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Well, stopping launch support for the non flatpack style drives business toward the flatpack.

Sure, but the satellite procurement, design, and manufacturing timeline is many years long. If driving the industry toward flatpack satellites is what SpaceX wanted, then they should be publishing specs, guidelines, and requirements that flatpack satellites need to meet to fly on Starship. So far, I haven’t seen SpaceX do any of that. Further, you’d give your customers a longer lead time to complete the traditional cube shaped satellites that are already in the development pipeline so those could be set to launch on Falcon 9.

Neither of those things has happened. If SpaceX wants customer to adopt their new way, they’re going about it very poorly.

The absurd part is that we needed a memory shortage to rediscover that perfectly functional electronics don’t automatically become garbage when the phone does.

It doesn’t seem absurd to me at all. A budget phone’s primary goal is low cost. Labor is generally more expensive than new parts. So buying new memory and consuming less labor has made economic sense up until now. The only change now is that the cost of the memory has increase beyond the cost of the additional labor to extract memory. So the budget approach is reuse.

Most of the time consumers don’t buy pre-owned/used items over new for ethical reasons. They buy them because they’re cheaper than new items.

When a user chooses the “Yes, and don’t ask again” option to approve running a command, that choice gets stored as part of a rule in the local “.claude/settings.local.json” file on the user’s computer.

Saving privileged credentials in the clear in a config file? I think I can take credit for Claude doing that as this. Claude was clearly trained on my StackOverflow posts from 15 years ago.

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I think the TeleSat satellites for Canada are already fully booked on Falcon 9 so those should still be going. SpaceX isn’t booking any new flights for launch occurring after mid 2028. So the order book is closed and customers already booked will still fly. This is kind of how it works in the launch industry where you have to buy your launch years in advance. However any new payloads from customers will have to go elsewhere.

Confusingly, SpaceX has announce to the launch market it is stopping flying workhorse Falcon 9 rocket in the near future even while the market for launch services is at an all-time-high.

I get they they’re trying to transition to their larger Starship rocket, but right now the rocket only achieved orbit about two weeks ago for the first time. Further, the current version of Starship can’t launch traditional satellites. It is designed specifically for SpaceX’s “flatpack” style of satellite which no one else uses at this time. So even SpaceX says “Starship is open for customers!”, it can’t fly the current payloads customers have today.

So if SpaceX is having this much money trouble it seems like bad business to stop flying the profitable Falcon 9 rocket when the launch market is screaming to buy more of it at top dollar.

I mean the tech is already out there so im sure someone would take up the slack.

The Chinese companies are running with Falcon 9 style reuse. Additionally, US company Blue Origin has successfully flown a scaled-up Falcon 9 style reuse rocket. US company Rocketlab also has a slightly scaled up Falcon 9 style reuse rocket in the works scheduled to fly for the first time in 2027.

Metered pricing for internet isn’t new for Europe, its a revivale the late 20th and early 21st century. Back then fast internet was ISDN lines (topping out at 128kps) that charged per minute fees and that for some places those per minute fees changed depending on what time of day.

This was one big difference between USA and European approach to internet charges where USA pricing was by the size of the pipe as a flat fee and you could shove as much data through it as the size allowed with no extra charges.

Locally i can only see larger adoption in music and software industry. Everywhere else there are just low tier chatbots doing really simple customer service stuff.

There really is a large adoption of AI inside businesses going on. So much of the products and services we may consume are AI generated or AI augmented somewhere along the lines even if the end customer isn’t seeing it.

AI industry needs the “average Joe” to get dependant on his personal agent that his paying for. I’m not seeing that yet on any level.

Think about smart TVs. Today they are customer spying devices that you have to pay for and put in your home if you want to interact with most of the video entertainment world. The sales pitch and business plan for Smart TVs didn’t start out that way, but here we are today. If you go to any retailer that sells TVs you might have ZERO choices of non-Smart TV.

I can see AI going that direction for “average Joe”. Its not a product that Joe seeks out, but rather the product or service he’s been using up to now gets deprecated and his only alternative is the new AI version the company sells. Joe doesn’t need to want AI, it may end up being included in the only options to him on the market.

AI will have much harder time to get properly mainstream.

If that’s your goal, I don’t think it is worth the effort. I think that ship has sailed. AI isn’t going away. Ruining one companies free tier product isn’t going to stop AI adoption by the world.

I agree, and yes it is.

I’m sure Stallman would welcome your contributions to GNU Hurd kernel if you wanted to go that direction.

Move over stolen catalytic converters!

From William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer written in 1984 depicting a future where stealing RAM out of computer and selling it on the black market is a regular occurrence:

“Case took the pink handset from its cradle and punched a Hongkong number from memory. He let it ring five times, then hung up. His buyer for the three megabytes of hot RAM in the Hitachi wasn’t taking calls.”

S&P 500 up 9% YTD,

That looks like its on Friday’s close.

S&P 500 is up 12.35% YTD right now.

We’ll pay for that waste in the carbon release.

For real. Most likely those planes were retired for their inefficiency.

Probably not just for inefficiency. There are many expensive wearable parts whose life are measured in hours of operation for flightworthiness. Once these reach the end of their certified life they have to be replaced before being certified for flight again (periodic engine overhaul). I could see a bunch of these be still running engines, but the cost of a certified overhaul to carry people is too expensive. However a stationary engine attached to a generator, in a farm of generators, breaking down is an annoyance, not nationwide news and a lawsuit from the families of the survivors.

I read your article and still think my statement stands. In fact, your article shows that the behavior the author didn’t like from Red Hat existed long before the IBM acquisition. If you see the Red Hat treatment of its paying customers equal to what Broadcom is doing to its VMware customers, then I don’t believe you have a good grasp of the Broadcoms current behavior.

I’d recommend editing your post and removing that last sentence. If for whatever reason you would follow through with that in the future, and they’re able to connect your real name to that post, then they might have grounds for civil penalties against you.

I thought most of us figured out loyalty to any specific corporate employer was a dead end back in 2008 (or even 2001 for some of us). The better path is assume the job won’t always be there, bank what savings you can to weather the inevitable gap of unemployment (hoping you never have to use it), and take advantage of every training or learning opportunities at your current employer to improve your skills to take the next step up the ladder with your next employer.

I’d absolutely go back to an old employer if the price was right, and in fact, I have. It lasts as long as it lasts, just like any other job whether you’ve been employed there before or not.

I’m actually saving a ton of money and because my landlord is checked out and lives far from here he’ll never know we have a portable washer in our apartment.

Why would your landlord have a problem with a portable washer in your apartment? Is there language written into your lease prohibiting it?