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New comment by guywithabike in "Waymo in Portland"

guywithabike — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:57:15 +0000

There absolutely are serious issues at all times, regardless of how busy the trains are. I'm sorry, but as someone who actually lives in Portland I'm telling you that mentally ill drug users do not give a crap about how many people there are in the train car. After the third time I had to move my kids to different cars or even exit the train entirely due to open drug use and dangerous behavior, I swore off public transit for good.

New comment by guywithabike in "Waymo in Portland"

guywithabike — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:49:58 +0000

> I also don't understand why people aren't more upset about the privacy issues.

I think a lot of people are starting to realize that despite years of doom-and-gloom finger wagging about privacy, their lives have never actually been negatively impacted by the horrors of targeted ads and, if anything, are materially improved (free internet search engines, free email, free social networks, and so on).

New comment by guywithabike in "Waymo in Portland"

guywithabike — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:47:36 +0000

By every available measure, Waymo is safer and more equitable than cabs and rideshares. Waymos don't refuse service on skin color or disability. They don't have to stop every block along a fixed route like TriMet. And they're not profitable. So what's your actual beef, here?

I actually live in Portland, and Waymos are going to be a massive improvement over the chronically inattentive, unskilled drivers around here. Waymos aren't glued to their phones at intersections. That, alone, is 70% of all pedestrian crashes caused by human drivers in Portland.

New comment by guywithabike in "GitHub is once again down"

guywithabike — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:06:29 +0000

The worst part of all this is that GitHub's CTO and VP of Engineering sent out the usual "here's what we'll do to fix things" letter to their larger customers and, without exaggeration, it boiled down to: 1) "Here's a bunch of stuff we already did!" which... clearly isn't working, and 2) "We're continuing our Azure migration." also clearly not working.

So needless to say, if you depend on GitHub for critical business operations, you need to start thinking about what a world without GitHub looks like for your business and start working your way toward that. I know my confidence in GitHub's engineering leadership is at rock bottom.

New comment by guywithabike in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

guywithabike — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:30:02 +0000

The New York Times has been thriving. They're profitable and their stock is near all-time highs. If the internet killed WaPo, why didn't it kill NYTimes?

New comment by guywithabike in "GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations"

guywithabike — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:59:10 +0000

It's notable that they blame "our upstream provider" when it's quite literally the same company. I can't imagine GitHub engineers are very happy about the forced migration to Azure.

New comment by guywithabike in "Days since last GitHub incident"

guywithabike — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:49:14 +0000

Your definition of "trivial" is not everyone's definition of trivial.

New comment by guywithabike in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"

guywithabike — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:11:07 +0000

Rosetta Code is what you're looking for, I believe: https://rosettacode.org/

New comment by guywithabike in "How we built Bluey’s world"

guywithabike — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:33:51 +0000

It's an incredible show but the finale "season" catapults it into my personal top 3 children's shows of all time. They did an incredible job of bringing it full circle and tying a bow on it. Tumble Leaf doesn't normally make you cry the way Bluey does, but the finale will have you bawling.

New comment by guywithabike in "Reflections on OpenAI"

guywithabike — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 19:01:39 +0000

He co-founded and sold Segment. You think he was just at OpenAI to collect a check? He lays out exactly why he joined OpenAI and why he's leaving. If you think everyone does things only for cynical reasons, it might be a reflection more of your personal impulses than others.

New comment by guywithabike in "Hotline for modern Apple systems"

guywithabike — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:36:34 +0000

The Café was my second home as a rural teenager into Macs and programming at a time when no other kids were. The 90s being what they were, my mom even let me fly solo to meet other Café members at the old MacHack conferences (in Dearborn, Michigan!).

I have nothing but fond memories of the 90s Mac community. It really was a special time and place. I hope my kids find their equivalent of these spaces.

New comment by guywithabike in "Governor Newsom signs bill to protect kids from social media addiction"

guywithabike — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 16:58:10 +0000

A lot of the content of that book has been thoroughly debunked. A good starting point if you’re curious: https://www.platformer.news/anxious-generation-jonathan-haid...

New comment by guywithabike in "CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks"

guywithabike — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:06:01 +0000

Why is it funny? Homebrew is the de facto standard terminal packaging tool for macOS.

New comment by guywithabike in "AltStore to offer iPhone apps backed by Patreon in the EU"

guywithabike — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 17:10:05 +0000

I'm just not looking forward to the inevitable subscription billing dark patterns that are almost guaranteed to be rife in alternative app stores. Call to unsubscribe, early cancellation fees, unsubscribe "errors", etc. Say what you want about the App Store, but the fact that you can quickly and easily see all your subscriptions in one place along with how much they cost and the ability to cancel them easily is incredibly nice.

New comment by guywithabike in "CloudEvents Event Specification"

guywithabike — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 22:56:59 +0000

We used CloudEvents internally at Segment as an evolution of the existing ad hoc format that evolved naturally over time. We were generally happy with its ability to bring some semblance of order, documentation, and guidance to our event format while also being flexible to changes. For example, we layered on the ability for internal services to return 207 Multi-Status responses to batched events and it didn't require major hacks.

New comment by guywithabike in "David Tolnay on the "RustConf Keynote Fiasco""

guywithabike — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 15:13:54 +0000

You can’t make an accusation like that based on “vague memory”. At least try to substantiate your claim.

New comment by guywithabike in "Kafka is dead, long live Kafka"

guywithabike — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:40:12 +0000

WarpStream relies on a proprietary metadata store hosted within their internal network to operate, so it's pretty unlikely that Jepsen tests could cover that.

If you're ok with the externally hosted metadata stores as well as the high per-request latencies (p99 of 400ms, according to WarpStream), it's highly likely that things like liveness and safety properties are pretty far from your mind. So, I wouldn't bank on them submitting to a Jepsen test. :)

New comment by guywithabike in "Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says"

guywithabike — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:05:10 +0000

Not sure how widespread this advice is, but my son’s pediatrician had us start introducing peanut butter before he was eating solids by adding progressively more peanut butter to his bottle. So it feels like this is becoming the recommended approach to avoiding food allergies.

New comment by guywithabike in "Triplebyte acquired by Karat"

guywithabike — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:39:27 +0000

It's unfortunate that their reputation took such a massive hit with the public profile debacle. The folks I talked to / worked with at Triplebyte were all great people with their hearts in the right place. It's just an incredibly tough market to be in.

New comment by guywithabike in "Triplebyte acquired by Karat"

guywithabike — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:37:21 +0000

6 years ago, I did Triplebyte as a candidate, got 6 interviews at good companies and 4 fantastic offers (including one from them, directly!). I ended up accepting an offer for a company that had a life-changing exit for me, and it wouldn't have happened without Triplebyte. So I have a lot of love for them. It was sad to see them stumble with the weird public profile stuff, but I wish only the best for them. I hope this was a good outcome for the folks that I talked to all those years ago.