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Comment Nobody's going to Mars (Score 1) 125

Musk used the Mars story from the start of all of this.
Videos of dad, mom and the kids holding hands in Elon City.

But it's not built to transport people. You can see that by the design of it.
It's a purpose-built Pez dispenser for Starlink deployment, and that's it.
That was always the intent, but "it's for my Starlink network" is a hard regulatory sell.

A Mars mission, should it ever exist, would be an interplanetary scale money hole for SpaceX.
Starlink is already making money today, plus other benefits.

Musk may be dumb, but he ain't stupid.

Comment Re:So many missing options (Score 4, Interesting) 245

The Big Bank that Mrs. works for has been closing its data centers and moving everything to Azure.
Everything. And of course, they're all communicating using Teams, mirroring what Biggest Bank does.
All Microsoft, everywhere.

And now, they want to "pair" all of their developers with a new programming buddy, Visual AI.
Seriously. But most engineering is being moved to India anyway, so lucky for them.

I'm sure it's coincidental that Big Bank's CEO sits on Microsoft's board.

Comment At least someone is putting some thought into it (Score 2, Insightful) 69

It'll get cheaper, drop that childish thread.

Anyway, Meta treated their face hugger like a phone strapped to your face.
It goes blank or into gridword whenever a new app runs.
And their art direction is laughable. No taste, as they say.
You're put in their dumb, ugly world instead of your world.

What's insightful about Apple's approach is that the hardware is fungible,
the face hugger can eventually shrink to minimal and the development that went before will still apply.

Comment Until Apple (Score 1) 13

Until Apple releases their face hugger for public consumption, everything in VR is probably on hold.
Samsung already has bills of materials and prototype mules worked up,
but shoehorning the maybe-close-enough software into the phone OS is going to take a while.

Zuckerberg still hasn't realized they should have turned that car around years ago.

Comment Re:Of all the chip fab schemes (Score 1) 126

Intel has a big footprint in Phoenix/Chandler, or they did until yet another CEO fell into a coma.

TSMC needs many experienced installation and maintenance workers, just to get to startup.
They also would like stable earth, uniform humidity, and high solar availability.
And a fab is a chemical plant that uses the strongest and purest of nasties available, in quantity.
Best that it's out in the Phoenix desert.

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