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Parent should have said "SpaceX", Starlink is just a subsidiary.

SpaceX has more military applications than Starshield alone. For example, SpaceX's assembly line will be pumping out (eventually) a rocket a day. That's the plan.

From a military perspective, Starship is supposed to be able to send 100+ people on long space trips. If that is instead to deliver troops to other parts of the planet, I'm sure hundreds could be packed in. Imagine a fast deploy with parachute capability for personnel and cargo, just as with planes, but with immense range and deploy speed.

You may wonder why, but aircraft carriers and their fleets are considered less usable as deploy platforms, due to increased vulnerability. If the US continues to withdraw from the world stage, its ability to deploy could be affected by a reduction in 'friendly' regional countries and thus leased bases. I don't see any issue with this now, but once a large conflict breaks out, who knows... and this could vastly enhance Starship or equiv as a deploy platform.

I'm sure some reading this will balk at "large war" and "never happen" and so on, but Starshield is an example of a platform for such a large conflict. So considering the use of Starship itself as a lightning speed, emergency deploy platform is important.

There are all sorts of gotchas, such as being shot down, but of course those same issues exist with planes or ships.

Frankly, with the state of AI, the close-to-real Android + military robots, along with drones, Starship would be best served by mass fly-over and deploy of 100k small drones, or hundreds of military robot platforms, or.. well, lots of things.

This really isn't about Starship of course. It's just that we've gotten to the point where this sort of platform is very usable. I can't imagine sending in a large-cost asset like this for general troop deploy, but I can for special ops, weapons platforms in low-risk flyovers, and a variety of other use cases.

And in times of war, things get nationalized too.

Interesting thoughts on the logistics side.
Let me translate it in privileged language: when the poor are, like their name suggests, poor, they cannot afford the tutors and the time for pushing their capable kids through the good school. All while recognizing the shitiness of their situation.
Is there anyone that works at Google that can confirm this?

What's left of Borg at Google? Did the company switch to the open source Kubernetes distribution at any point? I'd love to know more about this as well.

> exploiting the confusion caused by the fact that some of the original k8s devs where ex-googlers

What about the fact that many active Kubernetes developers, are also active Googlers?
- "I don't see what would prevent China from shooting down Starlink's constellation."

They absolutely do not have tens of thousands of anti-satellite missiles, or any other credible (non-nuclear) way to dismantle a constellation of that size. If you look at their own news media[0], they (Chinese defense) consider it a major weakness, and priority.

[0] https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3178939/chin... ("China military must be able to destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites if they threaten national security: scientists")

- "Researchers call for development of anti-satellite capabilities including ability to track, monitor and disable each craft The Starlink platform with its thousands of satellites is believed to be indestructible"
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So does AI democratize copywriting? It seems it makes it enables users not to write which is already an option to everyone. It doesn't enable users to write in anyway; instead it writes for you. Deferring to an oracle that writes for you is the exact opposite of democratization.
> Suppose you have a unicode blob of my name in your database and there is a problem and you need to call me and say hi. Would your customer representative be able to pronounce my name somewhat correctly?

You cannot pronounce the name regardless of whether it is written in ASCII. Pronouncing a name requires at the very least knowledge of the language it originated in, and attempts at reading it with an English pronunciation can range from incomprehensible to outright offensive.

The only way to correctly deal with a name that you are unfamiliar with the pronunciation of is to ask how it is pronounced.

You must store and operate on the person's name as is. Requiring a name modified, or modifying it automatically, is unacceptable - in many cases legal names must be represented accurately as your records might be used for e.g. tax or legal reasons later.
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It's the same here in the Netherlands, I didn't go to a elite school but I am from a place where most people do.
And it's just bonkers to me this rat-race that they have been placed in because that's the only way to "happiness"/success ...

Also question, is consulting considered an elite job?
My impression is that even consulting for the big 4* is nothing special.

* are they they same everywhere? : Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC
Integrity by default is what the OpenJDK folks are pushing for so that any API that can break runtime assumptions, has to be explicitly allowed, so that they can actually make use of performance optimizations that would otherwise be too risky if anyone at any time could violate them.
If anything, OCaml's error messages are something that sucks, especially for newcomers. The `Error: Syntax Error` message that points to an empty last line in the file leaves you doing the parser work, in a language that you don't understand.
That was a hard requirement for the house xD I can deal with ducking when I need to go to the toilet, but the shower absolutely has to be able to hit my head instead of my shoulders.
I think it’s more of an ethical question than anything. There will always be pranksters and there will never be perfect input validation for names. So who do you oppress? The people with uncommon names? Or the pranksters? I happen to think that if you do your job right, the pranksters aren’t really a problem. So why oppress those with less common names?
It's difficult to discuss this with you, as firstly you're confusing the UN and the ICC, and secondly you're not providing much in the way of concrete examples.

It was indeed widely seen as a poor decision when Antonio Guterres visited Putin. However, the UN has consistently taken the stance that Putin has violated international charters and committed war crimes, e.g. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/10/un-commissio...
> vertically integrated monopoly is the cheapest option

I would like to remind you that you can use google, gmail, google maps, google drive and a bunch of other services for free (and the best consumer value even if accounting for their data gathering).
I think overzealous moderation was what drove some people off Twitter in the first place.

Another social media site asking for my phone number, no thank you.

I read the occasional Twitter/X and probably now Bluesky post, but this offers nothing that would attract me. Twitter/X/Bluesky/Insta/Threads is for people that like celebrities with some interesting stuff in between. But overall that isn't worth it.
The idea of building new institutions is basically right. You can’t fix Harvard.

But can you really build new institutions without a new civilization? The point of Harvard is the golden ticket to the upper class. The upper class now sucks (imo), so you can’t just have a better school with the same function.
It becomes tricky because what does 'factory' mean? Especially once it's scaled to the size of a small town, you start to see town-like buildings popping up. There's some stuff which is arguably necessary for the factory itself, such as the train station and logistics facilities, a test track, and things which are necessary for the employees directly such as employee car parks and restaurants, but then there are other things like a visitor centres, shops, gardens, monuments, museums, a Ritz-Carlton hotel. Also, are power and water facilities part of the factory? Even if that means that we're counting a reservoir as 'part of the factory'[0]?

How would you come up with an exhaustive list of which buildings contribute to the size of the factory, and which should be excluded?

Otherwise, you're just looking at the land owned or leased by the company, which is obviously a valid measure somehow, but it's hard to say whether it would lead to fair comparisons. I don't have the answers, just throwing it out for debate.

[0]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wYLiYdHFioyR9Y8b6
I will readily agree with you that:

> Many non-econ background tech people misunderstand the difference.

Unfortunately that includes the creators, early adopters, and many active proponents.

The first thing purchased with BTC was famously two pizzas.

The title of the original paper was "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System": https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

I've seen restaurants offering to accept it.

Musk briefly offered to accept it at Tesla.
This lines up with the idea of how great social change tends to be merely one group of elites splintering off from another and co-opting social movements, and not actual bottom-up democratic action.
TL;DR the enforcement simply lacks manpower, and the most egregious cases go to court which also takes time.
> Conforming to government regulations over here is stifling for a 100-house development in Arkansas, but it's almost impossible in California, Illinois, or New York. Now imagine what it's like to build a huge factory. It is nearly impossible to get permission, and inspections, endangered wildlife concerns, waste removal, etc. handled in under 5-10 years

Reading this (and I completely agree, it's even worse in Europe), sounds like Chinese "management" implemented Agile on a whole new scale.

The upside of a planned economy is that it can work like the internals of a private company, with one drive, "do what needs to be done". The downside is that it can work like the internals of a private company where you bite the bullet or look for another employer. This is much harder with countries, especially because planned economies are more likely to have taller fences around them.
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While a man page or good documentation is maybe not too intriguing for you I consider it essential for other users to adopt.
Maybe there are new or modern ways to create man pages that can be stimulating for your learning experience?
Apropos: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
I'm 100% sure its a photo op. Think about the logistics of the trucks taking spoil away. How can there be one arriving and one leaving at each location at this time: the diggers near instantly fill their entire capacity?

And the narrow access road is way too congested for all those to actually leave or arrive at that rate. Moments after the shot, the trucks will clearly all have to stop and wait.

This being said, there is power in that many machines in the same place at one time. They would cetainly be able to get work done quickly. Just not quite as quickly as it appears in that shot. Waiting is part of the process, you cant have a system where every component works at 100% capacity
> Discord will sometimes just kick you to a loading screen if it thinks your internet isn’t working. If it doesn’t do that, it works pretty okay.

On Android, falling back to EDGE/EGPRS makes Discord just not work at all. I get it - downloading profile pictures and media is something you cannot realistically expect, but being able to receive notifications and text content on currently selected channel is a problem that should have been solved way before $current_year.
> Most of those I've spoken to agree that a serious breach of these principles was in 2022, when Musk tweeted: "My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci", thereby managing to simultaneously offend the LGBTQ community, express an antivaxx sentiment, and put Fauci, already under attack from antivaxxers, at further risk.

This statement is clearly relevant to a scientific society. It is not just about unrelated bigotry by a fellow of that society.
Declassified Pentagon F-35 Study Details Reliability, Security Woes
I assume most company executives are not experts at evidence destruction. And in this case, it seems that they destroyed all of the documents and then just sent out a "We've now destroyed everything you asked us" email reply back without thinking to include that in the list of things to destroy.
https://archive.ph/0toiV
That's what OP was referring to, the same path of enshittification
I'm not really talking about the charming. I mean, if I'm being honest, the majority of people at places like Harvard have the ability to charm. What I'm going to say is illustration rather than arrogance, but charm and intelligence are just table stakes at places like Yale and Harvard. Don't misunderstand me, there are awkward people at elite schools. But you'd be surprised how many are able to out "charm" the average person.

What I'm talking about is something different entirely. I'm talking about people who are truly different. People who pick up salsa as easily as they pick up tensor analysis. Piano as easily as molecular engineering. And when they go into the military, they can reap a guy just as easily as they can analyze intel.

You might make the mistake of thinking, "Well that's not impressive. We train thousands of analysts." You're right. We do. Between DIA, CIA, FBI, etc etc, we train tens of thousands. And we might get a couple dozen that are any good. And maybe 2 of those can also compose symphonies and tape out a microprocessor on the side.

To compare it to Vance, or Obama on the other side, is to downplay it. People could see themselves being Vance or Obama. We're talking about people you meet where it's clear, there is no comparison. Which is saying something when you're already in a top 1% population in the first place.
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it sounds almost like a no win no fee arrangement
tl;dr - Verisign and domain name pricing; 99% of HNer's have heard of it; shoulda been given a good crackdown many years ago.

So - why did Warren wait 'till Joe was a lame duck, and the other party poised to take over the Senate, before piping up about this? It's almost as if she wanted score Performative Activism points - without taking the risk that any real-world good might come of it.
If the Trump administration (or the Biden administration) tried to enact an industrial policy like China, I think they would fail. It's not easy, and plenty of authoritarian governments fail at it.
75 years ago? If that's the closest precedent you can find, that kinda speaks for itself, doesn't it?
"Just never develop software in a medium or large company" is a take, I'll give you that. I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of software developed is vastly more productive than Instagram, and tied to real world processes that need coordination. Your 5 people team will do fuck all to program the control software for a crane arm activator, because they'll never get even close, and if they were actually given access, you would have to coordinate with hardware people and actual engineers (the ones with detailed plans and calculations before building anything, I mean, not us software "engineers"), you would have to figure out what the construction companies using it actually need from your software. A similar story could be told for most any area of software development - it generally is tied to other areas, and unicorn examples of how wonderfully easy the world is if you develop a time wasting app for phones is not applicable to the majority of us.

I totally agree with you last point. Not the least for the egoistical reason of higher chance of better products for me, that way :)
Allows people who are not versed in SQL to interact with and edit sqlite files as if it was a spreadsheet (for better or worse)
First of, no you can't infer language preference from a name. The reasonable and well meaning assumption about my name on a good day makes me only sad and irritated.

And even if you could, I don't know if you actually do it by looking at what you signup form asks me to input.
"3D-ready TV"
This is a problem specific to languages using Chinese characters where most only know some characters and therefore might not be able to read a specific one. Furigana (which is ultimately what you're providing in a separate field here) is often used as a phonetic reading aid, but still requires you to know Japanese to read and pronounce it correctly.

The only generic solution I can think of would be IPA notation, but it would be entirely unreasonable to expect someone to know the IPA for their name, just as it would be unreasonable to expect a random third party to know how to read IPA and replicate the sounds it described.
I'm not saying they're not trying to expand their sphere of influence. I just think they're not quite as gung-ho about it as western powers. They work slower and less aggressively, invasions are a last resort.
There is a mandate, several interconnected mandates actually.

They're not arbitrary though, and many nations have them. China just seems to be translating that into action better.

https://www.globalpolicywatch.com/2021/06/chinas-14th-five-y...
As a great counterpoint to this thinkpiece (which argues the meritocracy is working as intended but having unintended consequences for society and thus fails to make any mention of quotas or the college admissions scandal from 5 years ago), consider this one: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-myth-of-american...

The author found evidence of widespread quotas restricting the admission of Asians (no surprise, at least not anymore), but more scandalously, also evidence of affirmative action benefiting Jews. (The author is himself Jewish, and at least back then, probably couldn't have gotten away with writing it had that not been the case.)

Brook's premise--that we did away with a nepotistic aristocracy (the "evil" WASP will-o'-the-wisp) and replaced it with a meritocracy--is false.
Noble enough.
I commit often. But I stay away from IDE/Editor implementations of git (vcs commands) in general. It is not always obvious from the UI what is going to happen. And I'm very familar with git and it's internals.

While I think the user who failed to commit 5000 files is probably a bit to blame as well. We do need to acknowledge the the UI prompts are not always intuitive, and dangerous operation should have several safety mechanisms.
The second. It’s the 27th letter of the Swedish alphabet.
what is wallapop? never heard about it
> The first thing to notice is that my hosting provider has assigned to me a whole /48 network for my account (2001:aaaa:bbbb::/48)

How to know this?
1e-10 is reeeallly close to zero, therefore 1e10 * 1e-10 is also close to zero.

That's what your math sounds like to me.
As Musk Assumes Deregulation Role, Tesla Racks Up Pollution Violations
Is this a hit piece or does it raise valid concerns?
I use a unique account with every distinct git org / github org that I interact with.

Even if I'm in my work profile and I need to do something in an org called `acmecorp`, I will create @acmecorp-identifier to do that.

This is just a very long experience...

* Security policies for work things have a blast radius of just that employer

* OSS things have a lifetime beyond the life of an employment / contract

* Source control elsewhere (GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket / Gitea / Forgejo / etc) all has a local blast radius, and if a provider / org forces changes (roll your keys!) then the impact is limited to just that provider

* When something changes ownership (i.e. an org), the impact to me is low

It seems much more sane.

I think of a single git identity across multiple orgs as a bit of a smell.
TBF he has such notion:

> because a 0 arity function without side-effect is just constant.
Unfortunately powerplants dont graze on a field of grass
It's in AUR
Funny how while you mean it ironically, it still is true.

Its time people take responsibility of their actions.
> In the mean time modern "functional" (or "monadic") style java is a chained mess with ridiculously long lines.

I have seen many devs that prefer the Java imperative style over more functional chained style. Could be an outcome of leetcode style interviews or that most CS programs start with C/python/Java style languages but it's not uncommon to see that preference especially among junior devs
State machines don't have a native syntax in C++ at all, so you can structure them however you want. It's easy to structure a state machine, if needed, so that all (or some) states can handle the same event in the same way.
> How about apps in a time-limited multitasking workflow?

I once worked with a taxi company whose despatch system ran on QNX. During peak hours average call times were around six seconds and the system had to be very low latency and reliable. The UI was designed entirely on getting the relevant information from the caller and into the system in that six second window. It was text-only, made heavy use of keyboard shortcuts, and used predictive text before that was even a thing.

The “industry” can design performant systems when there’s money on the table.
NASA to make lunar cargo delivery awards to Blue Origin and SpaceX – SpaceNews
No loss. Whinging about politics and non-mainstream opinions.

Is there genuine curiosity (even dare I say wrongthink) left in the RS or is it just another polite social club for people to gather and feel smug about the consensuses they've formed.
Yes, and my life world be more convenient if this banner would go away or I could declare a universal preference.

I miss the old Internet where nobody cared about their privacy.
FOSS didn't do that at all except in (relatively few) nieches where the FOSS software is superior to commercial alternatives and there you can just use those FOSS programs without being subjected to the abusive commercial software. Bad for WinRAR maybe but not a problem at all for users.

Linux never stopped MS and Apple from selling their OS. iOS and Android are paid for with the device purchase.

What killed the ability to sell software is ads as well as the VC funded startup model where the first step is to acquire users and drive out competition at all costs. This essentially means giving things away for free only to extract value later. Thi doesn't have anything to do with FOSS but is just the free samples model taken to the extreme.

FOSS is completely irrelevant to the viability commercial websites (or other services) but yet you see the same problems there - ads, dark patterns, attempts to lock in users so they can be fleeced.