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blueelephanttea commented on Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement   wsj.com/business/airlines... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
blueelephanttea · 5 months ago
This is not a surprise. The timeline for this plane aligns exactly with the timeline for Airbus's a320/321 replacement which aligns exactly with when it is believed the next generation of engines will be ready.

Both Boeing and Airbus are spending a lot of time evaluating the next engine options. Last year there was an article that Airbus is more optimistic about CFM's open rotor designs while Boeing thinks the next generation geared turbofan models will win out. That is entirely based on leaks and no-one actually knows how true those assessments are.

The 737 Max was designed with the expectation that the 8 variant would be the sweet spot. Since that time it is clear that there is massive demand for up-gauging and the A321neo is dominating and there is significant demand for the Max10 variant despite it not being certified yet.

I would expect that both Boeing and Airbus are looking at that size (maybe slightly larger) for their next narrowbody with some flexibility for shrinks and/or stretches.

This is not a response to any existing planes. The A320/321 family is very old (50 years mid 2030) and it is expected that both Boeing and Airbus are going to be introducing new airframes to fit the new engine technology.

blueelephanttea commented on OpenSearch 3.0 Released   opensearch.org/blog/opens... · Posted by u/kmaliszewski
simple10 · 10 months ago
Just learning about OpenSearch. Looks like it's a fork of Elasticsearch from 2021 when Elasticsearch changed licensing model. https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch

Anyone know if it's still a drop in replacement for Elasticsearch? And how does it compare on performance and features?

blueelephanttea · 10 months ago
> Anyone know if it's still a drop in replacement for Elasticsearch?

As you point out it was forked a number of years ago so it started from the same place (7.10). Elasticsearch is now on 9.0+ and has 27,000 more commits than OpenSearch. So I doubt it is a drop-in replacement anymore.

I have no idea how many of those 27K commits are key features, but it is clear divergence.

blueelephanttea commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B   twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz
HappySweeney · a year ago
To me it appears to be a way to pay his lenders without liquidating or collateralizing more Tesla stock.
blueelephanttea · a year ago
So he can use the funds he raised for xAI to pay out the lenders for the initial Twitter purchase? Otherwise the lenders are just getting xAI stock (all stock deal) which I assume is illiquid?
blueelephanttea commented on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B   twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/rvz
blueelephanttea · a year ago
Ah yes. Now we know why those articles about X's valuation resurgence have been coming out lately. He "rescued the value" by selling it to another company he owns.

Look, maybe the Twitter dataset and control over the algorithm is worth $45 billion. But I've seen the state of ads on Twitter these days and it is clearly not worth anything close to that from advertising income.

blueelephanttea commented on The Generative AI Con   wheresyoured.at/longcon/... · Posted by u/nimbleplum40
paulgb · a year ago
> And even then, we still don't have a killer app! There is no product that everybody loves, and there is no iPhone moment!

I would strongly argue that coding assistants are AI’s first killer app. Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf etc.

blueelephanttea · a year ago
> I would strongly argue that coding assistants are AI’s first killer app. Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf etc.

These IMO are relatively useful things. But probably (in their current state) will not justify the valuation of the companies involved and the massive investment occurring right now.

I don't know how the future will unfold. I do think it is reasonable to be somewhat bearish on what has been promised vs. what has been released.

blueelephanttea commented on Apple Invites   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne
pphysch · a year ago
The first line of their press release:

> Apple today introduced Apple Invites, a new app for iPhone

If Android users have to login to a website to use this, what's the appeal? There are hundreds of simple meeting/event webapps out there, many not even requiring authentication.

blueelephanttea · a year ago
> If Android users have to login to a website to use this, what's the appeal?

I'm not trying to convince you or anyone else to use this. It just was pointing out you don't need Apple accounts or devices to participate opposed to something like Facebook events.

> There are hundreds of simple meeting/event webapps out there

Okay? Go crazy using those! But don't claim that this requires an Apple device to create or join events (like the OP I was responding to). And don't claim that this requires an Apple Account to join events (like many other commentators are).

blueelephanttea commented on Apple Invites   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne
nimz · a year ago
I tested it with a sample event and I don't see any way to RSVP without logging into an Apple account. Maybe I'm missing something?
blueelephanttea · a year ago
> I tested it with a sample event and I don't see any way to RSVP without logging into an Apple account. Maybe I'm missing something?

You are. I explicitly created a burner email and invited it to an event.

When I navigated from the invite email I was prompted to sign in which I declined. It then allowed me to join the event after I confirmed with an emailed code.

On joining the event I was able to set my name and send a note.

blueelephanttea commented on Apple Invites   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne
distantsounds · a year ago
Brilliant? Launching an app for creating events that requires you to 1) own an iDevice and 2) pay into, just to create events?

I'll send an email for free, thankyouverymuch.

blueelephanttea · a year ago
> 1) own an iDevice

You do not need to own an Apple device to either create events or join events.

> I'll send an email for free, thankyouverymuch.

This seems fine! There are open protocols (email, ics) if they work for you, but Apple specifically developed this in a way to neither require an Apple device or Apple Account to interact. Which is better than some of the competitors! (Facebook and Google tend to create social tools which explicitly require everyone to have accounts.)

blueelephanttea commented on Apple Invites   apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/openchampagne
RIMR · a year ago
The problem is that by vendor-locking these services to Apple users, they create an environment that alienates non-Apple users. If they want to truly claim the friends & family network, they need to remember that everyone has friends & family that aren't in the Apple ecosystem.

So long as Facebook remains available to everyone, even if the content feed is a mess, the event planning space is going to be more accessible to everyone and will end up being the defacto friends & family ecosystem.

I'm not an iCloud+ member, so I can't go in an look for myself, but ideally this would be just a fancy way of extending your iCloud Calendar invites where Gmail, Outlook, etc. users can still create events and invite people in roughly the same way. If as a Linux & Android user I am only able to RSVP to Apple users' invites, but I am never able to invite them to anything myself, then I literally cannot embrace this product without investing considerable money into their hardware, which I am not going to do.

Hell, if they featureset was compelling enough, and they had an iCloud app for non-Apple hardware platforms, I might actually consider being an iCloud+ member, but I guess it's not worth it to Apple to collect a monthly payment from me if I won't make the downpayment on an iPhone and a Macbook...

blueelephanttea · a year ago
> Hell, if they featureset was compelling enough, and they had an iCloud app for non-Apple hardware platforms, I might actually consider being an iCloud+ member, but I guess it's not worth it to Apple to collect a monthly payment from me if I won't make the downpayment on an iPhone and a Macbook...

You can create events from the web iCloud interface without an Apple device.

u/blueelephanttea

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