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Additional info on the “pilot program” they took issue with: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-abortion-license-plat...

They don’t have a public list, but this blog post conveniently has a map of their locations: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/introducing-law-enforcement... Judging by the places t…

I’m not sure an “objectively great” feature exists, because “great” is such a vague and subjective term. I think it’s more productive to discuss it in terms of the use cases and wh…

I get it, he’s trying to do everything in software (with the existing cameras), since software is “cheap” and can do anything in theory. Unfortunately they keep showing how they’re…

They’ve actually had 48V systems in production cars for several years now. Tesla is late to the game on that one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/48-volt_electrical_system

Just like “this is the year of the Linux Desktop”? I’d love to have an open non-profit alternative to Google’s productivity suite, but realistically it’s very hard to host those th…

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Part of my point is the goal with such a system is usually to require less infra work/knowledge from your devs, but it backfires if you don’t invest enough in your abstraction. The…

It seems like they’ve gotten to the “holy grail” of deployment where developers don’t have to worry about infrastructure at all in theory. I’ve seen many teams go for simple/leaky …

I think you’re confusing Progressive Web App (PWA) with Progressive Enhancement. PWA is basically a web app (typically an SPA) that behaves like a native app, as described in the M…

The post glossed over how exactly they detected session hijacking. They mentioned “This detection looks for suspicious sessions appearing without an authentication event that are c…

It’s weird to complain about supporting AEG claiming they’re somehow the 2nd “monopoly” after LiveNation. You can only have one “monopoly” in a given industry, otherwise they’re bo…

It sounds like this builds on top of Ethernet to provide a higher performance alternative to UDP/TCP, with some sort of hardware acceleration. I may be in over my head since I’m no…

It sounds like they’re trying to emulate Disney/Universal to some extent. I can imagine them having themed restaurants, gift shops, etc. similar to what you see in theme parks.

Technically that’s always been the case. It’s just that now you can tell the computer what to do in a “natural language” like English instead of a “programming language”.

It is true that this is somewhat influenced by how Heroku works, but ConfigMaps and GitOps do not meet the same security and usability requirements as Heroku config/env vars. If yo…

I wonder why there hasn’t been more effort behind replacing single use plastics for food/beverages. People get all up in arms about plastic straws, but then stick their paper straw…

Seems ironic that you’d use rust to “build fast”. My impression is that Rust is more about building things safe/correct and efficient, with developer productivity being lower relat…

I’ve actually run into this more with debit/cash accounts than with credit cards. I’ve had checking accounts frozen, but I’ve never had a credit card entirely suspended for “unusua…

Anecdotally, I’ve noticed most cafes in NYC with more than a handful of seats have a bathroom (even if they hide it) and WiFi. Outlets are pretty much everywhere, it’s more a matte…

To be fair, public transport often has similar issues. If a subway/train car is stuck, nothing else can get by on the same track and thousands of people could be delayed. It happen…

As a user this seems like a nice way of connecting with people online. As an engineer I wonder if/how you would open this up to a wider audience (behind “lonely” users). Moderation…

Having recently shopped for an EV, I did find that there are a lot more options in the US if you’re looking for larger vehicles. It’s a shame because many smaller models exist abro…