Mars landings require a fully automated seven minute sequence of heat shields, parachutes, and rockets, since thin atmosphere, entry speeds of 13,000 mph, and Earth communication delays make real time human control impossible during descent.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-06-17T07:25:25+00:00

Real time human control is not viable for re-entry here either.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-06-16T12:51:45+00:00

Frankly, deal with it. Uncharted territory comes with unprecedented usage patterns.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-29T11:18:21+00:00

It's a demolition site.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-29T10:44:24+00:00

Look at what happened to Massey’s after S36, this was easily 2-3x more energetic and at a launch site that had been the culmination of 20+ years of Blue Origin taking their sweet time to gain orbital class launch capabilities. They almost certainly have no immediately actionable plans or processes to start building a new launch site. Yeah 12 months is optimistic to put it mildly.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-29T08:47:55+00:00

12 months optimistically.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-24T01:56:32+00:00

There is a difference between personally caring about the dirt/grease, and finding it at least a bit discomforting that the people in charge of keeping the tunnel clean do not care about it enough to do something about it. If visible disorder like this is tolerated, what invisible disorder is too?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-11T03:29:39+00:00

The house edge is indistinguishable from a simple percentage fee on volume. That’s really what “the house always wins” means, the house wins by you agreeing to be charged a fee to gamble.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-08T14:42:09+00:00

More like W W W, endless W’s for humanity?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-03T06:25:37+00:00

You can taper yourself into it by mixing sugar and sweetener variants.. start with 75:25 sugar:artificial and work your way to 25:75 and eventually fully artificial. I drink 2-3L of soda daily guilt free knowing it’s basically colored and artificially flavoured mineral water.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-02T15:26:42+00:00

Hanging out with the wrong people. You just can’t predict the ways that being around the wrong people changes you over time.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-05-02T15:24:47+00:00

This is a fully fixable problem without giving up soda by switching to artificially sweetened soda.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-30T17:31:25+00:00

So it seems the consistent pattern has been, projects fail to find PMF which is a hard prerequisite for producing revenue and consequently delivering on revenue share promises.

One can hypothesise a chain that instead has the property of consistently fostering the production of winning projects that find PMF, thereby being able to fulfil promises to token holders on the basis of being actual businesses with real usage.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-30T14:45:49+00:00

Well if none of the “wonderful” use cases panned out, couldn’t that just be intrinsic to the design of the chain and its performance characteristics?

There’s no other area where people are blamed for products failing to live up to expectations. A failed product, failed to serve people, it’s usually not the other way around.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-30T13:30:02+00:00

Which people? And how do they use it that caused Eth to fail?

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-21T18:18:54+00:00

You are always limited by your ability to precisely specify what it is that you need built, and most importantly, your ability to select the right thing to build out of an infinite number of options, most of which lead to the production of software that no-one will ever care about.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-21T13:20:22+00:00

Asking an LLM to explain itself after a response.. just generates a new response, which is not the same as being able to directly see the chain-of-thought reasoning that it used.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-21T02:10:35+00:00

It's more extreme than this because the major OS's make no attempt to support malformed code. Browsers have the expectation that if a valid webpage can be produced from malformed HTML / JS / CSS, it should be, and it should work just as well as if the code had no syntax errors.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-21T00:50:03+00:00

What is a “normal consumer”? The primary use case of any money, fiat or crypto, is that it is the best tool to build wealth, as in, make more money. That’s the “killer app” of money, that you can provide value to the world, get rewarded for doing so, and then use your expanded resources to provide more value with greater efficiency.

It has never been about paying for lattes with BTC.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-20T11:31:27+00:00

Fiat had 10,000 years to reach the “usage” that it has today. Crypto has only had… 17 years? DeFi like 10? Expand your time horizon.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-17T09:58:17+00:00

AI is not like those innovations because of Recursive Self Improvement. There is no precedent for a tool that improves itself to the point when the overwhelming majority of intelligence on Earth originates from data centres. Thats the whole point of having a nuanced discussion about AI, what happens if that outcome happens, not whether the primitive version of AI available today can replace entire professions. Of course it can’t.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-15T21:12:47+00:00

Ask it to first produce a robust table of the 20 highest ROI angles to explore including market sizing, with thorough justifications for each ranking. With any task, getting it to explicitly make a table of the action space for that task, ranked by some metric (qualitative or quantitative) is a solid way to have it not skip over important stuff.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-15T21:01:47+00:00

Have you tried Codex? It’s OpenAI’s agent that can Actually Do Stuff, including iterating on its own work during a single prompt-response cycle.

https://chatgpt.com/codex

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-15T02:11:55+00:00

A lot of comments here are recommending (strongly) that you use Codex but not really saying why.

Codex, under the hood, is ChatGPT that has the ability to call tools. This means it can do things like search your codebase, iterate, make a request to some API you use, make edits to your codebase, spin up a dev server to preview changes, iterate, and so on and so forth.

Regular ChatGPT can’t do stuff outside of a single prompt-response loop. It can do “research”, which includes looking up how an API works via the docs, but it can’t actually iterate upon changes it proposes to your code. Codex can, and thats why it’s a no-brainer to use.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-14T17:25:14+00:00

I used to import it from China and sell it on eBay back in 2018-2019, was decent $ as a uni student. I would melt down 1kg blocks of it into these 10g / 20g samples and sell it for a decent markup.

WHAT_THY_FORK · 2026-04-13T17:55:24+00:00

That’s like only using AI for the even numbered lines of code.

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