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eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

That’s fair, it’s gone on so long that the problem it was solving for has evolved. Someone has to be strong enough to know when to cut the sunk cost and shift gears and that’s how I’m choosing to look at the current situation.

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

I’m speaking of SLS. It’s a solution in search of a problem.

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

I hesitated posting this because my very moderate east coast American perspective seems to be appreciated less and less here. I posted this on a lazy Sunday morning and it got a lot of positive initial comments and discussion. Then a few hours later it turned negative.

Science is great but launch vehicle innovation is where the problem is so that’s why I focused on SLS. We could easily have 100 JWSTs today if something like starship were operational. NASA dragging its feet for decades, building silly things likes SLS, trying to find token uses to justify it, doesn’t inspire me anymore.

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

That’s a great point. I think it’s just trying to boil the ocean.

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Does it? Do we want to repeat what we did 50 years ago or do we want to do something better and stay this time?

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

Beyond FL, they’re careful to make sure parts of the rocket at built in EVERY state! Now something that should be cutting edge innovation is tied to Congress which is intentionally not innovative and you wonder why it falls behind.

eagerpaceon 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

I’m trying to think how I feel about this. I’ve been obsessed with space for a long time, remember traveling to see my first rocket launch of the shuttle in 2006. Follow the commercial development closely since then. Their science missions are inspiring, but not as inspiring as they ought to be.

NASA needs an overhaul. This isn’t how I would do it, but that’s not how things work in the real world. SLS is the elephant in the room and is a complete disaster. It’s a jobs program limping along decades old technology when the commercial options are better. You can debate some of the specifics, sure, but if all this current state of uncertainty brings is a clean slate and new ways of thinking in 4 years, that’s better IMHO than looking back 4 years from now watching NASA brute force a token moon landing on the back of ancient technology. Which they may still do!

eagerpaceon How Anthropic teams use Claude Code

Do you have an example of this you could share?

eagerpaceon Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

Of course, but not in the footprint available at the data center

eagerpaceon Solar-plus-storage technology is improving quickly

2 gigawatts of output would require about 8,000 acres of solar panels. The energy density just isn't there compared to gas.

https://www.energea.com/understanding-scale-solar-projects/

eagerpaceon US utilities plot big rise in electricity rates as data centre demand booms

Surely this is an extreme use case, but do individuals get to choose which companies get access to power? The same could be said about any business. And the same could be said about any consumable resource. It’s a slippery slope.

eagerpaceon Grok 4 Launch [video]

If you created that, or any amazing achievement, how quick would you be to share that it was the AI and not "natty"?

eagerpaceon Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S.

It’s ok to store this stuff until the triggered tech is available. Even if it’s done in orbit around the moon. This was impossible to think about 10 years ago but it’s possible in the next 10

eagerpaceon Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

I appreciate that! It's not the cost fluctuation that is a problem, just the fact that usage and price goes up in the summer and the cost scales so quickly. Battery storage is a hack that may work financially for now but I'm more interested in shedding the additional consumption at peak even if it's just the few hottest hours of each day.

eagerpaceon Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

I would love to have just enough solar to flatten my peak usage on the hottest days of the summer. They naturally coincide with tons of sun. I don't need a huge system to be all solar all the time or even care about credits from the power company. I just don't want a $300 bill in the summer and a $50 bill in the winter. Has anyone designed a good solution for this?

eagerpaceon FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores

How long until my score goes down because I don’t use these?!??

eagerpaceon The child-like role of dogs in Western societies

Getting upvoted first then downvoted on this proves the point.

eagerpaceon The child-like role of dogs in Western societies

Dating later in life with children and this is something I don’t need research to tell me. If you’re in your 30s-40s without kids and a dog, we’re of totally different mindsets.

eagerpaceon OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive

Is this an m&a press release or an engagement announcement

eagerpaceon Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests

If we explain the same thing with different words then the marketing team can spin it to be more important than it really is.

eagerpaceon Old Soviet Venus descent craft nearing Earth reentry

eagerpaceon U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter

Fear of a minor pain is not a good reason to not make a change. That’s how growth works.

eagerpaceon A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

It’s not just a perspective. Tesla was doing this just fine, building tons of chargers, profitably. The government attempts to stimulate more but at a much higher cost. I have yet to charge anywhere but a Tesla charger. I do think the NACS standard finally being widely adopted would have changed things but came a little too late.

eagerpaceon Potatoes in the Mail

Can you do it for just one stamp or do you need to weigh and label it?

eagerpaceon Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar

Wow, source?

eagerpaceon OpenAI is building a social network?

I thought they were building a new search engine. Now it’s a social network. Tomorrow it will be robots. It’s all a distraction from ClosedAI.

eagerpaceon Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market

Country is already bankrupt, he’s throwing a Hail Mary.

eagerpaceon James Webb Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies rotate clockwise

https://mapoftheuniverse.net

While we don't believe we're the center of the universe, I believe we're limited by instrumentation to determine its size. Best guess now is 100B LY in diameter.

eagerpaceon Using Gorilla glass for home building

It says “only 20% more than energy efficient windows” but those “energy efficient windows” are usually 50% more than the average quality window. Higher quality triple pane windows exist, and they are a luxury for most homeowners. It’s great technology, but relatively few people build or upgrade their house with the long term consequences in mind for these things. There’s a reason you get a positive ROI when you fix up a kitchen or bathroom versus replacing windows which is typically viewed as maintenance. There needs to be incentives for these upgrades to be adopted by home builders.

eagerpaceon B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Begin Unannounced Deployment to Diego Garcia

Ward Carroll just covered an update on it in this video https://youtu.be/9e_EXmVUJCM?si=VI5rZnYHBey7tTae