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kelp

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About kelp

Engineering at PlanetScale. Previously Confluent Cloud Infra. Segment led the $10m eng problem project. Square built the data center and neteng teams.

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    Comment #46303242

    In typical PlanetScale style, we like to beat our estimates. https://planetscale.com/blog/postgres-18-is-now-available

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    Comment #46279044

    You can expect to see it in early 2026 for both Metal and EBS backed databases.

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    Comment #44871824

    To add to this, if you look at the top 10 committers to Vitess over the last 12 months, 8 of them are helping with Neki in one way or another: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/gr…

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    I can't really help with what you're specifically looking for, but I'm pretty sure my grandfather worked on these as an engineer. He retired from Boeing in 1985. Died almost 20 yea…

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    ls -lh hello.wasm -rw-r--r--@ 1 tcole staff 24M Apr 22 14:18 hello.wasm This is on macOS. That is hello.py compiled to wasm with Py2wasm.

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    Comment #40121113

    Here is a trivial example, also on a M3 Max: cat hello.py print("Hello, Wasm!") time python3 ./hello.py Hello, Wasm! ________________________________________________________ Execut…

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    Comment #39934218

    Hertz also had absurd policies like bring the EV back 100% charged. Which is basically impossible unless there is a DC fast charger adjacent to the rental car center.

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    Comment #39858778

    I wonder if this opens up an opportunity for Bombardier and Embraer to move up market into the 737s space.

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    Comment #39422717

    I'd been hoping projects like wasmtime could end up looking like a Docker alternative for server side things. Do you think that's unlikely to pan out without a lot more work that d…

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    Comment #39393193

    I liked it a lot. Not great range, but new ones improved that and I still road tripped it all up and down the west coast. Sometimes regret selling it.

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    Comment #39390845

    Repeating what you said in my own words to ensure I understand it. I think you're suggesting they might have a canary fleet, but there wasn't anything/enough that preventing a mist…

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    Comment #39390185

    I wasn't trying to suggest what you personally want or don't want. Just that I could see how some people do not want their car interface to change, or even ride quality to change.

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    Comment #39389761

    I hadn't heard about the Volvo one! I had a 2022 Volvo C40 before I got my Rivian R1T. When I first got the Volvo the GPS and LTE connection would periodically stop working for a d…

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    Comment #39389423

    In the case of Rivian they have been pushing very meaningful improvements on a roughly monthly basis via OTA. I got my R1T in June 2023 and since here are a few things they've impr…

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    Comment #39389224

    I've also often thought about what an open source car software stack might look like, but with different motivations. I'd love to be able to see more diagnostics about what the car…

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    Comment #37560770

    I think the point of the original comment was that in the US we setup a system where the default way to build wealth is to buy a primary residence and wait for it to appreciate in …

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    Comment #36536336

    Yeah, Hearst castle is one of the most ugly and uncomfortable buildings I've ever been in. It's like the ultimate example of absolutely no restraint or constraints, without thought…

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    Comment #36536058

    The major issue with many of these houses is their design, features and aesthetic is totally incoherent and shows no restraint. They put every kind of shape, texture, and material …

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    Comment #36130130

    WASM won't be able to get any real level of adoption if you have to specifically write all your code to target it, which I think is what would happen if the sandbox is too restrict…

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    Comment #36130024

    I think server side WASM has the potential to be the next thing after containers. And yes, lots of echoes of Java's "write once run anywhere" but as lots of people have pointed out…

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    Comment #35576249

    Also in SF seeing someone struggling to stand on the sidewalk is not uncommon. Everyone just starts to assume that person is drunk, on drugs, whatever.