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@requiem @winter Falcon 9 is private property, and yet it gives NASA the capabilities to get humans to the space station at much lower prices than before. Besides, with a commercialized reusable rocket, we're more likely as civilians to be able to get to space, than with 4.1 billion NASA rockets that are public property, but still built by private companies.

@requiem @winter Us as in humanity, all of the airplanes that we ride around in to travel around the country and between countries are private property as well, and yet they give us the ability to get to Japan the next day.

@winter (As for how I find it? I follow people on every end of the spectrum, and people just randomly reboost things that are silly.)

@winter @requiem I really don't care about Musk at all. I pretty much hate all of his companies and his opinions on things, but I'm a fan of space flight, and the way to do it is through re-usability, rather than bespoke 4.1 billion dollar launch platforms that are tossed every time.

@requiem (Of course, both of those costs are exaggerated.)

@requiem I bet the cost of those programs are several orders of magnitude different by the time they're done. The Starship will be a whole lot cheaper because they're willing to test, test, test, on novel designs rather than sticking with proven systems, and overdesigning everything. I'd be surprised if the Starship costs even 50 billion by the end, let alone 100 trillion. Artemis also is going to ultimately give us a disposable rocket with barely any reusable components, while Starship should be extensively reusable.

@zaitcev I'm pretty sure it's about the Marijuana date instead of what you mentioned... You know how many times he's brought up 420 over the years.

@polpo @icecreamjonsey I had Starcross on my Atari 8-bit, I definitely couldn't understand it though. Part of that is probably because it came with the computer when we bought it, but they didn't include the manual.

@polpo @hisham_hm @mcc I remember playing that game, I don't think I ever got very far though.

@abishek_muthian Darn, that's terrible then. Might look to see if any local manufacturers end up using a 7x40u series chip for 15w, or 7x40hs series if you don't mind 35-50 watts.

@abishek_muthian (You can buy the motherboard separately and put it in a 3d printed case if you want it in a mini desktop form.)

@abishek_muthian Check the new framework laptops with the 7840u (or maybe 7740u?) chips. Those should be close enough in performance without having to deal with Apple weirdness in the boot sequences, and you get officially supported GPU drivers instead.

And the RAM and SSD aren't soldered directly to the motherboard or cpu interposer. Since Apple does that, upgrading ram and recovering data is impossible.

My main portable system though is still either the Steamdeck with bluetooth accessories and a USB-C screen, or an old i7-8550u 17 inch, depending on how small of a bag I need to bring. You don't always need the absolute fastest chip to get things done.

@gamingonlinux That's kind of lame. Besides, this is Fediverse, not Mastodon. Mastodon is just a server for Fediverse. ;)

@tschak Sad Pet/Amiga noises.

https://youtu.be/0l_za2Zmsyc Russia doesn't trust China, China is living up to the mistrust, apparently.

@pro @bagder Given the recent boost from that fediverse account, I'll probably not mess with the Z80 one.

@union @adiz @Moon @zaitcev Yeah, you're right about that, there's many cases where just because the businesses are used to doing things with globalization, that they think it's the best way when it may not necessarily be so.

There's many cases where doing business that way leads you to being reliant on one country for something, and you don't notice when they slowly start raising prices and lowering quality, the inertia keeps them in place even when it could be better and cheaper elsewhere because the costs of switching are high.

@zaitcev @adiz @Moon Zeihan makes some points about free trade when he talks about how it's falling apart. That instead of having everyone trading with everyone else, it will probably go back to a mercantilist system or a regional hegemony type system where many things like bricks or cat food would be produced within a system of a few countries easily.

You have blocks of countries dominated by one central one that basically controls and colonizes the rest. The US has already built up their group of several countries to weather this breakdown, and that group doesn't include China. (Some countries it will probably include are UK, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, etc. Some other european countries will probably continue to trade, though be not entirely within the bloc, still to be determined, and we might still trade with other south-eastern asian countries.) You're right that a lot of those deals were actually brokered by Trump at pretty big disadvantages for the other countries.

There gets to be more problems when you want to build electric cars or smart phones, you need minerals and resources from all over the world for that stuff.

@union @creamqueen @Moon @animeirl I think the Grilled Club is pretty good too. That's what I get when I want to go lower-sodium.