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rblatz··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
That is what .5% of all drivers that need to drive on a curb to inspect a power line? I’m not sure what your point even is here?
rblatz··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
Tesla Model 3 is right below that $30,000 mark, Tesla FSD does the bulk of my driving today. I think your core premise is flawed, it will be cheaper and sooner than you anticipate which will alter the conclusions you’ve come to.
rblatz··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
I think this plays out where it becomes a luxury to drive oneself. Over the next 10-15 years it looks like self driving will continue to advance and will likely become safer than the alternative.

Once that happens insurance companies will start charging more for people that drive themselves compared to people that let the car drive.

I can see some states outlawing that practice. Then it’s left to see who is still underwriting insurance in those states.

rblatz··on What Lasts and (Mostly) Doesn't Last
I’m in my 40s and have no idea what either of those things are.
rblatz··on Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors
I thought Java had a really good test suite to ensure platform/jvm compatibility. Are you running on an official Java machine?
rblatz··on Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors
Likely in the country legally, but not on a visa that allows them to work in the country.
rblatz··on Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing
It looks like an example of perfect being the enemy of good. So afraid to make any mistake that they end up saying and doing nothing.
rblatz··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Windows store, steam, Xbox game pass, epic… That’s just off the top of my head, then you have the package mangers like WinGet and chocolatey.
rblatz··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
I don’t know look at all those people turning off sound check (volume leveling between songs) on their iPhones based on complete fabrications and misunderstanding of what it is and how it works. It’s buried deep, but people still do it.
rblatz··on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon
I’m not sure who is regularly hitting the App Store to search for apps. I did back when the 3GS was out(, and maybe through the 5, but I assumed it was mostly boomers and the silent generation doing that.
rblatz··on A WA Tax Break for Data Centers Became One of Their Biggest Corporate Giveaways
After initial construction, what is the staff of a data center? A few dozen people? How many jobs is this creating?
rblatz··on "We ran out of columns"
When you actually understand the problem you are solving, and the users you solve it for you start to care about a solution and not just the technology.
rblatz··on "We ran out of columns"
There are advantages to trunk based development, not exactly only using master, but close enough that you could probably spin it to comply.
rblatz··on Ask HN: I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?
Look into products like okta, they have similar functionality. They also sync data from AD. I'd focus on not providing the LDAP management, but instead syncing other LDAP sources in.
rblatz··on Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
None of this at all applies to this thread. It’s true, but also irrelevant to this discussion being had.
rblatz··on Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
Using those credentials is still a violation of the he CFAA, no reasonable person would think they were invited to access the systems protected by those credentials.
rblatz··on Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
Think of when George Soros broke The Bank of England for an example of the type of trade.

There is a lot of demand for S&P 500 index , but that demand isn’t exactly tied to the fundamentals of the index, and the price isn’t tied to value of the underlying companies, it’s tied to demand of people looking to save money for retirement or a place to store a nest egg. This is an opportunity for price discovery to get things wrong and eventually the market should correct that.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-ban...

rblatz··on Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
I have the same thoughts. Eventually there will be a lot of money to be made breaking the s&p 500.
rblatz··on Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data
Why keep it hot? Physical security is a mostly solved issue for backups unless you are taget d by nation state level actors.
rblatz··on General Electric HTRE-3 Nuclear Jet Engine
I think it’s basically a non-starter to fly an open cycle nuclear reactor around spewing radiation out in its exhaust to rain down on the people below it. Even if it is a relatively small amount, and is fairly dilute at ground level.
rblatz··on All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
So my assumption was that Unix timestamps were monotonically increasing and that for the case of leap seconds the conversion from timestamp to UTC would take those into account and for some seconds have 2 mappings. That would keep the ordering of events, it would break assumptions like a day is 86400 seconds.

But I guess they decided to keep that invariant, which makes negative leap seconds really hard. Maybe that’s a good trade off.

rblatz··on For the Love of God, Stop Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes
He does address that at the end of the article with the dashboard that looks at historical usage to inform your cpu requests.
rblatz··on For the Love of God, Stop Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes
Kubernetes is giving my operating system the cpu to manage.
rblatz··on 200 people charged in $2.7B health care fraud crackdown
They were in Phoenix why not drive yourself to Mexico? I’ve never been stopped by American border agents on the way into Mexico. Rocky point is a short ~3.5 hour drive, you can show up and get a nice condo for ~150 a night at one of the many resorts. Then you can start working on your next steps.
rblatz··on Navigating Starlink's FCC Paper Trail
I’ve toured the SpaceX factory in Hawthorne, it was pretty cool. Was inches away from a guy cranking a wrench on a previously flown rocket engine, it was extremely cool.
rblatz··on ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses
Retention policies are likely set by the client. That’s how it works with the vendors I’ve worked with in this space, but I haven’t worked with this specific vendor.
rblatz··on FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations
Honestly google search has gotten so bad I’ve been meaning to try Bing out, but old habits die hard.
rblatz··on I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
Ha, same I even posted basically the same thing higher in the thread.
rblatz··on I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
For the first case I kept wondering why they needed so much complicated technology. The water they’re searching isn’t all that deep a cheap canoe and a long pole with a go pro, and a magnet on a rope would have been equally effective, cheaper, and faster. But for the second case that they needed the be able to search a much wider area and the tire tracks likely wouldn’t have been visible in on a camera. Really cool project though.

For the ROV I was wondering why not build something heavier than water but have it on lines attached to buoys, then to go up/down you just climb or down the ropes. Not as maneuverable but not certain if it’s significantly less maneuverable.

rblatz··on Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us
That seems like a lot of effort, planning, and time to save $20.
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