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The current deal that I've read for Uber's Dallas expansion is that they currently are leasing about 1/3rd of a brand new skyscraper that was just built, have plans to lease 90% of a brand new skyscraper that is currently being built, and also outright purchased several plots of land where they are planning on building office building that they will own.

edit: After reading a few different articles it seems like every article says a different story about how much space Uber is committing to, so maybe you're right, it does sound a little wishy-washy.
+1 Appreciate you avoiding the usual "it's just a little smartphone app"

I'm not going to try and give an exhaustive list, but as a rough explanation: things get really, really hard when you're operating at Uber scale (hundreds of thousands of riders on trip at any one time, each demanding low latency and reliability):

- Product: native clients for each side of the marketplace in each vertical (rides, eats, freight, atg, et al), maps, localization for every country with a presence (not just language, but tax, legal, hundreds of region-specific modes e.g.: tuk tuks)

- Infrastructure: hardware teams to build on-prem DCs (cloud can get very expensive at scale), software networking to deal with said low-latency traffic, storage to optimize for reliability/latency/cost, observability (metrics, logging, alerting, tracing), security, et al

- Data: insights, operational support, routing, et al

- ATG

Hope that gives a better idea.
Yea. It's for the "starting at"-price which can then be set even lower as the more expensive non-pro variants or products from the competition.
I'm never sure why everything always has to be about "X was slow to do Y, and now they're finally catching up to Z".

It is how it is, just let it be. If you prefer a certain brand then just go with that brand. Otherwise it's just a wasted effort to be trying to brag for one brand you don't even work for that they did something faster than another one.
Except a ton of people said the letter (since iPhones 3-8 used Arabic numerals), and the "XS" was written together, to make it even more confusing.
Can't get it to work on Firefox on Android.
Hi! GitLab employee, since the OP mentioned something from a year ago I thought it might be worth mentioning that we haven't been this size for very long. Around this time last year we were at 300ish employees, but we've almost tripled this year thanks to a huge hiring push.
Seems like you two use the apps in different ways. Spotify is acceptable for picking a couple songs and discovering similar music, but sucks at just queuing up the music you already know about. I prefer Pandora for discovery, but it sucks at connecting to external devices. Since device integration is my most important feature, I settle for Spotify's discovery.
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Not sure that many sponsors will be happy to keep sponsoring the content if they'll get "sponsored"(pretty much nofollow) link.
These devices stopped being smart"phones" a while ago. Complaining about the phone not being a major part of these devices (I'm including Android devices too) is missing the wood for the trees.
First they came after those with 1b$, but I didn't stand up for them... :D
Plus "XS" was "ten S"
The book Fully Automated Luxury Communism gets into this as well.
Yes, there will always be baseload demand. But I think with the right setup more demand matching is possible for domestic and commercial buildings with relatively little effort.

One way this could work is that you have eg a smart heating thermostat which plans which hours of the day/night to turn heating on and then buys power to cover that in a day-ahead market, with the aim of minimising cost on that basis.

Wind and solar power are relatively preditable a day out so you wouldn't be paying too much to power traders for providing day-ahead liquidity vs on-demand pricing.

Likewise, EVs all end up parked somewhere during the day - the challenge is ensuring that as many of those places as possible (car parks, workplaces, etc) have charging points too; you could do something very similar there with an algorithm deciding whether to charge based on a spot price and how much is in the battery (say, owner programs car to top up to 65% and then only continue charging if power is cheap).
My 3 year old SE finally broke. I spent 900 replacing it with an XR because they refused to release another SE and I value the emphasis on privacy and security.

But not again. I feel they’ve squandered the good will they’d earned with me by giving me a worse phone at double the cost. I don’t plan to purchase another.
It has the A10 bionic chip(which is 3 years old), Same as last yeras model. It is very similar to iPad 6th gen. They should have atleat put A11.
Last year I bought some bluetooth earphones (Bose rather than Apple) and honestly I don't miss wired earphones one bit. In fact it surprised me just how much I don't miss wired earphones.

The biggest annoyance for me is that Nintendo's Switch requires a bluetooth dongle to work with bluetooth earphones despite having it's own bluetooth radio built in.
If they had a 128GB option you could say the same thing about the lack of a 96GB option. There are hundreds of billions of potential storage sizes in this range. Apple has to be practical and choose some very small selection of storage options.
Really? A quick Google shows a Tesla gets ~3 miles per kwh, so 10 miles would only be about 3 kwh. A kwh is about ten cents where I live iirc. Power's like $50 a month. So I use about ($50/10 cents)/30 ~ 13-14 kwh a day.

So 10 miles a day would be more like 20%.

That said though, a quick search shows vehicle miles travelled per capita in the US is 10k, so closer to 30 miles a day, or 9 kwh.

However, vehicles can be charged off peak in a lot of places (hot places peak during the day in the summer) so can be charged at night.
https://waymo.com/

I wasn't referring to Uber's technology specifically, only that self-driving cars are what is required to make Uber as successful as they hope to be.
My Xiami Mi Band 4 has 4 weeks of battery life, basically does same things as Fitbit
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I actually hope Apple had a “Watch Lite” version. Because I don’t need all the features Watch provides, I just want a smart watch that track my sports activities and health, I DON’T NEED the retina display, multimedia apps or ability to take phone calls, let my phone do those things and just keep the watch minimal and only act as a brilliant health monitor on my wrist
Great advices but in my opinions I prefer to stick with https://jsonapi.org specifications . There is good librairies to serialize JSON objects into JSON API compliant objects.
>"The authors of the study say they analyzed the costs of construction, fuel and anticipated operations for 68 gigawatts of gas plants proposed across the U.S. They compared those costs to building a combination of solar farms, wind plants and battery systems that, together with conservation efforts, could supply the same amount of electricity and keep the grid stable."

If the same amount of electricity is being supplied, why are conservation efforts needed? Has anyone downloaded the reports from Rocky Mountain Institute? They want your email address.
Trust me when I say "does not match reality"
Are you sure? I think these dns names are deterministic, they never change, for example www.10.0.0.1.xip.io will always resolve to 10.0.0.1 - and I don't think there is a mode where a name could resolve to different ipv4 addresses at different times.

EDIT: I experimentally confirmed that opendns and google dns, which claim to block dns rebinding attacks, do not block xip.io or subdomains thereof
I am still not sure how much one can trust Cloudflare as an entitiy. At some point people started putting loads of stuff behind Cloudflare, enabling them to be the perfect MITM, which is concerning. Probably only a question of time until some profit seeking people come around and see opportunity in it and then we are screwed even more, than we are already with Google captchas. Then we will not be able to use many more websites any longer, because someone in their incredible wisdom decided to put everything behind Cloudflare. Scary.
It's literally in the name. What do you think "general" stands for in "general intelligence"?
They haven't been resting flat on their back since the iphone 6 introduced a camera bump.
300 wh/mile seems to be about what most electric cars achieve. 10 miles/day * 300 wh/mile * 30 days = 90 kWh.

The average monthly energy consumption per capita in the U.S. is about 1000 kWh[1], so in order to double that with electric cars every individual would need to drive an average of 110 miles per day.

[1] https://www.worlddata.info/america/usa/energy-consumption.ph...
Why don't you contract days for bigger companies? Day rates are very high for someone with your experience. Also you can usually negotiate to be on site only some days of the week or even month
> made by imbeciles

By Eric S. Raymond, but close enough.
I find the current generation of smartwatches a complete waste of money. Other than the signaling factor of the iwatch, i found it annoying and utterly useless. Between the wrist-shock vibration (hey my phone is already vibrating in my pocket) to the annoying "breathe" app, this is by far the worst apple product i ve used. But it's not their fault, it's a problem with the genre. Between the daily-recharge hassle, the inability to have an always-on screen, the lack of a killer app and its relative fragility , watches like these are doomed. I much prefer the $30 xiaomi mi band as a sort-of tracker.

(this is just my opinion)
Haha! Well met.

Although, IANAHistorian but I bet if you limited the accounting to no earlier than 1776 the UK looks better than the USA.
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Thanks for the feedback!

I couldn't agree more. I actually deliberately used the XML DOM(Parser) API for SVG so that it could also run in the browser. I just haven't gotten around to creating a Web bundle yet, but I'll be adding that really soon.
Yeah I don't really see it as a notch that's intruding on the screen space but rather bonus screen real estate around the sensor cluster. There was never an iPhone that gave you the screen space the notch currently occupies, so it's not like anything was taken away when the notch was introduced.
so does it taste the same as it used to some time ago? and i dont see why a driver in a car is incapable of providing a meal order by keypad. perhaps you could elaborate on your opinion?
I mean, she didn't name names. I don't think there's anything wrong with being blunt if it explicitly directed at individuals.
That's true! I know I've done that with a few HBO series in the past.
This is really cool! It would be nice to see integration with other platforms like Gitlab for instance.
"if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage."

Well, if you've only got a portion then the only difference between having 10% and 99% is how frequently you have to copy new music on/how long you can go without having to copy new music, at least in my case, where I delete albums off the phone as I play them, and copying music between linux server and android phone via samba/wifi is fast and simple. Streaming - ugh... i use public transport including the tube, I fly (sometimes), I end up in areas without perfect coverage, and I listen to flac so you can't stream that well, and it would take a lot of data, and the choice is limited, and I'd be renting music not owning it forever. Streaming doesn't solve a single problem for me (my daughter loves it, though).
100% agree that the habits to have a more balanced life starts when you're young, single and childless... working 24/7 doesn't just turn off because you have a kid, it takes time and practice to reprogram your life habits
This is untrue. It doesn't take into account the fact Uber has externalised a bunch of stuff like maintenance onto its drivers. Bringing it in house would sink them imo, human capital or not.
A wind-based grid, at scale, is actually a reliable baseline. We have over a decade of solid data on it now, from Iowa and Texas. Wind is much more reliable than you think.
Not every computer comes with USB C. Pretty much every computer though does come with USB A. And IIRC, male A to male C cables are not allowed per the spec
There is also the Withings device https://www.withings.com/us/en/sleep which I use and works well.
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You can do this with Apple Music, and once watchOS 6 is out, with many other apps.
But of course, when you just oversimplify what the app actually does it sounds like it should be so darn easy to make and maintain.

It's like saying Microsoft Office is "just an app that writes documents" or that GMail is "just an email client."

Uber and Lyft do a whole lot more than what you described on the scale of millions of concurrent users in dozens of countries.

Your comparison to a taxi isn't really a great one because you see taxis sitting around on curbs and driving around empty looking for a passengers all the time. A lot of the cost of a taxi is you paying for idle time.
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It'll probably not last you that long.
> If you're going to call it Pro and talk about how you can shoot professional video

If I'll decide to shot professional video, it will be more suitable device like Go Pro or Sony, depends from type.

"Pro" label completely lost his sense today, just ignore it.
USB-C is far from the current standard, it's pretty much only used by flagship Android phones and some laptops. I would say far more people have a lightning device than a USB-C device right now.
> C/C++

No such thing.
A landscape image takes 1.5MB when compressed with HEIC[0]. Even it stores all three of them and uses a bit less compression due to better lenses and sensors, it'll be around 6MB per image. It's very efficient for the resolution if you ask me.

[0]: Inspected a fairly complex sunset shot taken with my iPhone X.
Samsung Galaxy Fold?
I would agree if there was something radical from others. It's all been incremental from everyone ever since the iPhone 4. So it's not a CEO thing. There really isn't any new feature that the masses need from these devices anymore.

That said, as you can see from the thunderous applause after every sentence in that auditorium, the herd laps up dull shit.
That's less than I paid for my X 256
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note_series

> The Samsung Galaxy Note series is a series of high-end Android-based _phablets_ and tablets developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_One

>Type: _Phablet_
How many professional photographers and videographers do you think are using an iPhone to perform their work? Pro is not a gated marketing term with a legally defined meaning like Champagne.
My wife has an iPad Air 2. The screen cracked over the years (it's mostly our 3yo's now--the source of the cracks). I went to get the screen repaired and was quoted at $169 (because the screen was "a one-off" for Apple) other devices were quoted closer to $99. The battery life isn't the best anymore, either.

If you're playing videos and using basic apps, it still works great. My wife likes to use Garage Band to jot down ideas and over the years it has gotten a bit sluggish. She also really likes the keyboard case on the newer iPads. If it wasn't for Garage Band she'd probably get a Surface.

If you're happy with what you have, keep on using it.
It's also for people who might develop sleep problems. Or for just generally tracking your sleep schedule to help yourself be in good sleep hygiene.
> almost everyone carries their phone in a case

[citation needed]
64 GB is just not enough space if you plan to use the camera a lot. I have a 2nd gen Pixel with 64 GB of space and I find myself running out of space often if I end up recording 4K video or enable RAW shots. Mind you, Pixel has unlimited full resolution storage with Google Photos so cloud storage is not an issue; but you need to be in good wifi to utilize that. While traveling, that might not be the case always.

I honestly think all these high end phones focused on camera, should at least start with 128 GB of space. OS and apps are big enough anyway.

I like how Samsung has stuck to its guns on some of the features that Apple and later others dropped, biggest being the external card support, dual sim support and audio jack. Only if they were not hell bent on adding their own customizations, I would have loved to try one.
The highest speed consumer M.2 drives go around $180/TB. Apple doesn't pay retail prices. $40 could well be a significant overestimate, especially given it's displacing an existing chip.
inherited 6s reporting in, have exactly 0 reasons to upgrade.
I know perfectly well what a straw man is and your post is a classic example. You've deliberately and intentionally misrepresented the proposition that iOS is inherently insecure because updates require a reboot. It isn't. It is a stupid position to take, and seeing as I do not believe for a second that you as an individual are stupid, I can only assume that you're doing it deliberately to get one over on "fanboys". Please stop with your absurd propositions and stop being obtuse.
(note this is not directed at redux, react-redux, or the wonderful redux-starter-kit library. I'm also a huge, huge fan of how createSlice combines action constants, action creators, and reducer handlers, all in one.)

Those react-redux hooks just exemplify the issues I have with hooks.

Yeah, potentially less code, but with more (and in some instances, completely unheard of) gotchas, more that the developer has to do to keep parity with not using hooks, and certain things dropped entirely.

I'm super interested in this discussion. I've been using React for years, and it's been smooth sailing. But somethings up with hooks, and I haven't been able to put it into words.
They changed the preorder time to 8am eastern time this year. It’s 5am on the west coast.
I always assumed this feature was added so apps that were optimised for the old side wouldn’t require two hands and new ui features like swipe nav would eventually phase it out.

Yet here I am years later still double tapping my home button several times a day
Most buyers of these phones will not film simultaneously on multiple cameras. 64GB is for them. If you're going to use that particular feature, you're buying the largest capacity phone you can.
Perhaps I phrased it poorly. It's only certain groups (largely separated by income), but unless they're a celebrity, it seems to largely taper off at extreme levels of wealth, where brands become 'subtle' again.
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Still using an SE, it’s the best
It might be a health thing. I notice when my health is poor I don't feel like doing anything. But after changing my eating habits and sleeping more[0], I have much more energy and motivation to do things I like.

I didn't notice this for a long time; the decline was so gradual I didn't notice until I was constantly tired every day. Still not perfect, but much better than before.

[0] Please sleep more, dear reader https://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1119709859979714560
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Exactly. Actually, the Amazefit Bip can go even much longer (six weeks) if you don't use GPS daily and as a benefit, fully FLOSS (unofficial) companion app Gadgetbridge ( http://gadgetbridge.org/ )
It doesn't really cost anything to open source something though. These are all projects which are developed for a reason: the commercial version might be prohibitively expensive at Uber scale, or not technically capable of operating at Uber scale, or just plain doesn't exist yet. At that point you can engage with the tech community and offer it as OSS (not to mention make your engineers happy), or you can keep it to yourself and eventually lose that opportunity to somebody else.
There are a lot of people who sleep with Apple watches already, since there are a handful of 3rd party sleep tracking apps. Plus, the silent alarm that taps on your wrist is really nice. You don't need to charge it for that long, 15-20 minutes before bed and in the morning is plenty.
If the maintenance of cars out weighted the profitability for the driver there would be no Uber drivers at all.
If you really want to get into statistics I recommend this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFrjdcImgcQVyFbK04MBEhA

Since I'm not great teaching, I've used this videos at work to make people understand stuff we've been doing (mainly programmers) and it's been great. This guy explains everything without making many assumptions and step by step.
This is really neat! How can I contribute to it? Would definetly love to add some concepts to it.
The picture does not look like arc discharge, it's more like fluorescent lamp.
I was going to recommend the same. Happy user here. Much better than my experience with Gmail actually and I have moved most of my accounts to Posteo.

Posteo is also running on green energy and free software, afaik, so that is a plus.
> can even use it one handed while biking

Please don't :(
I get that there's arguably a "general principle of the matter" component here, but the cable that comes with the iPhone is more useful to me than a USB-C version would be. My use cases -- and I doubt I'm an outlier -- are "charge the phone," where it really doesn't matter what the end that plugs into the charger is, and "connect to CarPlay," where my (model year 2019) car has USB-A but not USB-C. If the iPhone shipped with USB-C to Lightning cable and charger, it would be marginally less useful to me -- I'd just have to go buy the USB-A to Lightning cable.

The number of times I've needed to physically connect my iPhone to any of my Macs is, as far as I can recall, zero, and it's been that way for years. Wireless everything has been much, much better for me. The only time I've really used a cable is to do backups before installing beta versions of iOS. (And that backs up to my Mac mini, which -- even in its current updated incarnation -- still has USB-A ports.)
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Portrait mode is a pretty sweet upgrade.
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He’s downvoted because he’s bringing on-the-ground facts to a political discussion about solar and wind.
People are almost certainly asking for thinner phones. A very small portion of people probably would prefer a thicker phone with a larger battery, but I strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people prefer phones that are as thin as possible with enough battery life for an average day's usage, with the option of carrying an external battery pack for the times when more battery life will be necessary.

I am certainly in the latter camp, in fact, I would prefer an even thinner phone, because I am almost always within arm's reach of a charger and rarely even need "a full day" of battery life.
I apologize if this is a naive question, but why doesn't Apple continue to sell the SE if it was popular and there is a continued market for it?
FWIW, there are other people in the world beside you. And they have different needs and desires. I am one of those people. 64GB is perfect for me. I wouldn't upgrade to 128GB of storage even if it were available.
I was hoping to get rid of the notch. I had an iPhone X, I'm typing this on a OnePlus 7. There's a few phones now that have no notches or holes in the screen.
It wouldn't make much sense on a screen that small.
It really depends on the usage. Our iPads don't have cellular and our kid often watches movies and tv in the car. I've also downloaded YouTube videos so they can watch. 32GB is a very small amount of space for that kind of usage.
When most people talk about "Mass transit" I think they mean trains... subways... buses...

I hope!