"Over time, with process improvements,"

And like that, you've spent all three.

A lot of people don't understand that. take the time to work it out, you lose fast.

If fast isn't most important, you can spend cheap. Then you can get good, maybe.

If good wasn't the goal, well, then you choose the desired, and the rest sorts itself out.

See? The equation is proved by your example.

True. Apollo suffered huge costs because of the deadline, forcing development costs more. The NASA equation - good, fast, cheap. Any 2 of the three.

SpaceX is doing very well indeed, and so far as I can tell making no excuses. Don't need to. They are kicking it, and NASA is trying to stay relevant in the launch business.

With a little luck Starlink will satisfy the broadband access mandates the rest of the ISP business has taken money for and not delivered for *decades*.

Of course people hate Elon. He's successful. They don't envy him, they resent his success, while they languish in sub-mediocrity and blame all else for their malaise.

Pus.

Only one example of the species...

You think rsilvergun is a Democrat? He's just a shovel in a manure pile. Not an original thought. Having a pension does help defocus your life.

Do you mean 'creative'? As in using the rules in interesting ways...? Pure AI application. The prompt starts with, for instance, "how do...".

Accounting is a more rational and regulated industry than many. It's ripe for AI maximization.

On the one hand, humans are still much more adaptive, creative, flexible than programming or machines.

On the other hand, we may yet become a Philip K. Dick story.

Hello, people get it w7 sometimes and other people have to figure it out.

*whoosh*

Really? Office in your browser would qualify?

Porting is such sweet sorrow.

There is, of course the common sense rule. As in don't drive into the ditch ..

FWIW that advice was first given to me by a 10+ year veteran high school driving instructor. Repeated by a USAF instructor. And despite the assumptions about geometry, it will virtually never get you too close to the edge. Of course those were 60s & 70s cars, but it works with my Prius.

So you're saying you weren't driving a passenger car...

Sorry, I neglected the sarcasm flag. Though I doubt you recognize those.