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What is the right time

Im inclined to blame the US healthcare system. It looks like a gofundme was setup to pay for her cancer treatment. A sensible system a) wouldn’t need patients to pay for treatment and b) might have caught it earlier through regular screening

Their area of expertise is in running large scale infra, which they have innovated a lot to get. They’re acquiring a company that has expertise in an area they're not familiar with, which needs large scale compute infra. It seems like their needs are aligned in this case.

I was wondering if/when cloudflare would jump into doing “more AI”. Of all the paths they could have taken, this seems like a reasonable one. Hope that the dev team made some money/cloudflare stock from this transaction.

Its funny that its back to almost the same price before it jumped that day.

How do you mean? Have they succeeded at squeezing any profit out of anything thats not Oracle DB?

Im hopeful that the current crop of Linux PCs (hey steamos!) might finally kill windows.

Its unfortunately all too common for Physics/Math to be taught in that way (extremely technical, memorizing or knowing equations and derivations). The best teachers would always give a ton of context as to why and how these came about.

Just a poorly written article. Noah had some unique insights into economics. I believe that somehow made him believe that he is a unique genius (hes not) and the world wants his opinion on everything (we don’t).

The cargo version IMO might be a bigger hit. I can see not just last mile, but perhaps within large factories, golf clubs etc.

Everyone is vulnerable regardless of age. There absolutely need to be regulations around how these ebikes are allowed to go based on their power output.

I think the idea is to disconnect pedaling from road conditions.

When you’re biking, it’s preferable to pedal in “safe” zones (protected bike lanes, trails etc.) while relying on the battery for eg intersections and when sharing the road with vehicles. With a regular bike you have to pedal harder precisely at these zones which makes it a little scary. You can also pedal on fairly flat ground/use all that energy to climb up a steep hill quickly without pedaling etc.

Some people have never heard “no” and it shows.

Apparently he isn’t the one that deals with them (its in the final paragraph).

Ummm they absolutely still do https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Washington post has been becoming increasingly irrelevant. They went from 500-800k paid subscribers to less than 100k after Bezos started interfering editorially. Some of the most respected journalists left the paper. So I wouldn’t take WaPo as an indicator of anything; its a Bozos Vanity Project and nothing else.

afaik they have a tiered service architecture, where tier 1 services are allowed to rely on tier 0 services but not vice-versa, and have a bunch of reliability guarantees on tier 0 services that are higher than tier 1.

It is kinda cool that the worst aws outages are still within a single region and not global.

Well, that just means that secondhand evs might cater to people who could not or don’t want to shell out a lot of money for new EVs.

As the battery tech and service infrastructure matures we probably will see less of this though.

Github is no longer a trusted nor a reliable platform. Moving at least the oss stack to atproto (or any other open network) is an excellent way to safeguard it against Big Tech, Government censorship etc. Love to see this.

Doubt this will happen. Coal production in the US has plummeted, coal mines and infrastructure is not coming back. At best they would import cheap coal (but maybe not with tarrifs?) but even that would require sizable capex in ports… its just not gonna happen.

> Sam says they do have a (as yet secret) plan, but gives no clues of where a huge cash injection might come from

Probably the most telling statement. I genuinely think this man is a fraud. He is clearly conning investors and keeping the grift going until he gets “too big to fail”.

buy them with what? capital he borrowed from them?

Literally every other company has a conversational chatbot ( eg Gemini). Theres nothing sticky about chatgpt; if they raise prices users will immediately switch to another chatbot.

To summarize:

* questionable demand for AI products make the DC investments risky (makes sense)

* DCs being built in “remote” areas with cheap land may become obsolete/replaced by other DCs making use of said cheap land (questionable; DCs can upgrade cheaper than building a new one)

* financing for DCs used to be from Big Tech but is now spread out among private equity, sovereign wealth funds etc increasing the exposure of the economy to failure of these investments (again, questionable, unless they are being financed by bank loans)

The most salient concern seems to be a lack of demand. I don’t see why that would change in the future.

I haven’t been keeping up but is there still hype over full mesh like istio/linkerd? Ive seen it tried in a couple of places but didn’t work super well; the last place couldn’t because datadog apparently bills sidecar containers as additional hosts so using sidecar proxy would have doubled our datadog bill.

It’s a terrifying experiment in hollowing out the civil service. At some point a critical mass of Federal workers may be lost which brings the entire machinery of the Federal Government to a standstill.

It’s also not clear how to recover from something like this.

What this shows quite clearly is that petrostates have too much money and power. Its astonishing how many crucial sectors of the American economy have significant Gulf investment; and may soon be completely controlled by them.

The only rational way I see out of this is to move to Renewable energy and eliminate the worlds dependence on fossil fuels.

If you’re gonna cut science funding on a massive scale, scientists will become activists.

More likely that the companies that institute this will hemorrhage talent that is offered a better deal by competitors. 996 works because the supply of Engineers is quite high in China.

Someone mentioned Artifactory; but its honestly not needed. I would very highly recommend an architecture where you build everything into a docker image and push it to an internal container registry (like ecr; all public clouds have one) for all production deployments. This way, outages only affect your build/deploy pipeline.