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Axsuul

1,886 karma · joined September 24, 2011

Los Angeles, CA

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Axsuul··on Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
If you live in a major metropolitan area in the US it’s basically same day more
Axsuul··on Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
All those things you mention are certainly bad in some parts of US but not most.
Axsuul··on Vibe Coding Is Overrated
You must be doing it wrong since Anthropic's CEO has claimed that in 12 months, nearly all code will be written by AI.
Axsuul··on Autonomous trucks in Texas, no safety driver
Making trucks autonomous is actually the most direct way to improve their conditions.
Axsuul··on California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
LA is gigantic. There are more safe streets there than most major cities in the world.
Axsuul··on California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
The US has immigration
Axsuul··on China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed
SF varies widely be neighborhood. Public transport is not the final solution for SF, instead it’s driverless cars.
Axsuul··on China just approved flying taxis – no pilot needed
Tokyo feels more retro futuristic than modern futuristic. Aside from the Shinkansen, a lot of the tech and software you interact with there feels antiquated and even borderline terrible. Meanwhile in SF there are self driving cars everywhere, tech company billboards everywhere, apps with great UX, etc.
Axsuul··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
Got any recommended providers?
Axsuul··on Doge wants businesses to run government services 'as much as possible'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Axsuul··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
Kind of defeats the purpose of colocation if you're not also running the database on your own server.
Axsuul··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
Sounds great. Yep, what I mean is you will need to make your systems fully redundant before considering cloud if your business depends on reliability and uptime. That usually requires the business to reach a certain scale first.
Axsuul··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
Yep I use orchestration (Nomad) but still you would need hardware redundancy. For example, the database server is currently a single point of failure. In the cloud, if there's a hardware failure, it will simply go down and come back up with a new instance. In coloc, you'd need to have the data center debug and replace hardware which means extended downtime.
Axsuul··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
Cloud is expensive but hardware failures are at least handled gracefully. With coloc you'd have some serious downtime. That means you'd need to get to a certain level of redundancy in order to have coloc make sense.

I'd love to move to coloc for my SaaS but it doesn't feel as resilient. Please correct me if I'm wrong as I'd love to move off the cloud.

Axsuul··on When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)
Antimatter
Axsuul··on Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control
Great use of AI models, since language is likely enough to infer the situation.
Axsuul··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
It's not zero in return, why would Ukraine agree to that? Where is your source that it was zero in return?

> and we're not talking stacks of cash here but rather the "value" of military hardware, much of which already had an expiration date and was literally designed and built for the Russia-invades-Europe scenario

That's not true at all, US has sent billions of financial aid[0]. Compare that to Europe's aid which was majority in the form of loans, which Europe gets to collect interest on based off of frozen Russian assets.

0. https://www.ukraineoversight.gov/Funding/

Axsuul··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Hosting Deepseek R1 is not the problem. It's just not great in a lot of use cases.
Axsuul··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
To further expand on that, Europe gave aid to Ukraine as a form of a loan with the interest being paid back based off of Russian frozen assets.
Axsuul··on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
It's a bit premature to call it an alliance. So far there have only been talks.

> trying to turn Ukraine into basically colony (by demanding their resources forever)

Keep in mind it was Ukraine that proposed the idea of offering their resources back in October 2024[0]

0. https://www.cfr.org/expert-brief/zelenskyys-victory-plan-ukr...

Axsuul··on DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
That $20 million number does not pass the sniff test.
Axsuul··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Any thoughts on Inertia.js, which seems like a good solution for React + Rails? Feels like you can have your cake and eat it too.

https://github.com/inertiajs/inertia-rails

Axsuul··on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit
> China's economy remains on track to surpass that of the United States within just five years, and yet they did sign that agreement.

Are you actually saying this in the year 2025?

Axsuul··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
We’ve gone this long without an accident, what’s to say we’re not gonna learn the hard lesson from this and make sure it doesn’t happen again?
Axsuul··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
It doesn't use the API
Axsuul··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
Host your own Nitter instance and you'll be able to get RSS feeds
Axsuul··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
Has anyone been able to figure out how to generate RSS feeds for Nextdoor?
Axsuul··on Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets
How is this debris tracked – NORAD?
Axsuul··on Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
Redundancy only develops after failures. Only after that 5th PagerDuty alert do we start to add more of it.

The fires in LA were a failure and more redundancy will soon follow like improved building codes, better forest management, etc.

Axsuul··on The Case for Letting Malibu Burn (1995)
Also, older homes that are not up to date with the latest defensible technologies.
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