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robryan··on NASA's SLS rocket's Mobile Launcher-2 increase from $383M to $2.7B
Because the mission profile has been intentionally sub orbital to avoid any possibility of uncontrolled reentry. There would be minimal change in the burn for the last 2 flights to place it in orbit.
robryan··on Tesla has taken down 2016 release noting full self driving hardware capability
Wouldn't this be a US government thing and they would be buying SpaceX launches?
robryan··on Verso – Web browser built on top of the Servo web engine
One of the major differences between ladybird as part of serenity and ladybird the separate project is using 3rd party libraries. When what you are building are is for fun and you build everything yourself it makes sense to also build a language.

Ladybird as a separate project has the goal though of something usable in the shorter term. So similarly with switching to 3rd libraries for things I don't think it makes sense to spend potentially years first building the language before building the browser.

robryan··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
Netflix also uses temporal: https://temporal.io/in-use/netflix
robryan··on Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
I think this is more for the end user. If the eventual goal is to convince people to use this instead of Chrome or Safari it is probably going to be a hard sell if it looks like a hobby project.
robryan··on I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
It has come up from time to time. From the perspective of LadyBird it is an experiment that ran its course and LadyBird will likely just be c++.

From the perspective of serenity os it is still there and mostly compatible if someone is interested to come along and push it forward to be used in the os.

robryan··on (Tesla) has twice attempted to drive directly into a train while in FSD mode
You can see the flashing light from way back. You would also probably hear the train.
robryan··on GPT-4o
Yeah I watched some yc application videos so now YouTube recommends me heaps of them. Most of them being thin gpt wrappers.
robryan··on GPT-4o
I was just hearing about startups doing speech to text/ text to speech to feed into llms. Might be a bad time for them.
robryan··on I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
At least with stack overflow you can be fairly confident the code at least works correctly in the context it was provided in if it has a lot of votes.
robryan··on Bitcoin Block 840000
For accepting crypto payments wouldn't I be better off accepting a stable coin? Most companies I saw in the past were nominally accepting crypto but going through a service that would just pay out the USD equivalent.

I guess with software margins there is a bit more room to move with price fluctuations. For ecommerce though accepting and holding a currency that moves this much could quickly erode the smaller margins.

robryan··on Bitcoin Block 840000
Yeah that is fair, it depends on the options available to someone.
robryan··on Bitcoin Block 840000
Yeah it is fair to say it depends on the choices someone has. If I can stick USD into a high interest savings account though it seems like a much safer way to keep value.
robryan··on Bitcoin Block 840000
I still don't get why I would want to hold a bitcoin for anything other than speculation. If I want some form of currency to actually use there are plenty of less volatile options.
robryan··on Launch HN: Lumona (YC W24) – Product search based on Reddit and YouTube reviews
Over time affiliate programs like the Amazon one have become a lot less generous. On the other hand though from running an ecommerce site I'd be happy to work with an affiliate like this that isn't just a coupon website that basically adds no value.
robryan··on Thoughts on the Future of Software Development
Even with a junior there is generally a logic to the mistake and a fairly direct path to improving in future. I just don't know if the next token was chosen to be x statistically is going to be able to get to that level.
robryan··on On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
What if the AI was solely trained on this person's work, then from that churned out a similar replacement that was monetized?
robryan··on ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
There are some from 2023 that aren't. Day 12 part 2 at least for me had one input that ended up being 95% or more of all permutations and would have taken at least weeks.
robryan··on ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
LLMs fairly quickly got to consuming a significant portion of all available data. I can't see them improving significantly just by throwing more data at the problem.
robryan··on ChatGPT does Advent of Code 2023
Even if the ideas aren't unique they are worded in a unique enough way that the training set wouldn't have anything like how they are presented.
robryan··on NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go
A lot of it will be location based. It has come up before here in the discussion of why there is so much in the app. They have to cater for all the different rules in every jurisdiction.
robryan··on YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock
The silicon valley engineer should also be able to easily afford premium.
robryan··on Trains on another level
Dyson Sphere is great for 3d. Or at least 2.5d bordering on 3d.

Satisfactory shows the pros/ cons of a full 3d world vs a 2d factorio.

robryan··on The worst programmer I know
I agree with you for a case where you are taking a feature from start to end. The case where you are spending half an hour unblocking someone who is stuck or brainstorming a better solution for something tends to be beneficial though.
robryan··on The worst programmer I know
Seems like it would just incentivise every ticket being estimated as something like an 8.

Even in an environment where story points essentially mean nothing it already ends up with some people just wanting to put high numbers on everything.

robryan··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
Yep, I prefer a chain place where the staff are mildly disinterested, aren't trying to push conversation and just want to get the job done quickly.
robryan··on Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
Even if you aren't, it is still going to be roughly driven by how many hours of recruiter/ interviewer time you want to allocate per hire.
robryan··on Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode
A lot of places will also do a desgin interview to cover this aspect of the job.
robryan··on Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures
Where else would they put it to reach more people?
robryan··on Hackers manage to unlock Tesla software-locked features
They could do that but would have to raise the base price. These addon features allows a cheaper entry point and price discrimination for those who are willing to pay more.

Whether it ends up being wasteful is complicated, there are would be operating effeciencies in putting the same hardware into every car.

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