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What specific expertise does SpaceX have in the air traffic control realm?

Building software which respect to probabilistic risk analysis. This includes techniques such as abstract interpretation and theorem for for the logic of dynamical system etc. I guess spacex expertise in these realm is quite advanced and they do something useful.
He is also has a special Chinese status and large interests there. See for example https://newrepublic.com/article/191265/elon-musk-us-china-us...
To be fair here: conda was praised as the solution to everything by many when it was new. It did have its own standards of course. Now most people hate it.

Every packaging PEP is also hailed as the solution to everything, only to be superseded by a new and incompatible PEP within two years.
No?

It's more than half the probability of getting a critical in D&D, which is something that happens all the time.

If during a particular day you judge that you have a 3.1% chance of running into another car due to winter weather and no winter tyres, you leave the car home that day.
Two completely unrelated products.
> In Java, people will pull in a 300MB+ mega-framework for a hello-world REST service. Oh and another 200MB for ORM. Another 250MB+ for nailpolish, etc.

I just now used https://start.spring.io/ to generate a project using Spring web, Spring security and Spring data JPA (Hibernate).

It generated a JAR that is 52MB.
> Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over ...

> But a new study highlights one area of intuitive physics that’s deceptively difficult: judging how strong a knot is.

Zzz. People do a lot of stacking stuff, to train their brains on what does & doesn't work.

Vs. how many people regularly make & use various knots, to get any such training?

Yeah.

But if their "new study" had included people with such experience, then SA wouldn't have had yet another a clicky headline, and fluff article.
HP to build future products atop grave of flopped AI pin
Maybe Musk should have done that review before firing all of those FAA employees last month. Maybe those jobs were important.
There are a lot of leanings to master for Go as well which they may have not discovered.

As an example, the Go runtime does not honor container resource limits. You would think this would be one of the very first fundamental features supported out of the box by an advertised "cloud native" language.
Did you mean neuralink instead of starlink?
The article doesn't mention MSFS. However, MSFS does not use blade element theory, but a unique system of "normalization".
https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/7_Samples_Tut...

CFD is only used in a couple of the dozens of aircraft in MSFS. It still uses the "normalization" process that feels a lot like stability derivatives.

It can give good results, but overall the system in MSFS is too complex with too many parameters to tweak, leading to nearly all aircraft modeled having quite innacurate flight characteristics anywhere outside the normal flight envelope.
Yeah, old style ringers were the best. Simple and straight to the point, then at some point in history it started to go crazy.
>Musk has a pattern of behavior and this fits it. This is pure corruption.

You must be lost? Please take your Musk derangement syndrome somewhere else.

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The most serious problem is that Elon Musk is the 2nd most powerful person in the federal government, and seems to be giving cabinet officials direct orders, yet he has not divested himself of his SpaceX shares.

I don't understand how anyone can reasonably pretend this is okay. Elon Musk + the birthright citizenship order + Eric Adams means Donald Trump is by far the most corrupt president in American history.
This is because of the way most software is built. If you are using event modeling, it's very easy to estimate feature costs. The only exception is when you are truly innovating new algorithms so there is not a historical precedent you can refer to. This is not common work in the industry however, most software projects are variations of previous themes.
Seeing all the Macromedia ones (“Made with Macromedia Dreamweaver”) right next to the Adobe ones is probably intentional, but still a little jarring even all these years later.

I cut my teeth building sites with Dreamweaver back in the day and still am sore about Adobe letting it wither on the vine after the acquisition.
I'm glad Mark managed to dig Meta out of the hole it was in a few years ago. I remember they were dumping so much money into the metaverse telling everyone it was the future. Seems now they have less of a focus on that and more of a focus on VR hardware and their AI models, which IMO is a better place for them than where they were.
Thanks, yeah I already setup up some x86 Android simulator. I guess I can just spin that up with app on a regular basis.
In the end it all boils down to higher-level logic compiling down to machine code that has to run. A language's culture and philosophical choices are tied to the language itself as much as syntax or compiler, so maybe the largest difference between languages like Java and Go is really the whole developer attitude and aesthetic choices.
I did a similar thing in Kerbal Space Program using krpc (though less for human training and more for fun) - https://github.com/standaloneSA/krpc_state_machine/tree/mast...
> becoming the One True Package Manager for a very popular programming language is an extremely valuable thing

For companies. Which is why when random people start acting like it’s important, you have to wonder why it’s important to them.

For example, being a corporate shill. Or so deep in coolaid you can’t allow alternative opinions? Hm?

It’s called an echo chamber.
From Hitler's mouth itself[0]:

> "Why," I asked Hitler, "do you call yourself a National Socialist, since your party programme is the very antithesis of that commonly accredited to socialism?"

> "Socialism," he retorted, putting down his cup of tea, pugnaciously, "is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.

> "Socialism is an ancient Aryan, Germanic institution. Our German ancestors held certain lands in common. They cultivated the idea of the common weal. Marxism has no right to disguise itself as socialism. Socialism, unlike Marxism, does not repudiate private property. Unlike Marxism, it involves no negation of personality, and unlike Marxism, it is patriotic.

> "We might have called ourselves the Liberal Party. We chose to call ourselves the National Socialists. We are not internationalists. Our socialism is national. We demand the fulfilment of the just claims of the productive classes by the state on the basis of race solidarity. To us state and race are one."

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatint...
Tbf, everything is mostly low quality or noise.
I’ve been wondering for awhile, how much does lack of typing proficiency contribute to this problem?

There is one co-worker who always wants to huddle if any Slack thread gets busy. In a complete separate conversation they told me that they are a hunt and peck typist. This person is an incredible engineer.

I put 2 and 2 together. In Slack conversations I am absolutely burying them in paragraphs of text because I can type quite fast. They can’t keep up.

I’m sure there are also other factors like language proficiency, written communications skills, etc. But I think the lack of typing proficiency may pushing people away from written communication.

Outside of the workplace, people who do not even have keyboards (phone/tablet only) may be contributing less to text chat conversations than others. They are also the people who only use voice messages.
> I don't understand why we can't have dumb tools anymore.

You can. Literally nobody is stopping you.
Making new tools doesn't solve the understaffing issue which is the main problem. Unless they think they can make a new system which reduces the staff necessary? The only way I see of doing that is introducing some level of AI, which is a bad idea for multiple reasons.

And new systems are so few and far between because of the layers of safety and regulation testing that must be met. Though it sounds like those may be reduced in the name of efficiency.
I think the intro explaining that this is not true and Trump was most likely misunderstanding his pilot's comments about onboard electronics is the key bit of that article...

Fits in with the first term in which Trump baffled airline executives by assuring them that he'd help solve the problem with the airports giving them the wrong equipment[1], also based on apparently failing to understand an anecdote from his private pilot

There is actually a very long term project to modernise US ATC (less on safety grounds and more on congestion minimization grounds) it's even one in which theoretically a satellite constellation operator could have some involvement as a data provider. But but it's something of an understatement to suggest that this is unlikely to be advanced by an administration lead by someone who thinks he understands aviation based on misunderstanding his pilot and someone whose first foray into improving the FAA was to arbitrarily fire hundreds of FAA staff and whose main goal for the FAA is to deregulate space launches...

[1]https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/re...
Electronic parts can fail silently and without warning in either case, e.g. due to a tin whisker producing a short somewhere.

Mechanical parts being less reliable than electronic parts in HDDs, and their relatively slow degradation, allow for an earlier warning when data can still be recovered but the drive should rather be replaced.
To make it crystal f**ing clear: him changing the policy of the US isn't treason. Cozying up to Russia or trying to reduce the size of the government are his prerogative as elected leader in a way that trying to change the result of an election is not. Ohh yeah and I forgot that he tried to get everyone to stop counting the votes while he was ahead! That also goes in the treason most foul bucket.
Huh. Come to think of it, when I was on Windows (through 2021) I got used to using `python` rather than `py` while using venvs, even though it was apparently no longer necessary after I upgraded from Python 3.4. This announcement totally missed me. But also it was easier to internalize "always use venvs, and always run `python`, and that way you won't have to change the instructions for Linux/Mac". And that worked out beautifully.

But the launcher does have value. Mainly because of how Windows handles the PATH and how it wants C:\Program Files to be organized; but there are enough fringe benefits that a core dev wants to bring it to Linux/Mac too (https://github.com/brettcannon/python-launcher).
Larger than 2GB RAM JVM containers? It sounds like the author didn't really explore any of modern container-ready frameworks and blamed the ecosystem. Move from Spring Boot -> Micronaut or Quarkus and compile your code into into GraalVM image and you get sub-100MB containers.
Most projects won't stay a hello-world REST service, there would be no point of doing them. They will grow and most likely make use of a bunch of CRUD features, on which we have a lots of experience in various languages and frameworks can solve a good chunk of any problem that might come up (AuthN/Z, session management, endpoints, safe parsing from and to json/url/forms, etc).

Spring (besides itself being modular, so you only "pay" for what you use) will solve all of that for me, so I only have to write the small amount of business-relevant code and be on my way. Later on, some other developer who knows spring can join the project and feel ready at home.

Compare it to a buggy, slow to develop, slow to onramp home-grown half-solution, and it's quite a clear tradeoff, unless there are very specific requirements that make the usage of frameworks a no-go.
> Inflation is an extreme handout to the wealthy.

Debatable.

But the opposite, deflation, hits the poor much harder.

It was deflation, the gold standard, and the insistence of balanced budgets that caused revolutions all over the world:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austerity:_The_History_of_a_Da...

It was dropping prices that caused ferment in the US:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech

It was FDR getting off the gold standard and balance budgets that helped the US recover:

* https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-money-makers-how-roosevelt-...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24945314-the-money-maker...

> Money is by definition zero sum, otherwise the word "inflation" would have no meaning.

I have no idea what this even means.
In my fan fiction universe Radio Shake buys Amiga and with their sales channel it establishes itself as a superior competitor to PC and Mac.
Why not run pi-hole in one of those kubernetes cluster for Raspberry Pi, and don't forget a set up a UPS for redundant power supply.

Or: in the rare eventuality that your raspberry pi dies, it takes 15 seconds to open your router interface and reset to the ISP DNS. Work smart, not hard.
Black and decker makes a corded drill motor that has the matrix attachments, between that and a hitachi hammer drill I'll never buy a cordless again.
Dired, the file manager that comes in Emacs, is 'completely unrelated' to a file manager named File Pilot?
Yes. But this article argues two things at once - that the technology is itself not useful and not used, and that this won't change in the future. And it also argues that this is a bad investment, at least in the form of OpenAI.

I have very little idea of the second - it's totally possible OpenAI is a bad investment. I think this article is massively wrong about the first part though - this is an incredible technology, and this should be evident to everyone (I'm a little shocked we're still having an argument of the form "I'm a world-class developer and this increases my productivity" vs. "no, you're wrong!" on the other).
uv, venv, conda, brew, deb, nix, guix, chocolatey, containers, jails... One day we will finally find the ONE solution to this problem.
How can you "let the exception bubble up" when you don't know what "the exception" is nor where it's going to be thrown? The agency you imply here does not exist.

All you can do is what you've described - catch all exceptions at the top level and log them. It's a valid strategy so long as you don't mind your service going down at 3am because someone didn't realize that the call to Foo() on line 5593 could in fact throw exception Bar.

Explicit error handling would make it obvious that Foo() can error, allowing the programmer to do whatever's appropriate, say implement a retry loop. Said programmer would then be sound asleep at 3am instead of playing whack-the-exception.
The difference isn't typically that vast. At usual dilution levels, drinking a 16oz cold brew would be slight caffeine gain on the double-shot. Heat does extract caffeine better that cold, which is why the shot is prepared in ≈25 seconds and the cold brew concentrate takes 12-20 hours.

Source:10 years experience as a working barista.
HDDs are the backbone of my homelab since storage capacity is my top priority. With performance already constrained by gigabit Ethernet and WiFi, high-speed drives aren’t essential. HDDs can easily stream 8K video with bandwidth to spare while also handling tasks like running Elasticsearch without issue. In my opinion, HDDs are vastly underrated.
What ?

I’ve seen corrupt and broken contracts. The English is very reasonable.

People make lots of effort to make strange behavior look normal.

Hell - I know that the right sounding clause can basically buy you a full month of televised debate, where people point to the trees and miss the forest.

Why the heck does the president go to Mar A Lago ? His own hotel? And get the government to pay them ?

How the heck is it ok, for the second in command to bring his own team in?

Because it’s in America and this can’t be corruption?

American exceptionalism was built on overcoming basic mediocrity- and it would never stand for such an obvious conflict of interest.

TLDR: of course the language is going to sound good. What do people think the clauses will say ?

“Herein I take an oath that my actions are 100% corrupt?”

Obviously not.
Amazon's AI slop: "I apologize but I cannot provide the requested information"
There's nothing wrong letting people know about a useful tool that they can take advantage of. It is not a promotion. It is distribution.
"Can't be tight if it's a liquid!"
I would say the leaders(could be the creators) of the language plays the most important role in its infancy the decisions they make defines what decisions the community are gonna make and the was what Go made right, Java been a business oriented decisions made by the community will also be business oriented
> Luigi was one of four recent, last 12 months, people in the news whom I would count as… well, I'm not sure "left" is the right word, but more generically not-the-Right Americans with guns who I would categorise as an "extremist".

I'm not really sure what Luigi's personal views are, but it's my impression that Luigi was (is) celebrated among both left-wing and right-wing people (including MAGA).
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 money isn't changing hands then I can't see a problem really. Regulators regularly collaborate with stakeholders, so why not experts in peripheral / somewhat related fields?

And really, conflict of interest seems to not matter in the slightest in American politics, what with senators and bureaucrats and their spouses etc getting enormous grants and setting up "non-profits", there must be an enormous list of concerning conflicts worse than this.
> I'm a firm believer in leading by example.

Then do that wherever you have authority to do for subordinates, and for companies you found or are CEO of. Maybe you already did, do tell us about your accomplishments. Telling others how to run their own company feels strange, especially given how Musk led two companies to great success.

> he can fuck right off

With what authority or credentials do you say that? That is just your opinion that a lot of others don't seem to share, and they actually put their money where their mouth is, by being shareholders, investors and employees. Or hiring him like Trump did.

You are free to short Tesla stock if you truly believe that. Or quit if you're a Tesla employee or in one of his other companies. You're free to vote and campaign against his boss in the govt.

A lot of people work multiple jobs and are hired while being transparent about them. I don't see a problem with that if their superiors are okay with it.

He lead SpaceX and Tesla to great success, so a lot of people think he has proven that he can multitask successfully. If you or your subordinates(if you have any) have not proven to be capable of doing then don't automatically assume absolutely no one in the world can do that.
If you thought HP's crapware was insultingly bad before, wait until they start putting some 8b models trained on their marketing bullshit to helpfully shill wherever a sidebar can be planted.
Sure. As long as:

- there are non Republican candidates to vote for

- the right to vote hasn't been crippled somehow

- elections are fair
The example they've chosen is somewhat contrived in that the dependency is maintaining a collection of plugins. In such a case it makes sense to go with their approach. I'm not actually arguing against having multiple instances of some package's functionality; indeed such instances may be created and stored per controller. I'm more so arguing against IoC style Dependency Injection, i.e. central instantiation of the controller and its dependencies. My point is just, as far as possible, it's better to rely on init() and package import relationships. You can simply call dep.New() in any number of inits.
HP, noted compulsive buyer of complete junk, in buying complete junk shocker (see Autonomy, Palm, etc).
for software, I'm very happy with X-Plane, specially if you own a mac. For hardware, you could use an xbox joystic, but I would highly recommend this: https://yawmanflight.com/ - it's perfect for on-the-go and tbh much more convenient than a full yoke + pedals. I sold my yoke and pedals and now just use the yawman.
I got beaten unconscious in public once for doing absolutely nothing. Violent people don’t really need much of a reason for doing violent things.
There hasn’t been debate in an r/politics comment section since Obama’s first term. During election years the sub is basically run by David Brock et al.
We could call this the road to regulatory capture instead perhaps.
Totally agree. We used it for a customer's medium size project and we ended up regretting it.

We're now using Solid for another project, and so far we're very happy with it.
> The potential impact corridor spans the eastern Pacific, northern South America, the Atlantic, Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and South Asia -- though Moissl emphasized it is far too early for people to consider drastic decisions like relocation.

I wonder when can we have a good estimation? Like 95% confidence on a radius of 1,000kms.
Chiming in, this point is a important one. Many people who voted Trump didn't actually believe he would do all the things he said. His whole thing is that he talks big. Its and incredible power really. If he says "I'm going to do <objectively bad thing>", and his critics call him out on it. His supporters say: its just talk to get a reaction, you're taking it out of context, etc. This happened a lot during the first term (big talk, not follow-through) and then lots of big talk during the campaigning for this term with the expectation it would likewise have little follow-through. But then he starts doing it, and his supporters immediately switch to "he said he would do this and he's doing it and he has our support".

Example during the first term was the "Lock her up" talk about Hillary. He didn't do anything about her at all. And people just accepted it as big talk. Hi supporters (mostly) didn't really expected him to go after her with the DOJ or whatever. It was just campaigning bluster. But today he says he's going to start unnecessary trade wars with allies and people said "its just bluster, he's not really going to do it", immediately to "of course he's going that, he said he would".

When he said that people would not need to vote again if he's elected a second time, was that bluster? Taken out of context? Not to be taken seriously? That's what his supporters said then. But what he starts making moves to actually make that happen? Then its "he said he would do that and was voted in, so that's what america wants". It's a wild to say its what people want when they didn't believe he would do it.
So in other words, you don't really know.
> and which AI product would you build

Why would it need to be AI? VC investors care about making money, not how.
> Then wrap the error as many times as you want to annotate additional lines as the error is handled up to the top level

I'd add that this is a last resort; errors should be handled and resolved as close to where they occur as possible. Having them bubble up to a central error handler implies you don't really want to do anything with it.
Snap-on is a brand that is generally sold out of panel trucks like ice cream. They're very expensive but have great warranties. They also go to your shop, on a schedule.

I've never owned any snap-on but I'm friends with mechanics that have lots of fun jokey names they call them.