Pretty sure Nvidia is working on the OS - agnostic to types of quantum bits and able to tie multiple kinds together to solve problems as a gestalt. I agree - interesting times.

I do one 'better' (hah! see what I did there.) I disagree with you and I've invested in several QC companies instead. One is down about 20% overall, one is up over 75%, and one is up over 130%. And I'm not cashing any of them in for quite a long time - I believe they will go 5-10x over time. I'm pretty sure I'll come out just fine without betting against you on Kalshi. Quit the bush leagues - get into the real Market.

But above all, they must be discrete about these allegations.

So the AI tool runs about $5K / month. $60 K / year.

Senior developer makes, say, $150 K / year. But that's just the salary itself. Add in benefits, 401K / profit sharing, Social Security and Medicare taxes (for the company), facilities, office equipment, IT infrastructure, admin support (payroll, marketing and sales, corporate overhead, etc., etc.) - that adds another 1.5 to 2 x the salary to the cost.

So now we're at $375-450 K - that's the real cost of *1* senior developer. Making him/her 10% more efficient is worth $45 K / year. 50% more efficient? 100%? for "only" $60 K more? That's a no brainer.

Basically it has become the business engine for their clients. All their processes run through it. To switch would be massive upheaval and expense.

Kudos to the Blue Origin folks. That was solid gold Hollywood level pyrotechnics!

Two thumbs way up!

The mushroom cloud was a nice touch too - nothing says high drama like a nice mushroom cloud.

My grandkids would both be yelling - "Ooh! Do it again!"

[what is everybody looking at me like that for? too soon?]

He was also being, IMHO, extra cute with the amount of gold he 'requisitioned': 303 bars, 1 kg each, comes out to 666.6 pounds of gold. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.

So basically what you are saying is that the Mythbusters could have gotten at least as good a result, if not better result, by only having dimples on the car at the point of air flow separation? Like a ring of dimples around the whole car just in front of the front doors? And a second ring around the max curve of the grill area? [Just a 'for instance' - I have no idea if those are the correct areas. IINALAFE].

That's nothing new. In my day we did it with the "Magic 8-Ball". Occasionally it hallucinated, but most of the time it was dead on.

Pilots actually are pretty much geniuses. Especially military ones (and most civilian ones at airlines are retired military ones). 10-100 times more people apply to be pilots than are needed, so the weeding out process is brutal and swift. Must have perfect vision, great physical ability and stamina (and no serious injuries ever - worked with a guy that was washed out of being a pilot for a knee injury - that still healed perfectly, but yet disqualified him). On top of that, they need to understand aeronautics, do heavy math, and the best ones can instinctively solve math problem in seconds that would take the rest of us hours.

So all in all a pretty exceptional bunch. Not an idiot among them.

Negative. The most important statement in science is "That's strange ....".

Pretty sure he meant 2 1/2 feet thick. I had the same thought when I saw it, but the poster just mis-typed.

That sounds awesome. Do you have any references for that? I tried just now, but am not getting any hits on that from Google.

IIRC, Joby opened a school for pilots a year ago. I don't think they wouldn't have not thought of that.

I hope that some of your questions point out that there may be 2 or even 3 distinct things wrong with you. As a few decades in my industry have shown, some of the most intractable problems are actually multiple problems that affect each other - once we identified that, things got a whole lot easier.

It is rare for multiple things to go kerfluey (that's the technical term) at once, but it does happen.

Good luck! Hope you get past it.