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waffle_maniac··on I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
A high rate of interventions is virtually GEO-fenced to only highways and not cities.
waffle_maniac··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Fuck dang. He's a prick.

And fuck you too asshole.

waffle_maniac··on I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
> Last year, Waymo logged 29,945 autonomous miles between reported disengagements.

https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1458169984987942913

> Cruise drove 41,719 miles in autonomous mode per disengagement.

> Waymo drove 2.36 million miles autonomously with one accident that was the vehicle's fault.

https://twitter.com/TaylorOgan/status/1495801454111727616

waffle_maniac··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
I really hope the CEO, Richard Kirkendall, responds to your comment. It would be cowardly not to do so.

Edit: It seems like he has responded to other comments but not this one.

waffle_maniac··on I have formally accepted the CEO job at Cruise once again
> I'm still excited about the LIDAR possibilities but vision alone has done a remarkable job.

Not for Tesla. So many interventions. So many situations where the car actively tries to kill the driver and pedestrians.

waffle_maniac··on Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
If Tim Cook was really worth 100 million a year or more and had achieved a state of intelligence and skill unknown to humanity before, don't you think scientists would be scrambling to study his genetics?

He's just not that unique. The employees should be paid more and Tim should be paid less.

waffle_maniac··on Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
It awards people for being something that they cannot possibly be: worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation. Human excellence hasn't reached the point where this is the case.
waffle_maniac··on Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
Most people don’t make enough to retire until they are in their 60s or 70s. It sounds like we are paying these guys too much if we have to compete for attention with their massive fortune.
waffle_maniac··on Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
Tim’s run at the company has been about building out services and not innovation.

Maybe it makes more sense to hire a designer like Ive as CEO.

waffle_maniac··on Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan
The question is can someone do the same job as Tim without getting paid as much as him. The answer is yes, obviously. Everyone is replaceable.
waffle_maniac··on Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war
The crux of the article is that Turkey is changing their mind. OP built a straw man.
waffle_maniac··on Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war
> Turkey has stated continuously in last few days that it will follow the Montreux Convention, under which they cannot restrict vessels going back to their home base, including Russian ones.

Your comment is misleading:

"Turkey called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "war" on Sunday in a rhetorical shift that could pave the way for the NATO member nation to enact an international pact limiting Russian naval passage to the Black Sea."

"Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Turkey has control over the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits that connect the Mediterranean and Black seas and can limit the passage of warships during wartime or if threatened."

Clearly they are reconsidering what they said.

waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
Good.
waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
You want Ukraine to surrender. You support Russia.
waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
> No I dont. And you are deflecting and make up things I didn't say.

I'm not deflecting at all. You are posting lie after lie.

> Also if you want to fight for a cause go there do it I'd respect that. What I dont respect is people giving money for something thy absolutely would not fight for.

You don't respect people that fight for their lands but you respect uninvolved parties joining in? Why don't you go there yourself and convince them you are right instead of posting on HN?

waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
By default you support the aggressor. You want Ukraine to surrender. This woman has an opinion on your opinions.

> The vast majority of the people in Russian and Ukraine are against this war.

You are being dishonest as you well know. Ukrainians are against the war Russia has started but they support the war effort as it defends their lands.

waffle_maniac··on Turkey to implement pact on access to shipping straits due to Ukraine war
Turkey, like Germany, has had time to reconsider how history might think on its response to the invasion of Ukraine.
waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
You expect perfection on day one of a democracy? High standards for someone that doesn't believe in fighting for a cause.
waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
And from their perspective you are brainwashed and a liar. Or as one woman put it:

https://youtu.be/7-1uPRur6kw?t=29

waffle_maniac··on Official Ukrainian BTC wallet has $2M and is growing thanks to global donations
> The interest of powerful people and companies created this war because they profit from it.

Russia started this war and the brave people of Ukraine are fighting back with our help. Please don't spread lies to further your political agenda.

waffle_maniac··on Cryptonomicon: Among the Bitcoin maximalists
"Bitcoin Donations To Ukrainian Army Surpass $4 Million"

https://archive.is/9YTVe

waffle_maniac··on Why the West is reluctant to deny Russian banks access to SWIFT
It hasn't worked before with Putin but people still believe that if the pressure is strong enough he will change. He clearly doesn't care and no one is going to take power from him.
waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
If all data belongs to a user or an organization, which is usually the case, and that user does some actions to some objects, is that not relational? It's easy to see how most web apps fall into this pattern.

Building your own API to join data is absolute torture.

waffle_maniac··on Twitter based map of Russian troop movements
> For you and parent commentator: the topic of the thread is Ukraine's invasion by Russian imperial forces.

This is a sub thread discussing some nuance of how we got to this point.

> Let us not devolve into the Rorschach test that is Trump's administration and our personal interpretations.

I don't appreciate the gratuitous insult that we can't objectively discuss the actions of a past president.

waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
I'm talking as a whole. So yes, there are cases where it's not relational but on average most data is relational. A user has many projects. Those projects have many tasks. This is very common to most web-based software used today. Think of all the tools out there that work perfectly with this structure.

Most of our data isn't files, docs, directories. It's data given to us by our users or generated by our own processes. I'm not getting the reference to CSVs and word docs.

Yes, we store uploaded files but the metadata is stored in the database in a row that has some identifier that links to the directory where the file is stored. That works fine. We don't need a document database.

waffle_maniac··on Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia
Be careful when going outside. A cyber attack might be in progress!

But what actually would be good cyber warfare is hacking Putin’s family. Notoriously private and says his family is off limits and he never talks about them. I’m sure his kids aren’t normal like he claims.

waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
Poor database performance is a thing at my current gig. But often the only solution is having a custom view made.
waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
The abstraction hasn’t hindered me much and I work on a monolith.

One problem I have faced is when the amount of database queries on a page explodes it becomes hard to optimize without caching. I would prefer to avoid caching but that doesn’t appear to be the rails way (and for obvious reasons).

Also, at a company with a Rails app you do sometimes get other sources and processes polluting your Rails app. And when that happens you can’t utilize the efficiencies that rails provides.

waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
Yes. And new projects are even better started now with Rails than in the past (aside from the JavaScript hell still plaguing rails).

Active storage and variants make life so easy.

waffle_maniac··on Rails adds support for Fiber-safe ActiveRecord ConnectionPools
Most data is relational. It’s important to embrace the efficiencies and safety guarantees that come along with that.
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