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Rails supports multiple threads: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/threading_and_code_execution....

Rails has some tooling to help with query bloat: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#e...

I’m sure it’ll be in my neighborhood.

Let me know if you’re in town and we’ll throw a party for competitors, staff, and fans at my place.

> The Boring Company is excited to announce the second Not-a-Boring Competition which challenges teams to come up with tunneling solutions and answer the question, “Can you beat the snail?”. The challenge this year comes with a couple of twists and turns! See the Abbreviated Rules for the 2022-2023 Not-A-Boring Competition.

https://www.boringcompany.com/s/2022-Not-a-Boring-Competitio...

The Boring Company didn't install a legal septic system for the families living at their HQ in Texas. And it goes downhill from there: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/elon-musk...

The Boring Company's latest test tunnel was about 1034 times slower than a snail (their current stated goal).

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoringCompany/comments/xugxdl/comme...

What an incredible legacy you're creating Nick. Keep dropping those breadcrumbs for the rest of us to follow!

I got this email from an information request with the City of Kyle.

From Brian Gettinger, "Tunnel Evangelist and Business Development Lead" at Elon Musk's The Boring Company:

> Wanted to keep you guys updated on progress here. I am meeting with CAMPO on the 25th. I talked to {} last week and he is pretty excited about potentially resurrecting the Lone Star rail concept in a different form. I see the concept coming together like this:

> 1) TBC deploys individual systems in San Antonio & Austin

> 2) Development entity forms or reconstitutes to lead connection from San Antonio to Austin ‐ likely collaborating with TXDOT to follow I‐35 ROW

> 3) SATX to ATX system deployed in Segments each with individual utility

>- 1. Kyle to Austin

>- 2. New Braunfels to SATX

>- 3. San Marcos to Kyle

>- 4. New Braunfels to San Marcos

> With the leaked articles about ATX and SATX there is enough in public space for you to start having "what if" conversations with folks, just don't implicate me or TBC directly. TBC and I are most useful operating in the background, not in the front of the parade.

> Let me know how I can be helpful.

Response from the city manager:

> Hi Brian,

> Looks solid to me. We would love a connection into downtown Austin AND ABIA. Once there is a plan for the overall plan we will need to know what the cost is to Kyle for the station and we can begin identifying a location and funding plan. Please let us know what our next steps should be.

I've been really impressed with Particle easing that transition from Arduino to production: https://www.particle.io/

I like where I live and I don't want my landlord to be thinking about how easy it is to replace me.

I think https://stillalive.com/ will do what you want.

Their landing page is a little weak but I dig their UI for setting up tests.

Nope, he was joking: "As to what kind of product ideas he wanted to play with, Mr. Lodwick was coy. “It’s called mydunks.it...”

As someone who's been doing mockups in Pages/Keynote for a while, I found it to be a great resource of nice looking widgets and templates and well worth the $.

Nope, suppose to be white.

I'm guessing you're browser is automatically creating a link to that phone number and using some default stylesheet. What browser are you seeing that?

Agreed, some questions are more easily answered through chat and #RubyOnRails on freenode is a great place to get help.

However, I think the cool part is that it's not text. Personally I've find it to be really helpful when I'm stuck just to talk through the problem with somebody else. Often just the act of vocalizing dislodges the log jam.

Copy+Pasting your awesome response above...

Thanks for the call!

I love the idea of sharing recorded calls to help more people.

Good to talk to you too.

We need to make that more clear on the site, we don't entend the volunteers to get paid, but rather rewarded with discounts, early access, and recognition from the communities they help.

Thanks!

Obviously, some questions you're going to need to work through the code, so we can always move the conversation to text.

So far lots of the calls have been about documentation and best practices which are pretty easy to talk through.

Sorry man, was helping somebody else. Call me now!

Thanks! If anybody else is interested in getting a community hotline setup, we've been working on making that really easy.

Shoot me an email: chap@pockethotline.com

Thanks for the ups guys.

As I said on the site I owe a lot of our success to the generous spirit of the open source community and wanted to give a little back.

If you're interested in volunteering to take calls: http://www.railshotline.com/apply.html

I use to think this way, but I'm agreeing with Joel.

If the 2 founders can't make a contentious decision as a team, they're not much of a team.

yes.

Pure speculation, but they've taken funding and seem eager to branch out. I think we'll see more than ruby hosting from them in the near future.

It's not too late.

A new free online school for learning Ruby is just getting started, Ruby Mendicant University: http://blog.majesticseacreature.com/quick-rmu-status-update

Get your entrance exam in by Sunday and you've got a shot at being a part of the first round of sessions.