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I won't even walk into a house with Alexa devices around, there is no way I'm going to let Meta glasses be in the same room as me.

Bold of them to not open with their 5-9's uptime.

89.9999%

Also, in real life, he's a genuine nice guy. I had lunch with him and Armon at a conference when they worked at Kiip, before they founded Hashicorp. Mitchell (to me) was the proper hacker. He just loved everything about computing. This particular conference was about distributed systems and he was just geeking out on everything.

I walked away thinking that no matter what they did, they'd probably be successful. I was extremely happy to find Ghostty and have been using it ever since.

Turbopuffer was mentioned in the article.

I was so excited to get my S60 PHEV. Mechanically it is an amazing machine, great handling, great power, I rarely have to put gas in it. BUT. It is a nightmare with the technology.

Like most new cars, everything is tied into the center display/computer. It will crash while driving, which will remove all sound from your car, and I don't mean just the radio/spotify/whatever. You can be in mid-turn with your turn signal on and then just absolute quiet. It is so off-putting. Your blinker stops, you can't really tell your engine is on, and every screen just goes black. Thankfully I don't have a pure electric, so I my car still physically moves, but I really can't believe I haven't gotten in an accident when my screen crashes.

Thankfully I leased this vehicle, and I'm almost done with it, I honestly can't wait to turn it in.

Coal seam fires are a nasty thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-seam_fire

I suspect that what's happening internally (at Microsoft) is that someone's leveraging your work towards their next promotion packet.

It just so happens that the Microsoft engineer who originally changed the license in GitHub went from Senior to Principal engineer at Microsoft in the past two months (according to LinkedIn). So you probably aren't far off.

I've been a fan of blue jeans cables for 15+ years, I'm so glad they are the subject of this post. Blue Jeans just makes high quality stuff for solid prices and no BS.

This entirely. When I first read the title, I thought, lets see what they say about gRPC. gRPC is so much nicer working across applications compared to simple REST servers/clients.

There are residents for sure in that corridor, but the residents are on Edwards AFB, and are fairly used to sonic booms. When I was on Edwards, there was still the last operating SR-71, and that boomed any time it flew.

Roles tied to research institutions cap-exempt

And in comes a flood of "Research Software Engineer" roles

Amazon has prior art on AutoPIP

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/60-million-households-tune...

The DNC has some serious soul-searching to do. If they didn't figure out that people wanted Bernie over Hilary, I doubt they will learn that the US voter didn't like getting lied to about Biden's mental fitness and then just inserting someone we never voted on.

My $0.02, just one opinion yada yada.. Charisma was a part of it sure, but ultimately people can look past that. Bush Sr. had zero charisma.

The bigger part, amongst other things, Harris is part of the current administration, people are not happy about how things are going, or how much their groceries cost. People are not happy to get censored or called nazi's for having different opinions. When asked on a left-leaning show "The View" with people all on her side, what she would change about the last 4 years, she answered, "there is not a thing that comes to mind".

Charisma didn't kill her, not being able to ask layup questions killed her. The American people are not as dumb as the Harris voters are now screaming about on Reddit/TikTok/X, the American people want to know what their president is going to do to change their lives. Trump is a sociopath, again amongst other things, but he is very very clear about where he stands on things and what he's planning on doing.

Yes, this is the super obvious fix that doesn't involve the US Government changing any rules/laws. Google has offices all over the world, they really don't even need to be remote.

If they need AI experts from Asia: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=asia-paci....

If they need AI experts from Europe: https://about.google/intl/ALL_us/locations/?region=europe

This isn't that hard. They just want cheap labor that they are holding hostage with their visas.

Leetcode wasn't a thing for my first 15 years. I got a couple of jobs just from a lunch or dinner and a couple of polite conversations.

Was it like this in the pre-Linkedin-recruiter-spam and pre-Glassdoor-interview-question days?

I will say this, we had way less information back then. People still job-hopped, but there was no levels.fyi tempting you with grand fortunes. For me at least, it was friends or friends of friends and word of mouth. "Hey, there's this new company VMWare, it's only 20 or so people, but they are doing this cool stuff, you should look into it."

Typically if you were outside of the bay area, job hopping wasn't as frequent because most cities didn't have a LOT of companies to chose from. I was in San Diego at the turn of 2000 and there was military contractors, semiconductors, and telecom. If you made to the top and worked for Qualcomm, you usually stayed there. At the time, in that particular region, no one paid a whole lot more and everyone got their own office at QC. They started stock-splitting every quarter and no one was going anywhere, no matter how much they were over worked.

I would say the temptation for me personally to job hop now is less than before because there is just so much more information about companies, and at the end of the day, most companies who pay well suck pretty bad, and amazing companies don't pay all that well. :)

Like a helicopter, but with way less range, payload, and capabilities.

I was also able to signup

Interesting tidbit at the end.

Besides costing more to repair when they’re damaged in a crash, Scherr also said, EVs are also getting in more crashes.

then

Our work with Tesla is to look at the performance of the car, so as to lower the risk of incidence of damage

I'm curious if they are working with tesla to <reduce> the performance? Are people getting into accidents because they aren't used to teslas' acceleration vs. a typical gas car? Or are people getting into accidents for other performance reasons, eg: cornering / braking?

My same thought. The software I'm required to write isn't necessarily fun anymore. I find more fun writing tools when I need them. I'll find myself needing a helper tool, I start writing, I enjoy writing it, then I realize I went off the deep end and made a really cool thing and completely lost track of time.

I considered the Lightning and I really wanted to like it, but for a truck, I’d still rather have a diesel. I have a 36 gal tank, I can tow 20k+lbs, and I can beat the hell out of it and get it fixed anywhere.

I would love a PHEV truck though. Give me a 30 mile range for just driving it around unloaded and I’ll happily go into diesel mode whenever I have to do real work.

Yeah, reading my post, I didn't do a great job making the point I set out to. I was considering the size of the Cybertruck, wondering if Tesla were trying more for the Tacoma & Ranger sized truck market. I started to make that point and then looked up the weight of the Cybertruck and attempted (poorly) to use it as a metric for the size. I should've just used overall length, which would've been more clear and wouldn't have had the weight of the battery involved. Either way, at 223" inches, it is certainly in the full-sized market.

I would like to know the range when towing 11,000 lbs. In the full size market, I can only think of the Nissan Titan as having less than 12,000 lb tow rating. A base Ford F150 has a 14,000 rating. When you move up to diesels, you can easily tow 20,000+ lbs and even at 10,000 lbs you take very little hit on range if your load is somewhat aerodynamic. Pulling a full-size Airstream you can still get 20+mpg even in a small diesel like in the Chevy Colorado.

Other folks mentioned the frame or brakes as the reason for the low tow rating. I imagine the cybertruck has a strong frame, Tesla has never gone cheap when it came to that sort of thing, and I'm sure the braking is fine for small loads. Most big loads require the trailer to have its own braking anyway, so that's almost a moot point, even in the biggest truck, I'm not pulling over 10,000 lbs without a proper brake controller. I'm guessing they set the rating at 11,000 lbs because anything over that and you probably end up with a very expensive 30 mile battery range. I would initially compare the cybertruck to something like a Tacoma which has more like a 7,000 lb towing capacity, but then you look at the weight of a cybertruck at 6800 lbs, the damn thing is nearly 2000 lbs heavier than a base F150. The curb weight of the biggest F150 you can get is only 5800 lbs, still 1,000 lbs lighter than the cybertruck.

This is a great tip! On vacation I just went through the hell of looking for white noise apps that were all subscription. I ended up using a spotify track on loop. I sure wish I knew this existed already on my phone. Thank you.

Work for enough SF startups and you would meet a ton of SBF clones. I wasn't surprised by any of his actions at all. I don't know what it is, but there are so many SBFs in the startup world who think they know everything and don't think there are any consequences for their actions.

Cloudflare's Portland datacenter. Most clouds/CDNs name their DC's after the airport code of the city they are in or are close to. Internally they would be listed as PDX, ORD, LAX, etc.

user: sunshowers has been replying in this thread and mentioned going from FAANG-> Oxide and taking what seemed like about a 60% paycut.

Yes it is somewhat of a stumbling block, but I'm betting they are getting extremely high quality employees who are doing it for the passion and not just for the money.

If you have a bug in how a lambda function is run on AWS, do you find yourself looking for the bug in firecracker? It is open source, so you technically could, but I just don't see many customers doing that. Same can be said about KNative on GCP.

Their choice in foundation OS (for lack of a better term) really should not matter to any customer.