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by kenhwang 3y ago
Cars already have a black box like logging system that tracks literally everything the car does continuously in very fine detail. The exact speed and engine load, brake/throttle/steering input, detected tire slip, elevation change
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I really like how they're rolling out updated headunits for all their cars right now. Just about every Porsche from the 1960s to late-2000s can be updated to support a modern Porsche infotainment interface as well as CarPlay/Andro
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by kenhwang 3y ago
My friends regularly have to have their Pixels replaced/retired due to hardware failures around the 2 year mark. The 7 years of support is nice, but these phones don't last anywhere near that long.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Typically you'll have to put in all new electrical and plumbing, because the existing office level capacity is no where near sufficient. You'll have to completely redesign HVAC and ventilation as well since you can't have an
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by kenhwang 3y ago
The cost of a conversion typically isn't much less than the cost of a complete demolition and rebuild. So it just makes more financial sense to find a smaller building to upsize or one in more disrepair to demolish and rebuild than to
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by kenhwang 3y ago
The biggest benefit I've noticed with plaster walls is the soundproofing. There's more layers of much denser material. My walls are 1 inch of plaster with metal lath (vs the typical 1/2 thickness for drywall), on top of tradi
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by kenhwang 3y ago
You're describing a modern off the shelf studfinder. Those already use magnets, radar, and ultrasound to detect studs, pipes, and wires.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
My very modern many antenna WiFi6 router has a very hard time going through even one wall. Turns out metal lath and plaster walls do a very good job of blocking radio signals.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Oh, hey, I knew someone who helped with research on this while I was at UCSB over a decade ago. From the way they described the goals of their research, it wasn't so much using WiFi as radar with specially flashed router drivers doing
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by kenhwang 3y ago
> Endgames almost always have the potential to outsmart and outmanoeuvre the opponent, like any other part of the game. In an evenly matched endgame, sure. I think those endgames are fun, but rare when playing in person since there'
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by kenhwang 3y ago
That's why my dad never got into chess. He said the openings were all really routine/reactive, and the endgame was way too much chasing. To him, it was fairly obvious who was going to win after the midgame if it isn't evenly
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by kenhwang 3y ago
From my conversations with some Toyota software engineers, they have a respectably sophisticated modern software/tech stack. There's a ton of C++ since they have to interface with hardware. For tooling and internal applications it
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Not being weight sensitive is the very important key point. It means trains of the future could use some non-lithium battery chemistry. Likely sodium-ion, which is projected to be significantly cheaper due to abundant materials, safer due t
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by kenhwang 3y ago
You can tell they're having a lot of launch day backend pains. Push notifications are sometimes up to a day delayed. Follows don't stay followed, auto-follow on join doesn't seem to work at all. QTs don't show up properl
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Because they have competent local competition. ANA is very evenly matched with JAL. Same with HKA and Cathay Pacific. Even Taiwan has China Airlines (flag) and EVA.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
It's European airlines in general. It's what happens when the only airlines are flag carriers that don't have to worry about competition because their respective governments will keep them in business.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
As someone who has worked with WSJ/NYT/LAT/Tribune on adtech in the past: that completely ad free subscription cost is significantly more expensive than you think. Partially because those sponsored articles (native ads) pay a
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by kenhwang 3y ago
Same reason I'm still on the Xperia 5 line of phones. Relatively small (narrow, which I care about more than overall size) with SD card slot and 3.5mm jack.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I think Google knows that BigQuery is their only successful cloud product. Everything that isn't BQ is more at risk of being left to stagnate until it's discontinued.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I'd say there's two kinds of publishers. The "good" publishers will simply charge more per ad and do more hidden proof of trustworthiness, such as being more open to code audits/transparency, more user tolerable ad
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by kenhwang 3y ago
There's a lot of ad fraud in the industry, there's a lot of money in advertising. Everyone is incentivized to say they showed an ad but not actually show the ad. There's a lot of very sophisticated ad fraud operations and t
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I work in ad tech, the difficulty in serving ads isn't showing the ads (which can be pretty annoying in itself for advanced ad formats), it's collecting enough metrics consistently enough across platforms to convince the advertise
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by kenhwang 3y ago
It was always obvious when you scrolled past the cached content because errors or timeouts would start happening pretty frequently.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I've seen my org send a silly amount of silly questions that were obviously our fault to AWS support and they always took it in stride. We very rarely needed to follow up with our client executive (but they always offer to jump in if n
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by kenhwang 3y ago
They were present long before API pricing was announced.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
There's only a paid version or an ad-supported version, so yes.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I switch between Dvorak and QWERTY on my computer keyboards primarily because of the shortcuts being a mess. But since I only exclusively type with two thumbs on my phone, Dvorak is noticeably faster than QWERTY.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
I suspect API users are the much more valuable users to Reddit, the users that generate or moderate content, can afford to pay for apps, or tend to be ad adverse. Those are valuable to Reddit or advertisers.
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by kenhwang 3y ago
You're still allowed to use the API for passion/personal use. They're "passion hobby projects" trying that collect revenue by selling the app to other users. It's disingenuous to pretend they're not also a
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by kenhwang 3y ago
On the other hand, I think the price is damn steal. If Apollo's numbers are to be believed, Reddit is willing to sell its traffic at ~$2.50/user/month. That's half the value of a pre-Musk Twitter user and a third of the

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