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Comment Re: So, it has had this much before w/o humans (Score 4, Insightful) 135

Thatâ(TM)s great. But in case youâ(TM)re not joking, Less than 1,000 people have ever gone into space and all of them simply come back when theyâ(TM)re done in months. We have forgotten how to land things on the moon, and in fact when we were good at it, we only managed to land two people six times for three days or less. Mars? Only one person wants to live there. Fine. Let him. Moving to currently uninhabited places on earth means recreating nearly all of the infrastructure of all the existing cities. Good luck with that. In the US it took 250 years to create the current infrastructure. Generously 100 years for the current generation. How about maybe we just cut back on some things? Never mind that the people who are A-Ok with the cause of the pollution have a conniption every time they see the bill for a federal space flight.

Comment Re: What did HyperCard even do? (Score 3, Informative) 53

Bill required that Apple bundle it with every Mac. The beauty of it was the language. Stacks were made of cards that were made of fields, objects, each of which had a dozen attributes that could be set and all of it could be directed with a simple and straightforward language. Easy, permissive and forgiving structure, still pretty powerful results. We had an external research site for Apple ATG, testing actual use of Apple IIGS vs Mac SE. Along the way, they ported Hypercard to the GS. It was a four hour port. I still have an archive of teacher and student coding projects done in Hypercard. The results of your code were tangible, graphical, and didnâ(TM)t blow up when there were errors. At the time the other k-12 coding options were BASIC, LOGO, Pascal⦠Hypercard was IMHO better for jumpstarting teaching coding than any of those.

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Comment Call me skeptical, (Score 1) 183

But starship after nine missions has yet to complete a single orbit of the Earth. They then have to perfect unmanned on orbit fuel, transfers, etc., etc. Musk seems to be good at taking existing established technologies, branding them and scaling them up, not so much on the new things. Which really points to sending robots instead of humans. If he wants a vanity project, let him fund it himself.

Comment I am sure they did the math⦠(Score 1) 76

â¦on the failure rates of storage devices and switches, how many multiples of everything you would need to have enough redundancy to make this thing last long enough to make money on itâ¦. Ok, but your SaaS and cloud storage is 15x the cost of your competitors. Yes, but did you consider that yours will be SPACE DATA?

Comment If I understand correctly, these are the guys who (Score 1) 1

And as we saw that went swimmingly so no worries.
I would only be worried if one were publicly asking after election day if anyone knows of an LLM that can automate multiple doc format extractions and conversions.
So weâ(TM)re good I guess.
BTW the NOTAM backup instance kicked in the other day as it should have.
Would love to hear what theyâ(TM)ll change.

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