Luke Guildner

I have seen some people mention space elevators, but current technology and material science can not build one on Earth. the other options I mentioned are technically feasible, but require an order of magnitude or two more mass going to orbit to make financial sense.

Though, getting to orbit does not require rockets. If there is sufficient need of getting mass to orbit, there are far more efficient options such as a Loftstrum (launch) Loop, or orbital ring with ground based teethers.

If you accelerate propellant with strong electrical currents to produce plasma or ions, it may not be a chemical rocket, but it still requires reaction mass/ propellant, and I would not exactly call that an "electric" rocket.

If you throw or shoot something into orbit, using electricity or other propulsion, it is no longer a rocket.

So many of the replies to this are just stupid. The question is also poorly asked.

All that to say, I don't expect to change anyone's mind unless they are already open to it...

In my experience, and specifically talking about me changing my own opinions, you have to be willing to be wrong and actually listen to people with different opinions. And even then it can be hard to rid myself of things I used to believe.

All. The. Time.

Eh, in my opinion both date standards are wrong. YYYYMMDD is the only actually logical ordering. It means that dates are chronologically ordered without extra logic when sorted numerically.

Microsoft's response: huh, I guess it is us. Good luck with that.

My past experience with azure (~3 years ago): internal azure patching process had unacceptable impact on our services (specifically, instances not able to communicate over internal network). We had enough telemetry to show it wasn't us, and that it rolled through our instances.

There are two kinds of 10x developers, those that are 10x at everything they do, and those that are 10x developers because they are 0.1x at everything else.

"hey Google, where's my phone"

My employer does this, but only for extended leave such as maternity/paternity, fmla, or any other unpaid extended leave. Would be nice if it were an option for regular pto, too. But, I'd only want it as an option...

@Tesla @elonmusk would you please add @somafm to the streaming options for your cars?

Aimee's: You coming?

Luke Guildner 2020: 👍

This looks pretty cool, if you already have a domain that you can set an MX record on github.com/niftylettuce/forw… or buy a domain for much less than $99 a year

A suggestion for @Tesla and @elonmusk : give actual estimates for production and delivery based on current backlog of orders and scheduled work, or nothing at all. Expectation set and missed is worse than no expectation at all.