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@MikeCalcara hahaha. I shoot sporting clays and trap. Yearly, I go through the same thing about buying an O/U sporting grade shotgun.

I don't talk about shooting at the range much here, but for those of you who do, I want your take on my morning. My range rents a $4,000 Staccato HD C4X and a $500 Taurus for the same price. On Wednesdays both are free. That's the equivalent of handing you keys to a Porsche 911 GT3 RS and a Honda Civic for the same rate. That world doesn't exist anywhere else. But somehow it does at my range this month. Nobody shoots a Staccato and walks away thinking the Taurus felt the same. The trigger, the grip, the way it runs. It ruins you. I don't think that's by accident. There's a version of this where it's genuinely well-intentioned. You know, let every shooter, regardless of budget, put their hands on what they're actually considering before they spend the money. But there's also a Dr. Evil version where the range knows exactly what they're doing. You shoot it, you love it (you can't not), and by the time you're in the parking lot, you've already justified it to yourself. They don't need to sell you anything. You walked back to the counter and did it yourself. ("You" can be substituted for "I" in all of these instances). Can't stop thinking about it and im doing mental financial gymnastics as a result. What do you guys think? Also, have you ever shot a Staccato before? If you haven't, don't. Unless you can afford to, in which case, carry on.

@paratroopbrady Find waterfowl hunters or sporting clay shooters. Give 12 ga or larger with #9 TSS ammo. Develop some sort of assisted optic. Allow lots of practice on high speed targets.

Definitely needed nowadays. I think a 12 guage shot gun would work fine, too.

@DebugPrivilege I see it adding to my value. More work completed in less time. Adoption will take time to trickle down.

Are you concerned that AI will take over your job or do you think you’ll be good for a while?

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@techspence Facts

You either understand how true this is or you’re wrong. GPO has survived the test of time. 🤙

@thehelpdeskgirl I've been thinking about this a lot recently.

Just handed in my resignation. Trading stability for my own path, my own ideas, my own growth. Let’s see what happens.

@JustJake Looks fun. Always wanted to learn more about it.

Time to break the 10+ tbps speed barrier If you know what this is, we're hiring railway.com/careers

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@elonmusk @SawyerMerritt @levi It probably isn’t a whole lot different than what is done on fiber. A laser is used inside the fiber that sends a bunch of different wavelengths. Each wavelength can carry 100, 200, 400, or 800gb. Basically dwdm without the fiber and dwdm gear.

@levi @SawyerMerritt Starlink space to ground laser links will exceed this

NEWS: Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin has just announced TeraWave, a communications network consisting of 5,408 satellites designed to "deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth." Blue Origin: "This network will service tens of thousands of enterprise, data center, and government users who require reliable connectivity for critical operations. The TeraWave architecture consists of 5,408 optically interconnected satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) and medium Earth orbit. This multi-orbit design enables ultra-high-throughput links between global hubs and distributed, multigigabit user connections, particularly in remote, rural, and suburban areas where diverse fiber paths are costly, technically infeasible, or slow to deploy. TeraWave enterprise-grade user and gateway terminals can be rapidly deployed worldwide and interface with existing high-capacity infrastructure, providing additional route diversity and strengthening overall network resilience." Deployment of the TeraWave constellation will begin in Q4 2027.

@adityadotdev I’ve got 2 of them. One for home and one at the office. I feel naked without it.

I have never seen a bad review of this mouse.

@HackingDave My prime just died in the middle of home alone 2.

Bruh Raiders down right now due to the AWS outage

@HeinrichKuttler You look awfully similar to the office space guy!

@zoealannah Very cool idea!

arts and crafts mom mode activated

@BillAckman @elonmusk @SpaceX @SECGov @Tesla I’d be real interested to hear .@RonBaronAnalyst thoughts on this. Sounds too good to be true.

.@elonmusk, what if we took @SpaceX public by merging it with Pershing Square SPARC Holdings, Ltd. (SPARC) a new form of acquisition company that was approved by the @SECGov. We could distribute SPARC special purpose acquisition rights (SPARs) to @Tesla shareholders so that all Tesla shareholders would have the right to invest in the SpaceX IPO, or they could choose to sell their SPARs to someone else. This would reward loyal Tesla shareholders with the opportunity to invest in SpaceX (or with cash for their SPARs), while totally democratizing the IPO process. In addition to receiving common stock in SpaceX, exercising SPAR holders would also receive Pershing Square SPARC Holdings II SPARs, which we could use to take @xai public at the time of your choosing. Pershing Square would due diligence on behalf of all shareholders and would commit $4 billion of capital to the IPO at a fixed price per share. SPARC has no underwriting fees, founder stock or shareholder warrants, and we would waive our right to receive SPARC sponsor warrants. The result would be an IPO without any underwriting fees or dilutive securities issued. @SpaceX would go public with a 100% common stock capital structure and it would not incur any transaction costs other than modest legal fees which SPARC would pay from its cash on hand. We could raise whatever amount of capital you would like by adjusting the exercise price of the SPARs. Assuming we issue 0.5 SPARs for each share of Tesla, there would be 1.723 billion SPARs outstanding including the 61.1 million SPARs that are already outstanding. Since one SPAR would be exercisable for two shares of SpaceX, the SPARs would be exercisable for 3.446 billion total SpaceX shares. So, if we set the SPAR exercise price at $11.03, SpaceX would raise $42.0 billion, $38 billion from the exercise of SPARs and $4 billion from Pershing Square, or if we set the SPAR exercise price at $42.0, SpaceX would raise $148.7 billion, $144.7 billion from the SPAR exercise and $4 billion from us. SPARC is indifferent to how much of the shares are primary versus secondary shares giving the company maximum flexibility. We could do due diligence and enter into a definitive agreement committing to the transaction within 45 days, at which point it would be certain that SpaceX would go public at a fixed valuation subject only to SEC approval of the merger proxy/registration statement. Our commitment to the transaction would not be subject to market conditions. We could start work right away and announce the transaction by mid- February. It only seems appropriate that the most innovative and efficient rocket company in the world should go public in the most innovative, efficient, and fairest-to-Tesla-shareholders manner possible. To Mars and beyond! What do you say?

Been doing a lot of work with documentation of our bgp routing policies and what their goal is on each device. I envy the bgp wizards out there. Any good resources about traffic engineering in the enterprise?

@aelluswamy Keep cooking!

And so it begins!

@dok2001 Love the detail you put into your post-mortems! Keep up the good work.

You can read the details of what went wrong this morning in the post below. We let the Internet down again today; We’re locking down all changes in order to ensure we have better mitigation and rollback systems before we begin any again. blog.cloudflare.com/5-december-202…

@MarioNawfal Grok already won. OpenAI is headed to bankruptcy it’s already clear.

🇺🇸 OPINION: XAI VS. OPENAI - THE INFRASTRUCTURE WAR THAT WILL DECIDE WHO CONTROLS THE NEXT DECADE OF INTELLIGENCE Everyone is obsessing over model benchmarks, safety drama, parameter counts, and who hired which researcher. But the real race - the one almost nobody in media is covering - is infrastructure. Not GPUs. Not training tricks. Industrial-scale infrastructure. And no 2 companies have more opposite - or more consequential - setups than OpenAI and xAI. OpenAI has Microsoft. xAI has SpaceX OpenAI gets the world’s largest enterprise cloud. xAI gets the world’s most advanced private network and aerospace supply chain. This is not a small difference. Microsoft gives: centralized hyperscale compute security, compliance, enterprise integration traditional cloud economics SpaceX gives: global, low-latency interconnect via Starlink compute clusters anywhere on earth private encrypted links that don’t pass through public ISPs This is how you build an AI that isn’t bottlenecked by geography. Starlink turns the planet into a training center. People think Starlink is "fast satellite internet." That’s surface-level. It really is a mesh network of thousands of satellites enabling global parameter sync and off-Earth routing resilience. If xAI wants to spin up a training cluster in Greenland, on a barge, or in the middle of Nevada? It can - with high throughput and low inference latency. Azure can't do that. AWS can’t do that. Google Cloud definitely can’t. This is compute without borders. And here comes the part the entire tech press is missing: SpaceX + Tesla together produce: cryogenic assemblies custom silicon automotive-grade electronics thermal systems precision robotics next-gen power systems They mass-produce high-tolerance, high-complexity hardware cheaper and faster than anyone on Earth. If xAI wants: custom inference boxes dedicated training clusters edge compute pods satellite-linked compute nodes …it can literally manufacture them in-house. Call it what it is: industrial supremacy. The biggest thing everyone keeps missing: AI won’t be won by whoever has the best model - it will be won by whoever builds the best supply chain. Source: @SpaceX, @elonmusk, Fox Business

Thanks AS14591 for the turkey! What a great tradition! It’s taking a beef tallow bath! T-minus 61 minutes.

@yunta_tsai @Tesla_AI 🔥Keep cooking! Lots of love for you and your families on this great holiday.

Appreciate colleagues at @Tesla_AI who are still working today to make the road safer.