PowerBook Pismo: Display cable sliced by Airport antenna connector. PowerBook Wallstreet: Hard drive connector board attached by a single screw that didn't hold it in place, causing constant disconnects. The iBook G3 graphics chip disaster. So many mechanical design mistakes, so few column inches to write about them.

You mean 24x7 solar power? Now calculate how many centuries an on-earth data center could go, even with having to use batteries at night, even with replacing the backup batteries every couple of years, before the cost would equal the cost of a single launch. In other words, that's not an actual advantage, at least in practice.

Besides, you can't repair or upgrade the hardware when it is in space, which is such a colossal disadvantage that the advantages would have to be almost unimaginably great to balance that out.

Hopped into the ol' Delorean, cranked it up to 88 mph, and when I got there...well I found a nice cozy spot, wipped out a vintage dead-tree copy of Playboy (from before it went woke) and well...the rest is history.

You're welcome.

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

But they've been shipping with one-button mice since the 80s.

Your thoughtful counterargument has shown me the error in my reasoning. Thank you!

Well, for things headed out, power supplies are the crucial problem. For things in the inner solar system, solar storms are irregular, but *will* happen. So I'm not really convinced by this test for anything but LEO (as those are temporary anyway).

That said, as long as it's intended for "special missions" it's reasonable. But AI is power hungry compared to fixed electronics, so that's going to be a continuing problem.

The problem with testing radiation hardness that way is that solar storms are quite erratic and severe ones are infrequent...but definitely not absent.

This test may work for things intended for low Earth orbit, as those are temporary anyway, but I don't think it's going to validate other uses. A better choice would be to send something to orbit Jupiter, where harsh radiation challenges are predictably present.

The only theoretical advantage I can think of for a satellite would be that if someone launched one from international waters, if some random government wanted it to stop existing or stop doing something, they'd have to launch something to destroy the satellite, because from a legal perspective, it wouldn't be within their jurisdiction.

But in practice, as far as I know, nobody is launching anything into orbit from international waters, so this is entirely theoretical, at least right now.

Rewriting legacy code in itself makes sense if the idea is to extend and improve the project, add new features, increase functionality. For this purpose, however, you need a person with access to all of the documentation and understanding of why the code exists, not a person who can ask an LLM to rewrite the code simply by using the existing code base as the documentation base. Before rewriting the code what needs to be done is documentation needs to be created (if it doesn't exist) and business requirements need to be collected, basically normal business analysis and product management, once you have that you can hand it over to a developer.

Starting with a developer is probably a recipe for failure in this case.

Or...and hear me out...no exceptions. Take as many online courses as you want on your own dime, but federal student loans are for in-person education for a non-bullshit credential only.

Ever been on a college campus in the last 20 or 30 years? Lots of construction, lots of make-work. Lots of non-academic amenities.

It would be like a haircut requiring five people to work on you at the same time for five times the cost of the good old days when one person would snip here, comb there, while making idle chitchat.

$other_political_party is definitely on the list. After all, they're actively trying to $culture_war_stereotype{$other_political_party} my kids in school!

Can't forget the $medical_bogeyman{$my_political_party}. That's all over my SnapFaceX feed!

Oh and the Jews. Somehow. I'm one of them but it's still their fault damnit!

But all the 1337 open source h4x0rs were doing pretty and less useful in 2014!

- lets just make sure we get behind it during the other 99.9% of the time..