Not sure what you mean by "volunteered". SpaceX was paid to retrieve the astronauts, which they did as part of their contracted flights to the space station.

Not with the layoffs, everybody loves layoffs right? That's why we keep voting for them.

But they really want companies to stop blaming layoffs on AI because it's weird but with AI devouring jobs, water and electricity the public isn't entirely happy with it. I can't imagine why.

That Wix is Israeli.

Mark Zuckerberg is. He has billions of dollars and zero oversight or regulations so he makes the rules.

If you ever get tired of that situation there's a whole bunch of people who would change it if you would ever be willing to vote for them. But you are probably not since well, I mean you're doing well effort mod bait posts on a dead web forum. I'm just saying I question your judgment.

True.

SpaceX's recent successes tend to make people forget that the company started out with three failures in their first three attempts to launch their first rocket, the Falcon-1. (And, for that matter, SpaceX also had it's share of explosions on the pad during a static fire.)

Yeah: space is hard.

Bezos suffers Projectile Dysfunction.

Sure, so why are you bringing your feelings into this?

You actually have no evidence that he's never asked, "how do I avoid memory bugs in C?"

If I had to make a bet, I'd say literally every programmer that has spent a non-trivial amount of time in C has asked that question of themselves, even if only in passing. It is a constant fight, but it's also a deeply stupid fight to have if you have a tools--including a whole, purpose-built language--that allows you to elide that fight almost in its entirety. Like, you can CHOOSE to do it for fun if you like, but if your goal is to write memory-safe code, use all the tools at your disposal.

I'm a C++ programmer (that's what the games industry runs on) and I have the extreme privilege of only having to worry about keeping games from crashing, the most trivial kind of memory safety. It's a deeply stupid language (IMO) that has only gotten better by poaching the best parts of other languages. But I'd love to not ever have to think about weird crashes that are caused by people kicking the stack 5 minutes ago in some other game system. If I was told that Unreal Engine was being fully reinstrumented in Rust, I'd learn Rust. What a relief it would be.

Anway, tl;dr: you're the one that's got feefees about this. Rust is a demonstrably safer language in real-world use. For you to rail against it this much is just your feelings, not anything to do with facts.

Every few years a new social media site comes up and all the kids go there because they don't want to be on the same site as their parents because of course they don't.

And then every few years Facebook either buys that site out or runs them out of business by underpricing advertising in that space until there's no revenue for that company and they run out of investor cash. It's gotten to the point where nobody's really challenging Facebook anymore for anything except hoping for a buyout.

Facebook does this because those kids are going to grow up and keep using the site they are used to and Facebook needs to make sure they own that and filter those users back into their main ecosystem whether those users like it or not.

They of course couldn't do this with tick tock so they just have the government step in since it's a Chinese company. Incidentally it was only because it was a Chinese company backed by the Chinese government that they couldn't do that.

If you start voting for politicians who enforce antitrust law then Facebook goes away in about 10 or 15 years.

Probably should do a whole grid/generation redesign, and it is going to cost a lot.going to cost a lot, but power use isn't going to decrease, and temps are only going to go up. If they are going offline now, it will only get a lot worse if they have energy gobbling data centers.

In PA, there is a whole revolt against data centers going on, and going off grid is looking better all the time.

A very good chance of that. There are a lot of different chemistries available, and Lithium isn't necessarily the best.

There needs to be a word for "the fear of making a typo while insulting someone online." There probably already is one in German.

If you're willing to settle for only $30 million, that should be enough to obtain a birth certificate and proof of residency in some remote village.

A deep crater at the south pole in eternal darkness, with the ability to raise solar collectors above the rim for eternal sunshine, and you have excellent conditions for observing the skies.

Ars Technica has an article discussing how this is a major setback in the NASA lunar plan: https://arstechnica.com/space/...