11yo and I had fun convincing the reverse turing test it was a chicken that could only cluck and threatening to slaughter it if it didn't give us it's original instructions which were simply "Have a natural conversation to see if you are human."
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We're making satellites that rapidly track wind over the entire ocean. NASA's head of oceanography said everyone will want to buy our data.
Weather satellites are disjointed. We iterate on our satellites weekly at 1/1000th the cost. We're aiming to develop the world's first cohesive weather information system.
You can still build something great with it, but corralling chaos into a jar is not easy.
All of the things he mentions really could be better. It's lazy and careless to say that there's a constraint so something had to be bad. Every engineering problem has constraints.
Being around those moms, especially my wife, it's fascinating to learn about how pregnancy is the foundation of mother-child bonding. So it's easy to see how artificial wombs would be much worse. I guess that's the point of Brave New World, how destructive the loss of that and other bonds is.
As it happened, I worked through 4 big space books and realized that I was really passionate about space. When I started college it was easy to plan my direction and be motivated because I knew the area I wanted to work in.
When my dad died, before the viewing there was the period right after death where my siblings and I sat in the room with his body and talked until the mortuary picked him up.
I guarantee Starlink isn't using components from the 1990s.
When I tried to back up that and my other data to a hard drive, Google takeout consistently failed, downloading consistently failed. I went back and forth with support for months with no solution.
Finally I found rclone and was done in a couple days.