Cute, even with the unironic discussion of irony self-contradiction.

The booster has worked property through stage separation on all but the first launch, and has had 8 landing attempts that would have been successful apart from things like GSE problems or extreme descent profiles meant to push its limits. The final 3 block one starhips made it to near-orbit successfully and survived reentry to splashdown. The initial block 2 starships had some trouble, but the final three all made it to near-orbit and the last two both survived reentry and splashed down successfully.

You have to keep in mind that this is a development project and they are improving the design with each test flight, they're not just failing over and over again, or having a small number of successful flights at random. Even the block three ships are not the final planned ideration. SpaceX intends to mass produce these, and fly them at an incredible rate. If you think about other things that are mass produced, like cars, they make tons of prototypes and release candidates before they settle on the final version and tool up to mass produce it. What SpaceX is doing with Starship is no different. They really want it to be as inexpensive and reliable as possible. It's nothing like any space development project that's come before.

No one will know if you actually know what 'irony' means.

Computers are very reliable at reporting memory usage. The problem is memory usage is more than a single number, it is complex. Do you want memory allocated or memory used? Do you want to include memory shared with other processes (which should only be counted once system wide) or not? Do you want to include memory swapped to disk or not?

They are initially streamed on twitter, but they will still post them to YouTube afterward.

They haven’t completed an orbit because they want to be definitely certain they can deorbit it reliably as it is not demisable. They have absolutely demonstrated that it has the ability to reach orbit and survive reentry consistently.

All those goals are reasonable when you consider the assembly lines they are building and their success with recovering the first and second stages. Consider the launch rate of Falcon 9 and then consider the fact that they are building twice as many launchpads while designing the boosters to be immediately reflown.

The only real question is whether they will have the same initial teething problems with their third generation of the rocket that they did with the first two, but I doubt they will.

Just another piece of data websites can use to fingerprint you with.

Don't forget the TCP evil bit!

The whole point of LLMs is they will recognize and reproduce patterns of words. If you have control over the patterns they are trained on, you can control what they reproduce. There's nothing particularly surprising to me here, this is how I would expect it to work.

Pandora's box can't be closed. AI is here to stay.

I am serious, this 1984 insanity should not be legal. Editing old photos and videos without some kind of disclaimer should not be allowed, and the original must always be available.

It is impractical to sue all the users, so regardless of who should be responsible, they will try to sue the people running the AI. However, it will soon become impractical to sue all the people running AIs as well, if it's not already. Pandora's box is opened, the genie is out of the bottle, the horse has left the barn, etc.

I was watching a video that pointed out the devices these SIM cards were in could only use a small number of the cards simultaneously. And even if you ignore this, 100,000 sim cards is a small fraction of the total number of legitimate devices in NYC, so simultaneous usage would not have had much effect. So they are probably just used for mass-spamming and similar campaigns.

Of course, with Apple dropping support for the Intel macs, I have to replace my mac too, but there’s no chance I can skip that, since I need it to develop iOS apps.

It’s been very problematic for my customers. I have an original threadripper in my CAD machine, and with Microsoft dropping windows 10 support, I’m going to have to replace it to upgrade to windows 11 in the near future. I’ve been seriously considering switching entirely to Mac instead.