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> "I wrote heavy duty software"

> "I interface way better with engineer who are able to do hardcore programming"

In 20+ years of developing, I've only heard non-technical (or well past their prime technical) folks use the terms "heavy duty" or "hardcore" to describe programming.

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I've heard technical people use those terms when they're talking down (or up, depending on your perspective) to management.

"heavy duty", "hardcore", "falcon heavy", "cybertruck". Those terms relate. I guess he means appreciating programming down to the electron, photon millisecond when debugging a lost rocket launch three times in a row burning his money in the sense of physics and not some kind of marketty arbitrary opaque name for flavor of framework, platform package container combo.

How much "photon millisecond" level rocket debugging has Elon personally done?

About as much as anyone else at SpaceX: none at all.

Agreed. I'd expect the average HNer to emphasise with those terms as we all work in complicated and intense industries, but I guess there will always be disappointment as non-Conservatives join the World Wide Web.

The name falcon heavy is a direct riff on the name delta 4 heavy. ULA just slaps 3 delta 4 first stages side by side and that's the heavy variant. Falcon heavy is the same thing but with falcon 9.

I don't think it has anything to do with heavy duty.

Launch vehicles are categorized into small-lift (<2t LEO) medium-lift (>=2t LEO), heavy-lift (>=20t LEO) and superheavy-lift (>=50t LEO).

Falcon Heavy is capable of 57t (recoverable) to 64t (expendable) which makes it actually superheavy-lift.

(Although the Falcon Heavy has never actually demonstrated this ability)

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