bradleybuda

It’s hard to get your license suspended! You have to severely screw up, usually more than once. If you depend on a personal vehicle for your livelihood, you should avoid it!

That’s not the law. Vehicles take turns at an intersection - there’s no total queuing order based on arrival time.

At a contended intersection, it should never be the case that two vehicles coming from the same lane take consecutive turns.

That was nine months ago. How many human drivers in SF do you wager have struck a cyclist since? It’s easily in the hundreds.

Self driving cars do not eliminate risk to pedestrians or cyclists but they reduce it by multiple orders of magnitude, and they are trending in the right direction, whereas human drivers seem to be trending in the wrong one.

I really wish data engineers didn't have to hand-roll incremental materialization in 2024. This is really hard stuff to get right (as the post outlines) but it is absolutely critical to keeping latency and costs down if you're going to go all in on deep, layered, fine-grained transformations (which still seems to me to be the best way to scale a large / complex analytics stack).

My prediction a few years back was that Materialize (or similar tech) would magically solve this - data teams could operate in terms of pure views and let the database engine differentiate their SQL and determine how to apply incremental (ideally streaming) updates through the view stack. While I'm in an adjacent space, I don't do this day-to-day so I'm not quite sure what's holding back adoption here - maybe in a few years more we'll get there.

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Which is... exactly what the software industry has seen over the past 30 years?

Your point is taken, but the history of Java / the JRE is important here. The JRE turns out to be an excellent (and continuously-improving) virtual machine, but a horrible sandbox.

A huge value prop for early (pre-1.5) Java was sandboxing, but it ended up being clunky, frustrating, and too slow for the browsers / dial-up modems of the era and lost its chance to be the sandbox of choice - leaving the door open for Javascript to win as the world's most widely deployed sandbox.

I use this pattern a lot (and I often find myself wishing I used it more). Another way to think about this is "noun-ification" (aka the Command pattern) - instead of invoking a function directly, capture all of its arguments, serialize them to some "store", then provide the ability to rehydrate them and actually run it.

I suspect they will have a harder time finding 400k people than they will finding water.

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I inadvertently bought a pair just like this from Amazon - I knew they were knockoffs, but I didn’t think they would be Bluetooth. Hilariously they also identify as “Baets“ (not “Beats”) when connecting.

The best thing you could do to accelerate the rollout of MX2 (or any email replacement) is to have Congress bless it as a secure channel for Private Health Information

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Census invented Reverse ETL and we're now bringing it to development teams everywhere via our Embedded product. We need you to help us deliver intuitive, fast, and rock-solid APIs that allow teams to integrate their data with dozens of warehouses and hundreds of SaaS applications.

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Nobody pays the menu price at McDonalds. The high sticker price is an incentive to get you to download the app, which has huge discounts.

On balance the price has gone up - inflation is real - but this kind of analysis is just wrong.

There is a lack of political will to do the screamingly obvious thing and put a price on carbon emissions.

But it generated “extra profits”

Your instincts are correct. It is not compatible with the First Amendment.

$12 billion. So you're right that it's not a lot relative to the size of the federal budget. But it is a lot relative to the TSA's accomplishments:

1. Has never prevented an act of terrorism in its history

2. Robs travelers of their time and sanity

3. Makes life a living hell for people with unfortunate names

A little zero-sum class warfare to distract from the fact that the TSA is the most wasteful and useless government agency in human history.

It is impossible to take seriously an article that starts with "We have the worst job environment for tech in over two decades" and supplies no evidence.

The judge in that case simply does not know what they are talking about. This will be swiftly overturned on appeal.

As always, emacs did it first: https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/

Did your rates go up? Or is this a straw man argument?

TikTok shows you what you want to see. I see a lot of musical covers, dumb jokes about the Dune films, standup comedy clips. I don't know what first ~20 videos a brand new account with no history sees but this caricature of TikTok (Tide Pods? really?) is pretty outdated.

This is a neat idea, but the unfortunate reality is that every link in an "integration chain" is almost guaranteed to be lossy. The author notes an obvious version of this (what if one node doesn't support a field that the other nodes do) but there are countless other types of loss in each link - structure (i.e. document data types), precision, limits (max field size, max number), other "exotic" datatypes (geography, binary blobs). Even mutability can cause lossiness - some of the fields in these systems are write-once, and even if creates and updates can be propagated, delete propagation is a Wild West in SaaS applications.

If you're old enough to remember what happens when you make a repeated analog copy of something (fax machines, copy machines, VHS cassettes, etc) you know what happens with this kind of data flow topology. We advise our customers to do the /exact/ opposite of this - follow as few links as possible for any piece of data and move towards hub-and-spoke, ideally with the hub as a highly configurable, low loss node - in my world, this is a data warehouse or data lake, but it might also mean an iPaaS or similar.

Market solutions based on price signals?!? It’ll never work in California!

A right join is also syntactic sugar for a left join

Or you could just not buy one

Also WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, LINE, and a handful of others with more than a half-billion users. Are those heptopolists or septopolists?

The word "monopolist" in 2023 seems to mean "a company whose corporate values are different than my personal ones and/or whose pricing and packaging don't match my consumption function and/or who has a lot of money and of whom I am jealous".

Here's 60 years of data on new housing starts:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

I don't see a boom. Especially when you adjust for US population over that time, which has ~doubled.