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Comment Not a new thing... (Score 1) 43

20 years ago I trained my Indian replacement, and then took a package. I worked as a contractor for a few more years before retiring. All corp's are bloodsuckers with no regard for the humans that they exploit. My father worked his whole life for the same private company and got well taken care of. A corp. doesn't even understand the concept.

Comment Needs more data (Score 1) 22

MTBF is useful information, but I think it would be more useful in conjunction with factors like active spinning time, total spin up/down counts, cumulative head seek time, total IO, etc. Presumably time-in-service affects the MTBF more than the age of the drive, but to what extent? Is a NIB drive that's two years old going to be as reliable as one that's only a month or two old? So many variables....

Comment New Flash: Farrier Very Concerned About Automobile (Score 3, Insightful) 91

Wikipedia is an interesting concept and it works decently well as a place to go read a bunch of general information and find decent sources. But LLMs are feeding that information to people in a customized, granular format that meets their exact individual needs and desires. So yeah, probably not as interested in reading your giant wall of text when they want 6 specific lines out of it.

Remember when Encyclopædia Britannica was crying about you stealing their customers, Wikipedia? Yeah, this is what they experienced.

Comment Re:Refuel in orbit [Re: I'm rooting for it!!] (Score 1) 166

I want to remind you that I never said 400 tons of fuel, I just used your numbers. I said 8 launches, calling Musk's 4 bull. Even with only 100 tons/fuel per launch, that's 800 tons without changing stuff up should be allow them to stuff more fuel into starship, saving weight via not needing other cargo stuff, just bigger tanks.

Also, I said "reach the moon", not "land on it".

And changing development timelines is pretty normal.

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