MPSimmons

Starship doesn't currently have launch abort modes

I mean... to be super honest, I was there, and 1998 was ALSO Windows 3.1 era. The future is not evenly distributed and a TON of people in 1998 still had Windows 3.1 as their daily driver. Windows 95 was a big big thing but a lot of people waited out of choice or necessity. 4MB of RAM was hard to come by for a lot of computers.

I think Ben Folds is underrated for what he's produced. I think people who listened to him in college write him off as being frat-rock but his stuff is actually super interesting, the more you dig.

At least one person at every company impacted knows why they're firing people, right? Likely several people who are in a decision making capacity. At every company.

Those companies have R&D for a reason. A company _wants_ to make things, right? If this is impacting their ability to make things, wouldn't it be in a company's best interest to advocate openly against the tax code, rather than be silent about the reason, fire their staff, and just not make things?

It doesn't make sense to me how so many people are aware of this to the point that many many companies are all doing the same thing for the same reason, but seemingly nobody was talking about it before this post. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

I have no doubt it's bad, but I can't believe that it's both fueling mass layoffs and also almost nobody has heard of it. Those are unlikely to both be true.

Man, I am glad I live near a Microcenter. It's great that they have a big maker section now, too.

In the US, most (all?) states require a local registered agent with a non-PO box in the state. A lot of companies do good business as registered agents for out-of-state and foreign companies, where they file the paperwork and forward mail to the desired recipient.

Fritz Haber has entered the chat. His first paragraph sounds pretty solid:

>Fritz Jakob Haber (German: [ˈfʁɪt͡s ˈhaːbɐ] ⓘ; 9 December 1868 – 29 January 1934) was a German chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. This invention is important for the large-scale synthesis of fertilizers and explosives.[4] It is estimated that a third of annual global food production uses ammonia from the Haber–Bosch process, and that this food supports nearly half the world's population.[5][6] For this work, Haber has been called one of the most important scientists and industrial chemists in human history.[7][8][9] Haber also, along with Max Born, proposed the Born–Haber cycle as a method for evaluating the lattice energy of an ionic solid.

The second paragraph gives the context:

>Haber, a known German nationalist, is also considered the "father of chemical warfare" for his years of pioneering work developing and weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I. He first proposed the use of the heavier-than-air chlorine gas as a weapon to break the trench deadlock during the Second Battle of Ypres. His work was later used, without his direct involvement,[10] to develop the Zyklon B pesticide used for the killing of more than 1 million Jews in gas chambers in the greater context of the Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber

>I did wonder about data integrity though, what if the file is edited while it's being copied over? But there's probably safeguards in place.

You could do a filesystem snapshot and copy from that, but neither a cp or rsync is atomic.

The sqlite file format (https://www.sqlite.org/fileformat.html) does not talk about compression, so I would wager unless you are storing already compressed content (media maybe?) or random numbers (encrypted data), it should compress reasonably well.

This feels like very old-school java client/server architectures.

>This means that you can write your entire application in a single language and deploy it as a single binary. No more microservices, no more containers, no more Kubernetes, no more Docker, no more VMs, no more DevOps, no more infrastructure, no more ops, no more servers.

This is an abstraction layer that will end up being applied on top of most or all of those technologies. You can't hide from the fact that the database instances need to run on something.

Would also be nice for possibly bridging gaps

Most of the rocket scientists I know would refuse to perform brain surgery on the basis of qualifications. The maturity and professionalism shows itself in the discretion.

>Does it mean that we shouldn't write code or shouldn't try to get better at it? Not at all. When working in a team, what matters most is that the weakest developer be at the very least competent. The rest is to try to build and maintain the company's product and features.

Yes. A company doesn't exist to hire programmers who write code. Software development is a means to an end.

The Saint did have an awesome soundtrack, and I forgot all about that! Thanks!

Not the topic of this piece, but every time I use reasoning models to do any serious analysis, all I can think is how in 1990, if you showed this to literally any person on the planet, they would have agreed that it was AGI, and we still argue over that for some reason.

I wish it would.

What sucks is that the cars* are actually very, very good cars. I've owned three of them so far, and I love driving and owning them. They take almost no maintenance, and I've only had one problem that needed me to take it into the shop, and it was for a recall that was totally handled in a day, and they gave me a loaner.

Legitimately, Teslas have been the best cars I've ever owned, but thanks to Elon, I will never buy another one, so long as he runs the company.

* - not you, Cybertruck

I can expand a little bit, but based on your question, I suspect you may know everything I'm going to type.

In cloud environments, it's pretty common that your cloud provider has specific implementations of Kubernetes objects, either by creating custom resources that you can make use of, or just building opinionated default instances of things like storage classes, load balancers, etc.

It's pretty easy to not think about the implementation details of, say, an object-storage-backed PVC until you need to do it in a K8s instance that doesn't already have your desired storage class. Then you've got to figure out how to map your simple-but-custom $thing from provider-managed to platform-managed. If you're moving into Rancher, for instance, it's relatively batteries-included, but there are definitely considerations you need to make for things like how machines are built from disk storage perspective and where longhorn drives are mapped, for instance.

It's like that for a ton of stuff, and a whole lot of the Kubernetes/OutsideInfra interface is like that. Networking, storage, maybe even certificate management, those all need considerations if you're migrating from cloud to on-prem.

I work with someone who is obsessed with ontology, and it can be exhausting to discuss naming schemes, categories, etc at length. I do think there is a place for it, and having also lived in worlds where there was no appreciable consideration for how things are named and categorized and organized, I appreciate that he cares as much as he does.

I mostly rubber duck and let him build castles in the sky which we'll probably never reach, or which will be overcome by events, but it's not the worst way for someone to spend their time. I'm not sure it's always productive, but I don't think it's harmful.

Oh man, I work so well in a busy cafe. I'm not sure what quality it is, but being around a bunch of people who aren't bothering me with questions allows me to get into flow.

My godson wants to be a storyteller of some kind, either video, or music, and he was fretting about not being good enough. My advice to him was, "look, if you just sit and THINK about what you're going to do before you do it, you're going to be better than 80% of the people out there".

That's about what I've run into in my life. Most people do things on autopilot and don't think about what they're doing, or don't consider it worth thinking about. If you want to do something and be good at it, wanting to be good at it is enough to move you past most people, as long as you have a growth mindset.

It's really hard to have private companies charge for doing work that a functional government agency performs.

100%, this is very definitely him acting immorally and illegally.

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...

Yeah, his history is basically bringing in people he can trust because he can control them and then making them do what he wants to get the outcome he needs. It's a pattern across all of his companies and endeavors.

I believe the answer is the false discovery rate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_discovery_rate

O(n^f***)

Have you read REAMDE? A surprisingly large amount of text was dedicated to literal worldbuilding description of how an MMORPG world was derived from physical principles, geological processes, and so on. I haven't read Fall yet, but that those same physical processes are a big part of it, isn't surprising to me.