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Been using Ubuntu 24.10 on my ASUS 2in1 w/touchscreen and just swapped to this thinking it will be smooth like my desktop. Well Ubuntu24.10 was way more predictable. PopOS issues: …

Yeah, though he may have went, "I did nothing here, and my stock price went down 2% in ONE hour from it."

I agree, the abrupt nature sort of indicates something serious. But I've seen "on the spot firings" somewhat with Open Source-based, high profile startups. There's always a point i…

I figured Meta released threads now cause of the 2024 US elections: twitter has reached dead wood status for corporate/political/msm media, facebook hasn't learned its lesson in th…

Not laughing! /s (physicist here) Actually most applied physicists like myself go down that path cause we're pretty efficient, lazy folk & skip through as fast as possible--I call …

"Japan, China, Russia, and the EU will all insist on their own rocket launch capability, won't they?" For their spy sats: well OF COURSE! And we're on the verge of a lot of demand,…

You started out in Boston Dynamics, destined to fail :) j/k (The again, everyone I worked with from BD seems has a similar pattern after leaving!)

Yes, launch stage was pretty bulletproof, 2nd upto the liquid stage were the problems (should be fixed by now that the tech exists). The systems are likely the same as 2005 that ne…

Pros and cons. You can instead of using that 747 with more optimized aircraft for this purpose. And you can make the boosters reusable. Stratolaunch was on a good path long term bu…

Makes a lot of sense. But beware you're up against attorneys: no one wants putting their sensitive info in a common report for example. Paper files in a vault is "tangible". I trie…

Question now, with other regional banks getting some contagion from this... For all those that pulled yesterday, where are they parking their withdraws? National banks (e.g. BoA), …

Aside from all those tech founders (today's LP VCs) from 2008-2020 likely held equity/deposits at SVB, and the sheer call out by them to make a run on the bank yesterday just broke…

Nah, it'll go to a GoDaddy page: "buy this URL for $3.99/yr now!"

Bridge loans, DES, convertible notes, etc..., I'm sure their were loan "products" for startups similar to helocs (likely what put them in the hole). The appetite for crypto/fintech…

"can have extremely polarized views" usually results when people want [extreme] attention in a sea of chatter. "feel the need to defend their polarized but flawed viewpoint at any …