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by jungturk 6y ago
I still think it will, but its also created opportunity for other innovators less devoted to liberalism. In my area, every spring as the days get longer and the frost subsides my yard springs up weeds. Within a month the turf crowds it out
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by jungturk 6y ago
Certainly true, but a liquid market of subjectively valued items that preserve value well - art, jewelry, and real estate - is awfully convenient. If I were someone who needed defensible transfers of large amounts of wealth in discreet tran
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by jungturk 6y ago
Are any compute resources free? It's telling that you've neglected your own labor in this assessment, and that of the other specialists required to get such ad-hoc compute working at scale (dynamic software networks, on-demand com
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by jungturk 6y ago
TSLA had positive EBIDTA in 2016, 2018 and 2019 (and Q1 2020). https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/tsla/financials
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by jungturk 6y ago
If they're doing microservices well then these services are probably instrumented in a way that makes it trivial to observe and understand the callers' expectations. Uber's github shows lots of work on opentracing, so if that
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by jungturk 7y ago
> If there's not a net gain, then don't take the deal. A gain for the dealmaker isn't necessarily a gain for other stakeholders.
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by jungturk 7y ago
>An important property of reuse is that the reusing part ... does not work without the reused asset Its also naive to expect that implementing your own local provider (if even an option for you) will generally improve on the reliability
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by jungturk 7y ago
I agree that its difficult to discover most features beyond the basics, though Apple does provide a digital user guide and the on-board Tips app to help you acquaint. Those two resources are themselves not that easy to discover, however. h
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by jungturk 7y ago
That makes sense. Managing batches doesn't seem like it would be terribly ergonomic with something like iOS.
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by jungturk 7y ago
What is it about the Mac that makes these doings more efficient? Is that just a certain comfort about being able to more closely approach the OS abstractions like file and command?
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by jungturk 7y ago
But the death rates suggest everyone won't be dying, so we needn't ascribe too much concern to this outcome.
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by jungturk 7y ago
The mortality rates suggest that many of those who succumbed to the Spanish flu would have died after having children. http://www.influenzavirusnet.com/1918-flu-pandemic/mortality...
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by jungturk 7y ago
Its 2-3x what most US residents would pay. https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/ https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/what-german-house...
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by jungturk 7y ago
Like most manufacturers, Tesla leaves the most frequent controls on/near the steering wheel as sticks, buttons & thumbwheels (volume/track/source, air-conditioning, autopilot/cruise control, blinkers/wipers&#x2F
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by jungturk 7y ago
That's kinda the issue - the author has (surely inadvertently) diluted the focus of their point with the language choice. I say this as a person who prefers to speak as frankly and casually as the author does, but when going into broad
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by jungturk 7y ago
> if you're drawing diagrams of things you haven't personally made sure could work well together If you're producing work products that don't accomplish their job, then you're probably just not good at your job,
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by jungturk 7y ago
Seems like they made a calculated tradeoff here to sacrifice some reliability in further-toward-the-fringe conditions (extremes of heat & humidity) in order to get some wow factor with the screen.
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by jungturk 7y ago
Toyota has this with Toyota Connected, a wholly-owned subsidiary that's pushing software/mobility/advanced applications across the Toyota product lines. They make it quite clear in their public conversations that Tesla-style
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by jungturk 7y ago
Would defining a (required) key set of observables not help to reduce the variability across teams? Or perhaps the issue you're describing is that teams aren't required to demonstrate any? In my experience (as a chief architect a
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by jungturk 7y ago
If you're using a browser with a reader mode you can often bypass the paywalls as well (and definitely can for this article).
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by jungturk 7y ago
They require pressure on the steering wheel and make it quite clear that you're responsible for taking control at any time when you activate autopilot. You and I probably agree that this might be wishful thinking to expect some portion
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by jungturk 7y ago
I'm assuming by "more effectively" you mean "less shortsightedly"? In any case, such judgement is only clear in hindsight (that is, calculating effectiveness implies a time window over which effects are to be tabula
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by jungturk 7y ago
Well _all_ aircraft are traveling faster than the speed of sound with respect to much of the universe, but not relative to their surrounding airstreams...
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by jungturk 7y ago
There are a number of unfortunate shortcomings depending on what your DMS source/target are. Another that bit us was (the lack of) support for JSON types in MySQL sources. Was there no option to add a transformation to your DMS routin
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by jungturk 7y ago
They're likely to balance the weight of the desk/human (to keep from torquing the elevator attachment), not to assist the elevator in lifting the desk/human.
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by jungturk 7y ago
The elevator needs to support less total weight if you use a longer arm to generate the balancing torque?
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by jungturk 7y ago
You can also use the CDC features of AWS Data Migration Service to just get incrementals (also in parquet if preferred) rather than full snapshots. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/aws-dms-now-supports-n...
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by jungturk 7y ago
Exporting to parquet has existed for a bit for AWS RDS (via AWS Data Migration Service), but this should make doing so more straightforward (since it doesn't require managing any DMS compute). AWS DMS also supports incrementals (using
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by jungturk 7y ago
Definitely focused on the business customer, mostly around travel planning and expense mgmt. https://www.concur.com/en-us/all-products-page
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by jungturk 7y ago
Nice breakdown of the UA fleet here: https://www.planespotters.net/airline/United-Airlines Looks like 767s are ~28% of their current fleet's widebodies.

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