justinbuist.bsky.social
Software developer, data engineer, FIRST mentor, space nerd and occasional college student.
I'm more than that but that's what I show online.
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A $35 NES game in 1985 would be $100 now adjusted for inflation. And that was for something that could be cranked out by a dozen people or less.
Kids these days don't know how good they have it.
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I got out of control many times coming down from 10k feet. No way would I try that!
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No. Those are the R&D dollar numbers.
SpaceX bids really low on that stuff.
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Half a billion for Falcon 9. When complete HLS gets $2.9bln.
Not very much.
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I'm utterly confused as to how that would work. How do you update the Gemini model exactly?
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I've seen interior decor like that before. One of them had to seriously downgrade when he moved out of office.
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Technically NASA made a reusable second stage. The Shuttle. Killed 14 people in flight. Cost $1.6b per launch.
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It was a good day. Didn't have to use my AK.
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I look forward to my grandkids history tests.
A) It was illegal for Elon to suspend Catturd
B) The board of X told Elon not to suspend Catturd
C) Elon didn't have the balls to suspend Catturd
D) All of the above
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I gotta share where this appeared in my timeline...
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Quite the impact they've had on the world! Good show, ole boy!
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Thankfully they've got a spacecraft with a tested out 'NOPE' button that'll take them home. No need to skydive in.
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They're already under 88% of our surface gravity. The trick to staying in orbit isn't height but rather speed. They have to undock from the ISS and then slow down in order to get home. Orbit is more like a tetherball than basketball.
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Everybody on ISS has a seat on a spacecraft that is docked to the ISS that can get them home. On the US side they have to be able to return on their own. No support from ground or input from the pilot. Get in, punch button, you go home.
They are not stranded no matter what happens here.
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I was at a museum once and they had a miniature Mercury replica that I was drawn to and as I'm eyeballing that I see the mini Gemini next to it! So cool!
But when I looked at the Gemini twice I saw it was full sized. It was still tiny. Bonkers that two dudes spent 14 days in there.
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Yeah I was inside that day and missed the group shot. My bad. Y'all look great though!
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... long enough to maintain such a fleet of communications sats. At that altitude you need less of them in total compared to Starlink and gang. Geometry is fun. So, run them up there, make a new US infrastructure program. Military gets a new network under US control. Citizens get a new ISP.
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... the whole thing will come down in a fairly short amount of time. With commercial sats my opinion is the lower they operate the better. Quicker cleanup if the die and better service to the end user.
I would not trust them to operate at 1,000km, but I do trust the government to "stick around"...
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... satellite data systems. Starlink is around 550km in altitude and Kuiper is at 630km. There's enough atmosphere at 550 to pull one down in something like 8-10 years I think. Kuiper's area is going to be a bit longer, but still, close enough that if the company folds and nobody does anything...
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Security should be warning you that what you feed into the models MIGHT be used to train them in the future.
LLMs don't do that automatically. What you feed into them does become "fresh in their memory" in a way and it seems like they trained on it.
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US History books are going to be so weird in 20 years. Kids are going to get points for writing "Big Balls" down as an answer to a question on a quiz.
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Or somebody that likes to "roll coal" on others.
Or maybe even a Republican that still hates Nazis. Gotta be a couple somewhere.
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You've nailed the real problem, and I'm not sure what kept the older companies in check other than perhaps being publicly traded? Once your public you can't hide your financials and stuff, keeps people honest. And easier to nationalize I guess because there's a known market price.
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Right, but everybody on the ISS already has their return ship up there. And with Commercial Crew it is baked into the requirements that you can tell that bugger to go home and it will; autonomously. Ground support would be better but not required. They can get home. I think.
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There are three nations that can launch a human into space right now. US. Russia. China.
Which one do you want to hit up for services?
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No. NASA has never built their own rockets. They farm it out. Same as the military. It's not like JPLers are building RS-25s and Army grunts are assembling Minuteman missiles.
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I'm genuinely curious which NASA programs or projects you think were built without giving billions of dollars to outside companies.
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I'm not seeing how, unless NASA can't get back a Crew Dragon without SpaceX's help, but I have to assume there's a way for the astronauts to fly it without ground at all.
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We made a flu strain disappear! We don't even vaccinate for it anymore.
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Even at the extreme levels or endurance sports you don't need anything stronger than Gatorade and even that should be cut with water.
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The chip is a Xiao and it can hook to the computer via the USB-C connection. That provides some power and connection. You can then have it act as a HID (keyboard/mouse) and it becomes rather trivial to wire up a button that connects to a few pins and when it triggers some keyboard commands are sent.
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There's a whole assortment of perennial flowering crops that are grown in "shade houses" to keep them proper which could easily be grown under solar panels.
I know at least one farm around here deploying panels. Owner ain't dumb, he'll grow under them.
If not I'll get him crap next time I see him.
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Or just fix them. Fixing them is an option, right? We can have AI and we can have cheeseburgers but we need to be responsible about how they are produced.
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And that was only a roughly 8 acre greenhouse.
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Uh, response from a weird guy that's been a farmer at IT guy. Way different scales. The amount of water data centers use is nothing compared to Ag. Ag needs to clean up. My greenhouse op was efficient by design but in 4 days we burned through the whole GPT-3 training cost of water to cool it.
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Oh, it was this guy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_War...
We were wrestling. He destroyed me. I will never be the guy yelling at a TV that I could kick some pro fighter's butt. Nope. Been there.