AstixAndBelix

>There will never be a "cheap" version of a commercial rocket with an accepted less-than-perfect failure rate. Spaceflight is an all-or-nothing game.

substitute rocket and spaceflight with airplane and flight and see how that sounds

Developers should be force fed nothing, because they "chose" to not follow a formal education. Almost everything I see in these blog posts is stuff I was already taught at college (or very adjacent).

If you want developers to know about this stuff stop encouraging people to go to code bootcamps and start making SWE curricula more palatable and end this idea that college is a scam that teaches you nothing

For some reason most online publications still think we're in the era of paper journals and stubbornly refuse to corredate their articles with references as if they had strict space constraints

No, a trick is a shortcut with respect to the more tedious method. By definition anything that works also formally works, otherwise it wouldn't.... work.

Battery tech is clearly a gargantuan problem.

The amount of industry that desperately wants better density is stunning and the fact that despite the billions spent we are still stuck with basically the same tech is a testament to its stubborness

Imagine justifying a second hand card market for DIGITAL GOODS.

I'm sorry, I'm completely tired by this bullshit. If a multiplayer (and competitive) videogame does not have everything unlocked then it's just a scam and time sink.

Why would someone run their proprietary server software on top of Linux?

Because companies earn money by producing goods or providing services, but those goods and services are required by burned out people.

Let's say your company can build and ship a product in 2 years and none of the workers end up crunching. What if every single client is not in the position to wait 2 years (because they are themselves crunching) so they go with the company that builds it in 6 months?

>progressive

nothing progressive about this design. just call yourself peculiar instead of giving this veneer of betterment

And using services that need ads to survive by bypassing those ads does not help!

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are sleeping in a hotel.

In the middle of the night a power surge happens and all three of their room kettles catch fire.

The engineer quickly locates the fire extinguisher and puts out the fire.

The physicist remembers from his college years that combustion feeds on oxygen, so he runs to the bathroom and covers the kettle with towels, putting out the fire.

The mathematician wakes up, sees the fire extinguisher in the corner and promptly goes back to sleep: he just proved that a solution exists.

It's funny how people on this website are always stupefied by the fact that the internet holds so much information and every time they search for something they always seem to find an answer somewhere, but when faced with a LLM trained on the whole internet they somehow get surprised when it knows about a truck load of minute things

AI will just be like fake download buttons. Kids will instinctually learn while older people will believe anything

It's solved by asking Dang for a charitable exception

Richard Stallman was/is a grade A hacker and that's how the free software movement started as.

So, which kind of individuals would now be best suited for leadership positions in the FSF? An MBA? A lawyer? FAANG project manager?