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As the article says, the problem with destination dispatch is that it 'locks in' an elevator. The passenger gets told at call time what elevator to go to, and it can't change that …

100% agree with this. The irony of this article critical of AI development culture is that the author used AI to write it. The 'not a, not b, but c' writing style used to be _effec…

We (in the tech industry) did this to ourselves. The internet my kids have is very different than the internet I had in the 90s. Algorithmically optimized short form video or other…

Isn’t there a strong argument that we put too many students in debt with a partially completed or useless degree in a well meaning push for “college for all”? The triumph the autho…

This is amazing

Overview energy has done interesting work in this area.

I recently rented a tesla from hertz - I had made sure my hotel had charging in it's parking lot. I arrive at the hotel to find that the tesla was missing it's j1772 adapter, which…

the board was about to vaporize employee equity overnight - the secondary was days away and would have been life changing for many employees and significant for all of them. SA is …

That’s a great story! Do you know why your friend was willing to sell below market? Was it just 6% below market - what they would have spent on fees anyway?

How did you market it and do you think listing on mls, having an agent show the house, or paying a buyers broker fee would have gotten you more and higher offers?

Reading higher in the thread, some Elixir folks are saying that the techempower benchmarks used the wrong settings (debug mode, etc) for their Elixir benchmark.

Remember this is from 2016

https://www.bart.gov/tickets/calculator $6.50 one way from downtown SF to somewhere like concord

Talk to your manager or find a mentor within the company and ask for advice. Rather than framing it as “my colleges are all slackers” frame it as “what am I missing?” At big tech o…

Google pays for on call but it is absolutely the exception in the US. Most Silicon Valley tech companies do not - it’s considered part of the job. Paying for a call is an elegant s…

This has been our experience

Monthly train pass on New Jersey Transit, LIRR and Metro North can get to above $300 once you are 20 miles from NYC.

I think it’s great. SingleStore and any database company that ships binaries and supports customers managing their own clusters running those binaries requires a very different pro…

A lot of the comments make this mistake, but the article clearly talks about both. It snarkily says the Ivy League graduates end up doing strategy and everyone else ends up doing s…

Super 8 has a coherent reveal of the mystery box. Lost did not and disappointed at the end. The kelvin timeline from when he rebooted Star Trek is sort of mystery box but then we l…

Right now developers say it’s too expensive. Some data and a potential path forward: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/empty-offices-housing...

In England “public schools” are what they call elite privately run schools. Edit: interesting history on why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdo... the sc…

That’s right it was a Vista LBO

For those of you that think you've seen this before, MemSQL was rebranded to SingleStore, and this was the first blog post MemSQL made - skip list indexes were always a fundamental…