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Copilot is Microsoft Watson.

"Houston, we've got two problems"

Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed.

Any development team larger than Apollo programming team of 350 is overstaffed

We put a man on the moon mostly with pencils and slide rules.

Today we have massive data centers full of "AI" supercomputers, and we get… TikTok?


Surprising fact I just noticed about the next Moon landing attempt -- it'll take up to 22 launches to get everything into space needed for the attempt.

That's good, actually. We need to develop the capability to stage/assemble in-orbit, as this would relax a lot of hard constraints on size and complexity of the missions.

He's been also doing Lisp projects before GenAI, so…

You'll never get an impressive resume with an attitude like that.

We don't need to imagine. Hundreds of kids sheltered in Mariupol theater building were killed in one attack in the first weeks of the war.


Am I missing something?

The attack on the Iranian primary school (not makeshift sheltered building) is on the very first day of the war, not several weeks, months or years.

Not to downgrade the incident, but the Mariupol incident you mentioned probably happened in 2022 while the all out war started in 2014 [1],[2]. If you can refer and link to the particular incident it'll be helpful for verification.

[1] Siege of Mariupol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

[2] Russo-Ukrainian war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_war


While the Ruissan invasion was ongoing from 2014, the 2022 full scale invasion is different both in scope and volume. It is viewed as its own global event and has it own huge Wikipedia article. Iran had also been attacked by the USA (and Israel) previously.

The theater was marked with huge inscription of "CHILDREN" on tarmac, in the pilots' native Russian. They killed them regardless.

Either way do you think that if it happened on day one instead of 3 weeks in the reaction would be any different?


Yes on day one people barely know what's happening, life goes on as usual.

After several weeks of bombardment and siege like was happened in Mariupol, children were already stop attending schools, moved to other schools, go to bunkers, live in makeshift shelters or migrate to different cities [1].

"The Geneva Conventions state that the parties to a conflict must do their best to protect civilians, which may include moving civilians and civilian objects under their control if they are close to military objectives." [1]

[1] Fact check: What do we know about the airstrike on a school in Iran?

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/03/16/fact-check-wha...


Russia regularly uses cluster warheads on their ballistic missiles to a devastating effect. It all depends on the type of the target.


It's the rule of law that attracts business.


The ads delivery ecosystem billing is generally structured around impressions not click through rate (which depends a lot on the nature of the ad). So yes it does.


Good.


We have the wealth fund precisely because we don't discretionally spend oil royalties.


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