Unions suck. Been there done that

It's almost like people that are completely bought-in on a hype cycle that can't be rationally justified are not paying attention to easily observed reality.

It's kind of pissing me off actually. I'm finally to the point where the 32GB I have in my desktop isn't sufficient for what I'm doing on it anymore, and I don't want to spend the entire price of a new mini PC to get it to 64GB.

So I have to grit my teeth through swapping and frequent reboots.

Fuck the AI billionaire bros.

And she was proven right in 2024, unfortunately.

There's a large cross-section of the US electorate that is far too concerned with identity politics at the expense of policy politics.

Maybe we can stop with the infinite build for endless capacity bullshit.

As far as that goes, if you find water ice on Mars and have a spare nuclear reactor around, you've got your methane factory:

1. mine water ice
2. split H2O -> H2 + O (electrolysis - this is where the reactor comes in handy)
3. Sabatier Reaction: combine the H2 with atmospheric CO2 (CO2 + 4H2 CH4 + 2H2O), requires industrial heat source (reactor also handy here) and a catalyst bed (nickel)
4. Recycle the H2O byproduct back into the intake

You gotta have energy though for it to scale. Roughly 17kWh = 1kg of rocket propellant. To fill a Starship back up (1200 metric tons) it would only take ~20.4GWh of energy. So there's that.

I'm sure the data center AI bros will shut down all their consumption so we can continue eating, right?

We got plenty of precipitation. The problem was that it was *liquid* precipitation instead of frozen.

Liquid precipitation doesn't stay in the mountains very long.

So that makes it ok to continue ignoring, and in fact roll back regulations that were the result of not ignoring it?

Yes, the signal has been there for a long time. That doesn't mean that the current leaders can hand-wave it away because their predecessors did. Not doing something about it, and actually doing things to make the problem worse with all the clear data you spell out that has been known longer than any current leader has been alive takes away every excuse.

Yes, it's really reaching to say that the guy who flies around his own private 757-200 might have a larger carbon footprint than 99.999% of the rest of humanity.

Simp harder, cuckbro it's hilarious.

Yes, because it's absolutely not useful to test emergency procedures in the actual environment to make sure you can navigate if your computer takes a shit. And the best way to know how to do something, is to have people do it. And nobody has actually done that since the early 70s.

You would just have everything be brand new in the first flight? Tell us you know nothing about risk management, without telling us you know nothing about risk management. It's a damn good thing for us that you aren't the NASA Administrator, or in the same zip code as anyone with any authority over how NASA conducts it's manned spaceflight program.

Hey!

What are you doing, bringing easily observed reality and actual experience into a multi-post dumpster fire of grammar and word choice pedantry?

Why would you do that? This guy is clearly someone that cannot take joy from engineering achievement on a historical scale; instead they want to bitch about some fishwrap hack daring to use a sailing metaphor when writing a news story about exploring new frontiers.

I'd have more respect if he bitched about how cliche it is, rather than how antiquated the metaphor is.

Have you heard of metaphors? As it turns out, writers like to use them.

And you're going buck wild crazypants on this. Maybe try some CBD or something.

They won't be the first. Pick a defense contractor. Or any government contractor for that matter.

As much as I hate it, TypeScript is a legitimate choice.

There are millions of developers out there to choose from, which makes sourcing talent far easier and cheaper.

There are several runtimes to choose from for optimization, and massive 3rd party library support for practically everything.

It's a strongly-typed language that prevents you from footgunning yourself in any myriad of ways, which "transpiles" back to good ol Javascript that runs everywhere.