. Terrestrial usually optimizes for W/$ nameplate capacity LCOE, which also includes installation and other costs.
by infogulch | 2026-02-02 23:17:24+00:00
Send up a spacecraft with back-to-back / equal area solar panels and radiators (have to reject heat backwards, can't reject it to your neighboring sphere elements!). Push your chip temp as much as possible (90C? 100C?). Find a favorable choice of vapor for a heat pump / Organic Rankine Cycle (possibly dual-loop) to boost the temp to 150C for the radiator. Cool the chip with vapor 20C below its running temp. 20-40% of the solar power goes to run the pumps, leaving 60-80% for the workload (a resistor with extra steps).

There are a lot of degrees of freedom to optimize something like this.

Spacecraft radiator system using a heat pump
- https://patents.google.com/patent/US6883588B1/en
by einpoklum | 2026-02-02 23:18:23+00:00
Judge: "Why were these projects put on hold?"

Government lawyers: "Uh, well, we could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you."

Now, I would point out how the US is making itself into a joke, but I'm afraid the joke's on us, because carbon output is not decreasing dramatically like it must, and the effects of global warming will, slowly but surely, become worse with every passing year. I live in a region where warming is predicted to be near twice the global average, so I'm particularly worried about what it's going to be like when I'm old, or in the generation following mine.
by jhirshman | 2026-02-02 23:18:27+00:00
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by kevstev | 2026-02-02 23:18:27+00:00
But the "fraud" here is being done mostly to VC investors with deep pockets and lawyers, at least until he tries to take this entity public. And I can't imagine them just taking this lying down, but then again maybe they realize that offloading this steaming pile on public market investors is the best way out. But even then... SpaceX seemed like it was quite viable on its own, the investors there are the real losers here.

It is all very puzzling to me.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-02 23:18:59+00:00
Right, but I think that's what the question of "Why is the linker too late?" is getting at. With zig libc, the compiler can do it, so you don't need fat objects and all that.

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expanding: so, this means that you can do cross-boundary optimizations without LTO and with pre-built artifacts. I think.
by fooker | 2026-02-02 23:19:57+00:00
> Let’s say the costs in 5 years do get as low as $15 per kilogram or about 2 orders of magnitude improvement in launch prices. That means a 200-ton payload Starship would cost $3,000 to launch. Do you honestly believe that? The world’s largest rocket cost a total of $3,000 to launch?

You have missed three zeroes in this calculation ;)

15 per kg for a 200-ton payload is about 3 million$. That seems achievable, given that propellant costs are about 1-1.5 million.
by analognoise | 2026-02-02 23:20:04+00:00
Agreed, the only calculation that makes sense is if they try to dismantle elections to stay in power. It’s the only way it makes sense.

I don’t think they were counting on so much hate that ICE agents were quitting long before getting their bonuses, or being so reviled; in their fantasy they were lauded as saviors, not mocked so badly that ICE agents quit.

I increasingly notice people say they were “never MAGA, I was always independent”. It’s been a noticeable shift.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-02 23:20:04+00:00
> > Boeing is too important to fail as well but it’s been terrible as a shareholder

Your opinion on Boeing being terrible as a shareholder vis-a-vis Tesla would be completely reversed if dividends and capital gains of the 2 companies were to be offered in the forms of miles to be flown on Boeing planes and miles on Teslas Uber/Taxi/Autonomous taxis.

The absolute overperformance on the stock market that Tesla has enjoyed vis-a-vis Boeing is not rooted in a concrete and tangible quality of life improvement for citizens. Not American citizens, nor global citizens for that matter.

It is my opinion that for all public companies in which it is possible to do so government should mandate payment in kind to all shareholders and board members to prevent the excessive promotional , cult and all around BS aspect of marketing to take over and allow people to profit just by riding off those, and Musk is the GOAT at that.
by valbu | 2026-02-02 23:20:15+00:00
Why am I hearing about that specific FW in year 2026, this seems really good, at least the features written if it really supports rules based on parent processes, wildcards, SvcHost granularity without gotchas.
Been wrangling with Windows FW for ages, trying to get some badly behaved programs to update like Discord, Teams and others that change install paths or updater executable names or hiddenly use msedgewebview2.
PolicyAppId and tagging based rules have given some success but Windows FW is still really broken. Definitely giving Fort a try.
by AndyKelley | 2026-02-02 23:20:17+00:00
The very same day I sat at home writing this devlog like a coward, less than five miles away, armed forces who are in my city against the will of our elected officials shot tear gas, unprovoked, at peaceful protestors, including my wife.

https://www.kptv.com/2026/01/31/live-labor-unions-rally-marc...

This isn't some hypothetical political agenda I'm using my platform to push. There's a nonzero chance I go out there next weekend to peacefully protest, and get shot like Alex Pretti.

Needless to say, if I get shot by ICE, it's not good for the Zig project. And they've brought the battle to my doorstep, almost literally.

Abolish ICE.
by ozim | 2026-02-02 23:20:33+00:00
Ugh you are aware that Atlassian earlier was providing on-perm edition for years.

You also know how neglected those on-perm instances were?

No one updated those, no one wanted to pay for more CPU/RAM. File storage, I know people who had some random requests to cleanup files from projects because company wouldn’t buy more hard drives. Everyone was nagging at sys admins that they do bad job and at Atlassian that JIRA sucks.

That is mostly why Atlassian pulled off on premise because companies would not update at all, would like to have all new features and also not pay for file storage,RAM, CPU to make it work well.

Don’t forget you still will need to have dedicated employees to deal with AI built solution - because existing employees have work to do.

What we pay for JIRA and Confluence would never offset fact that we pay and it works, NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE CARES as they have their job to do.
by foxglacier | 2026-02-02 23:20:56+00:00
But it is saying "You may be licensed to use source code..." which is analogous to "You may have permission to kiss the bride" if being licensed means having permission. It could mean that Mattermost may have licensed it to you in one way or the other, or neither, at their discretion. If it was written like a priest, it would have said "You may use the source code..." and this doubt wouldn't exist.
by llama052 | 2026-02-02 23:20:57+00:00
It's awful. Any other service in Azure that relies on the core systems seems to have issues trying to depend on it, I feel for those internal teams.

Ran into an issue upgrading an AKS cluster last week. It completely stalled and broke the entire cluster in a way where our hands were tied as we can't see the control plane at all...

I submit a severity A ticket and 5 hours later I get told there was a known issue with the latest VM image that would create issues with the control plane leaving any cluster that was updated in that window to essentially kill itself and require manual intervention. Did they notify anyone? Nope, did they stop anyone from killing their own clusters. Nope.

It seems like every time I'm forced to touch the Azure environment I'm basically playing Russian roulette hoping that something's not broken on the backend.
by palmotea | 2026-02-02 23:21:12+00:00
> creating documentation

How is an AI supposed to create documentation, except the most useless box-ticking kind? It only sees the existing implementation, so the best it can do is describe what you can already see (maybe with some stupid guesses added in).

IMHO, if you're going to use AI to "write documentation," that's disposable text and not for distribution. Let the next guy generate his own, and he'll be under no illusions about where the text he's reading came from.

If you're going to write documentation to distribute, you had better type out words from your own damn mind based on your own damn understanding with your own damn hands. Sure, use an LLM to help understand something, but if you personally don't understand, you're in no position to document anything.
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by ethin | 2026-02-02 23:21:37+00:00
I mean... I don't really see how they are. Technically they are but at the same time they aren't, because the set of conditions make the loosening of the AGPL a conditional thing. Which to me sounds like a violation of the AGPL because it's a further restriction: "We will (not) hold the AGPL against you... As long as you do these things..." I... Really don't think the AGPL was written to be... Abused? That way.
by graeme | 2026-02-02 23:21:54+00:00
The problem with this reasoning is it requires assuming that companies do things for no reason.

However possible it was to do this work in the past, it is now much easier to do it. When something is easier it happens more often.

No one is arguing it was impossible to do before. There's a lot of complexity and management attention and testing and programmer costs involved in building something in house such that you need a very obvious ROI before you attempt it especially since in house efforts can fail.
by ralfd | 2026-02-02 23:22:01+00:00
The company lists their ISS solar panels as 28 kW for 331 kg, which comes pretty near to 100 W/kg.

Company website:

https://rdw.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/redwire-roll-out-...

And their Opal configuration beats the metric: 5.3 kW for 42.7 kg.
by iknowstuff | 2026-02-02 23:22:21+00:00
Model S was successful until Model 3/Y blew it out of the water. Waymo’s timeline is not relevant because they lose money on every car and every deployment. Tesla’s the only financially successful developer of self driving. They can scale it up much faster.In fact, instead of making $5k per car produced, cybercab will net them $50k per car per year.
by fooker | 2026-02-02 23:22:21+00:00
One reliable method of pushing envelopes, attracting investment and hiring smart people is to get excited about unrealistic timelines.

The best case is you meed the unrealistic timeline, the average case outcome is you solve the problem but it is delayed several years. And the worst case is it fails and investors lose some money.

If you try to hire people but your message is: we want to reduce the cost of access to space by 20% in thirty years, you are going to get approximately zero competent engineers, and a whole lot of coasters.

And no investors, so you'll be dependent on the government anyway. Depending on the government is great until people you do not agree with or are generally anti science, are in power. I assume this part should not need an example nowadays?
by ben_w | 2026-02-02 23:22:48+00:00
Only if you also disregard all the negatives.

The panels suffer radiation damage they don't suffer on Earth. If this is e.g. the same altitude orbits as Starlink, then the satellites they're attached to burn up after around tenth of their ground-rated lifetimes. If they're a little higher, then they're in the Van Allen belts and have a much higher radiation dose. If they're a lot higher, the energy cost to launch is way more.

If you could build any of this on the moon, that would be great; right now, I've heard of no detailed plans to do more with moon rock than use it as aggregate for something else, which means everyone is about as far from making either a PV or compute factory out of moon rock as the residents of North Sentinel Island are.

OK, perhaps that's a little unfair, we do actually know what the moon is made of and they don't, but it's a really big research project just to figure out how to make anything there right now, let alone making a factory that could make them cost-competitive with launching from Earth despite the huge cost of launching from Earth.
by zem | 2026-02-02 23:23:22+00:00
"native" is used for different things, from "use the platform's default gui toolkit" to "compile to a machine code binary". the former is a bit of a mess, but the latter is strictly better than wrapping a web view and shipping an entire chrome fork to display and interpret it. just write something in qt and forget about native look and feel, and the performance gain will be enough to greatly improve the user experience.
by observationist | 2026-02-02 23:23:24+00:00
Or, just saying, be critical of ideas and think them through, and take in what experts say about it, and determine for yourself what's up. If a bunch of people who usually seem to know what they're talking about think there's a legitimate shot at something you, as a fellow armchair analyst, think is completely impractical, it makes sense to go and see if maybe they know something you don't.

In this case, it's all about Starship ramping up to such a scale that the cost per pound to orbit drops sufficiently for everything else to make sense - from the people who think the numbers can work, that means somewhere between $20 and $80 per pound, currently at $1300-1400 per pound with Falcon 9. Starship at scale would have to enable at least 2 full orders of magnitude decrease in price to make space compute viable.

If Starship realistically gets into the $90/lb or lower range, space compute makes sense; things like shielding and the rest become pragmatic engineering problems that can be solved. If the cost goes above $100 or so, it doesn't matter how the rest of the considerations play out, you're launching at a loss. That still might warrant government, military, and research applications for space based datacenters, especially in developing the practical engineering, but Starship needs to work, and there needs to be a ton of them for the datacenter-in-space idea to work out.
by ninan980805 | 2026-02-02 23:23:31+00:00
I am surprised vercel doesn't have fine-grained control. Supabase for example allows developer to config IAM roles and which role has read-only or read-write access to which tables. And each IAM role comes with its own token. This way people can easily configure a set of permissions agent should have access to and give that token to agent.
by 5ersi | 2026-02-02 23:23:38+00:00
It uses phase change (solid to liquid) to store heat at about 200 kJ/kg. Compare this to heating water in a boiler from 10c to 60c - stores 209 kJ/kg.

So we already have an effective way to store heat which can work for decades without servicing and is also cheap to produce (in terms of money and energy consumption).
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 23:23:53+00:00
So basically they basically took everyone's property rights for 50yr and now then give them back at the government's pleasure.

Now, I know nobody not rich enough to play the game owns land in Cambridge, but even the something tells me the guy who had a Trump 2024 sign on his garage, the guy who owns a business that's at odds with the city, something tells me their permits require the most $1-10k engineering expenses, lawyers fees, etc, etc, to get approved.
by mothballed | 2026-02-02 23:24:11+00:00
>Which polls? Political elections? Professional polls from experts? Or some random poll on the streets from some TV-Station or influencer?

All the above. Political elections of people that are pro death penalty, professional polls commissioned by the MHA (and done continually in separate years), and also you can hear them from people on the streets if that's your preferred way.

>People also answer very different depending on the prospected outcome, thus the "seriousness" of their answer.

It's not simply a "prospected" outcome, the people in the polls literally are living in a country actively doing it and has been doing it for quite awhile. The information is out there to see what they're getting.

>And legal system in Singapore works like USA? This seems like a strange claim.

This is your fifth consecutive interrogative cross-examination question which is clearly aimed at presenting a counter-narrative without having to use the courage of making any assertions of your own, I only note here that your "question" implies a straw man that I've presented they work the same. But if you insist, the requirement of amending Singapore constitution is easily met in the context of the death penalty for drugs (2/3 MP + possibly 2/3 national referendum), were it that their civil rights were prior codified there to prohibit it.
by manquer | 2026-02-02 23:24:14+00:00
Wouldn't the panels themselves need cooling too? The ones on earth generate heat while being in the sun.

There are commercial systems that can use open loop cooling (i.e. spray water) to improve efficiency of the panel by keeping the panel at a optimal temp of ~25C and the more expensive closed loop systems with active cooling recovers additional energy from the heat by circulating water like a solar heater in the panel back.
by kortex | 2026-02-02 23:24:16+00:00
lol WHAT?

AI datacenters are bottlenecked by power, bandwidth, cooling, and maintenance. Ok sure maybe the Sun provides ample power, but if you are in LEO, you still have to deal with Earth's shadow, which means batteries, which means weight. Bandwidth you have via starlink, fine. But cooling in space is not trivial. And maintenance is out, unless they are also planning some kooky docking astromech satellite repair robot ecosystem.

Maybe the Olney's lesions are starting to take their toll.

Weirdest freaking timeline.
by digiown | 2026-02-02 23:24:20+00:00
> AnkiWeb

Worth noting you don't need to use it. Anki comes with a syncserver implementation for a while now, and there are docker images too. It's worth it for the transfer speeds alone IMO.

Anki is under AGPL too, which has an anti-DRM clause, so many type of enshittification of anki or their addons (e.g. to prevent sharing of their decks) would be unenforceable too.

As such I see no obvious things that would be susceptible to enshittification here.
by brucifer | 2026-02-02 23:24:39+00:00
OP here, I just went with indentation-based syntax because I prefer indentation over curly braces aesthetically. I've got no problem with people who prefer curly braces and I find C very enjoyable to work with. However, when I started the language, I wasn't starting with a C parser and modifying from there, I was writing the parser from scratch, so I opted to go with the syntax I enjoy most. I'd like to think that Tomo's syntax is easy enough to pick up, especially for anyone who has used Python before.

I actually agree with you that syntax is not one of the things that makes C hard. C's syntax is mostly very easy to work with (apart from a small number of edge cases). The actually challenging parts of working in C are things like manual memory management, doing good error handling, the lack of proper namespaces or modules, a sometimes-footgunny standard library, and so on. I wanted Tomo to improve on the usability and safety of those areas, while keeping the parts of C that I really love: a simple type system, pointers as a language concept, fast parallel compilation (one source file -> one object file), and a programming model that feels closer to what the silicon is doing than most languages.