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I retired from motorcycles a decade ago but still get my two wheel fix with the e-bikes I own. They make those 2km errands easy.

Your statement is true, but does not imply that we need new fossil fuel investment.

My understanding is that he only did the interior, which I have no issue with. The exterior is garbage.

A truly idiotic investment when renewables are already cheaper than existing fossil fuel infrastructure (much less new infra)

Side note: Peter Mandelson was also a big fan of Jeffrey Epstein.

> we offer first-party hosting for free forever.

You should probably stop promising this.

SQLite? Luxury! My servers use CSV files for the database. (It’s actually true)

Isn't it better to build a decentralized grid out of standard parts than a few highly complex nuclear reactors? To me, that makes the system more resilient and easier to maintain. Nuclear seems like a worse choice long-term than wind/solar/batteries. Balcony solar could get us nuclear reactor levels of power per year once broadly legalized.

Because DO is an American company.

> that's the sentiment anyone who has been around in the community long enough and dealt with Andre has about him.

I've known him personally for years and find him perfectly fine as a person. The Rubygems maintainers worked with him for the past decade without issue. Until you cite actual issues, not vague "concerns", you're just spreading FUD and innuendo.

I don't know the details of Shopify funding. I donated $250,000 in 2024 and withdrew a planned $250,000 donation in 2025, as has been widely publicized.

> Do you have any idea how expensive it is to keep the infrastructure running?

Yes, I do. All hardware and bandwidth are donated by Fastly and AWS so it costs RC nothing. Their expenses were $20,000/mo for 24/7 ops coverage: $2000/mo for 6 people and $8000/mo for service maintenance (e.g. db and software upgrades). So $240,000/yr, not "millions".

What's the DigitalOcean of Europe, where I can get API-based provisioning for VPSes?

> My Tesla is still on FSD from 2023 because the newer versions are terrible judging from the comments on the Tesla forums.

I've had FSD since 2020; the latest version is noticeably better than 2020. I wouldn't put too much stock in forums which tend to skew negative.

What age is appropriate for the Safari app? What age is appropriate for PlannedParenthood.com? Reddit.com?

A movie is a distinct piece of content. A website and an app can be a container for lots of different content.

Don't strawman other people's comments.

HIS crime is legal. Yours is still illegal unless you pay tribute, e.g. binance.

Yes, most people don’t drive 200 mi/day. It’s really ok.

The fossil fuel industry has stolen the bulk of Cuba’s income. Need to switch to solar and batteries to onshore your energy production. China could help here and get a big diplomatic win if they were to give Cuba subsidized access to their clean energy assets.

It was an off-the-cuff comment and probably not worded ideally but the intent was to discuss how Oban is branching off into a new direction for their business based on language-specific products while I went a different direction with Faktory. Since I came to the exact same fork in the road in 2017, I thought it was relevant and an interesting topic on evolving software products.

Resque was the main inspiration, Sidekiq still provides compatibility with some of its APIs to this day.

https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/ba8b8fc8d81ac8f57a55...

By “based on” I don’t mean a shared codebase or features but rather Parker and I exchanged emails a decade ago to discuss business models and open source funding. He initially copied my Sidekiq OSS + Sidekiq Pro business model, with my blessing.

I wrote Sidekiq, which Oban is based on. Congratulations to Shannon and Parker on shipping this!

I had to make this same decision years ago: do I focus on Ruby or do I bring Sidekiq to other languages? What I realized is that I couldn't be an expert in every language, Sidekiq.js, Sidekiq.py, etc. I decided to go a different direction and built Faktory[0] instead, which flips the architecture and provides a central server which knows how to implement the queue lifecycle internally. The language-specific clients become much simpler and can be maintained by the open source community for each language, e.g. faktory-rs[1]. The drawback is that Faktory is not focused on any one community and it's hard for me to provide idiomatic examples in a given language.

It's a different direction but by focusing on a single community, you may have better outcomes, time will tell!

[0]: https://github.com/contribsys/faktory [1]: https://github.com/jonhoo/faktory-rs

Proud of my brother who built this!

Yeah, the screen is a very costly upgrade but since I'm on it so many hours per day, I was willing to pay the price. Glare is just never a problem, no matter where I am.

I’ve been using a nano iPad Pro for a year or so now and fingerprints have never once bothered me. The cleaning cloth works great. I love the nano screen as reflections are just not a problem any more.

"Flophouses" or SROs used to provide affordable housing for young people new to a city, single people, workers, etc but they depend on density and transit to be cheap. They were largely made illegal in the mid-20th century. Land use/zoning laws are why we've built nothing but car-dependent suburbs for the last 50 years.

Phones are by far the biggest source of dangerous driving.

What if it's both? People drive everywhere because zoning forces car infrastructure everywhere. There's few to no safe places to walk/bike anymore.

I'd argue the competition is already here: e-bikes. Regulation and safety concerns mean motorcycles will always be niche.