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Less like surrogates and more like The Muppets

no rocket as powerful as this one.

So I'm confused on this because people still seem to be using Starships's old estimates of 100 tons to LEO orbit, which the SLS can put 145 tons to LEO.

Then 6 months ago Musk got on stage and updated the specs to Say that Starships's current design can only do 40-50 tons.

This feels awfully familiar for anyone that's seen early Tesla specs/presentations/promises and I can't help but wonder as to the validity of everyone saying SpaceX is mostly insulated from Musk's "influence."

SpaceX launched about 429,125 kg of spacecraft upmass in Q1, followed by CASC with about 29,426 kg

Smaller satellites (<1,200 kg) represented 96% of spacecraft launched in Q1, 76% of total upmass

So the way I'm personally reading this is 2/3 of this is starlink launches

I used to work for an algorithmic advertising company.

The gist is that if you get one big spender it offsets the cost of losing a thousand or more other people because those large contracts usually last past the official sale

I still think it's better to refer to LLMs as "stochastic lexical indexes" than AI

Isn't fusion power not as clean as people say it is?

The Practicalities of actual fusion reactors make this seem a lot less appealing than I think I grew up hearing.

I'm happy to see china continue to pump resources into their clean energy mix, but at the same time it feels like this entire concept might end up being more of a meme than we think.

SLS is on track to be more expensive when adjusted for inflation per moon mission than the Apollo program.

You do realize that Artemis III requires 15 Starship launches just to fuel the thing enough to get to the moon? Why are you comparing it to Apollo?

Feel Good Story of the Year

NASA still has the SLS.

NASA is Already changing it's plans because of a lack of a starship to test so I would say whether or not the Artemis mission gets delays by another ten years or if SpaceX gets shitcanned and they use the SLS depends entirely on their next flight test

Hopefully between this and the mess they've gotten themselves into with the FAA and EPA and Texas Environmental authority, the US government will get their head out of their ass and take the Artemis contract away from this idiot and SpaceX.

If the primary way they "save taxpayer money" per launch is skirting regulations and law around the environment and labor, we don't need to keep supporting them.

I don't think it would last long as a clean implementation.

The problem with having a completely open algorithm for discovery, you give spammers an instruction manual for how to consistently get to the top of the rankings.

Eventually these systems would always get abused and become completely filled with useless nonsense.

An alternative is to have the discovery completely exist on the client side, but I'm not sure how that would even work given the way activitypub works.

Personally I think any social media recommendation/discovery system is a dark pattern.

There's a major section of mastodon users who like mastodon because it doesn't have any recommendation algorithms. Both from the side of "I don't want to be told what to click on" and the "I don't want an algorithm surfacing my posts in a way I'm not in complete control of"

This might curse it to forever be the platform with the smaller number of users, but the nice thing about activitypub is that there may be other services/clients that will be willing to take up that mantle for those that want it.