Not exactly, but still within the ballpark.

"Death penalties should be public, should be quick, it should be televised. I think at a certain age, it’s an initiation... What age should you start to see public executions?"
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."
"You quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself. The chapter before affirms God's perfect law when it comes to sexual matters... in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death."
Stoning gay people to death is "God's perfect law"
Trans people are to blame for inflation: "There's a direct connection to inflation and the trans issue. You say, Charlie, come on. They couldn't be further apart. No, they're exactly the same. They're the same in this aspect—when you believe that men can become women, why wouldn't you also believe that you could print wealth? If you believe that someone can change their gender, why wouldn't you also believe that money is wealth?"
Blacks "were actually better in the 1940s. It was bad. It was evil. But what happened? Something changed. They committed less crimes." (yes, despite the Piers Morgan "fact check", while his reasons for believing black people were better off under segregation was unrelated to segregation itself, he very much did repeatedly argue that black people were better off in the 1940s)
"If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’"
Juneteenth: "It is a neo-segregationist federal holiday, is what it is... The entire point of it, as per postmodernists do and deconstructionists, is to subvert July 4."
We should have "just took care of" trans people "the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s and '60s"
"The Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it’s only gonna get worse.. There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama, and they will become your masters."
"Haiti is legitimately infested with demonic voodoo. I’ve talked to missionaries that have gone there and they say they’ve seen the darkest stuff... people levitating and turning into cats at night."
"Jewish donors have a lot of explaining to do.. Because Jewish donors have been the No. 1 funding mechanism of radical, open border neoliberal quasi-Marxist policies, cultural institutions and nonprofits. This is a beast created by secular Jews. And now it’s coming for Jews.. It’s the nonprofits, it’s the movies, it’s Hollywood, it’s all of it."
Calling Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown "affirmative action picks".
Calling the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer an "amazing patriot" and called on people to bail out the attacker.
"Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge. "
"Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more."
"MLK was awful. He’s not a good person... We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s."
"Transgenderism and gender 'fluidity' are lies that hurt people and abuse kids." Transgender identity is a "throbbing middle finger to God."
Gun violence as a "cost" to having no gun control: "I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
"The 'Great Replacement' is not a theory, it's a reality."
"The great replacement strategy, which is well underway every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different."
"Islam is not compatible with Western civilization."
"Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America."

On and on. Man, such a moderate centrist who never espoused bigotry or promoted violence!

The one being incorrect is you. Archie's representation is quite accurate, in the US context.

Yes, a very "middle of the road" supporter of far-right Tommy Robinson (who has a 17% positivity ranking among Brits). The guy who said "When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them." The guy who described diversity as an "ideological inferno", a "religion" led by "high priests". The guy who was so radical and repressive at Basecamp that at one point 1/3rd of its employees all walked out en masse. Truly, a remarkable centrist of our times!

Not talking about VRAM or unified memory. Regular DRAM.

There's been a lot of advancement recently on how to best manage MoE expert swapping (FreeToken is just one example).

I believe there's more to this than you're aware. The biggest thing is likely the fact that SpaceX already had multiple other rockets ready to replace it. Blue origin does not. Now imagine the cost of a one-off car vs a mass produced car. New Glenn is more akin to the former, falcon 9 the latter.

That particular falcon 9 was also the first to use what's basically (but not quite) supercooled fuel in order to hold more fuel overall. The RUD was related to that. The concept worked by the way, the very next falcon used it, but without the flaw that caused the RUD.

The way blue origin works is the same way old space works: Design the rocket from 0% to 100% before you test anything. If you want to try anything new that might improve the rocket, you'll have to prove the concept first, then wait one or two years for the rocket we build at that time.

It's not really an apples to apples comparison. You wonder why SpaceX doesn't treat a lost rocket as a big deal where everybody else does. Well, this is why. Same reason you think starship is some sort of joke or vanity project: You're expecting the very first rocket to be fully developed and production ready with all planned features implemented. SpaceX does not.

Blue origin is older than SpaceX and were better funded at the beginning. The first booster SpaceX landed was never reused.

Remember also that around 2018 or so, blue origin poached many SpaceX engineers with the promise of better compensation (which is an interesting story in itself, the short version is: they were promised shares that went up in smoke, they ended up with much worse compensation.) They likely picked up some of that knowledge that way. But it's moot: The problem at blue origin isn't engineers, it's management.

Not really. The reason SpaceX makes constant iterative changes is because it keeps each per-unit cost much lower and much easier to replace, and overall progress goes much faster and lower cost. You're likely unaware that blue origin is in fact the older company that was better funded at the start. SpaceX is and has been leapfrogging blue origin, not the other way around, even though SpaceX is and has been already ahead.

Starship has enough payload to orbit capacity to carry a dead weight New Glenn to orbit. That's just how much of a different scale we're talking about here. And did I mention it operates at a lower cost?

There's a reason SpaceX can (and does) shrug off RUDs where others can't: A complete loss of vehicle is maybe a 3 month setback for SpaceX. For blue origin, ESA, ULA, others, it's much longer.

Your hate boner for Elon will only allow you to believe none of this is true, but the results speak for themselves. You like to go out of your way to praise China even where it is unwarranted, so you might want to look at who the Chinese players in this are trying to copy.

IMO buying and selling are a matter of gambling on which way you think other people gamble.

I think GP means they fail to deliver on time or on specification, so contract goes to SpaceX, and this wouldn't be the first time exactly that has happened. SpaceX is already the lower cost, more reliable choice by a very wide margin; the reason the others get the contracts is to more or less throw them a bone and ensure there are future options available.

How are you connecting to Slashdot from the year 2024?

If you have ~128 GB of RAM, consider Qwen 3.8 Flash + Freetoken. You'll only get half the tok/s as 27B but the quality is significantly higher than 27B - it beats it solidly in all compared benchmarks (for example, DeepSWE 1.1: 42,2% vs 58.7%).

Grok is a "discount model". It's cheaper than Claude Sonnet yet better than it. Doesn't compare to Fable or Opus, but then again, they're way more expensive models.

Note: I avoid using Grok - not just for the Musk factor, but because there are better options, e.g. GLM-5.3 and Qwen-3.8. Also, if you really want to save money, GLM-5.3 Flash and Qwen-3.8 Flash are amazingly good for their price range.

I know what .rar and .gz are. If .lz is something similar, maybe dark matter is a compression artifact.

I'm sure that hopping on the AI bandwagon will fix everything.