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About a decade ago I heard John complaining on No Agenda about a sound card mixer problem he was having in Linux. I had the same model card so I emailed offering some debugging advice. He responded almost immediately and we went back and forth trying things. If memory serves it was a config issue with pulseaudio. It was the highlight of my week.
$1.7-billion isn't a mundane detail Michael!
This team could have stopped here and still had something interesting (albeit not novel) to show. But the hype cycle was too tempting.
This archive link is not working for me.
We must have joined around the same time, 17498. Funny to call us late when this would have been July 2008, or ~3 months after public launch.
Didn't this happen a year ago? [0] Or did this deal just take a year?
Was kind of expecting Jim Ross and Bobby Heenan's voices, but that would likely get you sued. Fun nonetheless.
For a little context. Salesforce changed their enterprise structure, effectively doubling their prices and my guess is many of their larger customers fled the platform. The enterprise pricing organized dynos into blocks and without notice they doubled the minimum block unit you could have. As a result, you ended up paying for dynos you weren't even using because they were now rounding up, sometimes by thousands of dollars worth of dyno blocks. So if you thought Heroku was expensive before, now it just didn't make any financial sense at all. For the other PaaS out there: don't do this.
RISC is good.
Does this mean Keynote and Pages are now paid products? Aren't they included with Mac OS?
996 is a work schedule that derives its name from its requirement that workers clock in from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week, resulting in employees working 12 hours per day and 72 hours per week.
(Benchmarks run on PyPy 3.11, Intel i5-8365U, 8 Cores, 100 connections)
Why not benchmark Flask/FastAPI with 8 workers instead of 4 for a more apples-to-apples comparison?
China currently only holds about 2% of U.S. debt. What is the risk exactly?
Found this in their roadmap [0]:
Managed ECS-EC2 clusters in preview
AWS has a long standing issue with the ECS agent randomly disconnecting, resulting in orphaned EC2 instances which can cause traffic or deployment degradation.
We have attempted to solve this a few ways in the past, but there were still critical edge cases falling through.
So we bit the bullet, and developed a robust, full featured ECS cluster management solution to solve this problem once and for all.
It's currently in private preview. To get early access before we roll it out to everyone, contact support.
I found elsewhere in the Flight control docs where they recommend ECs+EC2. While I'm not surprised to hear about issues with ECS+EC2, given the reported issues above I don't know if I'd recommend it in my docs. Fargate is a far better option for most use cases, at least in my experience. Unless you need specialized instance types, like GPU workloads.
Just reading over the docs, you'll need a lot more GCP services than Cloud Run to encompass what Flightcontrol is managing for you. The Cloud Run analog is Fargate. Which is only the container orchestration piece.
Please provide links for the docs to this, as this was a misconception I had about Dooku as well.
Looks like you can use your own Dockerfile or a container registry. Suspect nixpacks are just a recommended starting point for people looking to get up and running quickly.
Looks like it is ECS with either Fargate or EC2. If you don't need more control over your containers, Fargate is a good default.
Like I said: noise.
HW4 is really a game changer. I was absolutely floored by HW4 FSD during a recent test drive. Tesla is accomplishing some truly groundbreaking technical achievements here. But you wouldn't know it through all the Elon Musk noise (pro and con). I'd encourage anyone to take a test drive and put FSD through its paces. I went in with a super critical mindset and walked away stunned.
I swiped but your wife didn't match. What gives?
A bit baffled by all the "Why not just use CSS?" comments here.
Did we forget how much of a pain CSS still is?
For example, I recently made a UI with a series of numbered steps. To the left of each step is a number with a circle around it as a highlight.
The CSS I came up with looked like this:
.step-number { align-items: center; background-color: #0074cc; border-radius: 50%; color: white; display: flex; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; height: 24px; justify-content: center; line-height: 24px; margin-right: 10px; width: 24px; }
Did it produce a circle? Of course not. It produced a squished egg shape.
What did I have to do? I had to add "min-width: 24px;" to the class. Why? Hell if I know. "width: 24px;" should've done the job.
Bootstrap (and now Tailwind) exist for a reason: CSS still sucks.
I would think the dumber thing is having to create an empty file called __init__.py for a package to register as a package.
This hasn't been true since Python 3.3. You no longer need a __init__.py for Python to recognize a module, but it can still be useful in many cases.
The top 10 softwood lumber producers in the US have a combined capacity of 24.1 billion board feet, representing 50% of the US industry, according to Forisk.
The U.S. imports a significant portion of its softwood lumber from Canada, with roughly 30% of its softwood lumber needs being met by Canadian exports.Specifically, in 2023, Canada exported 28.1 million cubic meters of softwood lumber to the U.S. This accounts for a large percentage of the total softwood lumber imported by the U.S., with Canada being the primary supplier.
The United States can potentially supply up to 95% of its own softwood lumber consumption through domestic production.While the U.S. is a net importer of lumber, its domestic industry has the capacity to meet most of its needs.
I see commentary like this frequently in the west, then I read financial analysis like this:
Goldman Sachs in its latest China forecast, reports China's GDP is about to fall off a cliff: the bank now expects China's Q2 GDP growth to crater to just 0.8% QoQ from 4.9% in Q1.
[0] https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/view-chinas-q2-gdp-grow...
While this is true, this changed around 2009. What happened? The Chinese government started heavily subsidizing domestic automakers [0]while continuing the joint venture requirements for foreign automakers, which started in 1979 [1]. These joint venture requirements have been a source of significant intellectual property theft [2]. All foreign automakers operating in China, not just U.S. ones, have either faced bankruptcy or a significant downturn in market share in China over the past 15 years.
[0] https://www.carscoops.com/2024/07/china-gives-its-automakers... [1]: https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/innovation/chinas-automotive-odys... [2]: https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/china-joint-venture...
It's a good thing the United States doesn't depend on China for toilet paper, then.
The United States primarily sources its toilet paper domestically, with about 90% being manufactured within the country.However, a significant portion of imports come from Canada and Mexico.
In fact, the United States does not depend on China for any essential consumer goods from what I can find.
At least, I imagine the CEOs of GM, Ford, Boeing, etc. might have a thing or two to say about seeing China disappear as a market where they can do business to sell stuff....
They largely weren't doing this anyway due to Chinese economic policy. For example:
Ford's market share in China has declined significantly.In 2024, Ford's market share was 1.6%, down from a peak of 4.7% in 2015. Over the past three years, Ford's average market share in China has been a modest 1.8%.
I read it would smell like cabbage.
Their population is declining, ...
This can not be overstated. China is on the verge of the largest population collapse in human history.
By 2080 China's population will drop by 600 million. If that trend continues, by 2150 China's population will drop to 280 million.
Other asian countries such as South Korea and Japan are on a similar trajectory.