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kraig··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
As Ferrari has been proving over the last few generations, they know how to make engines but Pininfarina knows how to design cars. I'm not even slightly surprised by the Luce.
kraig··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Really the only thing keeping me from going all in on keychain is the lack of a UI for the times when it doesn’t autocomplete or I need a password in terminal or something.

I’d pay for something that provided a global hotkey and an interface that isn’t nested in Settings.

kraig··on EVs are the least reliable vehicle type: Consumer Reports
At least in Los Angeles, Teslas are more of an upgraded Prius. Most people with money have been replacing them with Taycans or E-trons over the last 2-3 years.
kraig··on Notes on the Go translation of Reposurgeon (2020)
With generics around the corner I am really hoping we see some flavor of Option & Result coming to Go. But I won't hold my breath for ?.
kraig··on Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance
I use Tiller for this. By initial comparison this looks more expensive with less features and a limit on total accounts, am I missing something? Tiller is a bit weak on tracking stocks in investment accounts.
kraig··on Grand jury indicts Trevor Milton, Nikola founder, on three counts of fraud
Call me pessimistic, but my thoughts on the matter is that TSLA and by association Musk have become too big to fail. Anything that would take Musk down would harm a lot of very wealthy investors.
kraig··on Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year
Is it superior? I have seen people on YouTube wrapping the connectors in wet rags in order to cool it down enough to charge at maximum watts.

I've never used one, our Audi is CCS but we have never had to resort to any antics even in 110f weather.

kraig··on “Tank Man”
I don't think thats whats going on here. This is more like highlighting that DDG is a rebranded/privacy focused Bing.
kraig··on Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
They'd have to sell these at a significant loss to make up for the risk any company would have to take to build out a DC on first generation hardware from a startup.
kraig··on Esbuild 0.9
as a heavy user of CDK, sst looks pretty cool.

i'm curious why you didn't go the direction of adding this functionality to CDK directly? i'd like to use some of the functionality in here like live lambda development, but i also don't want to take on converting my org's already built CDK extensions and deal with migrations.

kraig··on M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU
ive been waiting for this since they first announced the iphone upgrade program, sign me up.
kraig··on Killing TurboTax
yes, because i want someone in the irs to evaluate all of my deductions and donations
kraig··on hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet
So we use 15% of the internet for captchas and I lose 15% of my life identifying crossroads, stoplights, and buses to computers. There's got to be a better way
kraig··on Apple Event 2020
Yes.
kraig··on Feds seize ‘counterfeit Apple AirPods’ that are actually OnePlus Buds
They would do the same thing if your car was impounded because you were driving around and selling drugs.
kraig··on Chef to be acquired by Progress
It's going back, at least on the HCL front. Have a look at Pulumi and prepare to throw TF in the trash.
kraig··on ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
I looked into this when I first heard about the ReMarkable 2.0, general consensus was usable but not as good. Some work is required to convert books to be used on the device and make fonts look OK. I also remember something about the built in reader not being as well designed.
kraig··on Personal Weather Station Network
thoughts on https://ambientweather.net?
kraig··on Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020
i don't remember flash ever being very good at its job. the best there was at the time, but slow/buggy/crashing. i remember being very excited for html5 being able to replace it.
kraig··on How we use HashiCorp Nomad
Funny, I thought jsonnet was an even worse experience than templating yaml
kraig··on Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code
May be too late for you, but you don't need an account and you can use terraform providers for anything that isn't currently supported.
kraig··on Pulumi – Modern Infrastructure as Code
I've got a PR opened to implement this but due to S3 CAP limitations, it hasn't been merged. The current state is that it could be merged for non-S3 backends and a DynamoDB type lock could be added for S3 backends. I don't have much interest to keep pushing it forward (its been nearly a year of "ill get back to you next week") although their new VP has been more responsive.

Alternately I was considering just implementing the server API to do state storage & locking, but we have implemented some workarounds that are good enough for now.

kraig··on Ticketmaster changes policy, no longer offering refunds on postponed shows
The Times covered this on the 8th. The policy didn't change

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/arts/music/ticketmaster-r...

kraig··on GameStop: We Can Stay Open During Lockdowns Because We're 'Essential Retail'
ok gamer
kraig··on Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes
setting a policy and policing that policy are very different things, this argument assumes that their users will deliberately break their advertising rules
kraig··on Remove default "terraform" partner_id
i dont know why this is getting downvoted
kraig··on Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests
I really wish Ubiquiti would put out a doorbell camera so I could dump these guys
kraig··on Stripe Capital
The hidden fee is baked into your % of sales withheld, unless you have extremely static income
kraig··on USB 4 set to roll out next year
Take a look at the misuse of versioning numbers and the addition of Gen's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#USB_3.2
kraig··on USB 4 set to roll out next year
I can't wait to see how they decide to version the different USB 4 generations.
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