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I assume it's the usual game of charging a low introductory rate than some time period later jacking up the rates significantly and hoping the customer is no longer paying attention or just gets tired of it all. You either keep switching providers or get ripped off. It's definitely not just...

It's not only taxpayer funded but there's billions from HLS contracts that's already been paid out to SpaceX, so there's taxpayer money pretty directly involved.

This is obviously an advantage on a per weapon basis, but they're also so expensive that I don't think it's so clear cut in practice. An individual hypersonic requires a very high end air defence system very near to the target to (still potentially not) defend against sure, but you're also...

Not entirely, but very different yes. The US equivalent to those is something like JDAM-ER - a kit with wings and a guidance system you fit to an otherwise cold war era dumb bomb (you can of course purpose build them too - eg SDB/Stormbreaker - but there's a whole lot of old bombs out there)...

It's a bit of both. The US has indeed being working on this for quite a while, but it's been a very low priority because it was obvious the weapons were going to be very expensive and very niche. The more recent perception that they were behind and the focus swinging back to peer/near peer stuff...

Terminating HLS would be doing SpaceX a favour at this point, they've already been paid the majority of the award and don't appear particularly close to a working Starship, let alone HLS. This is perhaps why Musk is talking about the moon being a "distraction", although there's other possible...

I'm not sure how your company having successful AI projects means that any other company finding AI didn't work out must be untrue. Language and what sort of code you're writing are fairly important variables here and LLMs are far better at some than others.

Hallucinations are perhaps the problem with existing LLMs stopping them from actually being something genuinely transformative and handwaving it away as "humans hallucinate too" is very odd. Serious projects attempting to use LLM based models that I've seen the inside of generally go the same...

The biggest difference with AI is that its orders of magnitude more expensive to run. The large players in LLMs are pulling back on other investments and shovelling unfathomably huge piles of cash into the incinerator in the hope that something actually takes off. So far while there's some...

South Korea is plenty armed up, they're a significant military power and have taken the threat seriously for quite some time. Their challenges are more around demographics and the short ranges involved to major population centres (meaning in any full scale conflict a lot of people are going to...

Of course he's wrong. There's a lot of things you could call the current Australian government but fascist is patently absurd. It's a pretty milquetoast bill - mostly requiring platforms to actually track and report on mis/disinformation* (with penalties coming if you just flat out refuse or...

I'd recommend waiting for the actual charges to be better understood (instead of just guesses from machine translation of vague statements) before proclaiming the doom of the internet or that it's government overreach on social media moderation. Telegram is a lot more than an end to end...

Isn't this particular part of the problem very simple to solve just by making teams optional in the SaaS office offerings? Companies buy the teams version if they want it and pay less if they don't. No additional contracts, not really any meaningful complexity. It's clearly possible because...

Yes I'm aware, and some of the pricing games they played at the time was what I was referring to (ie pricing individual apps at close to the whole office package).

It's not about the office client itself, it's about the office 365 business plans. If you're buying those (and they have absolutely insane market penetration as the primary way MS is selling a few key things, so as a business you probably are), teams hosting was always bundled with that. Their...

What would even be wrong with that? Why is it reasonable that I'd have to buy a bunch of largely unrelated products (and strongly pushing towards subscription only no less) if eg I want Excel anyway? There's nothing wrong with MS offering a bundle, but only offering a bundle (or selling the...

How is that not unreasonable? That adds an enormous amount of complexity around the squishy human inside who probably wants to do selfish things like eat and breath and not die and...whatever else they're going to do on the very long trip there and back. If your goal is to put people on Mars...

I'd imagine you pretty much always expect at least some problems when dealing with small molecules (especially under high pressure) and would have a plan for it if something is as safety critical as a manned spacecraft?

The products in question do try to say they do this but their actual implementation is too limited to be useful. They can track very roughly what area the toothbrush is in your mouth and for how long and sure this works - but that's more "your brush wasn't in the area of these 5-6 teeth much or...

It's not always the contractors - ask for a stupid thing upfront and your project is going to fail. Sometimes yes, it really is just the contractor being awful... but a lot of the time - especially with a lot of those examples - the initial concept and requirements were so flawed that what came...