Which means as an Independent developer I have to make educated guesses about what they might want to develop solutions on spec.

YES! But many of the institutions I’m trying to work with have a hard tjme transitioning from being technology consumers to technology designers. They want off-the-shelf systems rather than ask for new things!

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
~ Anaïs Nin

The Blue Door (1927)
🎨 Raymond Wintz

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.

The next level after that is to add health checks on a Cron job and a system to send you notifications when/if problems arise. Super helpful!

Do you vibe code? If so, you make your own dashboard to monitor the health of the different “nodes” in your lab. I would also suggest adding the ability to run benchmarks for things like node-to-node network speed.

YES! And I’m finding that time spent thinking through the domain-specific taxonomies I deal with has a high ROI.

Nice! What do you do with it ?

Ouch. I get that if I don’t wear slippers with arch support,

The good news (cf. the recent MIT study about this) is that workplace adoption has been more gradual and augumentative than disruptive.

Still, even if the underlying tech stalled at this point (and it won’t) there are far more applications than people to create them.

Plus, plus: AI use activates the mesolimbic dopamine reward pathway even more than social media, which makes users a bit TOO enthusiastic about it. Lol.

Plus, AI became a convenient carrier of other contemporary anxieties (viz. woes of capitalism, climate change, gig-economy, surveillance state, et. al. )

I agree with all of that. Also, that this tech challenged people on an existential level in ways that previous waves of automation did not. I suspect the Uncanny Valley Effect may explain some of the visceral negative response many have.

So, I just don’t think your characterization of SpaceX is supported by the evidence—a fact NASA, itself, implicitly supports by choosing them to convey people to the ISS rather than pouring more money into Boeing’s competing program.

Inspiration4, Polaris Dawn, and Fram2 were all non-ISS missions. Polaris Dawn, in fact, went out three times the orbital altitude of the ISS!

What about Challenger(1986) and Columbia (2003)? Hardly the 1960’s. Currently, Falcon 9 is statistically the most reliable orbital class rocket in history: 99.53% success rate vs Soyuz 95.1% all time/ 98.6% latest variants.

Oh, yeah! That makes sense. I remember that episode

Sigh. If I win the lottery there are many ways I will show my excellent taste and employ many fine artisans.

Yeah. Caleb Eom has a good analysis that basically says that this is really a play about market position ahead of a future IPO.

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lol… no

I was taking about this at dinner tonight. The economics and interesting and complicated and a certain fashionable cynacism passes for actually learning.

Yeah, I was forced to swallow a big helping of that at an academic talk recently. It was pretty frustrating.

Right? I was going to say… this is NOT the first watch for space travel

That sounds about right, tbh.

Pretty much. They find this vision of Xnity downright threatening. Wait until they hear about “liberation” theology. Lol.