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No, in 2006 it was still considered poor form to reply with a low-effort meme phrase instead of meaningfully criticizing his position with your own.

Depends entirely on the forum.

I remember it being somewhat common for people to make forum posts consisting entirely of a joke image. However, they weren’t called memes at the time as the word had yet to be popularized.


It was not correct to interrupt a talk with a meme and it never has been.

I guess neither of us are hacker enough. I can't come up with anything interesting [that wouldn't be more readily available via cell networks], either.

I'm not sure what to search to find the stories you're referring to, but the obvious ones didn't cut it.. at the expense of my browser history.

Can you share some links?



That sounds more like "legal asked for list of everything we collect, and anything we could collect by accident or inference" - and it leading to hilarious results - which I have seen firsthand before.

We own a Kia. I'd offer to do a GDPR data request, but my data would not give us any useful signal here lol.


I chuckled and appreciated the anecdote, having not read about this rocket before. Thanks.

If there's any public info about this I'd love to read it.

Both SpaceX and NASA use LabView. NASA has a relatively detailed description of the engine test stands at Stannis:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=NASA+Data+Acquisition+S...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Design+of+Electrical+Sy...

A typical test stand would have maybe a thousand channels of relatively slow data (pressures, temperatures, flow rates, valve states, etc), and maybe up to a few hundred of channels for essentially audio data from vibration sensors. This amounts to sub-gigabit per second data rate overall.

If very high speed video / multiple video cameras are used, this could generate massive data rates, but unless something interesting happens it is not clear how important this data is.

In flight, the telemetry data rate from the entire Falcon-9 used to be measured in megabits per second per stage, plus the video stream. It was not a huge amount of data. Presumably now with Starlink they send a lot more telemetry from Starship, but in flight the engines typically have far, far fewer sensors compared to the ground testing.


Very cool. Thank you!

The ratio is an interesting way of thinking about it. I wonder how this compares to other SWEs at various levels of experience, replacing tokens for person-hours.

super happier and super richer?

No one ever is willing to share a link to the ChatGPT or Claude session when I ask follow-up questions.

I'm curious what concise phrase you'd display to convey the same information to that audience.

"Computer Vision Model and Nozzle Telemetry Analysis Detect Print Error"?


"Print Error Detected"?

I laughed pretty hard at this, and you're right. Problem solved.

“Print Error Detected (Maybe?)”

This isn’t a PC Load Letter we can trust!


That was my takeaway; TIL. Perhaps a "USA tech compan(y)" will productize this.

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