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by kenhwang 4y ago
The utilities need owner approval to initially run the lines into the building and into every unit. You're welcome to get your own contract, but if they don't have permission by the owner to dig into the ground and drill into wall
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by kenhwang 4y ago
100Mbps down and 50Mbps up.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I'd say a significant majority of people do, but inadvertently. Only 8 states don't require USSSS registration before obtaining an ID/driver's license and would automatically register (CA, CT, IN, NE, OR, VT, WA, WY), an
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> "why isn't this better regulated in 2016" Ignition immobilizers have been required in Germany/UK/other European countries since the 90s and Australia/Canada in the 2000s. It's just the US that has th
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Rust is a decent replacement for any static compiled language too. It's honestly a breath of fresh air if you actually need to use parallelism and had to experience that with other static languages. Even my peers that transitioned from
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by kenhwang 4y ago
And by many accounts Oracle makes the fastest database yet everyone still uses Postgres. Also our experience with truffleruby is death by a thousand subtle differences. It might be 97% compatible but chasing down that 3% undocumented behavi
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by kenhwang 4y ago
If that's true that a company as big and established as Shopify can't afford to attract, onboard, and train ruby devs, it really feels like the beginning of the end for ruby.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Interesting how Shopify went from the most pro-ruby company to what looks like unreasonably rapid divestment from it. Wonder what's going on.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
(3) happening destroys Google's current business model. Google's entire operation is funded by increasing the amount of times users click on a link and leave. There's little value in simply showing an ad, all the value is i
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by kenhwang 4y ago
ChatGPT is one of those few technologies that: 1. Competes against and destroys Google's primary profit center (search). 2. Google cannot copy, improve, and give away for free to use as a moat without severe collateral damage to itself
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> Tesla has the highest margins of all automakers by far. What an absurd statement. Tesla's is ~30%, which is high but not too far off from the ~20% of Toyota and the Germans (VW, Audi, BMW, Mercedes). But that's ignoring Porsc
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by kenhwang 4y ago
It was immediately obvious when Tesla was far behind traditional approaches for auto headlights, wipers, and self-parking and refused to deviate from their AI-only approach.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
There's generally a medical component to SAR. If you don't need medical attention or weren't at risk of needing medical attention, what's the rush? Search is trivial if you're calling in help yourself since just abo
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by kenhwang 4y ago
From my chats with friends who do SAR, they'd much prefer you use it more casually if its the two way communication kind. SAR volunteers really are a special breed, they're already volunteering to risk their lives to save you and
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Free as long as you didn't sign an agreement saying you'd be responsible for the cost of SAR. Such as breaking resort rules by going out of bounds[1]. It's really the same as the US (other than our states and cities acting mo
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by kenhwang 4y ago
SAR doesn't care about whether you have insurance. They simply stick you with a bill if they think you were negligent or the situation shouldn't have happened if there was adequate preparation and/or skill. Then you, the resc
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by kenhwang 4y ago
In one instance, yes, for simply getting so lost in the mountains in a state park that they decided it was best to call SAR when provisions ran out after dark. Dispatch routed the rescue request to the closest city fire department, they cam
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by kenhwang 4y ago
As someone with a bunch of idiotic friends that always find themselves needing SAR in North America. The rule of thumb within the group that has generally held true is: if you're on federal lands it's fully free, but if you'r
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I never had much complaint about Facebook's engineering culture, it seems like they get more right than the other giant tech companies. Facebook's failures were always with business morals and product direction, and it's the
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I work in advertising. It is very typical for big advertisers to have a change of ownership exit clause. It is also very typical for these contracts to only establish the unit rate, but without a required minimum spend amount. The bigger na
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Advertising is a human problem. I think Elon is already feeling the blowback from immediately misunderstanding it based on this tweet[1]. It's going to be interesting to see how he intends on making up that $5b/year. [1] https:&#
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by kenhwang 4y ago
It's what Tesla puts on their front page marketing[1]. But if you want more detailed breakout, there's this[2] report that you can dig through which states: > A range of cycle estimates was provided throughout the literature fo
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by kenhwang 4y ago
A lot of Twitter spam can easily be combated with more options under "who can reply/retweet", such as: only paid Twitter Blue subscribers, only followers, only verified users (especially with more ways to get verification), o
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> I know Musk is widely disliked, but there will never be a shortage of talented engineers wanting to work with him, on interesting challenges, for very high compensation. But how many talented engineers want to work with him, on interes
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> * High def video Maybe as a paid/subscriber feature; even YouTube seems to have a cost problem with high def video. Video ads are barely profitable, I can't imagine serving high quality video content at a loss being a good bu
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by kenhwang 4y ago
They just had a major earnings miss. This will spook advertisers about Facebook's ability to deliver ads.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Advertising is an old boy's club. They spend money based on personal relationships, brand image, reputation, reliability, and trust. The actual quality of the advertising product almost doesn't matter, it's not like any of th
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Musk immediately created a huge power vacuum within Twitter. There's absolutely going to be senior staff trying to climb into executive roles with golden parachutes.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
They're currently rated for 20 years of usable life, so you'd replace 5% of them a year. They're supposedly 95%+ recyclable, it's just not currently economically viable to do so since only cobalt and nickel are cheaper t
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by kenhwang 4y ago
The Scala 3 requirement really does cripple the choices available. The Scala 3 transition does feel a bit like the Python 3 transition where major libraries and frameworks are really dragging their feet on transitioning because of the high

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