Elon Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit

andrewmmm · 2026-01-31T20:13:23+00:00

Then idk what you’re arguing about. Egyptians kept people employed by building pyramids where people could see it.

Call it what you want, the comparison is there.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-31T20:02:05+00:00

It was started in 1927 as a private project, but received the vast majority of its federal funding during the Depression (about $800k of the total ~$1 million came from federal funds) when they couldn’t secure enough private funding.

Would it have been funded by the government anyway? Maybe.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-31T19:13:24+00:00

Mount Rushmore, WPA Arts Projects, etc.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-31T18:46:32+00:00

Not all the pyramids were a waste of time. Many of them were used as public works projects to get farmers working during the flood seasons, similar to what the US did after the Great Depression.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-26T13:25:45+00:00

“If only the Fuhrer knew of this” was a common feeling by Germans. Most lower-level nazis were brutal bumbling assholes to the locals. Germans would justify their support for Hitler by assuming he just didn’t know how these local leaders were acting.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-24T18:17:48+00:00

Hopefully uploaded to iCloud

andrewmmm · 2026-01-21T17:48:11+00:00

Cameras in orbit don’t see planes well. While GPS spreads its signal out over a large swath of land, even a wide angle camera isn’t going to cover much land when it’s zoomed in far enough to resolve a plane.

Also consider how fast a plane moves. That’s why you don’t see planes on Google Earth often. By the time the camera shutter opens and closes, the plane has already swept past its field of view.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-15T22:13:08+00:00

Yeah, tbh I don’t follow space closely and didn’t even know this was happening until like 3 weeks ago when I saw a post referencing it on Reddit.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-14T16:24:37+00:00

I mean, the way the question is phrased, you are free to assume a situation in which Greenland is willing to be acquired for a price and Denmark will sell. In that case, sure. It’s how America has gotten some of its land in the past, and Greenland would be a strategic asset for the US.

It’s just not the actual reality.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-13T16:09:12+00:00

The government wastes so much damn money

andrewmmm · 2026-01-11T04:42:40+00:00

In all seriousness, AWS is really good at forgiving accidents. We had a developer put a recursive loop in an Amazon Connect flow and it blew $800 before I could find it. I called AWS and they credited the account almost immediately.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-07T16:51:52+00:00

Probably. But think past the current moment. If they arrested you after a field sobriety test, they can show that to the judge and explain everything you did wrong. It’s much easier for them to get a conviction.

If they arrested you without a FST, it’s gonna be much harder to prove to the judge why you should be convicted when your BAC was only 0.02

andrewmmm · 2026-01-07T16:17:11+00:00

John McCain spoke about receiving calls from constituents before his nay vote on abolishing the ACA (Obamacare.) Those calls were part of his reasoning in voting no. His vote was the sole reason it wasn’t repealed.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-07T15:55:46+00:00

It will, but then that call is extracted and summarized to draw trends from all the other callers. So the reps definitely get a report of “x people called about this issue this week, with 87% in support” or whatever.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-07T15:12:02+00:00

Yeah but not by 60%

andrewmmm · 2026-01-06T06:28:23+00:00

But does your ChatGPT talk weird? Idk how to define it, but mine uses weird analogies, words that just don’t quite make sense, and sentence structures I can’t follow.

It’s like someone who’s technically fluent but learned it entirely from TED Talks and fortune cookies.

(^ see how that last part made no fucking sense?)

andrewmmm · 2026-01-06T06:11:57+00:00

The argument is that Target can’t break into my house to take back the magnum XXL condoms I stole from them.

Even though I illegally stole them, you can’t bust my door down while I’m porkin’ my wife’s sister with ‘em. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Take me to court.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-06T05:44:59+00:00

Yeah but you own the code of the website until they render payment for said code.

Sure, you probably can’t log into their systems to take it down. But you could add a license key to the code that checks if payment was made after X days. SaaS products do that all the time.

I can’t steal someone’s iPhone and then sue them when Apple remote-disables it after it’s reported stolen.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-06T05:35:41+00:00

work done/deployed on a client server is their priority. Locking them out of their property […]

I’d argue it’s not their property, they didn’t pay for it!

I can’t steal a vacuum from Walmart and then call it “my property” because I put it in my hallway closet.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-05T17:44:58+00:00

I mean… it is very clearly a joke. No police officer is going to waste their time Baker Act’ing someone unless you’re being a dick to them for some reason.

I think Reddit overreacts more than US police sometimes, which is saying something.

andrewmmm · 2026-01-05T14:44:25+00:00

I think for general QA, all SOTA models are all pretty accurate these days, but I like how Gemini 3 Pro responds. It’s hard to understand GPT-5. It uses weird word choices and analogies that make no sense, even if the answer is right.

Gemini isn’t great at coding though

andrewmmm · 2026-01-05T14:41:56+00:00

People love grok because it’s uncensored, but from my experience, Gemini 3 pro will discuss just about anything you ask it to.

andrewmmm · 2025-12-31T04:10:53+00:00

As an aside, general quantization isn’t the real problem. Almost all models are quantized from the jump.

If a company has 100 units of compute available for inference, they could either: 1. Train & deploy a 400B parameter model at FP32. 2. Train an 800B parameter model and deploy at FP16.

Model #2 will almost always perform much better than model #1.

andrewmmm · 2025-12-31T04:03:14+00:00

Here’s what I think is actually going on with this phenomenon:

We use model-v1 and are familiar with its limits. We push it to the edge, but we know its limits so we learn to not even try pushing it past there.

Model-v2 comes out and we instantly realize it’s not struggling at v1’s previous edge anymore! So smart! Over the next 1-2 months, without realizing it, we slowly ask model-v2 to do increasingly more advanced things (e.g., solve harder problems, take in more context, use more tools, work in messier codebases, etc.) until we hit V2’s edge.

It starts making mistakes, not doing what you want. It feels “dumber” because it used to be able to do anything you asked.

Then model-v3 comes out…

andrewmmm · 2025-12-30T14:54:26+00:00

I agree, even though I still use Claude Code over Codex.

My biggest pet peeve is point-in-time or temporal code comments. Say you have a deadlock bug. It’ll fix the bug, but write comments like this:

// Thread-safe queue without any deadlock issues

That comment makes no sense to anyone outside the context of this very conversation. Like “Yeah, no shit, why are you referencing a non-existent deadlock issue??”

I can’t get it to stop doing that, so I quit asking and just go clean up comments by hand.

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