You make it sound like they didn’t even buy and run the game, but that’s not accurate.

> While the game encourages you to master the reasonably simple controls of its range of perfectly crafted engines, you can also just set it to play itself and then take over the free camera as it does.

That seems like a perfectly valid way to experience the game to me.

Sounds amazing. I build and unbuild but then just put the box back in storage (my closet).

Eric Berger of Ars Technica:

> I'm hearing that it is possible that Blue Origin decides to go directly to the larger 9x4 variant of New Glenn after this failure. Obviously no decisions like that will be made without more data review.

https://xcancel.com/SciGuySpace/status/2060190522539401631#m

This is their only New Glenn launch pad, but the pad for the 9x4 is already under construction. Depending on the damage sustained to the pad that might be a factor in the decision

I know it's not, but darned if that doesn't sound like "it exploded real big, so build a bigger one!"

It makes some sense. If they're not going to be able to launch for a year because the pad is being rebuilt anyway, projects that were going to take a year may as well go to the front burner.

> I know it's not, but darned if that doesn't sound like "it exploded real big, so build a bigger one!"

To me it sounds like "alright, it's silly to waste time and energy on duplicate effort. Let's focus on getting this one right instead."

If you worked at Google for 12 years, it seems pretty irrational to commit this kind of crime for only $1M.

Maybe there’s a chance he can get pardoned before 2029 lol

> If you worked at Google for 12 years, it seems pretty irrational to commit this kind of crime for only $1M.

Person who has been working in a single FAANG for decade+ without job-hopping could have had quite minor refreshers during their tenure, so you shouldn't automatically assume they are rich.

> If you worked at Google for 12 years, it seems pretty irrational to commit this kind of crime for only $1M.

Kinda? It's not like people making an order of magnitude less don't get busted for crimes where they're stealing an order of magnitude less.

I think the point the grandparent comment is trying to make is that at a staff level, and having been at google for 12 years, he was likely being paid pretty well, and that he could've made that same money longer term just by continuing to work at google

If all that happened to your startup is that you couldn't get traction or compete, that's not a scandal.

Yes it works that way in the US. You could go in with a friend with a membership or simply be reincarnated as a child of Costco members.

They are dealing with vastly more activity as a result of AI usage. It's that simple.

They have not (re-)engineered their system, even via temporary hacks, in the last 12 months to defend itself with soft failures, circuit breakers, hard quotas, etc.

It's that simple.

I appreciate the world building in this oatmeal comment

Have you never seen the word Syria spelled out?

Noted. My brain hadn't adapted to the [appropiate] spelling when typing on a phone screen.

Go to the wikipedia page for Syria and click the dropdown for other languages