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travisporteron NASA freezes Starliner missions

Please read more about the space race. Soviets were kicking our ass for a while until we got into high gear. And there was no rich billionaire, or entire govt institutions to help with technical debt

travisporteron NASA freezes Starliner missions

Why is it a blanked statement that “govt is corrupt” such a universal truth?

People can be corrupt too - musk redirected Tesla resources to build his glass house

travisporteron Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? – Our World in Data

Hm, my initial thought to this question was - is china producing so much of the worlds stuff that it affects extreme poverty - like making phones that allow an Indian farmer to better sell his fruits. Is there anything to this idea?

travisporteron Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA

Yeah… commercial aviation is in shambles, Boeing isn’t doing great, and FAA is understaffed so Occam’s razor.

Don’t have to believe everything Musk says during an election year

travisporteron Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]

Ryan Hansen had an incredible (although unofficial) 3d modeling video of the mechanism. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ub6HdADut50

travisporteron An e-waste dumping ground

Good on you for trying to contact local e-waste! I feel most people (incl my uncle) just toss and forget

travisporteron FAA grounds SpaceX ahead of historic Polaris Dawn commercial spacewalk

Please leave the FAA alone. It has never been political. They literally have a fiduciary interest in helping aviation companies. SpaceX works really closely with them.

travisporteron NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

I didn’t read the parent comment that way, who did give due deference to spacex. This is hard stuff, as I was reminded when the dragon capsule exploded during very early testing. But spacex is such a beast that it overcame that ridiculously fast.

travisporteron Carbon capture and storage is a fantasy

https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/terrafo...

The section titled ”Tree. You’ve invented a tree.” may be of interest to you.

Also the late David mackay has a great chapter in his book about this

travisporteron If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity

Meanwhile in Nashville where they literally don’t have sidewalks, this is an actual bus stop: https://maps.app.goo.gl/yRoV8TzuKHVHjaMj9?g_st=ic

travisporteron Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4J4uor3JE comedy sketch called kill all the poor

travisporteron SpaceX Falcon 9 returns to flight after identifying probable cuase of anomaly

Very open and detailed explanation

travisporteron US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year

Very cool! What is it called

travisporteron NASA Graphics Standards Manual (1975)

Wow that’s one of the most beautiful fonts I’ve ever seen but I’m not seeing it in this document is it the actual nasa logo?

travisporteron OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong

Could you imagine scheduling this in your calendar only to realize you just missed it?

travisporteron A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow

Honestly, even with the cost and the time I would take the bus. I hate driving so much lol.

travisporteron US solar production soars by 25 percent in just one year

Did you diy a roof install? I’m really looking into this as I live in the southeast, but I’m getting ridiculous quotes (60k for a 10kw system with two power walls).

travisporteron China doubles subsidies for EVs in its 'cash for clunkers' program

Unrelated, but the second link is very intriguing. Does this mean that housing can be free for the population? Its just hard to wrap my head around given housing issues in the west

travisporteron I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened

10 MB of network activity to read maybe 2 kb of text which was screen captured. What's the web coming to... God I'm ancient

travisporteron Tesla loses a top AI lead

Is he referring to the electrek article?

travisporteron Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission scrubbed

While I agree with almost everything, I disagree with the "zero". Musk's perceived pettiness can easily handicap spaceX. The goal to colonize Mars is noble but not profitable. Gwynne Shotwell could one day say to to his ideas, she and her top level management team could get canned, and I would say that would be an irrecoverable error.

Second, redundancy is good, although I wish the other provider was not Boeing. even Dragon at one point exploded, and at that time starliner and dragon had very different perceived trajectories. Of course, with Eric Berger's new article on ars technica on Boeing, it's a wonder Starliner even exists.

travisporteron Chronon, Airbnb's ML feature platform, is now open source

Paywalled for me

travisporteron It's a SpaceX World (Everyone Else Is Playing Catch-Up)

Are there estimates to how much it costs to refurb a falcon 9? It's gotta be at least 2 orders of magnitude cheaper right?

travisporteron Opus 1.5 released: Opus gets a machine learning upgrade

Very cool. seems like they addressed the problem of hallucination. would be interesting to see an example of it hallucinating without redundancy and corrected with redundancy

travisporteron Large solar farms could trigger rain in the desert

I lived in Texas (Houston). One of the weirdest things I remember in summer was the crazy 90 degree heat (at least it felt like it) late at night (like 10p)

travisporteron Gone in 20 seconds: how 'smart keys' have fuelled a new wave of car crime

“ hi-tech devices disguised as handheld games consoles are being traded online for thousands of pounds and are used by organised crime gangs to mimic the electronic key on an Ioniq 5”

This is not referring to the flipper zero right? Doesn’t seem like that’s possible

travisporteron I'm proud of being a job hopper-Engineer's post about company loyalty goes viral

One comment he got was apparently: “Having hired over 500 engineers personally in my career, if your resume came across my list, I would definitely pass.” Really exemplifies the generational gap! (Assuming this would be an older person and not some insanely fast hiring machine)

travisporteron Saturn's largest moon most likely uninhabitable

Props to Neish - negative results would jeopardize the nasa dragonfly mission (co-PI) but still got it published

travisporteron Carbon capture tech a 'complete falsehood', says Fortescue Metals chairman

Terraform industries

travisporteron Threads is a gripping, miserable experience

Such shameless clickbait. Really makes me re-evaluate my relationship with this website. Working on my thumb muscle memory in safari. I think deleting safari history on ios turns off autocomplete and has made a big difference in my doomscrolling/endless consumption of garbage content