For int'l flights: Amazon Leo is launching next year. Delta is waiting.
And LEO is even easier than GEO since it doesn't have any moving parts. GEO had to rotate to keep alignment. LEO are all using phased arrays.
For existing code in the QA he said leave it be and it's better to fix.
For new code, he's recommending Rust and the advantage he talks about is that it makes the code more maintainable by people. And one thing that every AI coding talk I've seen agrees on is that what makes code more maintainable by people also helps AI and vice versa.
People and AI both have limited attention and memory. The less context necessary the easier it is to evaluate safety.
Another thing not in the summary he touches on is hardware safety. Not just software bugs but also compromised hardware which if your driver is memory safe can also prevent a buggy or adversarial piece of hardware since the hardware is effectively user input.
To balance out OP's selective quoting to avoid people strawman-ing his argument as a fanatic who can't balance risk:
"No, we don't want [rust] rewrites, so unless you're the maintainer and owner of that file, just do it for new stuff. Leave existing C code alone, and let's evolve forward after that."
Now, that doesn't mean he thinks Rust is magic. It's not. He cited one of the first Rust components merged into the kernel: QR code display logic used when the kernel crashes. "That logic was written in Rust. Famously, it had a memory bug. It was given a buffer and its size, and the rest of the st code never checked the buffer size... Could scribble all over memory..."
I've never gone to a grocery store that sells space missions exploring the solar system. Where do you shop?
The value of the data center alone is about 0.81% of the GNI of the entire country. The value of the data center is about 0.033% of the value of Microsoft, so the ratio of Microsoft/Kenya relative value is 2454. Note this is not a percentage, but the approximate ratio of net worth. As a percentage it's 0.04% USD of Kenya per 1 USD of Microsoft.
This is how colonialism is manifest in the 21st century.
I THINK MAN INVENTED THE CAR by instinct. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
