Jim Gettys

@ietf RFC 8290 has issued. My latest blog entry on #bufferbloat and its solutions "The Blind Men and the Elephant": gettys.wordpress.com. You can take action yourself: "Home products that fix/mitigate bufferbloat"… gettys.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/hom…

Elon, I’m getting a lot of questions from HW3 Tesla owners about what’s going to happen to them… and honestly, I understand why there’s so many questions. These are the people who paid the most for FSD early on. They believed in the vision before it was proven, and in many ways, they helped fund and validate the entire FSD program when it was still very early and uncertain. It would mean a lot to get some clarity for them. There should be something for HW3 owners who supported FSD at the highest price and stuck with Tesla from the beginning. Thanks, much appreciated.

No Kings

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When I posted this with No Kings, it failed to post several times.

Donald Trump forced out a respected U.S. Attorney because they wouldn't go along with Trump’s demands for political prosecutions. Less than a week later, his inexperienced handpicked successor brings charges against a member of Trump's enemies list. In my almost six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, I never witnessed such a blatant abuse of the department. The DOJ is now little more than an arm of the president’s retribution campaign.

@BellikOzan @Anthonyin757 All agencies are slaves to budgets ultimately controlled by Congress. If you wish to blame NASA, it's really the NASA administrator and his very senior underlings to try to inspire action in Congress. By its nature, Congress and appropriations are a political process.

@Anthonyin757 NASA was a willing participant. Read Escaping Gravity to get a sense some of the shenanigans NASA people pulled. Also, x.com/BellikOzan/sta…

The moment Falcon Heavy flew and SLS still hadn't, NASA should have asked SpaceX what it would take to go to 5 cores. That was nearly 7 years ago. The moment Dragon flew people and SLS & Orion still hadn't, NASA should have asked SpaceX what it would take to get it to do lunar orbit missions on a tri-core FH. That was 4 and a half years ago. Those were milestones that should have prompted serious studies of these alternatives with public results. Asking for them at those points would have required no foresight on the part of NASA -- only courage.

@elonmusk I don't want a hammer: I want a scale....

The Hammer of Justice is coming

@GrogBogan @pmarca But he got to eat his words. In public. He tried to weasel out by using a cake, but the audience said absolutely no, so he put his article, printed on paper, into a blender and drank the results. I have to admire him for that. He looked a bit green after downing his words!

I do. 😆

One of the worst possible changes for no reason

The message, of course, was the warning that the monitoring camera was obscured by the sunshade! Any notification in FSD like that needs to have an accompanying sound so the driver will momentarily go read it!

@Tesla_AI FSD 2024.27.10: Nasty bug: Drive West, sun in your eyes and pull down the visor. The car trained me to keep my hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. FSD puts up a small message on screen with no sound warning. I don't look. Car gets mad. Rinse and repeat. I get mad!

@CSI_Starbase @VIPERmybeloved @RGVaerialphotos True now that most are not aware. But the goal has to be rapid refurbishment of as little equipment as possible, and even more important is that during opportunities for Mars, that they can keep each launch Tower as busy as possible, even in the face of landing failures.

@JimGettys @VIPERmybeloved @RGVaerialphotos I think maybe some people forget or aren’t aware of how much refurbishment happens between flights.

Can you see it???? ALL available evidence points towards a mobile launch mount for Starship Orbital Launch Pad B. 1st Image: Pedestals likely to be used for Pad B Launch Mount Assembly 2nd Image: Massey's Static Fire Test Stand Pedestals 📸: @RGVaerialphotos

@VIPERmybeloved @CSI_Starbase @RGVaerialphotos I don't think refurbishment is the big reason. If there is a failure and a catch and the launch mount is damaged, they will want to get the tower back into operation as quickly as possible. That's easy if there is a lunch mount, and much harder to do with the fixed mount.

@CSI_Starbase @RGVaerialphotos I still call bs, a mobile launch mount has no advantages except refurbishment if they get several and that doesn’t really feel worth the complexity.

@CSI_Starbase @LunarCaveman @StarshipGazer And rapid replacement and repair after a mishap. It really would make sense....

@LunarCaveman @StarshipGazer Inevitable refurbishment needs.

12 Days later…. Still on the lookout, but these pedestals are interesting for sure. There are now 4 of them at the Sanchez site. 📸: @StarshipGazer

@ENNEPS I don't ask me for much, but I'd love @danhuot to mark Booster 12's catch with this on the SpaceX commentary 😅

I agree with the statement that begins “Every step that you add in the process…” for vaccine uptake it’s typically essential to make it easy/breezy. From my experience, once you start to make immunizations fussy or complicated, vaccine coverage declines pretty quickly.

New report of a nasal vaccine booster provides strong, durable #SARSCoV2 cross-variant protection—preventing infection— compared with shots in non-human primates nature.com/articles/s4159… @NatImmunol