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Release the footage, you evil bastards!

Wenn du den mächtigsten Mann des Landes keinen Lackaffe mehr nennen darfst, dann bist du vom Bürger zum Untertan geworden.

Ich habe damals für 1.399 € Führerschein gemacht. Wie alt seid ihr?

Die Verharmlosung von Linksextremismus ist ein absurdes Phänomen in Deutschland.

SpaceX has almost finished writing V1.0 of an in-house AI training stack in C that exact-maps to 220k GB300s with 800G NICs, making heavy use of pipeline parallelism and getting as close to bare metal as possible. The potential speed improvement vs JAX for large training runs is over an order of magnitude.

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Interestingly, those backups weren't just within European monasteries. Key Roman manuscripts only survived because the Eastern Roman Empire didn't collapse. The Byzantines and the later Islamic world thus enabled the Renaissance. In modern parlance, a decentralized backup preserved Euclid, Ptolemy, and Galen till they could be re-read and appreciated one thousand years later, by a group of Europeans ready to emerge from the Dark Ages. "...as the vast Roman Empire disintegrated, so did appreciation of these precious texts. Christianity cast a shadow over so-called pagan thought, books were burned, and the library of Alexandria, the greatest repository of classical knowledge, was destroyed. Yet some texts did survive, and The Map of Knowledge explores the role played by seven cities around the Mediterranean — rare centers of knowledge in a dark world, where scholars supported by enlightened heads of state collected, translated and shared manuscripts. In 8th century Baghdad, Arab discoveries augmented Greek learning. Exchange within the thriving Muslim world brought that knowledge to Cordoba, Spain. Toledo became a famous center of translation from Arabic into Latin, a portal through which Greek and Arab ideas reached Western Europe. Salerno, on the Italian coast, was the great center of medical studies, and Sicily, ancient colony of the Greeks, was one of the few places in the West to retain contact with Greek culture and language. Scholars in these cities helped classical ideas make their way to Venice in the 15th century, where printers thrived and the Renaissance took root. The Map of Knowledge follows three key texts—Euclid's Elements, Ptolemy's The Almagest, and Galen's writings on medicine—on a perilous journey driven by insatiable curiosity about the world." amazon.com/dp/0385541767

Invoking N1 is a massive no-no, let me explain why. It was clear that the ascent went fine, and it seemed that the extremely violent maneuver caused the boostback failure. Supporting this is the Rvac failure on Starship, which just goes to show that it can reach its planned trajectory with engine-out capabilities. Many forget that Falcon Heavy has about as many engines as Starship, 27 to be exact, and is 100% reliable, because Merlin is robust, and this new version of Raptor will be too. This brings up a fundamental difference between N1 and Falcon/Starship, which comes down to the ability to conduct preflight testing. The N1's NK-15 engines could only be fired once, as they relied on pyrotechnics to open valves, meaning you have to fly it and hope for the best, whereas Falcon and Starship engines go through rigorous testing before they're even installed on the stage itself, catching faulty engines, then the integrated stage is put through a static fire campaign. This is why SpaceX can fly 27 Merlin engines all at once without any failures, and it's why Raptor 2 became so reliable, shielding or not. When was the last time Falcon 9 had a single first-stage engine issue? I can't even remember, and they fly hundreds of times per year. Raptor 3 is brand-new, but in the future, they will iron out all the kinks, and it will be just as reliable as Merlin.

My most unhinged run-in with HR was while working at a biotech company as a senior scientist, a long time ago. They were doing racism audits, and me being an Asian, they targeted me in an inquisition-style interrogation. In essence, it was about 30 minutes of them... Gen Z women with a chip on their shoulders, trying to make me say that I experienced racism at the company. It was them framing every little comment, quip, joke, and conversation that my 'white' coworkers had with me into some sort of racist dog whistle. They wanted me to "out" my work friends as "racists" so that HR could crucify them. I knew they were recording the whole time, so I had to be very careful with my words. I kept my answers brutally short, usually with a single-word answer of "no", or that lacks context, or that's a misframing. They were literally trying to manufacture problems to go after people to justify their existence. They were trying to goad me, to extract the "right" answers from me that I refused to play their stupid game. After the interview was over, and after their little racism witch hunt didn't work, they moved on to other targets, other minorities, other stupid problems no one cared about.

I set 7 cameras near the pad for starship’s 12th test flight. In a first for me, all 7 got INCREDIBLE photos. Here’s a little peak at one… but there are a lot more. I’ll post some of my favorites tomorrow, and release at least one in print.

Der härteste Kommentar zu meinem Bali-Post: „Dann hau doch ab." Bin ich. Vor sechs Jahren. Was ich heute nach 50 Kommentaren gelernt habe: Die Leute, die geantwortet haben, sie fanden Bali schrecklich, beschreiben fast immer Kuta, Seminyak oder Canggu im August. Das ist, als würde man München bewerten, nachdem man drei Tage am Hauptbahnhof verbracht hat. Die Leute, die geschrieben haben, ich würde Einheimische verdrängen, leben selbst in Berlin, München oder Hamburg in Vierteln, in denen heute niemand mehr Miete zahlen kann, der dort geboren wurde. Und die Leute, die 30°C als „Folter" bezeichnen, haben in den letzten 12 Monaten vermutlich 14 Tage Sonne gesehen. Ich verteidige Bali nicht. Bali braucht meine Verteidigung nicht. Ich verteidige die Idee, dass du dein Leben auch anders führen kannst. Bali ist nicht das Paradies. Es gibt Müll, Verkehr und Touristen-Hotspots, die man meiden muss. Wer 14 Tage in Kuta war und das für „Bali" hält, hat Bali nicht gesehen. Aber die eigentliche Frage ist nicht, ob Bali besser ist als Deutschland. Die Frage ist, warum so viele Deutsche bei der bloßen Vorstellung von Alternativen aggressiv werden. Wenn dein Leben dich glücklich macht, brauchst du doch meinen Post nicht zu hassen, oder?

HS2. A masterclass in how Britain destroys money. The cost: • 2011: £32.7bn • 2013: £45bn • 2015: £55.7bn • 2019: up to £88bn • 2020: up to £106bn • 2026: up to £102.7bn… for a fraction of the original route What’s been cut along the way: • 2021: Eastern leg to Leeds: SCRAPPED • 2022: Golborne link to Scotland: SCRAPPED • 2023: Birmingham → Manchester leg: SCRAPPED • 2023: Crewe hub: SCRAPPED • Euston terminus: paused, downsized from 10 platforms to 6, now needs private finance Original plan: 11 cities, 340 miles, £32bn, open 2026. What we’re getting: 4 stations, 140 miles, £100bn , open 2039. A national embarrassment, paid for by taxpayers.

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Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea. 🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion. 🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts. Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes. Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11. That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference. Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad. The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets. That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth. The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal. The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism. North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget. Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime. The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund. Where things stand in 2026? Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone. The UK is a net energy importer. Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas. One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth. The other treated it as income. image source:eia

Wofür Deutschland so Geld ausgibt? z.B. für den Bundestag: 2020:    939 Mio. Euro 2022:    1 Milliarde Euro 2024:    1,15 Milliarden Euro 2025:    1,25 Milliarden Euro 2026:    1,28 Milliarden Euro 🥳🤡 P.S.: Der Bundestag wurde 2025 von 736 auf 630 Abgeordnete verkleinert.

How do you see this and think fully autonomous driving is years away?

Reminder that people like this actually exist.

I’ve always found it shocking that Spain and Italy have a higher median net worth than Germany. Wouldn’t have guessed, until I started tracking this data some years ago.