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> generous free level of service,

This is likely the biggest culprit for a lot of these companies. Too many of us have grown up in the culture of getting hosting and platform for "free", but at some point the companies providing it still have to pay the bills. There has to be a better pricing model that let's someone deploy their relatively small, low-traffic app for $10s/month or even $200 - $300 / year for the basics (e.g. - Heroku free tier type capabilities). It's not going to save these companies but it would limit excessive growth of their own costs from a free tier while at the same time still being affordable for 1 - 2 person teams who are trying to get something in front of users.
so rent is now considered a massive burden on everyone because someone making the minimum wage cannot easily afford the median rent in the city they live in?

that’s not how it works at all
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> I guess it all comes down to how much you believe their margin numbers.

Are you suggesting Tesla commits financial fraud?
I try to avoid the site as much as possible but I have a redirection rule to go to a Nitter instance in case I end up clicking on a link. The Nitter UI is nicer too and works fine without JS.

https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector
> If we only had self replicating robots we could have everything we want without having to go build it.

We have. Life is just nanotech, one that we didn't design, so we can't control it (yet). But in context of this topic, it's a sufficient proof that:

> This is the engineering equivalent of a perpetual motion machine

is false. In fact, if you squint, self-replication and in-situ resource utilization are the only ways humans ever done anything substantial.
before samsung it was adobe. a friend of mine who used to work for adobe described the marriage as "staying together for the benefit of the kids."
Value per hour might be a little low there, but they have certainly done more to align incentives with employees than my employers have. I do get bonus, but it is a fixed percentage based on getting above "meets expectations."
It's not the money that's the point, it's that the mortgage company is putting skin in the game. The value of a cash offer, aside from going above the appraisal value, is that there is no risk of it falling through due to financing problems. The $5k is nothing except that it shows that our offer may as well have been cash as far as that concern goes.
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I came here triggered by this, to say exactly this. Pleasantly surprised I'm not the only one.
Right, I understand that you want to earn as much money as possible, and if you don't feel you are being compensated adequately, you will go somewhere else.

That probably describes many, most, or all people, but isn't an answer to the question I was curious about.

I am not sure why you are refusing to answer to my question while still engaging in the discussion, but I guess I should take it as an answer that, in fact, no, nothing at your job contributes to whether you find it more or less tolerable or even enjoyable than another, except how much you get paid?

I am also curious, although I assume you won't answer, whether you'd say you generally "like" your jobs or "hate" them, or just don't even think of them in those terms, or what. And still curious how many jobs you've had, and how long you've been working in the field.
It didn't help at all that 100% of the online servers were in AWS Ireland, regardless of where you were playing from.
But not other services like NTP, so DHCPv6 is still needed.
https://github.com/ehmatthes/django-simple-deploy will deploy to fly (or platform.sh) out of the box, should be pretty much the experience you're describing
something like the amish, relying on 100 year old technology developed by humans instead of those newfangled tools that aliens brought that no human can understand.
Great! Would I be able to provide customers any guarantees about the privacy of their data? Could you create embeddings based on data encrypted homomorphically?
It's not clear, and I read it that way at first, too. But the op was looking at cloud computing costs so I'd bet that he just reduced cloud costs.

It seems like a bit of a stretch that he got anyone fired, but much more likely that they just scaled back on cloud services for that particular project.
Did you read the same article I did? It explicitly said expertise is more important than technology choice. From the article:

"Think about it this way. If you were trying to solve any problem with software, which would you choose?

A unmotivated, unskilled team with the best technology

A motivated, skilled team with the worst technology"

This is saying that skilled people with worse tools will still create a better product then people with the best tools but no skills. In the roofing analogy it would be someone who uses the best shingles and hammers and other tools, but screws up the installation and the roof leaks anyways, vs someone with less good shingles but installs things so well that its still a good roof.

I think this lesson is extremely relevant in technology. For example, there are some developers who are more interested in the technology choice than solving the user problem well, and the result is a long development time with subpar user experience. On the other hand I've used excellent services, stable, fast, good UI, built with tech that I'd never personally choose. I can only imagine that those teams have great developers despite having to work with tech that isn't as good.
Maybe mister "genius" is working his magic by annoying as many people as he can and making Twitter visibly worse before it is finally great again! So people will finally be amazed at how "genius" he really is.
No... That's what you, the manufacturer looking for a rationale to justify extracting more profit want.

What people want is a box that does computing within spec and without melting, sterilizing their laps/hands, or otherwise introducing malbehaviors they have to work around.

People want stuff that doesn't or is very difficult to break. When it does break, they want it to be a straightforward repair.
And yet the fishing industry didn't collapse!

After 20+ years, you need to realize the doomsayers were wrong.
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Boldly Going Where No One Has Gone Before
This is all the feds fault. It sounds very 2010 but people need to get back to what the occupy movement was about.

The fed should NOT look at house prices as an asset, for almost everyone it’s an expense and if it’s going up in price that’s just plain old inflation, nothing else.

Interest rates never should have been this low for so long. It was a massive wealth transfer to the existing asset owners from working people.

I just can’t believe there’s been zero blowback about this. And the entire 2008 crises. Many many people should be in prison.
I observed the same admission principles at Georgia Tech (where I studied), and I am glad it was this way. GT was willing to give quite a lot of people a chance (especially if you were in-state), but it would not hold back punches once you were in.

For someone like me, who believed they could do it, but didn't have the "perfect" admissions packet (moving to the US midway through high school with very poor english and zero knowledge of how the US education/admission systems work will do that), it was the chance I needed, and I am immensely grateful for it.
"Real" trucks have awful rides. Their suspensions are tuned for heavy loads so when they're not heavily loaded the springs are so stiff that it feels like they don't have any.
One of these thing is not like the others...

I mean, FTL is probably a pipe dream. Nuclear fusion is an economic problem, AGI is on track to happen within our lifetime, biological immortality is in principle possible if you're not super strict about the definitions (i.e. can't beat the heat death of the universe with it), and self-replicating robots are quite literally what all of biology is.
Links to that? I am entirely unfamiliar and could easily find the wrong item.
You can do a “1031 exchange” to trade a non-residence property for a different one.
They sold Vaio and spun off Bravia.
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> What I truly want and probably lots of other people too is Flyctl for AWS. The same simplicity to run as fly, but give me something cheap in Virginia or the Dalles.

Google Cloud. It is painfully easy to spin up managed postgres, super easy to deploy gcp cloud functions or gcp cloud run. It isn't expensive either and just works.
Not Just Bikes video on the same subject today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

It's crazy to see how much trucks have blown up in the last few years. They clog up parking lots, barely fit in parking garages (let alone personal garages), blind me at night with their too-high too-bright headlights, and completely block cross-street vision for anything except other trucks when they park on the street.

A complete failure of US govt regulation. At this point I hope gas prices go through the roof and punish these truck owners for their selfish decisionmaking.
To all reproducibility problems I say “publish more”. Do you plan to do a study? Register it and publish your methodology before data collection. Have you collected data? Publish it. Have you finished the study? Believe it or not, publish it.

Do you want to do a 20 year long study on a particle collider built specifically for you right after finishing your PhD? Well, sorry, you have to build your reputation so that society sees that you are not one of those people who “are making shit up or at least being overly optimistic”.
Reality check: there are plenty of things AI art generators can't do
I'm sure you are sarcastic here, because I have 4 (four) Bosch kitchen devices which might look similar (a rotating button with little displays left and right) but function WILDLY different - emphasis mine. On one the rotating button can be pushed, the displays are touch sensitive except on one, on one two increment by the touch displays not by rotating, on one the settings are reached by long pressing the info area, menus are a jungle different every time and can be reached by touch controls OR rotating the button... No, Bosch has zero coherence (just in design ok). And don't start me on the sound signals like the stove complaining it got a drop of water on its sensitive touch buttons placed right next to the pot. I'm sorry but I'm 110% behind the OC, no Bosch decision maker EVER used those appliances.
Render.com is another spiritual successor of Heroku. I'd love a world where Fly and Render are both very successful companies.
Is true with other large orgs, e.g. Walmart and Rubbermaid.
Chick-fil-A hack spells indigestion for 71K customers
Wait until you find out how academics use the verb "to read".
Check out upstate NY. I found a <20 year old 4000sqft home, >40 acres, gigabit fiber internet, in ground pool, outbuildings, and a backup generator for well under $500k. Even with the higher taxes here vs the west coast, I'm ahead.

Only caveats are you need to enjoy seclusion (check) and be good at remote employment (this year will be my 10 year anniversary of being 100% remote). Energy costs are a bit high, so I installed 20 kW of solar and will be switching to an air-sourced heat pump for heating & cooling. Even adding these costs to the purchase price results in paying less.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w...
I know that cookie banners exist since ePrivacy. That's why I mentioned it. But ePrivacy does _not_ mandate them. The adtech industry could have respected the DNT header.
> We already have the technology. Just not the economy to take advantage of it. Solar panels, satellites and factories are nothing new to us.

We don't have the technology to pave the planet in solar panels, because we don't have the technology to make it cost effective. Also the solution to the "problem" of "most of the energy from the sun that hit our planet are just basically wasted" is to literally destroy the environment in an industrialization project.

Solving the "problem" of "...the sun uselessly radiate away energy that's not even hitting the planet," is also limited by that cost effectiveness problem AND the problem of we don't have the technology to do anything with energy collected by satellites, especially ones half-way around the solar system. Then there's the issue of putting up a few trillion solar power satellites still would allow the sun to "uselessly radiate away energy that's not even hitting the planet."
Will there be more disclosures of compromises from GoAnywhere MFT zero-day?
Craig here from Crunchy Data. Not sure if you mean Crunchy Data is like RDS or isn't, in some cases we're very similar as a managed service provider. But are focused on a better developer experience and quality support.

We've had a number of customers that use us for the database and fly for the app. We had a user benchmark a number of heroku alternatives with various database providers and we were actually better response time than the unmanaged instances on fly themselves in addition to all other providers they tested - https://webstack.dancroak.com/

I won't speak for Fly, but we're big fans of them and think we pair quite well together.
I'm not interested in government policy that allows companies to bring in cheap foreign labor to undercut my compensation. There are 330 million people in the us, so if companies need more engineers, they can pay more and train more.

Also, there is no population growth crisis. A decreasing population means less stress on the environment and lower housing costs. Yes, there will be economic effects, but it's hardly catastrophic. Japan is managing just fine.
Offering a reply as it seems my comment was perceived incorrectly and I can not unfortunately edit it. My wording was perhaps a bit too nuanced.
(Again this is my opinion, and I might be wrong. I appreciate your opinion. (And other readers' opinion.))

a) You assume that me saying "best case" if we continue as is, is a good case scenario -- from my point of view it is not. Which is what I am expressing.

We both agree here we are not in a good situation. Even if we "recover" GDP wise the buying power of the middle and lower classes is taking a serious hit.

This is one of the results of Volcker's policy (to remind he set the Fed policy in '70s) which we are following or asked to follow by some segment of the banking world today (cf. https://econreview.berkeley.edu/then-and-now-the-crisis-of-t...)
Thus, my '70s reference.

b) Already economists do not consider 2008 crisis as over. But we are arguably in a continuation of that crisis. Again, this is how an economist historian is going to treat the 2000s. Normal could be before that and sure I could recalibrate my normal, but do you think we should expect magical times?

The view that Fed is using too much QE and too much free money is political and moral. I offer no opinion and definitely did not try to include it in my 3 line opinion.

Disclaimer: I do not abide in the market efficiency camp. I think history proves that markets are inefficient.

> Normal would involve checking and savings accounts paying a non-trivial interest rate.

Even now that the fed fund rate has increased, the savings rate offered is low. Why? Because the business model and flows of banks has changed. They don't need to ask for your money. They are going to get it in the U.S. even indirectly. Perhaps they still care if you are a high value individual that can give them a few millions and give them a few percentages of fees annually.

They are also now allowed to treat checking and savings the same, thus able to issue more loans. (U.S. detail.) Namely, Regulation D has changed and thus the definition of M1 money also.

[0]https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/supmanual/cch/int_d...
[1] https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/01/whats-behind-the-rec...

Those times are over for the foreseeable future, unless U.S. or E.U. enters an unprecedented recession that stirs the banking world fundamentally.
Whenever Internet points are used to incentivize behavior besides "you did something someone else thought was worthy of an Internet point" it always has unintended consequences. You can't control how a system is used by offering extra points without fucking it up.
There are lots of different types of investments.
Housing is historically considered an excellent hedge against inflation ("Land, they aren't making it anymore")

However, purchasing a house it is not just an inflation hedge. It comes with a house you can live in! This is an attractive quality for many of us humans who like living in homes.
No shit. Its like people would actually prefer to be better at their jobs if given the choice.
"It's a complex topic, even details are left out in this long form article"

Some summary and factors...

Commenters have blamed:

- Vetocracy and NIMBYism reducing supply

- Federal reserve ownership of banks

- "housing cannot be both affordable in perpetuity and a good investment": the myth of a limited resource

- "Why is every new house a McMansion?" (Because a bigger thing has fatter margins, so it's beneficial to reduce the supply of smaller things. See cars and computers.)

Why fix it?

- So I can get a better home (my $300K is not enough for $1.2M houses)

- To get homeless people off the street (roughly 0.2% of people)

- To get more poor and middle-class people off renting into homes

- To reduce the incentives for the wealthy to manipulate the market

Correct driving factors:

- Mediterranean climate is rare

- "Values go up because of density changes related to location desirability"

- "You're making a bet that worker productivity will improve near you"

Additional amplifying factors:

- Home loans are recourse-free: if you go underwater, the bank loses, not you.

- Difference in market power between investors and owner-occupiers

- Owner-occupiers are forced into a location, and have to buy something

(or rent)

- The home has to appreciate at a rate higher than the after-tax cost of property taxes

- The Republican's recent cap on property-tax deductions made this equation worse

- For nice homes, the property taxes alone can be half the median rent

- Renting and buying are not perfect substitutes

- Most rentals are small, and not in good school districts

- Most houses are large, so rents are only sensible for large families or wealthy

- Most jurisdictions exempt single-family homes from most restrictions on rentals
We're not thrilled with Rodio as our audio solution, and I wouldn't be surprised to see us migrate away.

Definitely agree that we need more sophisticated demos, especially with audio and UI, to show (and test) how it all fits together.
i am obviously not expecting miracles here, more wondering in which direction you want to go, and if those ideas fit your goals.

found it on Steam. added to my wishlist. will also check out early access...
"the constant use of bodyguards suggested that Musk, who has sacked a huge number of Twitter staff including coders, does not trust his remaining staff at Twitter HQ in San Francisco."

Or he could just have credible threats against his life because he is super rich and famous and has a big mouth?
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I've personally found it pretty easy to get around. In particular, just build long stretches of roads without any intersections. Just "s-curve" like a snake, especially around industrial centers (all traffic originates in industry, and don't seem to "return" to industry in Cities Skylines).

Maximize the distance of these singular roads, and build out your road system like a computer-science definition of a tree. Its not very realistic, but it solves more or less all the issues of Cities Skylines. (Or perhaps it is realistic, and matches the behavior of neighborhood planners in the real world).

In contrast, OpenTTD encourages hub/spoke model and recycling of centers. I think its sizes are off but the overall gameplay loop is correct here.

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OpenTTD's "traffic" is pretty dumb, but its infinite. As long as you've got high station ratings, the station will expand and traffic will increase. It doesn't matter what design you have, the traffic increases until you can no longer support it.

So OpenTTD is somewhat self balancing. The stronger a player you are, the more traffic you generate. The weaker a player you are, the less traffic you generate.
I think a lot of people look to lean on static types coming from other languages, but you're learning a little bit of a different way of writing code when you come to Elixir. It's strongly typed, but not statically typed so you get a lot of the benefits of static typing with a lot of the flexibility that comes from dynamic typing.

IMO it's a ideal balance with pattern matching, it's a very smooth experience all around.

It's best to come into the language with the understanding that this language is different. Copy on write, tail call optimized recursion and pattern matching are wonderful, but they take some getting used to.
> Especially when it's well-known that many engineers, especially senior, are essentially never "on the market".

> Seems like that alone would put a big skew on results.

Yes it does. Same with internship pipelines at unicorns or FAANG. Some students intern at the same company multiple times during undergrad and transition full time after graduation. They appear to never be on the market.
I absolutely am, thanks.

My point was that buying (or renting) gives you access to different inventories.

And so this thought experiment is not useful to describe the choice buyers/renters make.
LG seems to have focused in the appliance business (TV screens, domestic consumer electronics, etc) and they white label 99% of the OLED panels coming off of their assembly line, with some making their way into Samsung TVs. While Samsung has a superior panel for small displays, LG’s focus consumer electronics has given it a small lead in the larger display race. They have better SDK/HDKs, more power efficient screens, and an array of tiers of displays to sell to their customers. If you bought a Sony, Vizio, or Sharp branded TV in the last 5 years, it for sure has an LG display in it. Other brands use LG as well but those three have an exclusive contract.

The dynamics of this business is fascinating.
I remain kind of amazed about how heroku managed to pull off what they pulled off, in the first case.

Also:

> The Heroku exodus broke our assumptions. Pre-Heroku, most of the apps we were running were spread across regions. And: we were growing about 15% per month. But post-Heroku, we got a huge influx of apps in just a few hot spots — and at 30% per month.

I hadn't before seen anyone with a big picture view confirm a heroku exodus was happening, although a lot of people suspected it or had anecdotes.

But if fly is seeing a pretty enormous number of customers moving from heroku to fly... oh wait, now I'm wondering, is this mainly a result of heroku ending free services, and those are free customers coming to fly for free services?

If so... that's a pretty big burden to take on without revenue to match, it does seem kind of dangerous for fly.