I don’t believe Elon. I believe in the process. Look back through NASA’a history of testing rockets and you’ll find plenty of stuff that blew up on the pad.

SpaceX has launched several missions into gto, Lagrange points, and even Europa.

Back when wr used parallel IDE, most motherboards only had two IDE connections. Each connection could support two devices, a master and a slave. If you had a hard drive and a CD-ROM, it was best to put them on separate channels. This is because only one device could talk at a time, and the slower CD-ROM would block the faster hard drive from operating. If you had to put them on the same channel, then the hard drive should be the master so it gets priority.

Then there’s scsi. My family wasn’t rich enough to have scsi shit when I was growing up, but I do know a few things. On paper, it’s very simple; give each device a unique ID on the bus, and then attach terminator blocks at each end. I’m also aware that, in practice, this description is a cruel joke.

Yeah, that’s my point.

Consistent problem with fascists who want you to hate outsiders. When those barriers fall, it turns out that most of the “enemy” are just people who want to live their lives.

This goes both directions.

Compared to NASA, SpaceX is developing at a breakneck pace. The SLS has its roots in the Constellation program from 2005 which itself came from the 2004 report “Vision for Space Exploration”. That was when NASA finally admitted the Shuttle was never going to live up to its original goals and it had to go.

Ares V is a reconfiguration of Shuttle hardware into a more traditional rocket. It’s still taken two decades and has one test launch to show for it.

SpaceX is the only Musk company I’ll defend, and it also seems to be the one that’s best at keeping Elon from fucking around with them internally.

That said, the whole point of commercial launch systems is that it’s not just one company doing it. Blue Origin might finally have something to show off soon, but there’s nobody else at a reasonable development level. Virgin Galactic only seems interested in space tourisim. (Edit: for completeness sake, I should also add that ULA is a joke.) A bunch of small companies are doing R&D, but few have even a single small launch yet. If it’s just going to be SpaceX, might as well make it a government-run company like the USPS.

Each of his companies has to have a layer of management that’s simply about directing his attention somewhere that won’t hurt the company. SpaceX seems to do this best, Tesla is OK to bad, and Xhitter is by far the worst.

In general, society spends an awful lot of extra effort just because a few percent might abuse it. Sometimes, it’s completely hypothetical abuse.

Healthcare? Someone might overuse it, and therefore everyone has to pay out the nose.

Unions? They let some people slack off at work.

Child tax credits? Some parents might use it to buy drugs (this was an actual argument from Joe Manchin, and it’s completely made up).

Reduce the military? What if China invades the US?

They are insured. It’s often the insurance company who is insisting on these measures. Sometimes, it doesn’t even matter if they are effective or not; the insurance company simply demands that you have them.

There’s a bit in Neal Stephenson’s early novel, Zodiac, that has always stuck with me. At a hardware store, everything has a specific purpose. The young guys working at the store can point you to that purpose. What you want is to find the old guy, who knows that everything there has a million alternative purposes.

There’s a vid on archive.org of the Spice Channel that must have been off someone’s VHS tape. It flickers a lot and is barely watchable, but I was curious what we were all missing back then.

Turns out, way more softcore than I was expecting. Slightly more hardcore than Skinamax at the time, but not by much.

If it’s Jira, the answer is always yes, it can do that, but good luck figuring out how.

Just to make a more meta comment, this is a case where cynicism is definitely not helping. We need better journalists to do this kind of deep dive without concern for losing a revenue stream. And not just in gaming hardware, either.

If we cynically label every journalist that does it as “drama mongers”, we’re only hurting ourselves.

All good. It’s something I’d like to play sometime. I just think it’s important to acknowledge this shit.

Not really. Reviews and weekly news are still their bread and butter. They do a few of these deep dive investigations per year.

And they do very detailed reviews.

There’s tons of theory out there that addresses that point. Maybe read some.

And a subtitle that he probably thought was egalitarian and progressive at the time.

Yes, lots. More than we could use.

It is. But there’s way more salt produced that way than the market wants to buy.

There is work to combine lithium extraction with desalination plants. We would also have more lithium than we would ever need for batteries.

Wireless links can be done on certain parts of the spectrum without a license. Just need clear line of sight.

It’s a knowledge issue. Network admin skills aren’t easy, and good network admins make a lot for a reason. Coordinating to build even a regional network is difficult, much less crossing a continent or a planet. It’s harder than you think, even if you already think it’s hard.

They’re just throwing them under the prison bus. They were useful idiots who’s usefulness is over.