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newZWhoDis commented on Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try   techcrunch.com/2025/11/13... · Posted by u/perihelions
bluGill · a month ago
It isn't a race. EU can't do everything and so it is best to see what several others are doing and take that as a sign to do something different. If only one party (or only your enemies) then yes you should, but it seems there are plenty of players and the EU is smart to sit it out.
newZWhoDis · a month ago
It quite literally is a race.

A space race.

newZWhoDis commented on Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try   techcrunch.com/2025/11/13... · Posted by u/perihelions
computerdork · a month ago
Super interesting. Didn't know this.

One question for you since your worked at SpaceX. Starship v4 is supposed to be able to bring 200 metric tons to LEO vs 35 metric tons for v2. Do you have any guesses on the finally amount that New Glenn will be able to bring up when it reaches its version/block 4?

newZWhoDis · a month ago
>200 tons to LEO

*In fully reusable first AND second stage configuration.

An expendable starship would double the tonnage.

newZWhoDis commented on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k   threads.com/@nthmonkey/po... · Posted by u/stevenhubertron
ecosystem · 2 months ago
The American Medical Association owns copyright to all the codes and their descriptions. They have an extremely restrictive and expensive licensing options and they strictly forbid training models with the codes.

This month, the practice was called out (https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chair-cassidy...) so the Overton window may be opening.

The AMA (a nonprofit!) clears ~$300M/year revenue from the codes, which is the direct cost passed through to consumers, but the indirect costs are the byzantine nightmare of OP.

newZWhoDis · 2 months ago
Insurance companies get a lot of (deserved) hate, but the doctor cartel seems to skate on by in the eyes of the public.

The white coats are far from blameless here.

newZWhoDis commented on The scariest "user support" email I've received   devas.life/the-scariest-u... · Posted by u/hervic
spogbiper · 2 months ago
the phishers use any of the free file sharing sites. I've seen dropbox, sharefile , even docusign URLs used as well. i don't think you want users considering the domain as a sign of validity, only that odd domains are definitely a sign of invalidity.
newZWhoDis · 2 months ago
I get 3-4 fake Docusign emails a week.
newZWhoDis commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1   health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
rsanheim · 2 months ago
I wonder what kind of outage or incident or economic change will be required to cause a rejection of the big commercial clouds as the default deployment model.

The costs, performance overhead, and complexity of a modern AWS deployment are insane and so out of line with what most companies should be taking on. But hype + microservices + sunk cost, and here we are.

newZWhoDis · 2 months ago
Honest answer? The outage would need to last about a week.
newZWhoDis commented on Sora 2   openai.com/index/sora-2/... · Posted by u/skilled
davidmurdoch · 3 months ago
I just asked GPT 5 to generate an image of as person. I then asked it to charge the color of their shirt. It refused because "I can’t generate that specific image because it violates our content policies." I then asked it to just regenerate the first image again using the same prompt. It replied "I know this has been frustrating. You’ve been really clear about what you want, and it feels like I’m blocking you for no reason. What’s happening on my side is that the image tool I was using to make the pictures you liked has been disabled, so even if I write the prompt exactly the way you want, I can’t actually send it off to generate a new image right now."

If I start a new chat it works.

I'm a Plus subscriber and didn't hit rate limits.

This video gen tool will probably be even more useless.

newZWhoDis · 3 months ago
We live in an absurd era where "AI Safety" means "AI that doesn't listen to the human telling it what to do".

It'll all be rather funny in retrospect.

newZWhoDis commented on Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel   lwn.net/Articles/1040120/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
pfexec · 3 months ago
Because every time btrfs is mentioned, 5 more people come out of the woodwork saying that it irreparably lost all their data. Sorry but there's just too many stories for it to be mere coincidences.

Your statement is misleading. No one is using btrfs on servers. Debian and Ubuntu use ext4 by default. RHEL removed support for btrfs long ago, and it's not coming back:

> Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature. It was fully removed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

newZWhoDis · 3 months ago
Synology exclusively uses BTRFS afaik, and there aren't widespread stories of data loss with their products.

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newZWhoDis commented on Webflow Down for >31 Hours   status.webflow.com... · Posted by u/philip1209
thih9 · 5 months ago
> Change controls are tighter, and we’re investing in long-term performance improvements, especially in the CMS.

This reads as if overall performance was an afterthought and this doesn’t seem practical; it should be a business metric, it is important to the users after all.

Then again, it’s easy to comment like this in hindsight. We’ll see what happens long term.

newZWhoDis · 5 months ago
As a former webflow customer I can assure you performance was always an afterthought.
newZWhoDis commented on Webflow Down for >31 Hours   status.webflow.com... · Posted by u/philip1209
betaby · 5 months ago
I'm more surprised that WordPress-like platforms are profitable businesses in 2025.
newZWhoDis · 5 months ago
We moved away from webflow because it was slow (got the nickname web-slow internally).

Plus, despite marketing begging for the WYSIWYG interface they actually weren't creative enough to generate new content at a pace that required it.

We massively increased conversion rates by going full native and having 1 Engineer churn out parts kits/kitbash LPs from said kits.

Scale for reference: ~$10M/month

u/newZWhoDis

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