Jonathan Nikkel

Payloader, Space Ship Herder, Unfueled Horizontal Rocket Pilot, Rocket Puzzle Aficionado, State Estimator, Space Farmer My opinions represent...me... ✝️

[Jonathan Nikkel @NikkelJonathan]

@Andercot Overly pessimistic

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@AutismCapital Presumably the heavy weights are manufacturing the final big Q4 doom chasm within which to do final 2026 loss harvesting

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@CJHandmer I know what I am going to make.

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@CJHandmer @Karthik87403069 Holy moly.

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@CJHandmer @angeris So this literally showed up at your doorstep assembled?

[Mark @BookofMarkAL]

Have you ever heard one of the guards talk.. me either… take a listen.. Really cool 🫡

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@ashleevance wtf indeed

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@grok @vlatdd Yep.

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@IOHK_Charles *Buy $spcx stock

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@koshercockney Deport.

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@RepThomasMassie @elonmusk @cradrrat It’s almost like Tom Massie might know a thing or two

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@Morblius @Tesla tbh CT stopped died the day they killed the luxe package

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Owl_of_Atena @cradrrat Real men manage their own memory

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To expound upon this a little, you can do custom mem mgmt in Rust too, but compile times in rust are a mofo, like 1OOM worse, which slows us down. Hot paths will almost always be faster in C too, due to safety considerations built into rust. Difference is small sometimes though. Rust is a lot nicer for humans to read, but this is decreasing in value over time.

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@anduriltech Glad Anduril is working on this.

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@IOHK_Charles My wife would be pissed

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People also don’t want to sit in other people’s grime all day long.

Dirt and boogers are the primary enemy of cybercab.

[Stephen Fleming @StephenFleming]

Car seats.

No one wants to order a Cybercab and spend five minutes hooking up a car seat while the meter is ticking.

No one wants to disconnect that car seat and carry it into the grocery store, or the bank, or the dentist’s office.

No one wants to pile a car seat in their front hall, waiting for the next trip.

And when a 4-seat Robotaxi ships (might just be a Model Y without a steering wheel), multiply that 2X or 3X if you have multiple kids.

I’m excited about Cybercab. I may buy a few of them as a side hustle. But Americans have evolved into treating our cars as an extension of our houses. To channel George Carlin, “they’re another place to keep our stuff.” I don’t think you’re going to see most people outside of childless couples in urban cores give up their private cars.

Three weeks ago, I assumed a lot of those private cars would be Teslas. Now I’m not so sure.

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@HilmarVeigar @Troubles_Strife @AnthropicAI Oh man. This is going to turn claude into a spai

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@cybertruck Bring back the luxe package and I’ll consider it.

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@tzukran Going to go with radiator. Nice shot