dpark

26 ms·

481.
by dpark 6mo ago
> Maybe this was just an interesting thought experiment to them Possible, though OP says they are “About to launch the MVP”. > ”UPS/FedEx wants to see their retailer customer (not I) happy" Just to be clear, that was my
482.
by dpark 6mo ago
A. Maybe. Are you going to ship with someone who is going to open your package and rifle through it, though? I would personally also not feel confident in my ability to check fully for hidden illicit material if I were the courier. B. No. A
483.
by dpark 6mo ago
> It shipped anyway. “Real artists ship” No product worth using is bug free.
484.
by dpark 6mo ago
> I'm increasingly seeing increasing number of random personal vehicles drop off my retail packages that were shipped via UPS/FedEx to a central hub I have also seen this, but I’m pretty sure these people are essentially empl
485.
by dpark 6mo ago
Even across state lines is a big risk but carrying unknown packages into another country is astronomically stupid. You don’t get to play the “I didn’t realize” card, either, when you lie to a customs agent and claim you didn’t accept packag
486.
by dpark 6mo ago
“But that wouldn’t be profitable!”
487.
by dpark 6mo ago
I missed the “different countries” bit. Hell no. OP, I hope you are on good terms with Trump, because you’re going to need that pardon.
488.
by dpark 6mo ago
The bigger problem is that being a casual package courier is not worth the hassle. Let’s say someone doesn’t want to pay FedEx $70 to ship a box next-day from San Francisco to Portland, so OP arranges for you to do it and charges $35, takes
489.
by dpark 6mo ago
This is the key thing. None of this “trust a stranger” stuff actually works out. Uber isn’t actually a rideshare. It’s a professional driver. Airbnb isn’t a room in someone’s house. It’s an apartment rental. GrubHub isn’t someone who picks
490.
by dpark 6mo ago
This is the problem (or arguably success) of modern appliances in general. They just aren’t generally worth repairing. People grumble about planned obsolescence but the reality is that there are people who will repair them, if you are wil
491.
by dpark 6mo ago
Paved roads have been around for thousands of years longer than the bicycle. > Horse-drawn busses predate private automobiles by almost a hundred years. And they used roads that already existed for transit and transport. People have al
492.
by dpark 6mo ago
No it does not. This is widely spread but still misinformation. https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-health/m... https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2023/07/medical
493.
by dpark 6mo ago
> People have higher opinions of doctors than they actually deserve. This is kind of absurd. Most doctors are both intelligent and capable. The fact that some small set of doctors is incompetent says little about doctors as a whole.
494.
by dpark 6mo ago
Really depends on what you’re putting in the DB. Cloudflare is clear that these are supposed to be very localized DBs. Per user or tenant.
495.
by dpark 6mo ago
That’s cool but one counterexample does not negate the general trend. Most places have few dedicated bus lanes. Most cities have approximately zero dedicated bus roads. Even the cited system seems to be limited and exists to connect with tr
496.
by dpark 6mo ago
> They don't need access to suburban environments. How are suburban environments stocked then? Surely village grocery stores are not stocked with milk one bike load at a time. > Even in the inner city here trucks are banned outsi
497.
by dpark 6mo ago
> industrial scale transport and personal transport share a rolling platform with an engine, but they're different platforms with different requirements, different economics and different lifecycles. What does this mean? This feels
498.
by dpark 6mo ago
There’s probably very little weather that is safe for cars but unsafe for bikes. Uncomfortable, yes, possibly extremely so. But you can bike in a downpour so severe that it’s unsafe to drive specifically because you’re not in a 2 ton deaths
499.
by dpark 6mo ago
> Buses will suck Buses are only workable because of cars. We build roads for cars first and trucks second. Buses are at most 3rd in the list and getting to use them is an incidental side benefit. No one builds enough roads for buses. T
500.
by dpark 6mo ago
> But I prefer very much any third-party multi-platform app to be identical everywhere I run it. Apps that disregard platform standard behaviors are poorly-written apps. Whether they happen to be cross-platform or not is irrelevant.
501.
by dpark 6mo ago
I was referring to this: > we read code once while writing it, we read it again while testing it/finding errors during tests, we read it again during review. That’s 3x. If you only need to read AI generated code for review, you’re
502.
by dpark 6mo ago
It does keep them permanently. Dropbox is not a NAS and does not pretend to be one. > When you open an online-only file from the Dropbox folder on your computer, it will automatically download and become available offline. This means y
503.
by dpark 6mo ago
The issue you’re missing is that the abstraction Dropbox/OneDrive/etc provide is not that of an NFS. When an application triggers the download of a file, it hydrates the file to the local file system and keeps it there . So if Ba
504.
by dpark 6mo ago
“We only back up stuff from your computer” has always been their stance, and clearly it’s a way to reduce their costs. I can understand not wanting to engage in the “please backup these 10TB I have in Dropbox” requests. I think backing up t
505.
by dpark 6mo ago
> How did Backblaze gain this trust in the first place? Is it because nobody is offering "unlimited" storage at the same price point? Yes, the unlimited storage is one factor. Their detailed write ups about hard drive reliabi
506.
by dpark 6mo ago
What’s massive about cron jobs and webhooks? I feel like I’m missing something. This is useful functionality but also seems very straightforward.
507.
by dpark 6mo ago
They are more worried about building a moat than anything else. They want people building integrations that are difficult to undo so that they lock into the platform.
508.
by dpark 6mo ago
> It runs against my experience though and I can’t seem to explain why. Your experiences are probably correct, but incomplete. More engineers on a project do come with more cost. Spinning up a new engineer is a net loss for some time
509.
by dpark 6mo ago
> Do you think that AI only helps with the coding bit, helps with the thinking bits, or helps with neither? Both. I’m effectively using AI to generate code and to help me reason through design options. > If AI generates code faster
510.
by dpark 6mo ago
> using an aphorism to make a point. But your “aphorism” is not true. You made a claim that more developers make a project slower. And you pointed to TMMM in support of that claim. Now you seem to be saying “I know this isn’t really tr

More ›