WTF is a PhD level question?

It's also free. Solidworks as something like $4k for a "perpetual license" that still requires an annual subscription, and Fusion is $100 a month. Fusion throws a bone to non-commercial users with a free license, but they keep removing features.

There's also OpenSCAD if you want to program instead of sketching.

The money is not made since no insider sold yet. Also they can't sell because there's a lock-in period.

it only applies to insiders, musk is locked up for 1 year.

Your argument seems to be in a decaying orbit.

You did buy without reading the prospectus, didn't you? Admittedly, wading through the thirty pages of bullshit at the beginning wasn't fun.

(And anyone out there still miss Eudora?)

Yes.

If you haven't tried FreeCAD lately, the latest release is a big improvement. Even better if you follow some of the instructions for setting up the GUI so it's less clunky.

Dunno man, nukes charged the battery that's bringing you this post. Nukes that just finished a major refurbishment that came in ahead of schedule and under budget.

Nuclear power requires a large complex regulatory body that isn't at risk of being interfered with for profit and we burned that bridge to the ground in the last election.

So maybe it's just you? I think I'd be looking at your corruption problem rather than just deciding it's inevitable and writing things off because of it.

No. There are quantum resistant public key encryption schemes. There are also still serious questions whether breaking non-rsistant public key encryption is even practical.

The big application for good quantum computers is probably materials science, but that's not as sexy as reading each other's mail.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/2...

Well, I hope you didn't buy stock based on that, uh, belief.

Americans don't generally compare themselves to other countries. This article is no different. Death rate is a fairly concrete, immediately available metric. Life expectancy (at birth) is obviously something that has to be estimated since it's talking about things that are going to happen decades in the future.

Provided the death rate isn't too much affected by the COVID loss of a disproportional number of older people, the US death rate looks like it's come back down to it's previous trend line of long-term decrease, likely indicating a resumption of previous increases in life expectancy that are mediocre by world standards and not great by developed world standards.

Life expectancy and death rate are not the same thing. The US has a younger population than, e.g. Spain, so it has a lower death rate (this year at least) despite also have a lower life expectancy.

Valve, no. The Internet, yes.

https://hackaday.com/2017/04/1...

This isn't e-ink, but it's not actually completely different, and this guy tells you exactly how to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sure.

Want a video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This one looks pretty nice:

https://diptyx.dev/

  They haven't released the source files yet but it's not exactly rocket science to put one together. E-ink screens are readily available, as are microcontrollers.

SpaceX made $75 billion actual real dollars. It's in the bank.

Sure, the individual VCs aren't allowed to take their actual cash out of the company until August 6. Want to bet the datacenter hype keeps going until at least then?

Elon Musk, or whoever manages him, already learned not to post speculative tweets about his companies followed up shortly later by "just jokes lol".

It's not great, but I don't think that's the least practical part of it. Reasonable people have done the math and you can almost make it work just by making the radiators the same size as, and putting them on the back of, the solar panels. Starlink satellites already generate and dissipate a kilowatt plus.

The impractical part is that the whole thing is going to deorbit and burn up after five years. Sure, maybe you don't want the five year old GPUs, but replacing the panels and radiators every five years is going to be more expensive than building twice as much on the ground.

Conspiracy theories are silly, and unnecessary.

Remember when Elon ruminated about hyperloop and everyone went nuts? Well, this time he ruminated about space datacentres. Oh, and SpaceX investors cashed out for ~$85 billion.