Maybe.

Also, got at least a B average.

Mining the moon to send materials to Earth would not be economical in the slightest because the Moon has nothing Earth doesn’t. Sure, space launches from the Moon would be way easier and cheaper than from Earth (once you make the massive investment of time and money to build the space launch facilities on the Moon). But if you’re talking about shipping materials to Earth from the Moon, either you need to send your freighters back from Earth to the Moon (expensive), or you make the freighters on the Moon and disassemble them on Earth, counting them as part of the haul. All that for iron, silicon, aluminum, magnesium, and titanium, stuff we can get on Earth easily enough.

The only possible economic argument for Moon mining is for a self-sustaining lunar settlement able to source space launch materials locally instead of getting them from an expensive rocket from Earth. That way, you can use the Moon as a jumping-off point to the rest of the solar system and beyond. That’s a great idea for space exploration in the long term for sure. But it’s a very long term plan and won’t be economically feasible for a century at least.

One could make the argument that mining Earth is contributing to planetary pollution and generally fucking up our ecosystem. That’s true for sure. I’m pretty sure implementing clean mining practices would be more economical than the cost of lunar mining (and that’s not even accounting for the pollution caused by the freighters’ reentry).

Asteroids are not a great source of minerals. They are far less dense than planets and moons, and most of what they are made of isn’t super rare or valuable.

In the extremely long term, off-earth mining will probably be a good idea. But for the next 100 years or so at least, it’ll be way cheaper to mine on Earth.

Most hojillionaires want to do stuff in space so they can avoid government oversight and regulation.

There really isn’t that much money to be made mining the moon, though. Not considering how much it would cost to get a mining operation there.

That’s disturbing. Did he actually like his coffee?

That’s been happening since forever, though. I helped manage proxy servers for my first job in the mid 00’s, and those server logs were mostly automated port scans and failed login attempts, even on the newly commissioned servers.

you could literally screenshot our conversation and order a shirt that would be here by the weekend

I am so tempted to do this with your comment.

IIRC, Pepsi and Coca-Cola are not owned by the same parent umbrella corporation. But you are generally right. Again, IIRC, there are like six companies that own something like 85% of brands in grocery stores.

I value you.

Excellebt choice of gif, from my favorite epside of Futurama. Bravo

Asking questions when you don’t know a thing (AOC) is smarter than pretending you know the thing (the vast majority of old congresspeople, especially in the GOP).

That’s what happens when the engineers are forced out and the marketers are given control.

Wait wait wait one goddammed second. Is that a thing: hearing someone speak, saying “what was that?”, then a moment after they start speaking, you suddenly know what they said the first time?

I discovered I had ADHD in my 30s and it was life changing. If this is another thing, then I’m in for another life changing discovery in my 40s.

I can 100% related to having AI generate this meme. If I had the idea to make this and didn’t want to use AI, I would spend far too long by making an excel sheet, building a table, messing around with the values to make the pie wedges reasonably believable sizes, second-guessing what items to put in the table, tweaking the hex codes for the colors… and then never finishing. (Hell, I spent a good 20 minutes writing and rewriting this comment.)

Not saying using AI is justifiable here or anything, but I figure this community would get why.

Slap that tracker on a car belonging to an employee of the dealership.

I highly suspect Musk had the idea for the swastikkkar as a kid and told some people, who proceeded to laugh at him. He then never let that grudge go, deluded that he is always the smartest boy.

He probably didn’t even count it. I bet he hired a flunky to do that.

In other words, its to generate stupid metrics for stupid employers.

I’d like to emphasize the “stupid” bit when it applies to “employers” more than “metrics”. As an interviewer, I have used, among other things, an applicant’s public Github as part of my process. But I’d like to think I do it right because of two reasons: I look deeper than just the history graph, and I only use this (among other metrics) for ranking resumes.

I’ll look at their history, sure, but I’ll also look more in depth at repos, PRs, comments, issues, etc. I’ll clone their repos and try running their code. I’ll review their public PRs and read their comments and discussions, if any. I try to get an idea of if I’d like working with this person. If I saw someone with a constant feed of PRs to seemingly random open source projects, that would cause me concern for this exact reason.

And all that is one of the things I do to rank resumes in order of interview preference and to give me questions to ask in the interview. I’ll look for things that suggest the candidate has already been vetted successfully by others (e.g., Ivy League school, FAANG, awards, etc.). I’ll look for public content that suggests the candidate knows what they are doing. But all this does is sort the resumes for me. My entire decision-making process is fed by the interview.

Granted, AI assistants are getting good enough that they can potentially coach candidates through remote interviews (and eventually in person interviews, with glasses or earpieces or something.). Eventually we’ll have to put candidates in Faraday cages with metal detectors for interviews (that is unless AI takes over all development). I’m hoping to be retired by then.

4 -> 6 would be a 50% increase, or 150% of the previous number. 4 -> 10 would be a 150% increase, or 250% of the previous number.