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The pitch is "just change one line and it works". It is not "just change one line and you will get peak performance on the TPU". From the text of the blog post: "Portability doesn'…

Don't worry, this year they'll get to it. Honest! https://www.losaltosonline.com/news/here-we-go-again-el-cami...

Once you download it does anything actually work beyond viewing? Can you search? Can you ask for directions? I do download maps, and pay for roaming data, but I still would never c…

Yes, which means downsizing. Need to downsize will put people off selling. People being put off selling reduces supply. Small supply keeps prices high.

In the SF bay area people are throwing $4, 5, 6 million at houses in cash all over the place. No contingencies, 7 day closing. The high end of the market has slowed a lot, though, …

The problem with that argument is that in places that are setup for it, it clearly works because people do it. So we have to ask whether there is something unusual about the people…

The taxes are skewed towards the rich, but also towards people who want to move for work. It's a wealth transfer towards the asset rich and immobile from the workers and the mobile…

It is bizarre. Here in California you didn't used you buy a car with plates at all. Then they started to require paper temporary ones. Why they don't just have plates fitted on the…

Does Singapore make more sense? Papua New Guinea? Alaska, for that matter? All borders seem pretty arbitrary when you get down to it, but it's hardly alone in being a weird bit at …

> It's hard to see how anyone has thought FB/Meta would be a great place to work for a long time. Largely because much of the company is a great place to work. Actually working the…

and because transcribing a password from a piece of paper encourages short passwords.

That's still a hidden charge that makes the menu pricing mildly dishonest. Adding X% to all the prices is clearly the right solution. The problem is that all restaurants need to do…

To be fair, here in Menlo Park, CA, children of this age bike or walk half a mile to school all the time as well. It's not very different from when I lived in the London suburbs an…

Data has to be stored somewhere. You can end-to-end encrypt it, but that has constraints and adds clunkiness for the user so it's not even obviously a feature. The easy access to t…

We have a Roomba, though I think it's back in its box in a cupboard now. In the end it needed so much babysitting that I gave up and bought a cordless stick vacuum. That is the bes…

Clearly one can write web services in C++. Meta does not really, though. It is Hack code that talks to most web clients (and python for Instagram). The C++ code sits behind that. A…

Yes, because getting to the right answer is not the point of the interview. Apart from anything else, getting to the right answer may mean you memorised it and are incapable of doi…

As stop signs? Usually as yields or as green lights, surely?

I'm in favour of cyclists occupying a lane, especially on narrow roads to take full control and I do that myself often. What I dislike is when they have their own lane and then rid…

I did just that to a cyclist who role through a stop sign, causing a car that I had stopped for to have to stop mid turn to avoid the cyclist. Sure, stopping completely randomly is…

That's an interesting reaction. My read of the post was that he wants to help his wife do what she wants to do. Your read appears to be that he is forcing her to do something when …

Not quite, but almost.

Adding to that once exceptions start being thrown, that ratio changes because the cost is so high. It's not hard for a service to reach a failure rate just high enough that it over…

The problem is that because of the tax burden shift, the cost of keeping those people in their homes is paid by people who are trying to buy homes. It's a form of redistribution to…

Coming from Menlo Park even, Cupertino feels a bit too dull and suburban, but it is astonishingly well maintained in comparison to anywhere else in the bay area. No doubt that the …