I know what you meant and what they should do, I was just repeating what they actually did so far.

It’s PG&E, so they said that he’s still on the hook for this months billing cycle. Starting next month though, he’ll be billed correctly, hopefully.

Just wait until every country’s base uses its own capital’s time. The time zones won’t even be in vague order around the moon like they generally are on earth but distributed randomly based on whatever country has the biggest base in the area.

Worse, if different countries bases and teams are using different home time zones than you don’t even have time zones. Two people from different countries in the same room could be different time zones, purely based on the country they work for.

If this fails and everyone with a space program can’t agree to just use the same standard, then time zones could get very, very bad in the future.

Lower resolution and they operate in different bands of light. Nancy’s main thing is that it has about equal detail to Hubble, but a lot wider field of view. The main mission is to map a lot more of the night sky at decent resolution rather than to get better images of things we’ve already seen.

Having worked with schools that use chromebooks before, generally the entire point of using them is that Google is your IT department. You don’t need any on site servers beyond a router from your isp, and can just return anything that breaks to Google for a replacement, all very cheaply. The records can all be administered by whatever teacher is least scared of computers and can use the nice gui. Especially for smaller schools with say a dozen or so total staff, not needing to pay a employee or MSP to fix the computers is a big deal.

Nextcloud however, as much as I like using it, requires a server. It requires the ability to understand hardware requirements enogh to get a good nas, an ok understanding of dns, and when the gui updater breaks, an ability to ssh in and run the updater manually. You need ssl certs, and if your using letsencrypt port forwarding, and public dns entery, and keeping on top of updates. Jan, fourth grade teacher who plays Stardew Valley and so isn’t too terrified when asked to go into the brightly colored menu, is not going even know it exists, much less install it.

Also, the problem with Fedora is that it also requires an domain, which means installing and configuring dedicated domain controllers, which is not an simple task. You need a deficated IT person, or you go with an MSP, and the MSP will just set up a windows environment in a few hours and be done with it.

I feel like the primary problem here is just that detecting pedestrians and figuring out how they are going to is actually one of thouse problems that is just very hard for computers. Obviously it’s not impossible to do at all, but it is difficult to do reliably, especially once one considers the risks of false positives as well as negatives.

It is definitely concerning though that these systems are being pushed and marketed beyond their actual capabilities though. Some proper truth in advertising law might actually help here, and of course in an ideal world this would be an open source project with all the major automakers and academics contributing.

I know, given the relevant track records and experience of the two companies, one would think that it would be ULA buying out their first stage engine manufacturer, not getting bought out.

Yep, it looks like a good orbital insertion too. About a 30min coast until translunar injection.

Ya, it’s utterly baffling to me that anyone would use a tool that predicts the next word in a sentence to try and learn something. Besides, what’s the endgame when no reporter could make a living because all their words are laundered and fed into a most people are saying bot? At that point new and unknown news, information, and facts will just be filtered out unless a lot of clickbait sites steal them because they the words don’t show up in the average conversation frequently enough.

Amusing, much like the Cryptocurrency and NFT industry where everyone from the CEO of Openai to the majority of the influencers came from, the extent that the system remind useable at all is reliant on the technology being niche. If it ever actually did become the primary method the tech would fundamentally collapse under its own weight.

It’s worth noting that waste wise reusable rockets are very rare. You have falcon 9, which doesn’t reuse its second stage, and electron, which I don’t believe has caught a second stage yet. Maybe the space shuttle by technicality, though that was more of a refurbishment that proper reflight, or buran, by an even more generous margin.

There are other reusable rockets planed such as new glen and vulcan, but nither of those have made it as far as starship has. Of the dosen or so currently active orbital rockets, there are only two that can be reused in any meaningful capacity, and they both don’t recover the second stage.

What your seeing is a design strategy known as “fail faster”, and is hardly unique to Musk. While it is worrying to see this silicon valley “brilliance” slowly seep into the real world instead of just entertainment software, given that starship is not only unmanned but likely to stay that way for some time it’s not that worrying in general.

Well mostly, part of the reason that the first test flight was surprising is that the seemed to have miscalculated the speed of the flight termination system, which does effect people on the ground, but this launch did show that it’s been fixed. Tasking several flights to make orbit is also pretty common for non maned space flight.

It was definitely impressive to see a single shock dimond the size of the entire booster. Didn’t blow up the launch pad either so they should be able to try again sooner to.

Yay, for once it probably isn’t our fault.

Separation of Congress from budgeting beyond a government wide yay/nay vote might help. As it stands, much like most of the military Nasa is a congressional district jobs program that occasionally outputs something useful more than an actual public service.

You get the output of what you incentivize, and Nasa’s funding incentivizes jobs in key districts no matter how much more efficient it would be to put all their buildings in the small town they own in Florida.