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: explicit sleep will not come out of sleep w/o a hard reboot (hold power 25sec). Lid works at least. touchscreen: no auto virtual keyboard, pressing a system icon just highlights them (vs pulldown menu) flipping to 2in1 tent mode, no rotation not set up. no drivers for WiFi7 (ubuntu had it). natural scrolling works on touch, doesn't work on mouse pad...well it doesn't work basically.

Going to submit bugs, maybe heading back to Ubuntu as I want this laptop to be my new dev machine (needs to be solid).

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

It’s 11% up over the month. He’s not obsessing over this 2%. It’s more strategic than that if he’s involved.

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 in a FOSS startup's life where Investors/Board/Founders/SrStaff have core communications break down in one day (aka yelling matches) and people leave immediately--typically from debate on GPLv3, legal violations w/GPLv3, profit strategy, and 'community' support. Makes me now wonder what was the orig exit strategy for OpenAI.

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 the eyes of lobbyists (no touch), forget tiktok cause of 'china misinformation incoming', streaming had it's run, Fox lost its main character (and a lawsuit) and nobody watches cable anymore. So where's that sweet $15B in campaign ad funds going?? Threads is being pitched as fresh and an alternative to twitter as well as "separate to FB"...so logical to release now as that the $15B flood gates open around Sep/Oct. I can already see those marketing agencies pivoting with a sigh on not spending it on twitter in a few months. But we'll see if this plays out by then.

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 it the principle of maximum laziness.

"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, not considering cheap cubesats can use a 50MP camera + good opticcs and near real-time, global comms.

Man times have changed.

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 new VC funded launch companies can undercut price with updated designs/tech (R&D expenses absorbed by VCs). I think the telemetry live stream/OpenGl viz of the last minotaur launch looked like a slightly revised UIX of the original live stream tool I built back in the 90s (I worked on Pegasus), aka old tech, not shiny.

Edit: Really it's a potential energy to cost problem. 5% more efficiency is [actually] big when leaving this planet, but yes, cost of air launch is still stuck in 1990 times. From the outside I didn't see any innovation from the VO team aside from electronics. As for VG, I used to work with their new CEO and Eng VP: they know ops, but I thought the systems/tech hadn't been flush out 100%, so may have the similar fate if a few customers start canceling. I have some ideas to 'fix' air launch requiring big R&D, but knee deep in fixing autonomous drones!

Peg was not financially successful cause prior 2002, the space race was maybe 15 launches a year: not profitable. Stuff like Iridium failed, shutting down ideas of having thousands of sats in LEO, mind that the only markets were communications (cellular/fiber won), science experiments, and imaging (imaging/remote sensing? Drone tech will eventually win). Luckily LEO payloads are a cool idea again-- tech is better + moore's law, thus demand is HOT. Heck Orbcomm is up there today, but old tech no one really wants.

Today, Elon played the long game (2002) and kept innovating where SpaceX has found the cost-benefit balance via reusability, and [with timing] being the only system post Shuttle it's a duopoly with ULA--charge as much to stay in the black. BUT the markets are still the 3 above, nothing new (Elon's Mars thing == passion project) though every country now wants their 'own constellation' cause of the NRO, hehe.

Trivia Edit: Peg's GNC computer was an 80386SX :)

That rocket close to as much as a Falcon 9 now cost.

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 but ran out of cash.

The dilemma with VO's approach was the same as OSC, thinking that reusing parts made for something else is cheaper short term and long term, where in fact more $ short and long. Yes the carrier was too expensive to maintain and material tech wasn't there yet to stop boil on the upper stages during staging. But the tradeoff was you can launch (nearly) anywhere, anytime, but regs/politics killed that benefit. I think we had potentially 8 locations at one point, ended up with 3. And thus, here we are. Sad VO couldn't keep the idea innovating.

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 tried to do this decades ago in hollywood (top media company) using DAM/AssetMgt tech and ran up against the entire attorney corp being protective of their deal notes/documents both for confidentiality with the talent and to monopolize their connection to that talent (only they can negotiate) aka gatekeepers. They purposely wanted "islands" of data. Likely similar for any legal outfit in a global 2000.

Idk, my attorney friends are pretty darn excited about ChatGPT. The killer app would be LLM + case law database to be able to generate accurate citations in briefs, locate and reason about related cases, etc.