@jonmsterling @adrian in fact the whole thing is his fault; he saw Adrian's post, DMed it to me, and then I got mad online at Moshe.

@jonmsterling @adrian yes we were on the way to lunch when he delivered the bad news to you

@rntz This is just fundamental to macros. If you want on-the-fly syntax errors you have to run code. There's not really a third option.

@yforster @adrian I deleted several previous drafts of that tweet.

@adrian I have bad news:

@beta @shriramk this was also the most bizarre part of the interview for me

@jonmsterling The idea is that (a) solar energy is very abundant in space (b) developing more energy here on earth is hard and (c) they already have a goal of another OOM reduction in costs of launching things into space. If they hit those goals it might (or might not) work.

@regehr sadly no but we should find a way to chat otherwise

@regehr good essay. I should pick your brain about the course; I'm teaching one like it this fall.