Not only does Facebook have Messenger, but it's actually a (pretty) good privacy option. It went full on default end-to-end encrypted a couple years ago. Telegram doesn't do that, you have to jump through some hoops. Signal does but it's honestly pretty niche. Everyone from your grandma to your kids has Facebook though and somehow Zuckerberg decided his data-Hoover shouldn't extend to everyone's conversations. It's surprisingly good.
To be fair the capsule caught fire in a ground test once with three lives lost (Apollo 1) and the command module had an explosion in space once (Apollo 13) with no loss of life but it was a close thing.
I do agree with your larger point though. SpaceX just feels so much less impressive then previous major rockets, and that's only reinforced when they try and celebrate minor milestones like its supposed to be the greatest achievement ever. As if they want a cookie. Blue Origin has the same issue where they want acknowledgement for minor progress. Its only slightly less annoying because they make less of a deal about it, but this problem permeates the new space race/billionaire toys parade.
> SpaceX just feels so much less impressive then previous major rockets
That's a you problem.
> and that's only reinforced when they try and celebrate minor milestones like its supposed to be the greatest achievement ever
Again that's a you problem.
And if they are 'minor' is very much up for interpretation.
> Blue Origin has the same issue where they want acknowledgement for minor progress.
You are seriously comparing a company that has launched nothing to orbit with the company that has launch more to orbit then anybody else, including the largest object ever.
On what metric is this a "minor milestone"? They just successfully hoisted the largest rocket ever made into orbit, and unlike the Saturn V this will be fully reusable.
I wasn't yet alive during the Apollo launches, so I can't directly compare, but I for one feel these launches (today's included) are extremely impressive and am very happy to celebrate the "minor" milestones with them.
To add to that, your lawyer is bound by both professional, enforceable ethical guidelines as well as legal doctrine from revealing anything you've said to them in the course of their representation of you without your express consent. The number of exceptions to that is tiny. The only one that really matters is crime/fraud which relates not to your crime but using a lawyer to commit a crime. The others are either after you're dead (probate exception, where your lawyer can disclose information for the purposes of helping settle your will after your death) or are exclusively about money (your lawyer can disclose details of your agreed upon contract and payment structure if they are having to fight you to be paid).
There is zero reason to lie to your lawyer, all you do is make them less prepared in their defense.
That's only Pi-like in the sense of being an SBC, unlike the Pi it's meant to be an evaluation/reference platform for integrators who want to build their own board around the SOC, not something you would buy to use for its own sake.
But maybe they could make it more Pi-like, that is pricing it so that it can interest both integrators and hobbyists, with a bootloader that makes it easy to tinker with the OS (not necessarily the firmware).
Broadcom is the counterpart to Qualcomm in that comparison, and those two have similar attitudes towards the hobbyist/enthusiast market - they don't care in the slightest. It took a entity outside of Broadcom which nonetheless had deep connections to them (Eben Upton was there prior to starting RPi) in order to broker a compromise where the Pi could happen, and even then Broadcom kept most of the documentation tied up in NDAs and the bare SOCs not available for sale to the general public.
The Raspberry Pi is an anomaly that's unlikely to be replicated.
And this is where they fail - the people who gets their boards have almost zero interest in upstreaming whatever hardware enablement they do to make the boards sort of work for their specific use cases.
I really don't think undercutting their evaluation board business with affordable SBCs would hurt their bottom line.
The people who buy those eval boards probably aren't even allowed to upstream whatever they do with it, they'll have signed an NDA with Qualcomm to get access to the documentation.
It works at least well enough to build a working FreeBSD kernel, as the article notes that was built and then booted as a test. I have to imagine if the thing can build that its doing pretty well. That isn't a trivial piece of software. Makes me suspect any teething issues will be sorted and that it's not fundamentally compromised.
This strikes me as similar to the Web Colors that used to be important. They had a selection of a couple dozen colors that were safe to use and would display correctly on basically the entire gamut of systems, browsers and color depths of the time in the 90s, and developers were... highly encouraged... to pick from them.
One of the big differences though is iOS apps can only be provided by Apple. If the google store policies restrict you, you're free to distribute the app yourself. There are well known examples of this. Telegram from the play store blocks adult content its aware of. They also distribute an APK on their website without that if you want it.
I know which one you mean, as I'm sure we all do, but it always amuses me that we refer to her as just 'Cleopatra' because... basically every queen of Egypt in that dynasty was named Cleopatra. They named the vast majority of the boys Ptolemy and the girls Cleopatra. Her mother's name is Cleopatra V Tryphaena. Her daughters name is Cleopatra Selene II. Her Fathers name is Ptolemy XII, she has brothers named Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV, one of her sons is named Ptolemy.
It should be the least useful mononym possible, but its totally not. Its perfectly understood.
Much like there wasn't one "Caesar", since it's a title (still kicking in Proto-West Germanic derivatives branching off "kaisar"), but many "normal" people (not history nerds) would still use only the title to refer to Gaius Julius Caesar.
Also fun fact -- if you're a history nerd -- "Julius Caesar" is almost equally nonsensical to just "Caesar" since "Julius" is not his name, but refers to his family ("gens"). The first Caesar from that family, that we know of at least, was Sextus Julius Caesar in around 200 BC, 300 years before Gaius Julius Caesar was born.
The entire Western pop cultural canon of ancient Egypt was created by a culture that ground mummies up for soup. It's not surprising that a lot of complexity and subtlety got lost in translation.
Well, the part about grinding up mummies is true enough. Natural resources get processed.
"The Western pop cultural canon of ancient Egypt" seems to be a red herring, though; Cleopatra is not part of or associated with ancient Egypt. She would be at the tail end of the Hellenistic period or the beginning of the Roman Empire. The New Kingdom ended a thousand years before she came to power.
Being fair to krapp and their comment above, I don't think the popular western notion of Egypt that started with the mystic of mummies and proceeded through tomb raiding as "archeology" and included stories of Anthony & Cleopatra, milk baths and asps really didn't clarify much between truly ancient Eygpt and the later era under Rome.
Some people care, of course, and many are better informed today, but there's a body of "common knowledge" out there that just runs it all together in a melange of pyramids and funny walks.
