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you should come back to this comment in 10 years. stainless steel starship will not have left LEO.

Saturn V didn't take 8 launches and 9 orbital fueling operations to get to the moon.

Not me! I'm rooting against SpaceX lol

Starship is the SpaceX Cybertruck - lots of impressive engineering, but still doomed by terrible design choices from you-know-who. Stainless steel is just such a terrible choice for a rocket this large. Doomed the whole enterprise.

I know launches are exciting. Landings, doubly so. But eight launches to get to the moon is not a good rocket. Sorry.

> We'd all be using WinXP SE and IE6.

the reason we have linux is because a bunch of geeks took a stand. i understand that you can't fight every battle, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't fight any battles.

you're making a rationalization because taking a stand is usually inconvenient, and you don't want to be inconvenienced by anything.

at least it's still got a bunch of Kiwi engineers building the Rutherford engine.

pack it up. we're going to codeberg.

they were cooked the minute they chose to write it in typescript

i'm sure it is, but it's written in Rust so it should be a little harder to pwn

absolutely no one is smart or productive enough to justify $692m in pay. they could hire thousands of engineers for that money.

The best alternative to Docker Desktop on macOS is to abandon the GUI entirely use colima to create the linux VM.

    brew install colima docker docker-buildx docker-completion docker-compose
    export DOCKER_HOST="$HOME/.colima/docker.sock" >> ~/.zshrc
    source ~/.zshrc
    colima start --cpus 8 --vz-rosetta --ssh-agent --mount $HOME:w

then add this line to your $HOME/.docker/config.json

    "cliPluginsExtraDirs": ["/opt/homebrew/lib/docker/cli-plugins"],

that will get you a fast virtiofs VM with the latest docker, including compose and buildx. it may seem scary to replace an officially blessed tool like Docker Desktop, but i have had zero issues with colima. it isn't "docker compatible". it's docker. just need to run `brew upgrade` and `colima update` every once in a while to keep it up to date.

every day the US strays further from the light :(

No

how do you know?

If Taiwan is being invaded, the annexation is happening. There's no longer any reason to disincentivize annexation. Destroying the fabs is about denying China a major prize.