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by jdm2212 2mo ago
> Errors in those services triggered a client-side retry loop that increased traffic during recovery. The worst outages I've been part of always have some version of this :(
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Try using Fable and report back. Local LLM is to Fable as Little Tike car is to a Porsche.
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
The kids are basically free (in dollar terms), if the kids go to public school, you don't fly, and you have a stay-at-home spouse who cooks and clips coupons. You also don't have to be wealthy to own property. Outside of major met
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
That is just a huge mess of tautologies. Like the way they measure the housing you need to thrive is by the 40th percentile of rent. But today's apartments are much nicer than apartments in 1963, so the 40th percentile is buying a much
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Food is very cheap if you eat like Americans did in 1963. No restaurants, no prepared food, relatively little meat. Rice, bread, beans, potatoes, squash, etc. Healthcare is cheap if you consume healthcare like a person in 1963. No need for
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Houses are cheap everywhere outside of major metro areas. And raising kids is cheap if you have a stay-at-home spouse, send the kids to public school, and never fly. So basically if you recreate the typical 1963 suburban living experience,
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Fresno, like I said above. Go on Zillow and you'll find plenty of very nice 2BR and 3BR houses in Fresno that a teacher or auto mechanic can afford. If you mean "where within commuting distance of the hottest industry in the world
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
That's more like the top decile than the average. The top decile in any era has it pretty good. Most of the "life is too expensive today" complaints are some flavor of: Grandpa was a 90th percentile income earner and I am a 5
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
A 1963 house is what we'd think of today as a starter home. Available medical care was very limited, so you don't need modern health insurance. No braces for the kids. One small car, and it can be a really old beater and still be
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
If you're ok with 1963 living standards, you can in fact have the grandfather's same lifestyle today at a very reasonable cost.
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
The problem that companies like Talenti run into is: a guy starts the company because he loves making ice cream; foodies get into it and make it really popular; once it's popular the average customer is someone who can't tell good
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
pretty much the Honest Tea -> Just Ice Tea story :)
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Not "everyone" -- if you're the owner of a successful ice cream brand who spent a decade grinding in the ice cream game, cashing out the brand equity and getting to live on a yacht might feel better.
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
AIUI the issue is just scaling pain. No one has ever run a global network of first-party-owned taxis before, and they're learning by doing, at the same time as they're also solving problems in ML/robotics to make the robotaxi
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Also middle/high income parents. Shuttling kids to and from school and activities is the real killer use case for driverless cars. They're actively working on getting this legalized.
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Waymo regularly brings the cars in to central service depots for cleaning and battery charging. Also, as a passenger you can report that a car is dirty and it will be pulled out of service for immediate cleaning (and you get a small credit
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
I think Uber just lies about estimated pickup times and Waymo doesn't. Partly because I've never had an Uber arrive faster than their estimated time, whereas Waymo arrives early pretty routinely. And also several times now I'
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by jdm2212 2mo ago
Waymo charges more than Uber to supply constraints, not bad unit economics. People (like me) are willing to pay extra for the product Waymo offers, and Waymo is itself supply constrained and has no direct competitors offering driverless rid
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by jdm2212 3mo ago
They're working on it for Linux: https://rust-for-linux.com/
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by jdm2212 3mo ago
sure, but the prior poster's "joke" was that Germans are bad at English and refer to overhead projectors as "beamers" when in reality the entire English-speaking academic world refers to slide decks as Beamers becau
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by jdm2212 3mo ago
It's the eternal question with any kind of tech debt -- is it worth a little more velocity now in return for medium-to-long term slowdown? And there's no general right answer.
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by jdm2212 3mo ago
the software that generated the slides is called Beamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Error logs and monitors find out because the RPC fails, which causes an error to be logged and a failed request metric to be incremented. (The UncaughtExceptionHandler will do the same for stuff failing in background threads.) If eventual c
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by jdm2212 3y ago
If I need to write some bytes to an S3 bucket but the network is hosed, there's literally nothing useful I or any library can do until the network is back up. RPC calls will fail, error logs should get written, and a monitor should get
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by jdm2212 3y ago
In a desktop application that is not allowed to totally crash, or at least has to crash kind of gracefully, checked exceptions are useful. But in the world that most Java devs live in, which is various flavors of RPC server, failing request
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Yeah, that'd be nice.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
You can return union types in Java if you want that, although it'd be nice to have better first class support for them. The issue though is that forcing people to handle irrecoverable exceptions is just kind of dumb. If I do file IO, I
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by jdm2212 3y ago
It's not a matter of laziness. Most of the time there's just nothing you can do. Like if you try to construct a URI based on a configured URI string, and get URISyntaxException... wtf should you even do? You can't recover, be
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Unless the contents of the ebook are my property, in which case you have stolen my property.
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by jdm2212 3y ago
Checked exceptions failed because 99 times out of 100 the exception is not recoverable, so the try/catch block is just wasting everyone's time. (In 7 years as a Java dev I can think of one time I wrote code that tried to recover f

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