nilsbunger

This is a pretty standard maneuver - it's similar to a "soft field landing" (eg grass runway). Assuming you have a long runway, you avoid braking since that would slam the nose down, and use more and more elevator to keep the nose up to as slow a speed as possible.

But will the CCS be as fast at charging ? It seems like Tesla could control a lot with their proprietary connector if it has a faster charge rate.

They have a silicon interposer to connect two dies. That’s a really cool way to effectively make a chip twice as big. Is this a new technique ?

Did you ever get tested for learning differences like dyslexia? It often comes along with ADHD. You didn’t describe exactly what happens in detail but it may be worth checking.

"Mosaic is truly a high-quality application. But the price for beauty is more memory and disk space. Mosaic consumes over 1.3MB of disk space, and will use about 2MB of RAM while running."

I don't know about those fancy graphical browsers, who has those kinds of resources to just throw at some pretty pictures?

Mapbox Studio should be able to do this

They don't bail out the insurance companies though, so those companies have no incentive to play ball in CA if it's unprofitable or risky to them.

A less distorting mechanism is for CA to provide re-insurance to cover the massive catastrophic risk, while allowing providers to service the everyday risk. CA already backstops earthquake insurance in a similar way.

You do lose the market signals about the real cost to insure when you do this though. Ultimately we have to change where we build but that's a HUGE undertaking and it's unclear where the political will for that will come from.

Comments in JSON? Why isn’t this everywhere?

The talk is in 2035, not 2014

i rowed on a crew team for many years. The pads of my fingers were all worn down. I was rejected three times for "bad fingerprints" when applying for US citizenship.

How do you do account recovery if you run a service using passkeys?

1. email-based "reset passkey" flow -- only as secure as the email it's sent to, and you need to make sure the email is still valid since the user isn't using it regularly as part of their auth.

2. multi-factor "reset passkey" flow -- you have to make sure the user has kept multiple factors (eg backup codes) which they're mostly not using.

Is there something better? Anyone have a good resource?

I thought modern cars have an electronic challenge mechanism with the key that you can’t bypass as easily. Is that not the case ?

It doesn't even out if the company keeps growing - if your headcount is growing 50% per year you can have very significant tax drag.

Brand new ocean-view apartments 2 blocks from the beach? They're definitely marketable. People don't travel to work as much these days anyway. While it's true that closer to town will be more attractive, but that's not this project.

An ocean-view apartment 2 blocks from the (admittedly very cold) beach is definitely rentable.

Will it rent for 10% more or 10% less than something comparable in inner sunset? That's the question.

Sure, at its most basic a graph database is just a bunch of many2many relationships.

The recursive query is cool, but how is the performance for graph queries compared to a DB optimized for this use case ?

This isn’t just about productivity of labor, it’s about productivity in terms of end result. That kind of or productivity is deflationary, not inflationary.

Eg a TV costs 10% of what it did 20 years ago. Fewer person-hours of work are involved in making one TV. Less of the average home budget goes to TVs than it used to, even while people are buying better tvs.

That’s a massive productivity increase in the lingo of economics.

You could replace TV with solar panels, cars, computers, etc. Less human involvement per good produced => productivity increase.

Baumol’s law enables this growth in the administrative state - the money is available to pay for tuition, so it gets spent however the university wants.

Better than inflation? Generally yes.

Better than jobs which are replaceable with automation? For sure.

In 2003, I had a vigorous debate with someone advising their nephews not to go into CS because outsourcing to India would commoditize it.

I don’t know if the AI stuff will play out similarly, there are some differences.

But it seems to me there is an infinite amount of software to build, and when we increase the productivity of software development, we just build fancier software, faster.

Look up the Baumol effect. When productivity rises in one sector, there is an increase in wages in other sectors.

The flip side of the coin is over time we spend more of our income on the things that don’t have increasing productivity. Think of housing, education, health care, etc

It's pretty straightforward -- if you have asset yielding 1.5% forever, you can make it an asset yielding 3% by cutting its price in half.

In this case it's a little more complicated since you also get the principal back in pieces, but you can calculate the price today to create the equivalent of a 3% yield instead of 1.5%, and you'll get a significant price reduction.

They're doing threading without the GIL, which means it's not compatible with existing C extensions.

CPython is also building a -no-gil compile-time option. If that gets traction, some of the big performance-oriented C extensions like Numpy etc would likely build a non-GIL extension version too.

Then, if RustPython's non-GIL implementation is compatible with CPython's, and their C ABI is compatible, those C extensions might work.

Lua has been used a lot for that kind of embedding in the past. I think because it's easy to move data between Lua and C? Python would certainly be a big step up but I don't know how hard that kind of integration is.

At first I thought this would be about performance, but now I think it's not.

Their github.io page mentions interesting use cases though:

> RustPython can be embedded into Rust programs to use Python as a scripting language for your application, or it can be compiled to WebAssembly in order to run Python in the browser

Their problem right now isn't adding more customers - they seem to have more than they can handle!

If I were them I'd focus as many resources as possible on making the stack rock-solid, and away from acquiring more customers or adding more capabilities.

In fact I'd try to down-scope some features if at all possible, like the example they give of disabling app deploys while they're doing platform updates.

We use fly.io at a small scale and it's worked really well for us, but the money is in customers at a larger scale who must have 100% reliability.

Funny that they didn't mention it! Seems like an obvious thing for them to plug their own distribution.

Python typing is optional and only checked statically, just like typescript typing. What else would a “Typescript for Python” add?

While I experience the world in a subjective manner, I have ZERO evidence of that.

I think an alien would find it cute that we believe in this weird thing called consciousness.