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New comment by httpz in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

httpz — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:58:13 +0000

Guessing the depth of a puddle is not an easy task. Many untrained horses will refuse to step into shallow puddles. Then we also have human drivers driving into flooded road.

New comment by httpz in "Southwest Headquarters Tour"

httpz — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:26:33 +0000

I highly recommend a free Amazon warehouse tour. You really get to see how the items you order gets picked and packaged.

New comment by httpz in "BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp"

httpz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:32:43 +0000

Their design department needs an intervention

New comment by httpz in "Laws of Software Engineering"

httpz — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:25:11 +0000

That's why we call it software engineering, not software science.

New comment by httpz in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

httpz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:03:03 +0000

In places with a lot of flat empty land, solar farms are a lot cheaper. South Korea doesn't have any flat empty land though..

New comment by httpz in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

httpz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:56:26 +0000

It's a desert so trees can't survive without irrigation. Since water is scarce as well, there aren't enough trees to cover the vast low density area.

New comment by httpz in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

httpz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:45:06 +0000

One important detail is lost in translation. This law applies to publicly-funded parking lots. Public parking does not mean any parking lot open to the general public in this case.

New comment by httpz in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

httpz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:36:53 +0000

It's car optimized because the 110F weather makes it un-walkable in the first place. When I lived in a walkable city, I would prefer to walk 30 minutes than drive. When I lived in Phoenix, I did not want to spend more than 30 seconds outside in the summer.

New comment by httpz in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

httpz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:00:17 +0000

This is a classic case of Productivity Paradox when personal computers were first introduced into workplaces in the 80s.

A famous economist once said, "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

There are many reasons for the lag in productivity gain but it certainly will come.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

New comment by httpz in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

httpz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:29:15 +0000

There's a famous quote by a cyclist, "It never gets easier, you just go faster"

New comment by httpz in "South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection"

httpz — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:40:08 +0000

Not that I agree with the pardons, but former presidents are usually old. Letting your political opponent die in prison can have a massive backlash so most presidents would rather not let that happen.

New comment by httpz in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

httpz — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:20:47 +0000

I'm half joking but if this AI boom continues we're going to see Nvidia exit from consumer GPU business. But Jensen Huang will never do that to us... (I hope)

New comment by httpz in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

httpz — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:18:40 +0000

The brand aware "consumers" are really just DIY PC builders, which is relatively a small number. Enterprise DRAM business is doing so great that Micron just doesn't see the consumer market is worth chasing.

This is bad for consumers though since DRAM prices are skyrocketing and now we have one less company making consumer DRAM.

New comment by httpz in "NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System"

httpz — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:50:29 +0000

Well unless there's some ghost-like life form in a gas state, we sort of need the molecules to stay together to form life.

New comment by httpz in "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford"

httpz — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:14:09 +0000

Obligatory KRAZAM video on microservices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

New comment by httpz in "BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank"

httpz — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:32:20 +0000

Or 1300 horsepower

New comment by httpz in "Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla"

httpz — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 07:27:02 +0000

It was definitely not perfectly clear. I was very confused when I first read the comment.

If we were talking about laptops I would know M3 refers to the processor, but there's literally a car named "M3" that's been popular for nearly 40 years.

New comment by httpz in "Why We're Falling Out of Love with Tesla"

httpz — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 03:50:54 +0000

Sir, M3 means something else in the car world

New comment by httpz in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

httpz — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:39:30 +0000

Nvida has a P/E of 47. While it may be a bit high for a semiconductor company, it's definitely not a meme stock figure.

New comment by httpz in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

httpz — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 09:21:22 +0000

I sometimes wonder how many talented engineers top colleges are rejecting because they were busy working on real engineering projects like this than academics and test scores.