I have recently moved from US to Australia and it is 100% clear to me the US automakers will get absolutely crushed by the Chinese companies if/when they are able to access US market.
Especially EVs and PHEVs. This place is awash with them, they are cars people want at the right price.
This has been a concern for me too. But the agent is just a statsd receiver with some extra magic, so this seems like a thing that could be solved with the collector sending traffic to an agent rather than the HTTP APIs?
I looked at the OTel DD stuff and did not see any support for this, fwiw, maybe it doesn't work b/c the agent expects more context from the pod (e.g. app and label?)
This seems very similar to Secret [1]? IIRC there were some competitive apps at the time, YikYak maybe?
Secret sounded scandalous, and maybe that was the goal, but it actually did a really great job of anonymous Q&A, and was full of posts from people saying "I have this private/odd/embarrassing situation what should I do", and more often then not the thread contained some really insightful and thoughtful stuff.
I was disappointed when it shut down, is the idea of this to be similar?
OK well then, we'd better not do anything about it! <s/>
I don't think this is strictly true. Oil production is not fully fungible due to all kinds of issues including sanctions and production capacity.
But this is also a strawman - this isn't saying "we should shut them all down" or even begging that question.
At a minimum it's saying "there were people and companies who intentionally chose to mislead the public on a potentially existential issue - perhaps there should be some reckoning for that?"
I worked at a large valley based company that had their own data centers and badly wanted to decrease infra spend.
It's WAY harder than it sounds.
Remember Twitter is not a profitable company which means the likelihood of a bunch of low-hanging fruit for savings is very low. That's been done already.
There are not likely "oh look we found a whole DC sitting idle, oops" sort of savings. Any vendors they use are ALREADY giving them huge discounts.
I'm not saying Twitter is efficient or that this is physically impossible (tho it might be), I'm saying its not easy and takes skilled people a long time to iterate to lower-cost systems or designs that don't have massive stability or performance tradeoffs.
Twitter runs their own data centers, which means they own all of the THOUSANDS of machines in them. These machines, and all of their parts, have shelf lives and CONSTANTLY need replacement.
When they are replaced you can't just go to Best Buy with a credit card. At scale VERY SMALL changes matter: oh look they changed something in the disk firmware and haha now your databases corrupt data one out of 1M writes.
New machines need to be tested, burned in, installed. Old ones need to be cycled out.
Same goes for power equipment, networking, all that.
Because you built your own data center, and you were an early scale company it ALSO means a huge percentage of your systems are home grown - asset management, deployment, health checking, metrics, you name it. There are no articles on Stack Overflow. There is no blog post. How that shit works is mostly a function of what people knew about it and, well, at least half of those people are now poof - gone.
This hasn't even gotten to the services themselves, many of which are now running without an owner or any person at the company who has ever looked at them before. The remaining people are now up to their eyeballs in drama, survivor syndrome, fear, and, oh yeah, the work of many of their laid-off peers.
I think the hydrogen-electric [1] development is more promising here because it has the potential to deliver long haul flights with no emissions or contrails.
While H2 isn't great for decarbonization at scale, in specific industries like aviation it might be applicable assuming it's made cleanly.
Tldr: solar engineering by blocking sun at L1 with big bubbles.
This doesn’t reverse anything. It slows warming, but doesn’t de-acidify the oceans or decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere.
Solar engineering is a radical, risky Hail Mary that should only be considered as a stopgap emergency measure provided emissions are being managed. Without that the problem is not solved and if the mitigation (sulfur, bubbles, whatever) is removed the snap back will be extreme.
We need to stop putting CO2 and methane in the air and start removing what’s there, period
Not having a replaceable battery is a real problem.
I have a circa 2018 Xps13 9370 that I’ve used regularly for non-work coding it generally still works great. Recently it was only lasting 60 minutes on a charge, but $50 to Amazon got me a new battery and now it’s great.
I don’t really need a new computer and the battery is the one thing that is sure to fail. The CPU and 16G memory are fine for Windows 11 and WSL2 (or Ubuntu).
It’s a waste to build machines that are designed to become trash, especially in todays world where hardware improvement curves have flattened so machines are usable for many years.
I really enjoyed The Long Dark. There is some violence and it has some adult (non sexual) themes, but it’s not primarily about fighting, it’s a wilderness survival game.
I played it for months and am anxiously awaiting the last chapter.
It’s rich, engaging, and the visuals are gorgeous.
Work that has low ambiguity and needs execution - awesome for remote work.
Work that requires trust and deep collaboration - very difficult remotely. It doesn't it mean it can't be done but the communication fidelity is MUCH lower over Zoom and this cost has to be paid somewhere.
And, yes, employee churn makes all of this worse.
I've been of the opinion that the rush to remote work is unavoidable but the industry will regret letting it get out of hand.
Which I still think is the case. I think we are reaching the point where we see the big limits in WFH show, we see generally lower engagement, more difficulty doing big difficult projects, etc.