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The worst part to me is their inability to tell the truth because of what seems to be legal reasons?

This makes them one of the largest car companies in the world. Pretty wild

I think the equivalent is basically blog posts. It’s hard to formalize marketing in the same way CS things can be formalized.

I wonder if this could be used to train an LLM to convert PDFs with rich charts into HTML?

I only used Bird once and have always thought they were not a great way of getting around. That said this is a real bummer to me. If commuting and mobility were much much easier the world would look a lot different for the better (in my opinion).

I hope there are more attempts to make getting around and getting to places you need and want to go easier.

Interesting. Do you think html generation is one of the things that makes the numbers look so good for 3.2 YJIT? We run a mostly json api only app. I think json serialization is notoriously slow in ruby so I was hoping yjit would speed it up.

Very interesting blog post! My best guess as to how shopify is able to achieve such large increases in speed is they have a lot more actual ruby code than most codebases (https://shopify.engineering/ruby-yjit-is-production-ready).

I moved from ruby 2.7 to 3.2 for a rails app and was hopeful that it would lead to large speedups like shopify claims it did for them, but was bummed to find it did basically nothing. Anyone else running a large rails app have a similar or different experience?

I don’t think it’s possible to determine if a decision like this is a good one without working at the company. News articles like this are useless.

This is really cool. I wonder how long it will be till we have GPT-4 quality models that run locally (if we ever will). Would open up a lot of possibilities.

This is really cool. I know lots of banks and trading firms have built home grown tools that do something similar to this.

Django seems great but also incredibly complex.

I am never able to find any good example projects that use it with react and aren't just a toy which is bit of a bummer, because I think that would be a great stack.

The linked blog doesn't actually include any details and is instead just a vitriolic series of paragraphs from what sounds like an angry fired employee.

It's hard to actually believe anything about this without having specific examples of what was done.

The title is pretty farcical given this.

Yes - if we need them to people can learn COBOL it's not any harder to learn than many other programming languages.

I feel like this solution was written by someone who hasn’t built software before. Doing a rewrite for the sake of a rewrite is not a good idea.

The title of this article really shows the slant in the reporting.

This decision makes a lot of sense to me and I actually think all universities should do more to encourage students to major in STEM. If taxes are paying for the school we should subsidize things that are good for America not individuals.

Now that electric cars that are relatively cheap have such fast acceleration the only reason to buy a car like a Porsche is for exactly this the old school cool feel.

If this were surprise news maybe, but this is the type of news that is priced in slowly over time and somewhat expected. Basically when sophisticated people bought uber a year ago one of the drivers of a higher price was the assumption it might be included in the S&P500.

A lot of things in finance and markets are self fulfilling prophecies like this, for example just look at the fed. They are the classic example of expectations > action.

I think it disappears not when you move away from SPA's but when you move away from some high interactivity features products that are amazing to use often have.

This especially becomes true for products that are expected to work in low internet zones.

I think this is probably just bad wording on the part of the author. But I do think it's bad wording partially caused by a messed up view of the world vis a vis pedestrians and cars.

Modern unions have no spine and their leaders are in the game to enrich themselves it seems most times. This seems great for the rail union.

It seems very obvious that he is an engineer taking advantage of a situation. I don’t blame him I’m sure security is lapsing in the eyes of a life kong security researchers. But as to a lawyer everything is a legal problem and a carpenter a carpentry problem, this is a security issue only to someone in infosec.

This loaded pretty slowly for me (2 seconds) and also has aggressive page layout changes. It’s almost like for 99% of software the most important part is UX not the low level programming language that is chosen

Deletes timer … but builds eth merge countdown. Genuinely confusing product choice.

I assume that traffic violations like this are handled differently than those with a human driver given the permitting and reporting required for the self driving companies operating in SF. That said it’s SF so who knows…

Very true! Cities in the US invest much too little in things like bike lanes and public transit which I think leads to the annoyingly car centric nature of US cities.

In some sense it’s not the taxi driver or ride share drivers fault they block the road or bike lanes it’s really just the system they are thrown into.

People may get annoyed at cruise for this, but imo it’s still not as bad as the constant blocking of bike lanes and stopping in the middle of the road by human ride share drivers.

High school AP stats teacher here in their first year of teaching. While I think this article holds some water much of it is a hyperbole.

In reality a good teacher will learn they can’t make everyone happy and learn to deal with students who complain.