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ah interesting, that makes sense witas an explanation given the heavy Tesla base

yeah I've had a similar experience with a bike and do the head bob thing now too. glad to know it's not just me

good tip, thank you!

Aside from the distracted driving part, which is real, there are two physical aspects of the model 3 that I find to be safety issues as well-- the two front windshield beams are thick and add a sort of blind spot, and the side mirrors don't give you great field of view.

30-40 people; not much TPS but we're not primarily building a web app; we have event-driven data pipelines and microservices for ML data.

If you're primarily building a web app, a monolith is fine for quite a while, I think. But a lot of the stuff in the post is still relevant even for monoliths - RDS, Redis, ECR, terraform, pagerduty, monitoring/observability.

I work at a startup and most of the stuff in the article covers things we use and solve real world problems.

If you're looking for successful businesses, indie hackers like levelsio show you how far you can get with very simple architectures. But that's solo dev work - once you have a team and are dealing with larger-scale data, things like infrastructure as code, orchestration, and observability become important. Kubernetes may or may not be essential depending on what you're building; it seems good for AI companies, though.

"No" seems easy to say right now, but technology is accelerating at a breakneck pace. If AGI can happen within a decade, I reckon 2030 self driving is not a crazy bet at all.

Loved the article! Really well written, thoughtful, and actionable advice.

Thanks, fixed!

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Huh? Individual actions do matter. The fact that he got on these flights contributes to the overall demand on flights, and has certainly had an impact on how many flights need to exist. The argument that not all people can fly every 2 weeks is nonsensical.

damn. I've been hanging on to my 3a, unfortunate to hear.

That's a great question; I'm curious about this as well.

"the bitter lesson" is a very interesting, thank you! However, I wonder if AST vs. text analysis is fully comparable to the examples given in the post. Applying human concepts for chess, go, image processing, etc. failed over statistical methods, but I don't think AST vs. text is exactly the same argument. IMO, using an AST is simply a more accurate representation of a program and doesn't necessarily imply an attempt to bring in human intuition/concepts.

This seems easy to say, but how can small groups of people make actionable change on burning less fossil fuel? Will you protest outside coal plants? Cement plants? Steel plants? Stop flying in airplanes? Do you still use a car that burns gasoline? Will oil companies do the right thing and simply choose to make less money?

I agree that not using fossil fuels is the most efficient method, but it's also not easy to take action on. We need to pursue every viable avenue in parallel, and carbon removal solutions are, if not particularly efficient yet, at least very actionable. And with R&D, perhaps they will become more efficient.

yeah having lived in both cities, I think the likelihood of success in the bay area is going to be higher than in boston for sure.

Assuming this is real - very interesting read, thanks for sharing.

How does Next.js compare to Gatsby?

Teenage Engineering OP-1, a music synthesizer. Really well built, buttons and knobs feel fantastic, and the display is super fun. The OP-1 in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umatbZ0n4mE

yeah, dragging components from the component list and seeing them immediately reflected in the simulator with live-reload is freaking awesome.

React calls itself "a JavaScript library for building user interfaces", which I think is accurate.

fwiw, I've liked https://github.com/danielgindi/Charts for iOS, which is based on an android charting library called MPAndroidChart.

oh! yeah I use \x only in situations when it wraps, so \x auto fits the bill.

As someone who always uses \x, having it become a default setting in .psqlrc is a useful one.

Awesome alternate angle: https://vine.co/v/iKPTghqF0LA

Yup, that's what I'm wondering too. How much variance is there from launch to launch, and to what degree is this reproducible?

As much as it must suck for Sam Tarantino & co., it must also be relieving in some measure - fighting such huge labels for so long must've been incredibly stressful.

Looks sweet, but in the FAQ they say they can only host 2 people at a time.. given the amount of interest this seems to be getting, seems like it'll be tough to land a spot.

I don't know how much of it has been Nadella, but I've been impressed by everything I've heard about Microsoft the last few months - open sourcing .NET, adopting new platforms, this holographic tech and the free Windows 10 upgrade. If this is anything to go by, Nadella is going to do great things at MS.