I once was paid on on a contract gig to write/maintain an APL program. There can't be many people like that. Anyone else here?

I found it to be a rather elegant language, but I found it annoying that I couldn't finish the work remotely on a Hazeltine 2000 or ADM terminal. I had to drive to Sacramento to access the system on a special IBM terminal that could handle the character set.

Do I have this right?

They put in $1B, then they will likely get more than $1B ROI just on license fees.

Then they have the stock and the revenue stream. Where can I get a deal like that?

I'll put it on the list. There is an update to the nginx ingress controller that patches this particular exploit, but this article should be considered a wake-up call.

Thanks for the reply.

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

So the camera is in a headset. How is that different?

Currently I am using the nginx controller with microk8s, which uses it by default. Anyone care to run down the pros and cons of the other choices?

Why I don't understand is how any launch system other than SpaceX is able to compete with SpaceX.

Except China, which is probably going to monkey-copy what SpaceX is doing.

Earlier today I put in a search to google like "I could float away like a soap bubble". I was looking for a quote in the Orwell book 1984.

But the google AI seemed concerned about my state of mind. "It seems you are having disturbing thoughts." Something like that.

I added "Orwell" to the search string and I got my quote. But it felt weird to have my actions judged by an AI like that.

PS the quote: (seems apropos somehow)

Although there will be regional pockets and special cases where it doesn't happen, anyone who even has 1% faith in the law of supply and demand will come to that conclusion.

It wouldn't happen, for example, if large data centers were all required to provide their own sustainable power. Otherwise, price rise is inevitable.

Could the be feeling the heat from Tesla's announcements for the Robotaxi?

You do realize don't you that at the time the funds were allocated for this project it was a time that we and replaced an unfit and insane president for a sane president and nobody in their right mind imagined the prior insane president would be going anywhere but jail or at best house arrest and not back in power again.

I suppose he had to follow up on his "China is going to beat us" comments of a few days ago.

Amazing how the rhetoric slips into a totally false frame like this. Nobody believes that Musk "earned" a trillion USD. I doubt Musk himself would say that but he is an egomaniac so I wouldn't bet on it.

The deal is Musk has the opportunity to earn $1T in STOCK and only if he performs to the stated objective. If he doesn't meet the performance goal he doesn't get it. He may EARN a smaller amount.

Is it really so hard to see the difference? Or does personal political preference utterly obliterate any sense of logic?

You said a lot that was worthwhile, but you went of the rails here. Let me fix it for you:

Tesla is about to give Elon Musk the opportunity to gain 1T dollars. The deal is that if he increases MY TSLA holdings about 5x, he gets option grants roughly. Why would I not vote for getting $5M for every $1M I currently hold? Because I hate Elon Musk so much that I will say to hell with the $5M gain as long as he doesn't get another win? I guess there are people who think like that.

You make it sound like Tesla has to run a payroll where they write $1T worth of checks to Elon Musk. If that is actually what you think? If so you have discredited yourself. The actual situation is that he will own a big percentage of equity that he can sell in pieces, but wouldn't be able to dump in whole because it would crash the market for the stock.

His objective is more about control, not cash payout. He said so himself on multiple cases. And he thinks he can drive TSLA to a $5T+ market cap. If he doesn't he gets far less than the $1T clickbait headline number.

Ford: we can't make money selling an EV Truck so we will use the old supply-chain excuse to make it look like we still want to keep making them but can't for reasons outside our control.

After Alexa, anyone surprised by this?

I am waiting to see what happens when Optimus comes out. First, what they say it will do and then what it will actually do.