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I wasted a decade trying to live in single family homes. Now at 40 my wife and I are living in a small city in a condo and couldn't be happier. Neither of us enjoyed the workload of managing a SFH. Dont force yourself to stay if you aren't happy, you'll wish you moved sooner (I do).

Thing is, the model could have been built with employees, even lowly paid ones, but then it would have been pretty transparent that they were subsidizing the rates to take market share from licensed taxis. The indirection is a feature, not a bug. Have we learned anything? Probably not.

Not if the investors can get an IPO done because of their great "innovation", then the bag holders are 401ks, mostly.

No one ever thinks of the poor owners.

Scala has everything, and therefore nothing.

Thread local storage means all async tasks (goroutines) must run in the same thread. This isn't how tasks are actually scheduled. A request can fan out, or contention can move parts of the computation between threads, which is why context exists.

Furthermore in Go threads are spun up at process start, not at request time, so thread-local has a leak risk or cleanup cost. Contexts are all releasable after their processing ends.

I've grown to be a huge fan of Go for servers and context is one reason. That said, I agree with a lot of the critique and would love to see an in-language solution, but thread-local ain't it.

Docker has jumped the shark as a company, good thing the alternatives are maturing quickly. We've had pretty good (not perfect) success with the Colima project.

Honest question as someone who prefers single payer but acknowledged it's not a silver bullet: how much of the costs are nurses and doctors vs. admin? It seems to me there's a lot of overhead in passing the bills around to get paid. I just had my appendix out last year and got billed 8 times by 8 different firms, each with payment portals, call centers, billing providers, etc. I assume there's a lot of inefficiency internally too.

I feel people defend them by opposing any other approach to solving this. Politicians in particular say things like "preserving customer choice", which I think just means having the ability to select among all the terrible insurance companies who will treat you poorly.

Did they reinvent or did they learn stuff? Maybe both.

We use it for microservices that only deal with Json and avro. Of course, we do that on Rails for some reason I'll never understand.

I think the part where he calls out airline apps is spot on though. They don't need any of that tech.

Agreed. I feel gaslit by the gap here. I too find the hypesters annoying, but it's fun to hack on Rust code usually. Usually...

Wild claims. So many huge projects have been successfully written in C by humans. There are patterns to solve all the built in solutions provided by Rust, how do you imagine Rust got them in the first place?

One tiny example of many here is the Linux kernel.

For a lot of newer compiled languages this comes down to static compilation. These aren't linking to any system libraries beyond the OS fundamentals.

That and they have way more debug symbols than Comander Keen, probably.

I've spent most of my career in the infrastructure space and I agree with this so much. These days prevailing wisdom is just to use 20 off the shelf open source components and spend your entire day debugging YAML integrations. I think we've lost our minds a bit because of this prevailing wisdom that building a simple wheel that does the 10% of this you actually need is somehow self-indulgence or negligent or both.

We certainly see this in the US as well, employed homelessness.

I've never understood how a homeless person with no resources would move across the country for better handouts. Like I'd buy some anecdotal cases but most homeless I see aren't saving enough for a bus ticket.

This shocks me, what sort of issues do you hit?

Increases to income tax generally won't lower a wealthy persons wealth, just the rate at which they can increase their wealth. They already have the money, and it will keep paying dividends and interest.

Unless you're talking about a new kind of wealth tax, but those aren't particularly popular...

Yeah the NoSQL tide seems to have been stemmed by people actually trying to use them.

Do you have some source here to provide for the curious?

Agree that people may want this to be a bigger factor than it is, or no factor at all, depending on their personal feelings on Musk and his politics.

I would say its hard to argue it is likely some factor in the middle. I'd love to see it studied.

I'll anecdotally add that I've always found Teslas design language pretty ugly, but did pine after the status of owning one briefly. Now I would never buy one for the association with Musk. So there you have it, scientifically there are at least 3 of us, and at most 8 billion of us. Further study is needed.

Did you mean to reply to me? I didn't claim it was or wasn't okay, or that I was enlightened. I am merely pointing out that one person's journey to separating themselves from being concerned with vanity and status of their vehicle doesn't remove the large population of people predisposed to behave otherwise.

Regardless of how true your point is, millions of 20-something year old men exist in the market that haven't yet, or never will, reach your state of capitalism nirvana.

That's because they don't "understand" any of it. I think the interesting space here is in getting the machinery around the model to correct the output before returning it to users, which is the sort of space I'm assuming this app plays it.

For the kinds of devs they've hired, Windows is the third most common development or production environment. I've worked at startups like this for 20 years and haven't touched a windows system.

I realize yall are out there, but from where I'm sitting, this isn't odd at all. They're likely most familiar with and using Unixes.

GDPR them, if you're in the EU. Or just pretend you are and see if they flinch.

Yep when I read stuff like this I think, "nah I'll just write the damn code." Looking forward to being replaced by a robot, myself.

Pretty sure Musk gets a decent paycheck, and manages to be involved in plenty of drama.