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jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars

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 happens in NYC all the time. At least with the road system there are typically ways to get around stopped cars.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose

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 abroad, they just don’t want to bring them here (e.g. the VW ID.3).

What’s also funny is in many parts of Europe, their idea of a “small” car seems to be very different from ours. I’ve heard people there classify cars like the Honda CRV or the VW ID.4 as “big”.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-the-Wild in 2022

The delay in updates is what originally pushed me to move from Android to iOS a while back, and years later it’s still an issue. You would think at least Nexus/Pixel would get updates quickly, but that still isn’t always the case. It seems like even within Google there are some issues that need to be addressed before they can lead other manufacturers by example.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism

> However if it's something that enough people agree is worth doing, why not just use your tax dollars to pay for it? Who's going to seriously oppose a bill for giving people the ability to see?

Unfortunately, I think the same people who oppose universal healthcare would also oppose this.

It’s also hard to draw the line on which things should be covered by the government, short of just covering all essential medical care. Curing blindness is definitely important, but people in the US literally die from not being able to afford other types of healthcare.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: Cloudflare Is Having Issues

Fortunately there are so many cheap options nowadays for fully managed small-business websites which include all the CDN/WAF stuff for you (Squarespace, managed WordPress, etc.). The setup/maintenance time for running your own web server doesn’t make sense unless you already have an “IT” person on the payroll.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: CppCon 2022 Best Practices Every C++ Programmer Needs to Follow – Oz Syed

> In this session, learn some of the best practices that every C++ programmer needs to ensure successful completion of a project.

I find it annoying when people say you “need” some best practice. The things you actually need are generally enforced by the tools (compiler errors in this case?). Everything else is subjective and/or depends on your use case.

jbotdev | 2 years ago | on: “Tinder for Canceling Meetings”

Are people afraid of speaking out against meetings or declining them? I typically am upfront about when I think a meeting is not needed or when I’m not needed, and have no problem discussing it with my coworkers directly.

Larger meetings like all-hands are different.. no way you’re getting every attendee to agree on canceling those, that’s more management politics.

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: Norway takes a stance against Google Analytics

I think that’s a bit extreme. What if I’m doing analytics via server-side logs rather than client-side (e.g. Google Analytics)? Are we supposed to ban server logs too? What happens when I want to actually troubleshoot issues with my site?

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves (2020)

Forget climate and respiratory issues, I’ve gone induction out of pure convenience and don’t miss gas at all. My induction cook top heats up faster, has more precise control, retains less heat on the “burner”, and is way easier to clean. The only downsides I’ve found are you can’t char things on a flame, or use copper pots.

It seems like people keep comparing gas to “regular” electric stoves, which are definitely inferior in many ways. The biggest issue is they’re very inefficient, and take forever to heat anything.

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: Amber Monitors (2020)

The Bloomberg Terminal still has amber-on-black text as the default for a lot of its content, presumably to mimic the original amber displays they used in the 80s. The funny thing is a lot of people just associate that color scheme with the Terminal now, not realizing that it used to be common for monitors back then.

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: Production Twitter on one machine? 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast

I think people overestimate how much CPU time a typical CRUD app spends on actual business logic, even with an interpreted language like Ruby or Python. What I’ve seen is the bottleneck is largely memory, such that you can pack a ton of these apps on a machine with a few cores and a lot of RAM.

The stuff that actually is CPU-bound often ends up being written in an appropriate language, or uses C extensions (e.g. ML and data science libraries for Python).

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: The privatization of policing

Technically this is talking about “private security” rather than “law enforcement. The primary goal of private security is typically the security of their clients, not enforcing the law. The article in particular talks about private security preventing crime by addressing root cause (e.g. helping those in need).

jbotdev | 3 years ago | on: The privatization of policing

Well, if the problem they’re addressing is largely petty crimes against businesses like shoplifting, you really only need private security in the business districts. Preventing crime in private homes seems like it’s a much harder task for either private or public security, given the coverage area required.
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