> It's costing a lot, it's not bringing much.

It kinda depends on what you mean by “much”, but we’ve certainly had advances from the ISS in the last decade.

Several experiments with microgravity manufacturing such as ZBLAN fiber optics, 3D bioprinting, and other medical technologies. Microgravity manufacturing can offer some significant quality improvements and prevent settling.

There are other improvements as well. Foundational research is very important and space has a solid track record of delivering science that we turn into very useful technology on earth.

Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/out-of-th...

https://issnationallab.org/press-releases/2024-iss-national-...

I feel like people have been saying AI was great for years now?

It’s amazing how often an LLM mocks or stubs some code and then writes a test that only checks the mock, which ends up testing nothing.

I have seen junior engineers do this on multiple occasions. This is why all code should be reviewed by experienced engineers, whether written by a human or an LLM.

You really do have to verify and validate the tests. Worse you have to constantly battle the thing trying to cheat at the tests or bypass them completely.

But once you figure that out, it's pretty effective.

Is it the public’s job to police what your son does or is it your job?

It’s because the people that built and maintain the SPAs were beat into submission with the “SSR” bad message. Now people want them to do SSR again.

Out of curiosity would you prefer Windows or Linux instead of Mac?

The recommendations from this are surprisingly good.

Upload, download, latency, and how many options to choose from are what I looked for the last time I bought a house.

I actually asked some of the neighbors about it and called local ISPs.

Email being so cheap and easy is is a significant component of spam, which is a technical problem to a degree. Spam on Signal, text message, voicemail, Discord, etc… is significantly less present for various reasons (cost, complexity, etc…)

:sigh: speaking of getting into the mud pit...

The other side of that balance is that capitalism creating artificial incentives for bad behavior is a significant component of spam.

But that itself is just a special-case of the principal-agent problem.

Being cheap and easy is not a problem, quite the contrary. That we as a society make this a good thing for spam is a problem, but I don't want to make the system shittier just because of the bad use of it.

My work email is virtually useless at this point due to the absurd quantities of spam I receive. I think the OP suggestions would actually make email less shitty.

Any communication medium that is cheap and easy will be relentlessly abused by spammers.

I’ve rented Teslas from Turo three times and the experience was seamless and delightful. The car was dropped off and picked up from my house and everything just worked. Phone keys, supercharger access, full charge when dropped off (basically).

I think the traditional rental places are just incompetent or under investing.