> the big players have their own deeply integrated solutions: Apple (iCloud), Google (Drive), Microsoft (OneDrive).

So Steve Jobs was right: Dropbox is a feature, not a product.

Poor Drew, if only he’d taken Steve’s advice! /s

That's a fake youtube channel that is somehow allowed to squat the SpaceX channel name. It's been going on for years, including the crypto scam. Baffling. Maybe a big middle finger from Google to Elon.

the scammers steal channels, rename them and run those until google shuts them down. which they typically do but its swatting flies.

You know Google owns a big part of SpaceX right?

This is the first flight of the new engines. They look so much sleeker and simpler than the previous two generations:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGMtnP...

* And supposedly with a 20% power increase to boot!

SN1 was a test engine, the flight engines are even cleaner https://fixupx.com/interstellargw/status/2057165036196409820

Oh wow that photo is from years ago but you’re correct, this is the first flight of that design

The stats are pretty out there. Iirc just the fuel pump, which you can probably pick up and put on your desk, generates 100k HP.

Well, it's powered by bleeding exhaust from a very big rocket.

One of my favorite clips to give a sense of scale for rockets is this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70u748VALt4

I show someone and then I tell them, that's not the rocket exhaust. That's the exhaust for the engine that runs the fuel pump for the rocket.

To me the coolest thing about rocket engines from an engineering perspective is the tyranny of efficiency that the physics mandate.

Because weight is so critical, there's no luxury of "another component". If something can be repurposed, it is!

And the power opportunities afforded by continually dumping that much fuel through are mind boggling. Even regenerative cooling with combustive fuel blows my mind.

Nope, Raptor is full flow staged combustion, so both the fuel and oxidizer have dedicated preburners and turbopumps each.

Thanks for that correction!

Booster dry mass savings of around one ton per engine iirc.

Raptor1 looks like the steampunk or mad max version

Crypto could be a part of it. Like you need to sign with an adress that has held some non-trivial amount for some minimum amount of time. As a component of such a system it could cut down on mass or low-effort impersonation.

How do we make sure the LLM generated code works? We'll have LLM generated tests! Wait a minute...

> This is to say nothing of the CCP and their record on human rights

The U.S. record on human rights is horrific, if you see it from a global perspective (which you should). China is a saint in comparison.

It's an acquired taste.

> dozens of cans of sugar free soda every day

In that case phosphoric acid is a bigger problem than aspartam will ever be

Given that submitters are just using LLMs to produce the PR anyway, it makes sense that the author can just run that prompt himself. Just share the 'prompt' (whether or not it is actually formatted as a prompt for an LLM), which is not too different than a feature request by any other name.

Agree with this. Maybe we should start making PRs with the proposed spec and then the maintainer can get their agent to implement it.

This is similar to what we’ve started to do at work. The first stage of reviewing a PR is getting agreement on the spec. Writing and reviewing the code is almost the trivial part.

Yes. At this point a prompt that produces the desired result is more useful than the resulting code in a PR. Effectively the code starts to have properties of a resulting binaries.

+1

Helium mines on the sun, pumping out millions of barrels of birthday-grade helium.

At night it’s called the moon

Weren't there genuine plans to mine helium on the moon? I vaguely recall it being captured from solar wind or something.

Helium-3, created by solar wind.