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350% more _than assumed_ (because people drive them like hybrids and don't charge them)

They aren't inherently more polluting.

THIS case is exactly why all these companies do this.

... to add to your point, then take companies like Google who rely heavily on ML to improve the quality of the photos further and the distance between "RAW data off sensor" and "the best Samsung/Apple/Google can generate" is a HUGE gap.

Nothing to do with the project, but I read through it, so...

1. It's built natively on Jetty - very tight integration, not just some libs running in a Jetty container.

2. Web is inherently Request/Response - all of this can be handled with dramatically less resource requirements using Virtual Threads. Web is sort of the absolutely-best-use-case for Virtual Threads where as a Game Engine would be the opposite of that (one critical rendering thread and MAYBE a few extra long-lived threads for processing physics, audio, etc.)

3. I haven't tried debugging a Loom project but it's been in incubation for just under 100 years so I have to imagine this has been figured out.

4. About twice the throughput and 1/2 the latency of full OS threads - https://github.com/ebarlas/project-loom-comparison

I used an approach similar to Peter's here to both an old streaming parsing library as well as a GUI (event handling) library -- effectively, re-use the same instance of the event shell with new data every time an event fired and copy the data out if you need to retain it for a long-lived operation or persistence, otherwise calculate and move on... the reduction in object creation overhead was significant and performance increase was around +30% for doing this in the two individual use-cases... BUT, the API was like a loaded gun pointed at your face.

I knew what I was doing (with it) so it wasn't a problem, but if I over open sourced the API and provided it as a library I would envision a large portion of the population trying to handle the events in a multi-threaded context or throwing them into a List only to find the values changing on them during use (while the parser was still running on another thread).

Performance was so tempting, but usability-face-shot-gun was the greater evil.

I would look at sys admin type jobs at law firms, small medical practices and other places that need a “tech guy” but don’t need to hire a full time developer.

Your last sentence nailed it - they feed some of that money back into Uni so it's a win-win.

This won't be successful - ETSY is a publicly traded company, unless corrective action can replace the loss revenue from ads/punishing duplication/aliexpress - it's not going anywhere.

This is exactly what happened to eBay for anyone that remembers when it was garage-sale mania, then it became publicly traded and effectively became Target.com with < 1% of personal things sprinkled in.

No one messing with quarterly earnings.

lol same and would have never thought to comment on it because obviously user-error, then I saw this and thought twice.

With the inflation we've seen in the last 24 months do you think the tuition will still come back to earth or just stay put for a decade or more?

This was a _fascinating_ read and I thank you for writing that all up - I'm in your "3 year" dip and in the past made attempts at tackling the gut biome issue with cycling probiotics, fresh vegetable fibers, organic/local yogurts, staying away from fake sugars and other dietary things that blow out the biome and even after a few weeks of doing this I never felt any better - would shrug my shoulders and go back to not really caring.

Was there 1 inflammatory food item that is like kryptonite to you now? Fake sugars? Wheats?

When I think of what a FinTech darling Wealthfront was when it came out, all I can see this is as a colossal flop.

For what it's worth...

About a year ago I opened a robo-advisor account at SoFi and another at Wealthfront and pitted them against each other with high-risk/default settings and a weekly deposit.

The SoFi one has been outperforming the Wealthfront one all year long (by 1-2%; nothing life changing) which surprised me but it also made me feel that all the magic AI/ML under the covers that WF promoted didn't exist and no one was managing anything.

I understand how you end up here - after a decade or more of micro-optimizations down a pit of the newest/most advanced scam and take over techniques... but at some point you need to sit back, zoom out and look at collectively what you've created and see if you are catching a bit too much in the net.

I feel like Risk underwriting at Finance/FinTech companies goes through something similar... the list of rules only ever gets longer/gets added to.. I don't know that anyoen rewinds the clock every 5 years and starts from a clean slate to build out a new model.

I would _guess_ that ousting a CEO AND acquiring the core company at the same time are expensive propositions - I'd also guess that MSFT fully plans to address the leadership issue there (Kotick) but going to give him a year to age out of the newly acquired company and take his golden parachute elsewhere.

Smaller M&A where it's easier to swap the leader (like a startup - which most of us are used to) is MUCH easier/cheaper/faster than swapping out an established CEO of a public company.

They'll do it because he's a liability and they want to make a statement to the new company - but it'll be slow.

I've been a Google Fi customer for 6 or 7 years now and what constantly scares the hell out of me is the subreddit where about every 3-6 months you see someone saying:

"Google Fi did me wrong, so I reversed the charges on CC - now my entire Google account is locked / all photos / all files in drive"

This seems... like it's going to get regulated soon. Just going to take blocking the wrong account some day and boom, here we go, legislation.

I love your last sentence here - so well stated.

He also has a church and is a life coach on Only Fans... you know, real classy person. :smh-forever:

They have specifically strengthened the motors in the sliding door to cut the average adult person in half if they take longer than 30 seconds to exit. (lol I like your example scenario)

Serious Question: Do they all use it for adult content? I've never used OF but see the porn/adult references all the time so I assumed that is all it was (obviously not it seems?)

Same - Fedora 34, nvidia driver. Excellent performance though.

This blew my damn mind 10 years ago when it was first written up in Wired - the way the article was written, the build up to the actual run... all of it was so inspirational and today I still refer to it in my mind whenever I think: "People do the impossible all the time and the guidance they get from everyone around them is that they are INSANE"

I think these are the closest we get to moments of 'magic' in real life.

This is slick.

1 suggestion - make a Created (published) note optionally editable... so when the note is originally being edited there is a checkbox to allow it to be editable or not, so once it's published, it's fixed in space and time...

The viewer of an uneditable note can have a button to "Edit a Copy" of the note to create their own version of it and publish it under their own URL, but they can't edit the content of the original one.

NOW you've got yourself a forever tool here.

This - before the update to Model S that included the rear screen, it was getting REALLY hard to figure out why you would want to pay 2x for an electric car unless you wanted the... ventilated seats? marginal range improvement?

If 500+ mile range becomes an S/X exclusive for a few years, feels like they need to do more to differentiate.

FWIW, this is what CouchDB has done from Day 1 and it _always_ seemed like one of the most magical and surprising things tool or platform providers would suddenly realize and then LOVE about using the DB.

There was nothing fancy about it, you could just listen to an endpoint and it was a stream of the append only log of events occuring in the DB to the point that you could literally use it to feed a replicated master or slave (or backup).

I imagine your use-case is a bit more nuanced, but I sure do love that model.

Excellent read.

I wonder why sharing links is so unpopular...

Speed... it's always speed.

It's about 4 seconds faster for me to look at a screenshot to understand a friends "LOL!" than click a link, have browser load page, render page, render ADS and then I scroll down to find the picture of the dog riding a skateboard.

Speed speed speed.

This seems like a "pout" move... get blasted with a class-action, so blast everyone in the face with this 'safety and goodness' fee.

No other solution to keeping toddlers off of a treadmill with a giant touch screen?

Maybe a simple math question or 'confirm your birthday'?

No no... gotta cash-grab to pay for the lawsuit.

Classy.

Fair point - but you aren't getting it at a 15-30% discount (ESPP) or 'for free' via RSUs - so paying market rate isn't as enticing.

Any discussion about backup should always include a shout out to one of the most beautiful versions of this: bvckup2

About 10 years ago the founder just decided to start writing the most streamlined, beautiful pieces of software he could - obsession around NTFS nuances to improve performance and reduce overhead to an unbelievable degree.

10 years later, it's still him (and maybe a few other folks) and the software is unbelievably polished.

This is scary as people working at the shipping companies figure out that stealing packages is actually a DMZ of inter-mediation and for the most part they can get away with it.

I'm sure this refund kicked off a serious investigation inside of Amazon/FedEx/UPS as this has been getting pretty bad - so for us to notice theft with SOMEWHAT regularity, I imagine it has to be an insanely pervasive problem.

The Google Fi forums seem to mention the phone-then issue regularly... "I ordered Pixel 6 and never received it", etc. etc.