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Yes. And the fab companies and their suppliers are deliberately and wisely slow to scale up production to meet short term changes in demand. They've seen the history of the semicon…

Fellow bootstrapped founder for 8 years here, and I love and agree with your responses here. Having previously existed in the VC-backed startup world, one thing I don't miss is the…

I think it's more than unwilling, we're straight up unable. Not in principle, but because it's a coordination problem. Think of how many parents now want their kids not to have a s…

In my social and meetup circle, COVID coincided with all the organizers of my favorite meetups reaching the age where one generally starts to slow down, have kids, and possibly mov…

Similar to this: if you want to optimize your productivity*, do so on a timescale of at least weeks if not months or years. Simple example: Can you get more done working 12 hours a…

This is super cool. As part of the Pelias geocoder( https://pelias.io/ ) we use both OSM and SQLite heavily. Currently we've written our own pbf2json tool in Golang ( https://githu…

It's wild, and absolutely worth writing about, that at some point in recent years, the concept of "AFK" basically ceased to exist. Yes, we aren't technically near a keyboard most o…

It's interesting that internet infrastructure is so interconnected that failures of what _should_ be separate systems seem to coincide. Do we think it's possible the GCP outage cau…

Another vote to confirm that AWS appears to be working fine. At least EC2 and S3 which is basically all we use (highly recommend this simple setup using base primitives, as some of…

>Renewable energy in Japan will receive a *seismic shift* Maybe not the best analogy for the most earthquake-prone country in the world?

Like many, I also had an experience like this in my younger days: obviously unfit product, early prototype made by bottom-of-the-barrel contractors, co-founders who can't code, no …

Geonames is a great dataset, in fact it's one of the "OG" open-source databases of the modern era, dating back to 2005. It has fairly comprehensive coverage of countries, cities, a…

AFAIK, a lot of the RAM requirements come from importing and processing the data. It already takes quite a long time and would be even slower without heavily utilizing RAM. Nominat…

Are you committed to running the process locally due to privacy or legal reasons? If not, we securely run geocoding batches of that size at Geocode Earth all the time at pretty com…

Geocoding is a really fun (and sometimes frustrating) problem I've been lucky enough to have been working to solve for over 10 years now. I joined Mapzen in 2015 which ostensibly w…

"we need to talk about your on call volunteering" "Really? I volunteered for 15 hours of on call" "Well, 15 is the minimum ok? Now it's up to you if you just want to do the bare mi…

What happens when you need to encode the newline character in your data? That makes splitting _either_ CSV or LDJSON files difficult.

There's also the infamous bucket brigade from Hurricane Sandy. There was a Stack Overflow podcast about it but it looks like it disappears, here's a read though: https://www.datace…

Yes, that was the interdictor blog! https://interdictor.livejournal.com/2005/08/27/

High voltage direct current

So, to be clear, this is absolutely a case of these businesses making choices they know are harmful but are technically legal, and is bad. But I wonder if in the long term adding t…

I really want to see it explain the famous Quake fast inverse square root, but apparently it's extremely rate limited right now

Dogfooding can often be a good thing but not if your target customer is a very different type of business than your own. For example, Stripe is a _very_ large company but their pro…