They also announced new APIs for native Linux containerization on MacOS with a specific focus on security and performance. This seems like it may be in support of that as well. Anything they can do to improve the performance of containers is a huge win. https://youtu.be/JvQtvbhtXmo?si=3OphClGvylHggmSW
So petty and counterproductive. I would have missed the whole Substack Notes announcement if it wasn't for Matt Taibbi (and for Twitter hostile approach).
Matt did a great job with the Twitter files, he has integrity and he's "incorruptible" whereas Elon is a petty tyrant who goes nuclear for the slightest disagreements, so I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this will end up with Matt's account removed.
He really doesn't. He's been a hack the entire time. I hated his writing when he was a liberal darling as well; he whips up readers emotions with sensation but holds back contextual information that would allow them to easily get up to speed on the issue in question. It's a commercially popular form of journalism, but not a good one.
That's not true. You can bivouac (== 1 night stay) anywhere in France where it's not explicitly forbidden (e.g cities/towns/national parks etc). I did a small part of it last year and slept in a tent 5 out 6 nights.
Yes, according to the creator, 70% of the trail has bivouacs as a possibility. So ⅔ of the trail. With 1 town every 3 days of hiking, it should be totally workable (though perhaps expensive to stay in towns a lot).
I did a part of it last year. You need to walk with your tent, you won't reach a lodging site every night. I think the longest stretch without civilization (no village/town to buy food etc) is 5 days. So you also need to manage. your food and water supply.
The app is very helpful for that as it gives you water, food and lodging information on the trail related to your current position (so for instance you can see that in 10km there is a river/water fountain/grocery store etc.)
5 days without a resupply is not bad at all. What about camping? Someone here said you are not allowed to pitch your tent on the trail. That would make the whole thing expensive and a logistical nightmare.
I think they might have been able to get one because they're in Europe, while in the US it requires a prescription. But you can just find a doctor who will prescribe one for you. (You will still have to pay out of pocket regardless).
Could be wrong on the above but that's been my understanding/experience.
I'm not sure the exact areas we're building and planning, but it's possible we're coming soon. As I understand it we hit most of the low hanging fruit in the bay area already (above ground infra, aka poles), so we're trying to use advancements in trenching and hitting some slightly less dense areas than we previously targeted to be able to serve new areas at the price point we've set.
One use case I see is if you're using Nix for all your local development, but Docker in production (because it's the easiest these days: package an image, give it to ECS/Fargate or equivalent and it's good to go).
You're not using Docker in development because of the sync issues on Mac between the host and the containers, but ideally you still want as much as possible the development and production environment parity (same versions of dependencies, etc). You can build your Docker images with Nix to ensure the dependencies versions you're developing with will be the same in prod.
I couldn't find the answer in the article: will it warn right away when they detect you left your keys or backpack behind with a tag in it? Tile has this and it's great, but you need to pay the subscription for it
The one compelling thing to me is the smart battery management in Big Sur: it won't charge your battery past 80% if you don't need it (based on usage patterns) to protect the battery life. I'm also excited about the seamless switch between all Apple devices for the Airpods Pro, but not everyone owns those
Uber and Lyft aren’t unprofitable at the margins in developed markets. They instead spend money expanding.
Back in 2016 Uber says it was profitable in places like California. Why would VC spend billions to permanently give free rides to Californians? It just doesn’t make any sense.
I looked. The articles aren’t actually saying that the rides have a negative profit. Only that margins are low (which is quite plausible)
The article is consistent with both of our beliefs, i.e. it’s vague as to whether losses are intrinsic to rides, or whether margins are low + there are expansion costs.
It may have started that way but not anymore. You can viably replace car ownership with ride-share and spend _less_ money each month than being a car owner. Many people do this, it not just luxury.
I think that is only viable in places where car ownership is prohibitively expensive already. A short trip is easily $10, and then you still have to get back. Do that every day and you’re spending ~$600/month. If you live in an area that isn’t parking constrained (most of America!) owning a car can be much more affordable than that.
Uber and Lyft both have commuter arrangements that cost more on the order of $2.50-3.50 a trip. Mainly focused on the GGP claim that these services are strictly luxury.
