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- perilunar parentFor social there's Mastadon. Plenty of EU servers.
- > Elon Musk is a smart salesman but that's about it. He has little deep knowledge in a lot of what he does.
No, I think it's the opposite — he's extremely knowledgeable about engineering and science [1], but quite hopeless at social things. If he was ignorant of technical stuff then SpaceX and Tesla would not have succeeded, and conversely if he was a good salesman he would have foreseen how badly his political actions would hurt Twitter and Tesla.
It's quite foolish to think someone is stupid or ignorant just because you don't agree with their politics.
1. see these quotes: https://x.com/yatharthmaan/status/2001313180644266478
- If you think of 'tech' as computers and the internet, then yeah, it's hard to be optimistic. It's no longer the shiny new thing and has become boring. But it's an overly limited view of tech.
I think one of the reasons people are drawn to Elon Musk (despite his political views) is that he's an optimist, with big goals and vision. Self-driving cars, reusable rockets and cheap space travel, cities on Mars, etc. Even if only some of it becomes real it will be amazing. So no, not a pessimist.
- I noticed that when my kids were little they could use cassette players well before they could read. They would choose music based on the pictures on the cassettes and the covers. We had a (clickwheel) iPod for our own music, but they couldn't work it because they couldn't read the text-only interface.
- That's just stupid. Why send them all that way just to put them on a rock, in orbit around a planet, when you could leave them in a free solar orbit? Not only that, but put them on opposite sides of the sun FFS, so you don't have to wait half an orbit (15 years, in Saturn's case) to get the other half of a measurement.
- Just saw this tweet, so i guess not:
https://x.com/samhogan/status/1988448512137457767
"Due to an unforeseen naming conflict, we are renaming Project AELLA to Project OSSAS (Open Source Summaries At Scale)"
- Named after https://x.com/Aella_Girl perhaps?
- Americans do that all the time though. E.g. Celsius vs Fahrenheit, Metric vs US Customary units, getting rid of copper coins, 230 vs 110 V electricity, etc.
The fact that large parts of the world do something without any problems is no guarantee that people in the U.S. won't argue about it endlessly.
- You would think pants manufacturers would cotton on and start making decent phone pockets.
I wear jeans a lot and the back pockets are dangerous for phones, and the front pockets are uncomfortable when sitting if there's a phone in them. I want a phone pocket on the outside of the leg that's big enough for a phone but not too bulky/puffy.
- Why do trenches need to be dug across the countryside? Put them alongside existing roads and rail lines. Same with above-ground power lines. It might make them a bit longer, but the ‘eyesore’ is already there, and we can avoid making new ones.
(Re rail lines — if you build power lines over existing rail lines you could also electrify the rail route at the same time, and get rid of the diesel locomotives).