That's good news. Glad to see at least one of the landline companies is actually serving its customers.

I don't need it, but I certainly have plenty of places to put a dish.

Also, remember that Starlink isn't fully built out yet, many more to come. They've already launched four batches just this year, over 200 of them.

Say we have a person living on his property, and his house is half a mile from your nearest Windstream connection. If you run fiber to him, he's going to be the only one on that service. Windstream will actually spend that money to run the line for free? That is amazing.

The only time I've seen free runs is when a bunch of unserved households together ask for the service, so that the ISP knows it'll get a greater income for that expense.

I have lots of tall trees around me, but the clearing around the house allows plenty of line of sight to the sky. If the trees were closer I’d put it on the house.

This isn’t like traditional satellite. You can have multiple satellites in view and it’ll pick the best one.

They work great in bad weather, and as far as trees go, put it on your house.

The fun part about that is the coop running the river is probably hooked up to Comcast anyway.

Starlink is going to hurt them even more for their rural expansion. "Sure, we'll run a cable 500 feet to your house, for $10K." "Fuck you, I'm going satellite."

Borderlands 2 procedurally generates guns based on just some standard elements. There are almost 18 million different variations.

>Procedurally generated environments in games is something we have now.

It's something we had in 1984. Seriously, Rescue on Fractalus! gets its name because they used fractal math to generate the landscape on the fly.

I grew up with Alice Krige as the queen, but yes, Annie knocked that performance out of the park.

Yes, he's great in everything. I loved Shadwell in Good Omens too. It's kind of sad that he rarely picks up a series he's on for very long, usually just an episode or two on various shows. I'm glad he got Better Call Saul for a longer run so he could develop a character, and he nailed it.

Holy shit, never made the connection that Lenny is Chuck McGill. He looks and acts so different that I didn’t recognize him.

Great Borg Queen. Sad.

Depends. Quick rollout isn't necessarily a bad thing. A small bug can easily be fixed in that time.

Just a software issue, but too bad they don't do automatic OTA updates.

I meant total sales, including energy.

A while back I calculated out how much it would cost to fuel Starship based on existing known numbers. I can't remember exactly, but it was only like a few million dollars, and that to send 100 tons to LEO. Musk's goal of $10/kg to LEO seems pretty doable.

Everybody in the world is fighting over battery supply to ramp up EV production, and Tesla is making sure they don't have to fight like the rest. It's a good long-term strategy. Even if their sales went below their battery production in the future, then they just become a battery supplier for the others.

The days of it being okay to blow stuff up are now over for Starship. A full stack blow up would damage that very expensive launch tower, so they now have to tread carefully.

I doubt it. Bezos built BO as a standard rocket company with standard development procedures -- money heavy but hardware poor. Do all the design up front, make it perfect, so you know nearly 100% that it will work. This did make it easy for him to hire some of the best in the business, but it's also a very slow and restricted development method. There's nothing to learn from in this process, only putting your ideas to paper, and eventually into hardware.

Musk drew from his software development days and made it hardware rich. Build, test, evaluate, wash, rinse repeat. See what works in real life, see what doesn't, and change accordingly. This is why we saw so many rapid unscheduled disassemblies. But it's also why SpaceX advanced so quickly.

>Elon sat comfortably on their lead too long and got complacent.

Last year they started doubling down on AI training, so that by the end of the year they started installing a custom-designed AI training supercomputer that does 1.1 exaflops in only ten cabinets. For reference, the current fastest supercomputer in the world is 1.6 exaflops with with 74 cabinets. Technically their supercomputer does this at only 16 bit floating point compared to higher precision for the other computer, but it doesn't need more than 16 to train AI.

They also have an advantage in batteries in that they make their own, and they're ramping up mass production of a new battery design that has much higher density. They're not just buying exploding batteries from LG like GM is.

Also, nobody else has a Class 8 truck with decent range.

BTW, the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket in history just passed its full-stack fueling test. Yeah, just playing spaceships.

There may be a limit to how much you can increase accuracy on a system while maintaining compatibility with an old standard.

Like the Tesla employees, did he take proprietary information from his employer to give to Zoox? That offer can really pump up the chances of getting hired.

The reactors themselves are inaccessible, part of the design. Screw with anything up top, and they shut down on their own. But they don't plan on just one 50MW reactor per site.

This gives too much credit to Mengele. His twin experiments had no scientific value, so there was no way he could have used those experiments to increase the rate of twin births.