jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
So, I think that personal e-bikes are basically a small percentage of e-bikes in the city. Most of the e-bike users are food delivery drivers / couriers. As they talk to each other, I'm sure they all have the most cost effective
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by jrockway 3y ago
Back before there was a mobile app, I just made a tiny web page that polled the API: https://jrock.us/mta.html It served me very well for many years (just added it to my phone's home screen as a bookmark). It doesn&#x
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by jrockway 3y ago
You're hungry, you eat something, you're not hungry, try again tomorrow.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think this behavior should be legal. Capital One pays you to install their app to scrape prices. Of course they're scraping prices. It makes website owners mad because there's no IP address to block to prevent scraping, but if
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by jrockway 3y ago
There goes my expression "Nobody ever got fired for picking AWS" ;)
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by jrockway 3y ago
Right, exactly. This is like those companies that buy new cars, tear them down, and sell anyone who wants a 1200 page report about all the new technology in the car. Frankly, I think you'd be crazy to not understand your competitors
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's not quite an employer/employee relationship, just a partnership. So this is kind of like starting your own video streaming website while being a Twitch Partner. I don't know if the T&C prohibit that, but they would
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by jrockway 3y ago
Is this a problem? This sounds like ordinary business development / product management. Let's say I started a cloud provider. A customer comes to me and says "we need something like BigQuery". The first thing I'
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by jrockway 3y ago
We're shit talking people on HN now because they're software engineers from silicon valley?
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by jrockway 3y ago
I pronounce it "tiv icks". Remember DIVX?
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by jrockway 3y ago
USB-C to DP is an electrical conversion. The monitor has to negotiate an alternate mode with the USB controller (then the high-speed data pairs in the USB-C cable are used for Displayport signalling and not USB). (There are such things as
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't really care for Papa John the guy, but if one of his pizzas showed up I'd eat it.
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by jrockway 3y ago
My dream of pushing cars into underground tunnels and parking structures now has some financial value!
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by jrockway 3y ago
There is also the risk of lightning hitting the wires and causing damage indoors.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, we have legislators in their 30s in the US and we regulate tech like it's 80 year olds.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The legal system sounds pretty normal. Elected officials are in their 80s. Some corporation comes to them with a bunch of mumbo jumbo not involving fax machines and a stack of money. Law enacted. I also think that east Asia thinks that e
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think the watchlists really do anything. Checking your ID against the boarding pass is just yield management for the airlines. (Compare the cost of a full fare economy ticket 45 minutes before the flight to what some despera
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't know... I thought encrypted emails were cool in like 2002, so I probably have a key on a keyserver. I probably lost the ability to revoke that key, and simply stopped caring after not receiving a single encrypted email in 25 y
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by jrockway 3y ago
Because Tesla has been significantly underperforming the rest of the S&P 500, Elon is not the world's richest person anymore. He's in like 4th place or something.
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by jrockway 3y ago
That's interesting. I took a lot of pictures in 2017, which was my first total eclipse, and don't regret it all. I kind of had a vision in mind for the picture and it came out perfect. (Looking through a telephoto lens at the s
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by jrockway 3y ago
That's what was most surprising to me. You're used to seeing it get dark at night every night... but it gets orange before it gets dark. With an eclipse, it doesn't get orange. In 2017 my brain's auto-white-balance fu
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, that's basically my default. If I have some problem involving storing data, I pretty much 100% of the time type "pgx.Connect(" and go from there. If that's not good enough, only then do I start thinking about t
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think that EBS is the difficult engineering problem that they purchased instead of built from scratch here. Writing binary records to a file and reading them all into memory is not going to be a time sink that prevents you from finding p
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by jrockway 3y ago
Everyone seems fixated on the word database and the engineering cost of writing one. This is a log file. You write data to the end of it. You flush it to disk whenever you've filled up some unit of storage that is efficient to write
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think the idea is that after a nuclear war, the only two things left are your data and some cockroaches.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I do the programming for free. Taking the annual leadership impact and cybersecurity training survey is what they pay me for.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The East Coast gets EF3 and EF4 tornadoes.
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by jrockway 3y ago
We must use the same vendor, as I heard about that happening to my coworkers. I clicked "it's phishing you idiots" in Outlook and got a gold star. I find it funny because my organization doesn't even use email, so 100%
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think that the sand units you can install in your home have the ability to store energy across seasons. They are more like hot water heaters; heat when you have solar, but you can use some hot water at night when electricity i
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm most surprised by the lack of testing. Macs tend to ship with much smaller SSDs than other computers because that's how Apple makes money ($600 for 1.5TB of flash vs. $100/2TB if you buy an NVMe SSD), so I'd expect

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