You're off by a factor of 10x.

Starlink is at 480-550 km
Amazon Leo is at 590-630km

At most that's about 30% the distance or about 30% more latency. Also an extra round trip of 300km is about 1ms extra latency.

Just because they don't make it doesn't mean they can't license the patent to the foundries.

Probably not but there are two existing datacenters downtown along with Seattle Internet Exchange. Not a lot of room to expand though I imagine in the building.

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:

There are definitely instance of AI memorizing images/paintings and having full recall. So that is a copyright problem.

Nothing. $103/hr for a superhuman employee or $10.30/hr for a superhuman employee.

If it's boosting employee efficiency by 50% as claimed in another Slashdot story above then assuming your Sr. Engineer makes $250,000 a year / 48 weeks / 8hr days = $650/day. + 50% for AI means you're getting an extra $325/day in work from the employee.

They could run 10x costs for 3 hours a day and break-even. But the average is currently way less than 3hr/day. Claude claims the average developer consumes $13/day in tokens. So even if we 10x that it's $130/Tokens per day vs $325/day in productivity.

DJI just released an e-bike platform where the firmware lets you pick what Class of e-bike you want it to be in the menu. And that takes like 2 seconds to change. So, you're supposed to put a sticker on it labeling what class you picked, but then you also are supposed to be able to use unlimited power on private property and then go into the menu and de-tune it to ride on the road.

And that ladies and gentlemen is from someone whose username is "Stabiesoft".

The practical application IMO is a glorified cubicle. I just want to be able to put on a headset, and have a wireless keyboard and mouse with a 32" 4k monitor anywhere I need to go.

Laptop screens are way too constrictive and the ergonomics are atrocious. But we're still a long way off from 32" 4k display equivalent VR.

There is also the problem of maintaining approval over the duration of a project. If voters approved something and couldn't ever be messed with then things would proceed more smoothly. But if at any moment its popularity drops below 50% suddenly it gets defunded and dies and is nearly impossible to revive.

I've seen several infrastructure jobs suffer this fate. It gets approved, then during planning and development voters change their mind and the project is shutdown. Then a couple years later voters change their mind again but it's too late everybody has moved on and you have to start the whole process over again.

When projects take a decade or more, that means it has to survive the political winds for an eternity.

What we're really missing today is Tape. Iomega Ditto was impressive because it brought tape to the consumer segment. Today, Enterprise has tape but there's no good way for your average photographer or prosumer to have cheap backups of their data.

I have about 2TB of photos that I've accumulated and there's no easy backup option except for very fragile external HDDs.

Don't even have to go very far. The company responses say exactly what's going on. (d) the law doesn't say we can't create cookies unrelated to ad tracking.