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drunner··on Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
To me, its the next big bubble out there.

We had dotcom, we had subprime mortgage, next we have the VC bubble.

Tesla has had 5 profitable quarters in 10 years. Uber loses billions of dollars a quarter. Chalk it up to R&D or whatever you want, but this is only sustainable because of this giant bull run.

When the money starts to dry up, these companies are going to implode.

drunner··on Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
Literally every day I come to work I have to fiddle with my usb-c to hdmi connector (yes, I replaced it once).

Not to mention a bunch of other weird things, like relocking 10 seconds after I login occasionally and having to restart so my headphone jack works (2017 macbook pro).

I have relatively other complaints (keyboard, dongles) as a first time mac user, but weird stuff like the above does remind me of past linux experiences.

drunner··on Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax
Has anyone seen any material on what do you if you have Capital One accounts besides update passwords? My Credit is already frozen.
drunner··on Ask HN: What do GitHub stars mean to you when evaluating a project, if anything?
With regards to the signal aspect of it, I personally only star repos that I am using on a project.

I naively believe that there are many others like me and it helps me determine which projects are "I actually use this" vs "I starred this because it's the cool thing to do/use".

drunner··on Web Framework Benchmarks
If I could make a recommendation that would humor me personally, you could publicize the stats required to run the instance on an B1S or Fv2 Azure instance.

I think it would be really interesting to see which frameworks are so costly upfront that they would impede a developer from prototyping with them on the cheap.

drunner··on NFL Releases Finite Element Helmet Models
You aren't going to get the activity of football to go away even if it is risky and bad idea for ones health. Just look at all the dumb stuff our country does already.

To pose a different question, I always wonder if this is the wrong direction. Why not remove the helmets altogether? Or go back to the leather ones? Has their been any comparative studies from head injuries back before the plastic shell was introduced? Or perhaps relativeness to Rugby head injuries?

drunner··on Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?
In my personal experience, complexity of the product.

Anyone can start a new product with 1/10th of the features of a competitor and feel that large corporations are slow and inefficient.

Hammering out all of the edge cases and flushing out a product is often what takes a lot of time and manpower. Not to mention dealing with a larger number of customers who probably use said product.

There are success stories of small shops who automate everything, or who offer a product that is so simple (not a knock, actually a complement) that it can be run by a small team. Complexity is the enemy to shops like this, and I think few know how to avoid it in the long run.

drunner··on Exploring ReasonML and functional programming
No runtime. ReasonML is a language that has decent interop capabilities with javascript through the bucklescript compiler. You can use it to write drop in ready code segments into an existing codebase.

Hello world in ReasonML will get you a single line javascript output. Last I looked, the Elm bundle is in the 10s of kbs for something like that because you get the whole architecture.

Add is ReasonReact and it's a little more comparable obviously.

drunner··on A minimalist guide to tmux
adding

  bind C-a send-prefix  
to your .tmux.conf file will allow you to type C-a twice and still get to the front of the line
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