>He was in the right place at the right time, with the right dream.

A statistically unlikely number of times.

Going to Mars personally is no longer in his future for national security reasons.

In my experience Claude is more efficient and better at coding in some languages more than others. For example, C#, Python, anything javascript (react, frameworks, etc), Rust work well. A combination of a lot of source material to steal from, and expressiveness of the languages make Claude more efficient.

While Claude is quite good at C++ and Qt also, it burns a lot more money there. I think that's because every thing you want to do involves working with two or more files at once (header files, cpp implementation file, CMakeLists.txt). Burns a lot of tokens very quickly just reading in all the files it needs to to analyze the code and make changes.

That said, I still find Claude very valuable, but I am actively looking at the competition such as Kimi K2.5.

They are led by the communist party.

They were moving away from communism for a long time, doing things like privatizing land and allowing capitalists into the communist party.

But since Xi, they've turned back towards communism, arresting the capitalists and following "Xi Jinping thought," which is "communism with Chinese characteristics." You can read about it on Wikipedia (and other places, but Wikipedia has a good summary): https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

At NASA, you know. Everybody knows. That's how they do things.

It's not the vacuum of space, but the Orion capsule is designed to operate at as little as 8 psi, about half normal sea level. At least it's not pure oxygen, but I do rather hope those specific phones have been tested at that pressure.

Wobbly polar orbit in the lower Van Allen belt. That puts the solar panels right in the middle of the day/night line, with the panels facing the sun all the time. There's a lot of shit in LOE going around the poles, so the further out the better, except for all the radiation from the Van Allen belts. It will be hard to maintain, so they'll probably be built with short service lifespans and de-orbited frequently. Hey if you got the capital, might as well burn it building a cathedral nobody wants!

How do you plumb coolant to 110 square miles of solar panels? And pump it fast enough and into big enough radiators to cool both the panels and the chips? If these are in sun-synchronous orbit they won't have any time to cool like the little starlinks do. Micrometeorites are not going to help with reliability much. The engineering problems are many, but if solved it will probably happen sooner rather than later. I'd rather see this ridiculously expensive AI project burn capital to improve orbital engineering than have it fund a temporary scale up of gas turbine manufacturers.
Space debris, radiation, heat and the cost of boosting into a sun-synchronous orbit are pretty big problems.

Can you watch the Olympics with the commentators turned off? That would be pretty cool.

Who cares? Samsung and LG and the US government and your phone are spying on you already. Everything they can see or hear gets fed into a massive machine learning and categorization system so they know whether you're more likely to buy boxers or briefs or thongs.

Are you intentionally misreading the Wikipedia article?

"Digital sovereignty" is just a new buzzword that means exactly the same thing as the older, utterly uncontroversial "minimize external/proprietary dependencies" which has whacked every. single. person. here upside the head, at some point in their life.

If your production system can go down because of what someone else does, or has done unto them, that's a problem. Do your customers want to hear "sorry, the site was down for a few hours because AWS was down" or would you prefer them hear "Of course the system stayed up. You think I'm some kind of fuckwit who doesn't care about resilience?"

Sovereignty might be presented as some kind of nationalism, but it's really just about independence and good ol' orthodox common sense. 1) External dependencies suck, and also, 2) competition is good. If you disagree with those two things (?!), then yeah, I can see why you think sovereignty is undesirable.

Sports are neither critical or even remotely important to modern life, so of course there is an alternative: don't watch, and break your addiction. There are many things that have become crucial to modern life, but sports are just drug addictions that have no redeeming qualities. It may be enjoyable to people (as addictions tend to be, before they become painful), but you will be better off without them.