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> The space shuttle was reusable and yet, it is generally seen as a disappointment (and I don't believe for a second SpaceX engineers are better than NASA engineers).

It helps that SpaceX actually lets their engineers design the rocket, while the Space Shuttle was designed by Congress for defense missions that never happened.

SpaceX engineers probably aren't better than NASA engineers (though the fact that they have a clear mission and actually get stuff done helps with recruiting the best talent). The SpaceX organisation is significantly better than NASA.
Is this allowing them full licensing in perpetuity ?

Do you have any approximate numbers as to how many users they are expecting ?

I think you need to evaluate these numbers before you can negotiate. Obviously you want to keep this deal, but you're going to need to bring in revenue to scale.. so keeping in some type cost per seat is ideal. It is a good strategic investment opportunity and for a seed round, its definitely not bad.
Oops, got it. :)
Very easy might be overstating it. Arranging tours with the homeowner individually is a hassle. The reason you hire a realtor is because they have access to the key boxes. A home is a huge purchase, I don't know how many houses a typical person looks at before deciding, but for me it was over a dozen.
I depend on work for income, but also get some social activity and a steady stream of "interesting-enough" problems to solve.

If the need for income goes away I still need to replace the other two.
When the Kárahnjúkar dam was being built the Ásatrú would visit the construction site and curse it, so Landsvirkjun (Iceland's power company) would send priests down to sprinkle holy water over it, to which the Ásatrú responded by cursing it, and the priests again sent in... this went on round and round. The Ásatrú were broadly against the project.

Arguably this had some effect. When a prominent anti-dam farmer from near Egilsstaðir was excavating his land to build an extension to his house, strange things kept on happening: His cows treading on their udders, workers falling into the pit and breaking bones. His wife claimed to see two figures when each time one of these happenings occured. An old man and a young. Finally in the pit they came across the central beam of an ancient house, and a magnificent circle made of a spherical stone made of spheres containing crystals - you found individual spheres - I know this is the wrong term sorry - scattered around their farmland. Anyway upon finding these the farmer called to the ghosts and promised that the stone would be taken to the museum in Egilsstaðir and the beam would be featured prominantly in their new farmhouse, in exchange for the ghosts leaving them in peace and haunting Kárahnjúkar instead. It was then in the process of its initial flood.

Soon after very strange things occured at Kárahnjúkar. Workers were injured, serious technical problems manifested.

If there's anywhere in the world where making pacts with supernatural forces is possible, it's Iceland.
The argument is that the "simpleness" of the doorbell isn't a good heuristic for the amount of impact.

According to wikipedia [1], the transformer on a standard doorbell can use 2-3 watts of power at all times. That's 1400-2100 watt hours per month — about one hundred times as much as a ring doorbell uses (Less than 20 Wh per month).

The cost and impact of the Ring includes more manufacturing, and I wouldn't be surprised if the Ring ended up having a larger environmental cost, but it's not as clear cut as your incredulity makes it seem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorbell
That sorta works, but it assumes they read the FAQ. If that's functionally required for using the service at all, it might be more reasonable, but I wouldn't take it for granted.
I think this metric is irrelevant without looking at time-on-market.

Each agent may still sell a dozen a year.

There are also more stock brokers than stocks, but we slice them up and shuffle them around a lot.
I was thinking that as I was reading. Its 1 extra new line, and arguably more readable.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but both Tesla and SpaceX only exist because of government policy.

Strangely enough, I would argue that SpaceX probably could have existed without government policy (but maybe not so soon).

Tesla, OTOH, is completely a product of the government. Elon Musk himself said (before he turned into some strange version of libertarian), that it was government funds that allowed Tesla to survive right after the financial crisis.

And for over a decade, Tesla's biggest money maker is ICE companies paying Tesla for renewable credits required by the government.
As long as they use the content appropriately that’s a good thing as it reduces web traffic to Wikipedia and saves them money.

The purpose of Wikipedia is to improve human knowledge and all their content is CC so unless Google is altering content or biasing searches, sucking it into Knowledge graph seems like one of the main reasons Wikipedia started.
Notion (but with Nextjs). It's found their markdown to be quickest way to draft a landing page.

I also building Diagram (https://www.ondiagram.com), a way to build APIs with nocode and MongoDB
If you force the term to stay, you'll get two search results, neither of which answer your question.

The web of 2021 sucks.
Wasn't Hitler partly a jew also?
Why not just use a library?
"anything that isn't 538 or a tech blog" implies more than that to me, but I'd rather you focus on the other part of what I said.

They're not asking for someone to read some particular books they like, but to go reading around and sampling the variety. Your criticism only really applies to the former.
I find it really obnoxious that if I search on 5-6 terms, Google will return popular results that include 1-2 of the least specific but most popular terms. If I put anything in quotes, it will ask if I really mean something less specific than what I put in quotes! Well yes if we get to a generic enough level, you will return the best relevant results to those generic terms. Who cares if they relate to the specific search I started with?
Because the US government understands this no matter how much people think individuals are better and all that rubbish. The model of operation in the united States has consistently been to crop up innovative businesses around strategic industries. SpaceX would not be this successful without the billions NASA poured into it repeatedly.
> it's trivial to construct a non nullable pointer that is null or uninitialised

This is checked at runtime in ReleaseSafe.

jamie@machine:~$ cat test.zig
pub fn main() void {
var x: usize = 3;
_ = @intToPtr(*u32, x - 3).*;
}
jamie@machine:~$ zig run test.zig -OReleaseSafe
cast causes pointer to be null
Aborted (core dumped)

(The x-3 is because if you use a literal 0 it gets caught at compile time)
Totally agree. And there are spampages on nearly all results
I was with you till the List<x>, but writing the while loop as a for loop is controversial. C'mon man. That is second nature for anyone programming for a few weeks.
It's hard if you don't know the precision needed to get to the position you want, easier to just copy/paste and be done with it. How many knows how far 0.001 deg is at a specific location on the globe?
I foresee the day HNers will ask "How do I get a dumb (non-smart) car" just the same way people are asking for dumb tv's.
Thinking about business continuity is literally your job. Not your engineers’ job.
yeah, my company aswell, we only need 1 required reviewer, but paying for that like $19 per user (we are 5, so $95 for that per month) is a little bit ridiculous. granted it probably comes with support, but as a small company you do not care about support, you care about $1200 a year. I loved the jira/stash pricing, 10 person shop was $10 a year so $30 with stash + jira agile (there was a time where agile costed extra), but no support. the price of course was ridiculously cheap, but granted that was something were you did not even needed to talk about the cost, it was assumed that it was worth it and there was no cost/feature evalulation.

edit: kudos to them they already offer tons of stuff for free.
Ok, but that video suggests that Zig's allocator wires the program to segfault if you access the freed memory. With a 64 bit address space I guess you can do this perpetually?
Nothing is stopping you, a member of society, giving somebody $20,000 to help them with back rent.
What's disturbing is if we do get to a point where untraceable tech becomes ubiquitous, and such monsters truly can operate "above the law" (referring to the dialogue of the criminal in the article).

This case will probably serve as an anecdote for the exceptional/lawful access topic. "But the children!" is an argument with merit, per this example.
I used to work in financial services. I wasn't client-facing but because I had experience with financial modelling so I got roped into these discussions...in my experience, everyone gets this wrong. Advisers get it less wrong but I have still seen comical errors from people who should know better.

But most people significantly overstate future returns (particularly now), they significantly understate the effect that volatility can have on strategies with withdrawal rates (any strategy involving withdrawals has to optimise for returns AND volatility...this is counter to the "time in the market" logic that most people read so can end up going very wrong), and they model for average final period wealth rather than 5th percentile (generally speaking, this happens everywhere in finance...modelling percentile outcomes is tricky...so most people just don't do it). I am not in the US but health costs seem to be an issue, inflation is another "black swan" that tends to go unconsidered.

In my experience, the FIRE group are the most difficult to convince because the whole concept is a lifestyle or way of thinking not an actual strategy. I also don't understand what is so appealing about doing nothing...but that is maybe just me (I have had times in my life when I was doing nothing, those weren't choices and they weren't fun).
> I'd be happier if they charged a flat fee or a flat hourly rate.

You can always try to negotiate the agent’s price. I know a few sellers that had agents agree to 3% commission recently. It’s all about supply and demand, and if agents get desperate, they’ll agree to lower prices.
Yea, as a representative for the community of people who live and pay taxes there, not the parasitic real estate devs that simply exploit the value of that locations culture.
> (and I don't believe for a second SpaceX engineers are better than NASA engineers)

The software I write can do a lot more than similar software written in the 1970's. That doesn't make me a better software engineer, it means I have access to tools they didn't.
Natural Products for Public Health
B2 users had the data leak.

But just to be clear: is your claim that the unlimited storage consumer backup plan is a loss leader, and they cover their costs by selling the backed up data (or metadata) to the likes of Facebook?
I recently realized DuckDuckGo's !sp operator can give you Google results anonymously via Startpage.com

"Startpage acts as an intermediary between you and Google, so your searches are completely private. Startpage submits your query to Google anonymously, then returns Google results to you privately. Google never sees you and does not know who made the request; they only see Startpage."
Anyone have any opinions on the state of image search? What do you use?

I find Google Image search, which I used to love, filled with absolute garbage now. 90% of links are to Pinterest which greets you with usual overlays, signup modals etc. I use DDG's image search because I find Google's search unusable.

Also, Yandex image search is probably the best reverse image search on the market. It's crazy how much better it is than Google.
You're making the exact same argument the RMS made, using the same logical construction that I laid down as being the argument RMS made, while arguing that I do not understand RMS's point.

I understood his point. I understood your point. I find the point to be pedantic.
I mean no offense and sorry for my angst if it came that way. It's frustrating when I can't paint my view and then get battled to death because of it.

TCL.

TCL is the only language workflow that has worked for without any stress.

proc SomeProcedure {variable} {
Code it to do something for yourself }

save, run and it works. No need to include modules, no need to download anything. I use my own TK/Gui interface which does stuff for me to make my life easier. And if I handed it to you, it would be in one folder with all files present no dependencies required. However I understand life is not like that unfortunately.

> I can't imagine not having a browser window open with the docs/source code/whatever of what I'm currently working with.

I don't. If at any point I need source code, I'll download it locally and compile/run it first. Then edit it learn the logic and flow of the program. I'm in terminal 99% of the time, orchestrating systems ranging from FreeBSD to Linux and AIX, if a browser is open it's for Slack, emails.

I am someone who wants to type "man something" and get a man page of it. vim Library/file.pm and be able to view the code under the hood for that specific project. That's simplicity and that's how it should be -- The over-hassle of downloading from git, forking it, apply push,pull changes just isn't my street specially assuming my box I'm working with has internet.
I'm curious if people choose to do this because they can't get another minimum wage job or if they think they are making more than minimum wage but in fact aren't. Or that they could get a minimum wage job with set hours but they want the gig flexibility.
My take-away is that what really matters is not financial independence (it's nonetheless really nice), but independence. And the real independence comes from continued ability to work, being able to choose the job that one enjoys, and the freedom of choosing how to spend one's time. Freedom of choosing how to spend one's time is probably the hardest to achieve.
Publish your react component to NPM registry
Before the zillow/redfin days the only way to see houses for sale was to physically observe the for sale sign or look in the newspaper. The NAR keeps a tight fist around the MLS where for-sale homes appear. Even with all the online information there's plenty of "secret" info in the Realtors-Only MLS notes. The information asymmetry is absolutely bonkers in real estate.
> I was so bored just exercising and consuming content

Is that all you wanted to do? I'm pretty sure if I could afford to be retired it would be a long, long time before I got bored. Yes I would exercise more and catch up on TV and movies that I've missed over the years, but I also have a lot of hobbies that I would like to work on. There are local organizations I would like to volunteer for. There are lots of classes I would want to take or audit. I'd visit friends and family I haven't seen in years.

I might even be like your dad and find a job that I enjoy doing. That's a whole different thing than working because you have to.
Harman-Kardon Sound Sticks do it for me. You can adjust the bass separately, which comes in handy. Not all rooms are created equal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization#GNU_GPLv3
> ...while member states of the European Union pay for development of the rockets, after reaching operational status, these launch programs are expected to become self-sufficient by attracting commercial satellite launches to help pay the bills.

I think the amazing thing about SpaceX is that they are constantly improving their stack. They don't finish designing a rocket, unless they're working on the next big rocket. The model of "build a rocket, and then sit back and profit for the next few decades" model is never going to take off again. A lot of the old launch providers need to reckon with this reality, and it's going to be really hard to turn these giant aircraft carriers of companies into embracing this new way.
This depends on your outlook.

You can stress about this and spend a lot of your time chasing down someone for repayment. This is the wrong approach IMHO.

Instead just sure in small claims court (limited to $5,000). This is done without lawyers. You simply present your lease agreement, bank statement and any relevant
communications.

Once you get that judgment give it to a collections agency and forget about it. The agency will take a percentage of anything they collect.

Then just look at anything you get back as a bonus.
It would not exist in its current form, but a space industry would almost certainly still exist without the Cold War. Space is too useful to just ignore, regardless of whether or not it was another venue for a geopolitical boxing match.
If I put content out on the web with no login, then thats what I do.

If I want to control the revenue then I use a different protocol.

I can also just simply set up a robots.txt file telling others what to do with it and lots of indexers, Google included, respect and abide by my wishes.

When people misuse a tool it seems easily fixed by them properly using the tool.

Trying to change the web because I’m too stupid to understand it seems like a bad thing.
Back button works just fine.
Occasionally I open a private window and try browsing the web on my phone or laptop without an ad blocker. It doesn't take long before the autoplaying videos and Taboola crap makes me close the browser.
It's very hard to find a home you want to purchase without access to the MLS system

It's very hard for potential buyers to become aware of the house you have for sale without it being in the MLS system

Realtors control access to the MLS system.

See where I'm going with this?
Absolutely! But for photographer is like “Star it on GitHub” or “Follow on Medium”, damn make your own website and upload there the photos, then send the article to the blogs/magazines! Are your photos on your website.
Obviously you wouldn’t get the same visibility and traffic, that the trade-off we -as photographers- have to pay.

I hate to see “personal link/page” linked from articles to an Instagram/Facebook feed instead of a personal website.
I meant easy as in there’s no artificial hurdle. The example of arranging tours displays that agents do provide some value. People like to complain about agents, but they’re free to stick a sign on their yard, purchase online ads, and otherwise do the leg work.
For anyone who wonders how http referer could ever be a good idea consider the following:

I remember when my dad studied to become a teacher. As one of their assignments they had to create a webside. As someone who had recently given up farming I think he wrote about farm animals and linked to some other pages about small scale poultry and similar topics.

One day he got a mail from the "webmaster" of one of the sites he linked to that he would have to update his links soon. I remember being really surprised that someone knew my dad had linked to them.

Being only 16 or 17 or something I only knew simple html, basic and vb but I knew that html links were one way.

I don't think I realized until later what had really happened: this person had looked at their server logs to see where their customers came from, looked up the page and found the email address.

Of course this also highlights why the referer is so problematic.
Local odeon stopped using plastic straws in their drinks. Paper ones were awful. Bought some metal straws also awful. Ended up taking 2x500ml bottles instead - far more plastic than was used before.

Yeay?
I've asked a lot of hardware engineers why ethernet is not simply used for everything.

I've never gotten a real answer, one that involves technical reasons. It could be done, but it isn't.

I guess people like having different kinds of cables?
Such a clever concept! It seems so obvious in retrospect but the idea wouldn't have ever occurred to me. I'd definitely enjoy slowly leafing through a few of my favorite films this way.
> They don't advertise, but they have the same issues, which should be dealt with.

Which is possible, specifically by deferring to something like Firejail that can handle any application rather than expecting every application format to bake in its own subtly-different mechanism. That is:

> I don't think it's fine to just say "security doesn't concern us" in the year 2021.

That ain't what's being said. What these folks are actually saying is that security and packaging are separate concerns, and that said security should be enforced in one place in a way that's applicable to all programs, no matter their packaging.
Just take a look at the gitlab ci reference. It is huge. And there are competing features in there that are intended to "deprecate" the older feature but this doesn't happen. They are also constantly held back on providing backwards support. For instance, adding dpeendency-like flow as opposed to stage based flow has been added but it's not possible to model dependencies from same stage making the whole thing kind of useless.

Versioning the yaml specs/apis is the correct move.
I hope future CI systems take note.
This reads like the commentary about Manafort's "otherwise blameless life." They failed to send you the results and you say you're out $200 that you paid. What else is there for them to have done "really well"?
I agree (I am from the UK) when first saw US professional workers complaining about > two weeks my first thought was wow you must have a really low status job.
In my early twenties, I had a business mostly on autopilot that let me work maybe an hour a day. I mostly spent my time writing poetry, hiking, making friends, etc. It was great. It was not sustainable, but it was perfect for a twenty something exploring the joys and freedoms of youth.

Now, I work much harder, have kids, and responsibilities. That being said, I know the work I do is meaningful, and serves many people. We have significant savings. Though living in a big city means we can't retire early. That's beside the point though: I motivate myself to work because it is meaningful. The same with kids: I don't do things because I enjoy them, I do them in the service of my kids and my family. Reading the story in the OP, I get the sense that the OP hasn't made that transition to thinking about work in terms of serving others. A happy life is not a life of retirement, its a life of meaning. What was meaningful once (aiming for retirement), loses its meaning once it has been attained. You have to keep moving forward. This is not about "Keeping Up," but about stepping outside of oneself, and learning to put others ahead, even if it requires personal suffering. (Something parents of young children know very well.)
Stephen Wolfram (of the Wolframalpha.com fame) has a treadmill attached to one of his workstations [0]. I've read claims that walking 1-2mph takes no mental effort. Lets say 4 hours of walking would net you about 5 miles. That's a decent effort for the day and you could still sit the other 4 hours out of your 8 hour day.

[0]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod...
I'm not sure "surviving because of the government" and being a "product of the government" are at all the same thing.
If anyone from Gitlab happens to read this, how is ActionCable working out for you on gitlab.com? If you're not from Gitlab but use ActionCable at moderate scale feel free to share your story too!

I casually read a few PRs and issues from a year ago where you discussed introducing ActionCable but it looks like a full blown report hasn't been written up on how it panned out, but I do see it being referenced in your HTML.

Concerns were mainly around memory usage, such as it growing to pretty huge sizes even with idle connections. I know there were lots of horror stories of major memory usage early on. The memory growth climbed very quickly with active connections, but I wonder now with Rails 6.1+ if those issues have been ironed out.
US tropical species are moving northward as winters warm