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New comment by avelis in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

avelis — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:56:21 +0000

Agreed. Transportation is a public service and economic engine. Subsidizing travel to help supply travel to demand is the easiest and likely most affordable thing we can do to ensure economic volume.

New comment by avelis in "Why Tech Inevitability is Self-Defeating"

avelis — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:58:17 +0000

This reminds me of a similar article that might have been posted on here about tech now focusing on hype as the product.

https://rys.io/en/180.html#hype-is-the-product

> In fact, increasingly, hype is the only thing that counts, as larger and larger chunk of investment money is chasing it – to the detriment of everything else that happens not to bolt the hyped tech onto its unrelated but otherwise solid product or service.

> The bubble grows. The line goes up.

> Because the hype is the product.

New comment by avelis in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

avelis — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:49:03 +0000

Ok. So for Musk I would like to cap the money borrowed against his stock portfolio to also be $1.

New comment by avelis in "GLP-1 for Everything"

avelis — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:27:12 +0000

> FTA: So we're not only going to be treating (or outright preventing) a number of diseases, we're going to be learning more about the cause of these diseases than we ever did before.

Ultra processed foods (UPF) needs a hard look IMO. It's the leading cause of many diseases stated in the article and several others including cancer and dementia.

New comment by avelis in "Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)"

avelis — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:56:27 +0000

In the software world I call this an end user discovered issue. But when the issue involves a plane that is carrying actual souls. That can feel very scary.

I am sure this has been resolved by now since its from 2020.

New comment by avelis in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

avelis — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:44:40 +0000

That's not a thing when considering how UPF creates addiction to food in the brain. Big Food knows this.

New comment by avelis in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

avelis — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:42:06 +0000

I could suppose it's some of all of this. But my money is on UPF. The author of Ultra Processed People has an identical twin in NJ while he lives in the UK and their weights are vastly different.

New comment by avelis in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

avelis — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:40:06 +0000

One aspect is that the US food system as a crap ton of UPF.

New comment by avelis in "Panic at the Job Market"

avelis — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:41:57 +0000

"how would you make StoreJogger?"

That is a systems design question and would have been reserved for Senior/Staff+ level hires. I have learned there is a whole delivery framework for providing that answer and I would not ask that of entry-level engineering. Assuming it was entry level.

New comment by avelis in "Southwest Airlines now available on Google Flights"

avelis — Thu, 23 May 2024 17:04:17 +0000

Southwest Airlines (SW) has still not made an investment in their scheduling and operations software and infrastructure. They will have more operational failures in the future if say a huge store system forces to many flights to be rescheduled. For something so critical to business continuity I find it astounding how little SW has done in that regard. SW also has lobbied alot to derail high speed rail in Texas. Although I am sure all airlines have done that to some degree.

New comment by avelis in "US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days"

avelis — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:24:29 +0000

I just made the same comment. The expansion of the season now allows for that.

New comment by avelis in "US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days"

avelis — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:23:51 +0000

Given the expansion of the regular season, the SB is now one week before Presidents day weekend. The NFL could potentially move the season one week back and now have the SB regularly land on the Sunday during presidents day weekend.

New comment by avelis in "Netflix never used its $1M algorithm (2012)"

avelis — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:13:41 +0000

I remember seeing the leaderboard rankings before the prize was awarded. If I recall correctly the top two teams were very close to the coveted goal. They ended merging to become one team and spit the prize once they achieved the goal.

New comment by avelis in "Show HN: Spiderdash"

avelis — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:32:45 +0000

Looks like it got hugged to death in some way.

New comment by avelis in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

avelis — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:58:21 +0000

Looks like "market conditions" tell me that RTO (return to office) is not happening either.

New comment by avelis in "The Tech Gold Rush Is Over. Where's the Next One?"

avelis — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:55:10 +0000

It's capitalistic (greed) to chase fortune IMO.

New comment by avelis in "The costs of microservices (2020)"

avelis — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:54:12 +0000

Sounds like a SISP (solution in search of a problem). Or throwing a solution at a problem not understanding the root issue of it.

New comment by avelis in "The costs of microservices (2020)"

avelis — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:53:04 +0000

> Once the monolith is well matured and growing pains start to rise, then you can start to peel off one microservice at a time from it.

Curious what is considered a growing pain of the monolith vs tech debt that hasn't been tackled. If the issue is the monolith can't scale in performance then a services oriented architecture doesn't necessarily give you that automatically unless you know where the bottleneck of your monolith is.

New comment by avelis in "Tesla announces Cybertruck deliveries in November, with 125k production capacity"

avelis — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:10:46 +0000

username checks out.

New comment by avelis in "Medicaid Could Save $2.6B Within a Year If Just 1% of Recipients Quit Smoking"

avelis — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:37:54 +0000

#TheyDidTheMath