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The kids are basically free (in dollar terms), if the kids go to public school, you don't fly, and you have a stay-at-home spouse who cooks and clips coupons. You also don't have t…

That is just a huge mess of tautologies. Like the way they measure the housing you need to thrive is by the 40th percentile of rent. But today's apartments are much nicer than apar…

Food is very cheap if you eat like Americans did in 1963. No restaurants, no prepared food, relatively little meat. Rice, bread, beans, potatoes, squash, etc. Healthcare is cheap i…

Houses are cheap everywhere outside of major metro areas. And raising kids is cheap if you have a stay-at-home spouse, send the kids to public school, and never fly. So basically i…

Fresno, like I said above. Go on Zillow and you'll find plenty of very nice 2BR and 3BR houses in Fresno that a teacher or auto mechanic can afford. If you mean "where within commu…

That's more like the top decile than the average. The top decile in any era has it pretty good. Most of the "life is too expensive today" complaints are some flavor of: Grandpa was…

A 1963 house is what we'd think of today as a starter home. Available medical care was very limited, so you don't need modern health insurance. No braces for the kids. One small ca…

If you're ok with 1963 living standards, you can in fact have the grandfather's same lifestyle today at a very reasonable cost.

The problem that companies like Talenti run into is: a guy starts the company because he loves making ice cream; foodies get into it and make it really popular; once it's popular t…

pretty much the Honest Tea -> Just Ice Tea story :)

Not "everyone" -- if you're the owner of a successful ice cream brand who spent a decade grinding in the ice cream game, cashing out the brand equity and getting to live on a yacht…

AIUI the issue is just scaling pain. No one has ever run a global network of first-party-owned taxis before, and they're learning by doing, at the same time as they're also solving…

Also middle/high income parents. Shuttling kids to and from school and activities is the real killer use case for driverless cars. They're actively working on getting this legalize…

Waymo regularly brings the cars in to central service depots for cleaning and battery charging. Also, as a passenger you can report that a car is dirty and it will be pulled out of…

I think Uber just lies about estimated pickup times and Waymo doesn't. Partly because I've never had an Uber arrive faster than their estimated time, whereas Waymo arrives early pr…

Waymo charges more than Uber to supply constraints, not bad unit economics. People (like me) are willing to pay extra for the product Waymo offers, and Waymo is itself supply const…

They're working on it for Linux: https://rust-for-linux.com/

sure, but the prior poster's "joke" was that Germans are bad at English and refer to overhead projectors as "beamers" when in reality the entire English-speaking academic world ref…

It's the eternal question with any kind of tech debt -- is it worth a little more velocity now in return for medium-to-long term slowdown? And there's no general right answer.

the software that generated the slides is called Beamer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)

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Error logs and monitors find out because the RPC fails, which causes an error to be logged and a failed request metric to be incremented. (The UncaughtExceptionHandler will do the …

If I need to write some bytes to an S3 bucket but the network is hosed, there's literally nothing useful I or any library can do until the network is back up. RPC calls will fail, …

In a desktop application that is not allowed to totally crash, or at least has to crash kind of gracefully, checked exceptions are useful. But in the world that most Java devs live…