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by dalyons 2y ago
I always wondered, how would they know you’d been? Not like Syria is sharing arrivals lists with the US gov
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by dalyons 2y ago
(I would genuinely like an explanation for why it’s so much more expensive in the US. Australia is not cheap for basically anything - high materials and labor cost comparatively. I don’t understand how solar in the US costs so much more. )
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by dalyons 2y ago
as i understand there are no day restrictions for EVs.
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by dalyons 2y ago
we're talking about mexico, not the weirdly over-inflated home solar price of the US. For eg australia is around ~ $1/w installed, and they have high labor costs. It doesnt have to be expensive, the US makes it so somehow.
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by dalyons 2y ago
Your intuition is good - having worked with something similar to this, it works great but does not scale very well. The step journaling is pretty brutal to postgres/rdbms , and you hit vertical scaling limits quicker than you would lik
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by dalyons 2y ago
do you think the crazy is going to stop?
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by dalyons 2y ago
Aurora has been excellent in my experience. Many operational problems (eg managing replica lag) disappear
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by dalyons 2y ago
UK specific maybe? ~10 banks get started every year in the US, there are ~5000 US banks.
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by dalyons 2y ago
what happened in the last 2-4 months?
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by dalyons 2y ago
They have better technology. Better batteries, innovative drive trains, cheaper chassis, better product market fit. This is supposed to be a pro technology forum.
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by dalyons 2y ago
Don’t want to be forced to pay a premium for the most expensive mainstream form of power generation.
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by dalyons 2y ago
Your opinion. To me it seems like actual innovation, and delivery on the cost promise of EVs (vastly simpler internals, so they should cost less) The west is going to screw around with tarrifs which will delay the inevitable for a few years
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by dalyons 2y ago
“Protected America from Chinese EVs” - aka, ensuring the long term irrelevance and stagnation of American car manufacturers. They will keep their sales temporarily while the rest of the world leaves them behind
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by dalyons 2y ago
This sounds like something you think should be true because it’s “just so”, but I don’t see any evidence that it actually is. NCAP seems quite strict, perhaps more than NHTSA
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by dalyons 2y ago
Yes. They pass euro and others so why not. Have you even looked?
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by dalyons 2y ago
The chinese manufacturers seem to be the only ones willing to make cheap decent EVs. They are scaling like crazy, I hope they keep it up, might turn out to be one of the biggest forces in mitigating emissions. The legacy auto companies who
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by dalyons 2y ago
Yes? I’ve taken many many waymos in SF. Perfectly happy trusting my life to them. I have alternatives (uber) and I pick self driving . Are you up to date on how many rides they’ve done in sf now? I am not unusual
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by dalyons 2y ago
It’s because you also wrote “easily be sustained if one is so inclined” which comes across as judging others for not just doing this one “easy”(for you) thing. If that’s not the spirit behind that comment then I apologize for my reaction. A
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by dalyons 2y ago
"easily be sustained" - for you maybe. I have done keto for long periods, 4 times in my life, and i find it personally extremely unsustainable. Boring, extremely restricting in social situations, and cuts you off from one of the g
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by dalyons 2y ago
I didnt necessarily mean scale as req/sec, although that is a factor, more system complexity & num of engineers. In a large enough companies tech ecosystem you tend to evolve a few characteristics: - many data stores. even if you&
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by dalyons 2y ago
This but unironically - if I’m in the market for a geo distributed hyper scale DB, I genuinely and sincerely have no interest in foreign key constraints. They are pretty much useless, if not actively harmful, at scale.
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by dalyons 2y ago
What? Cassandra is a very different technology semantically. From data design to consistency models, to transactions, it’s entirely different, don’t know how you drew this conclusion.
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by dalyons 2y ago
did you miss the word "distributed"?
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by dalyons 2y ago
yes, every couple of years there's a region-wide outage. On us-east anyway.
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by dalyons 2y ago
Why would I want this? Why does that make it more impressive?
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by dalyons 2y ago
Or running on synthetic fuel made with renewable energy
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by dalyons 2y ago
It’s not popular in Europe at all.
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by dalyons 2y ago
I agree but also I think I could be clearer about the key advantage of the distributed many dbs model… it’s that I don’t have to care if people are good at anything that you said :). If teams want to do dumb things with their schema, fine,
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by dalyons 2y ago
> My experience has been that they spin up either a hideously under or over-provisioned RDS or Aurora instance, and then never touch it until it breaks, at which point they might ask for help, or they might just make it bigger. Yep that’
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by dalyons 2y ago
It requires a ton of somewhat arcane maintenance at scale. Vacuum shenanigans, Index fragmentation requiring manual reindexing, Txid wraparounds. I like Postgres but it’s definitely way more work to maintain a large instance than mysql. MyS

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