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Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop tunnel in California is gone(theverge.com)
10 points by ubertaco 4y ago|3 comments
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by ubertaco 4y ago
"Elon Musk’s first prototype Hyperloop tunnel is no more. Bloomberg reports that the roughly one-mile-long white steel tunnel running along Jack Northrop Avenue near SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, has been removed and wi
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I wonder if any internal rumors of this were part of the sort of "exodus" from Giant Bomb a while back. Even Gerstmann left and is now just doing his own thing solo.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
For now, but the network that owns it notified the creator that they have plans to let Netflix's license expire, and then not license it elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33012167
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by ubertaco 4y ago
With apologies for linking to Facebook, the creator of Final Space (Olan Rogers) has posted publicly about the news he was given that Final Space was being removed from all platforms, with licenses not being renewed, and (if he's to be
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I dunno, this sort of thing seems intuitive to me: @POST @Path("/widgets/{widgetId}") public Widget getWidgetById(@PathParam("widgetId") Long widgetId) { // ... } ...where
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by ubertaco 4y ago
There's always https://layoffs.fyi , but there's a lot of "noise" in there from small startups, I find.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
Dodged a bit of a bullet, I think; they were one of my top 2 choices in my last job hunt a few months ago, and ultimately I got a better feeling about the other choice. I've been loving the job I _did_ take, and don't regret my de
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by ubertaco 4y ago
Indeed, Benioff's not only not a Mormon, he's a well-advertised pseudo-Buddhist. Their company internal conferences begin with pseudo-Buddhist monks performing only-slightly-watered-down religious rituals, and that same group is i
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I'm iffy on this for software (because you can always spin up a separate descriptively-named library to house the "scope creep"), but I'm 100% about this for team names at software companies, for the exact same reason: b
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I wonder if you take an "all claims are facts until proven otherwise" approach to religion as well, and if so, how do you reconcile the mutually-exclusive (but non-falsifiable) claims that various religions make counter to one ano
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by ubertaco 4y ago
>(Note there is a straw-man counterargument where one might say “so they changed their mind as evidence evolved, that’s allowed”. But the information was presented as established and factual in both cases. We have always been at war with
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by ubertaco 4y ago
> In the beginning this was the narrative because there was a shortage of masks, or because of plain ignorance. Maybe I missed something, but I don't remember ever hearing "masks don't work unless you're a medical pro
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by ubertaco 4y ago
By all accounts I heard internally, life at MuleSoft has become a death march now as they've gotten more integrated with the company at large. MuleSoft is an ancient player that has a long history of doing enterprise software long enou
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by ubertaco 4y ago
> Counter point seems to be Slack, which has become better (in my opinion) after the Salesforce Acquisition. ...which was only finalized about a year ago, and "phase one" of Salesforce's several-steps-plan that culminates
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by ubertaco 4y ago
"Heroku is now Salesforce Cloud" is an easy-bet prediction, just like "ExactTarget is now Marketing Cloud", or "Pardot is now Marketing Cloud Account Engagement". When something gets the "Cloud" renam
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by ubertaco 4y ago
This is Salesforce we're talking about, the company that pledged not to do any layoffs during the pandemic, then announced that they were laying off 1000 people literally the day after announcing what they called "the best quarter
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by ubertaco 4y ago
Musk didn't even create Tesla. Or PayPal. Or SpaceX. He just dumped daddy's apartheid-diamond-mine money into them, and then sued the founders to get an injunction against the founders being able to claim that they were the founde
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by ubertaco 4y ago
Without going into much detail, the way some NFT stuff was handled internally is a big example, and then there was the company all-hands where Benioff berated some presenter on stage for having not-cool-enough shoes, and Bret had to spend a
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by ubertaco 4y ago
>and tend to buy what they _don't_ already have. Ehh....in the time I was there, they bought Tableau _and_ Datorama in the same month, and they already had reporting/analytics features (although not as in-depth). They also boug
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by ubertaco 4y ago
This math assumes that the requests are serial (each begins and completes before the next one starts), rather than concurrent.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I just left Salesforce, and on the way out I talked to some folks who saw Slack as the last decent corner of the company to work in (while that lasts). As someone who worked at a company Salesforce acquired, I can say from experience that t
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I've also found that if I used the Logitech "unifying" adapter, I _still_ had significant 2.4Ghz spectrum interference -- the Logitech adapter was causing my bluetooth headset (also in the 2.4Ghz spectrum) to have significant
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by ubertaco 4y ago
As someone who has worked at Salesforce (and is on the way out): no thanks. Salesforce is _explicitly_ geared towards vendor lock-in -- it's their bread and butter. It's why they have a vendor-specific clone of React (Lightning We
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by ubertaco 4y ago
No matter what I typed, it always generated the same image of a moon half-covered in shadow. I think something might be a bit buggy with this.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
Well, that explains why the exploratory job application I sent their way a couple of months ago disappeared into the void. I wouldn't be surprised if they've been in a hiring freeze in preparation for this move.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
I don't think it's that suspicious. Neither article highlighted the person's ethnicity in any sort of detail (I didn't even notice the ethnicity at all in the 400k emails post). There are often multiple front page storie
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by ubertaco 4y ago
My cheap Epomaker TH80 was $80 when I bought it, and supports USB-C, up to 3 bluetooth devices, _and_ a 2.4Ghz dongle connection. There are other reasons it might not be for everyone, but it's got a 2.4Ghz dongle, and those are actuall
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by ubertaco 4y ago
This is a Python library, not a programming language. Seems like a misnomer.
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by ubertaco 4y ago
This looks like a non-hotswappable board with proprietary switches, and it's still tied to Logitech's wireless dongles (which are notoriously bad about both causing and being super-sensitive to 2.4Ghz-spectrum interference). I mea

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