Robert Hammen
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Robert Hammen
@hammen
Also [email protected] Ex-@spacex, now Principal Mac Consultant at SAP. @duranduran & Green Bay @packers fan. Part owner of X/Twitter.
Chandler, AZ انضم Aralık 2008
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@LostFundamental F9 fairings are reusable, so that's wrong on your infographic.
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Starship is also required for Moon and Mars missions and for data centers in space. 5/N
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SpaceX – While an IPO is expected to value the company at around $1,750bn the following analysis indicates a fair value of $240-390bn implying a significant Musk premium just like with $TSLA. As limited public information is available this is for illustrative purposes only. 1/N
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So is Project Hail Mary worth taking a space-obsessed 8-year-old to on IMAX?
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@AaronNagler I've read the book a year ago, I hope the movie is half great
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@K8_T_Kat @evanwitsports Yeah, you're going to need a car (public transit here isn't great). Their stadium is in Glendale, and it's not necessarily the greatest neighborhood nearby. I'd stay in Tempe or Mesa or near Sky Harbor, and drive.
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Made the decision that I am going to Arizona next March to check out part of Brewers spring training. Any advice on where to look for hotels/ air bnb/ cars(would I need to rent one) etc
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@GenuinelyJodi The sunsets here are something else. Stay hydrated! Add electrolyte powder to your water.
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@SciGuySpace Psyche FH launch and twin side booster landing... I had worked for @spacex for nearly 4 years by then, and I was still speechless. Second would be Starship Flight 6 from a boat in the harbor. Honorable mention to watching Starlink 4-14 from the roadblock, 2 miles from SLC-40.
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A century after Goddard, what's the most memorable launch you've attended?
arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/…
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Gmail had been telling me for months I was gonna stop receiving emails after March 15th unless I paid.
I didn't care and forgot about it.
Now it says I'm gonna stop receiving emails after April 15th if I don't pay.
Let's check back April 16th, shall we?
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lots of Wisconsinites over 55 carry the constant threat of moving to Florida or Arizona and this week will push many over the edge
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@yatharthmaan @CallMeOuta SpaceX uses a ton of Linux (all of F9/Dragon/Starlink/Starship run it). There are a lot of Windows PC’s because of CAD requirements. I managed their Apple devices for 5+ years, and those grew faster than the company did. Devs expect Macs.
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People are making fun of him but he’s 100% right. Any company not using Unix based OSs is guaranteed to lose long term
Asmit@coolcoder56
Employee resigned because he got Windows 11 instead of Mac 💀
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@Brandonwords @Altimor And FWIW I’ve been involved with managing Macs in Enterprise (including multiple Fortune 500 companies, the US government, and SpaceX) for about 20 years. Current employer has 55,000+ Macs.
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"I cannot have faith in the long-term health of any organization expecting serious engineering to be done on Windows, and whose IT staff are too lazy to support other operating systems for their most core employees. The salary premium is
simply not worth the torture of using Windows on a daily basis."
Asmit@coolcoder56
Employee resigned because he got Windows 11 instead of Mac 💀
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@Brandonwords @Altimor You are completely in a time zone from 2008. Mobile Device Management (MDM) does all of that. Intune (although Jamf is superior) and Defender support managing Macs. Macs are more secure out of the box and have built in hardware storage encryption, with or without FileVault.
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@Brandonwords @Altimor Again, a take from 2008. Most servers are Linux or cloud (which can be Windows/Entra or Linux).
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@BenjaminDEKR Wait, a MuskCo having expired cert issues? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked! </sarcasm>
(Don’t blame the IT guys, they’re all overworked and underpaid, since someone doesn’t value IT).
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Grok .com's HTTPS security certificate is broken and Chrome won't allow access.
(Maybe xAI fired the SSL guy)
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@Brandonwords @Altimor This take is from 2008. Go look at (Google, Meta, Amazon, IBM, SAP, Cisco, et al). They are predominantly Mac, or at worst 50/50. Platform choice is absolutely essential. The days of the platform monoculture are over.
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@Altimor Umm... 99.99% of the corporate world is Windows. Mac has zero server or enterprise footprint. It would be literally impossible to be legally compliant with a Mac environment in any serious business with private data.
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@Patricko589 @Altimor There’s a virtualization framework built into macOS.
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@Altimor Why run your application on something kind of similar to deployment (Darwin/mach UNIX) when you could run your application on something identical to deployment (WSL with literally the exact distribution you plan to use, or hyper-V)
I’m curious why apple disdains virtualization
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@DrMarianaClaire @rodneystubbs @initjean Revisit this in a couple of months once the supplies arrive. Apple is going to sell millions of these - dunno how you can think that parts won’t become widely available.
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you all really don't understands the macbook neo
let me explain:
the macbook neo is the kind of computer you get your parents so you don't have to fix their shitty windows laptop anymore
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@DrMarianaClaire @initjean Bad take, considering how easy it is to disassemble/repair (6 minutes): x.com/aakashgupta/st…
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Apple spent a decade gluing batteries into $2,499 MacBook Pros. Then it shipped a $599 laptop you can take apart in six minutes. The MacBook Neo teardown numbers are wild. Eight screws to open. Eighteen screws hold the battery, zero glue, zero tape. The USB-C ports, speakers, and headphone jack are all modular, meaning each one swaps individually. The speakers come out with four screws. An Australian repair channel disassembled most of the machine in under six minutes using standard Torx bits you can buy at any hardware store. For context, the 2019 MacBook Pro scored 2 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale. The 16-inch Pro got a 1 out of 10. Soldered RAM, soldered storage, glued battery, proprietary pentalobe screws, keyboard riveted to the top case. Apple’s own Self Service Repair program required you to rent a 79-pound repair kit shipped in two Pelican cases just to swap a battery. The timing explains everything. The EU Right to Repair Directive takes effect July 31, 2026. Member states are transposing it into national law right now. Manufacturers must offer repair beyond warranty, provide spare parts within 5 to 10 working days for seven years, and publish repair manuals. In the US, over a quarter of Americans already live in states with enforceable Right to Repair laws. Oregon banned parts pairing. California’s act is in effect. Apple read the regulatory calendar and realized the cheapest laptop in the lineup would face the most scrutiny. Millions of students and first-time buyers will own it. The volume will be enormous. And regulators love consumer-protection cases involving the most affordable products in a company’s portfolio. So they built the Neo as the compliance flagship. Standard screws, modular ports, no adhesive, a battery that lifts out. Meanwhile the $1,099 MacBook Air still has soldered storage and a riveted keyboard. The $2,499 Pro still scores poorly on independent repairability scales. The $599 laptop is the most repairable MacBook in over a decade. Apple always knew how to build a repairable laptop. They just needed a reason that showed up on a regulatory deadline.
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@initjean Yeah, you just have to take your Neo to Apple for repairs, where they will try to push the next model on you, whereas with a Windows-based laptop/PC you can walk into pretty much any repair store and get your laptop/PC repaired. Or hey, you can even do it yourself.
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