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New comment by kalefranz in "Sodium in Batteries: Shift May Herald Another Shakeup"

kalefranz — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:58:56 +0000

duck curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve

New comment by kalefranz in "Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map"

kalefranz — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:00:25 +0000

Starlink’s own map of world coverage availability is at https://www.starlink.com/map

New comment by kalefranz in "Gojq: Pure Go Implementation of Jq"

kalefranz — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:30:50 +0000

Enjoy and appreciate the discussion. Is this in the same neighborhood of why the reworked dict implementation in python 3.6 had insertion order as a detail, but explicitly claimed it was not a feature that should be relied upon? At least until python 3.7 cemented the behavior as a feature.

New comment by kalefranz in "Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)"

kalefranz — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 04:57:15 +0000

The HN headline should probably have a (2007) indication appended.

New comment by kalefranz in "Starlink review, four months in"

kalefranz — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:45:27 +0000

Real-time visualization of the Starlink constellation:

https://satellitemap.space/

New comment by kalefranz in "Tesla Service Centers Are Preventing Delivery Refusals in Weird Ways"

kalefranz — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 08:12:41 +0000

> What exactly does make Tesla a tech company

In asking that question, my guess is that you’ve never experienced being a Tesla owner. And that’s fair. I’m a Tesla owner myself, for full disclosure.

I’ve found that a Tesla is truly a computer on wheels; not unlike an iPhone is a computer in your hand. In many ways, Tesla is a software company that makes their own hardware. Unlike every other auto manufacturer, their software has full and complete control over every aspect of their hardware. Their hardware-software vertical integration is for real. They also have single software releases that deploy OTA to their whole fleet of in-service “devices.” From a software and release engineering perspective, incumbent auto manufacturers are decades behind.

> Nearly all car manufacturers have adaptive cruise control somewhere in their lineup

I’d argue the difference is that _every_ vehicle Tesla sells today is cable of being upgraded to the latest state of autonomy—just by an OTA software update and/or flipping some feature flags. While the claim of full Level 5 autonomy without lidar is controversial, it’s possible that most Teslas on the road today will be capable of being upgraded to L5 capability via a software update.

All that said, the QA issues in those photos are pretty jarring. No excuses there.

New comment by kalefranz in "Curl to shell isn't so bad"

kalefranz — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 17:40:30 +0000

Conda has an .exe installer on Windows and a .pkg installer on macOS. Both signed by Anaconda, Inc. for the OS. There are RPM and deb bootstrap repos for Linux. Then there’s also the .sh shar file installer.

For Airbnb employees, dream turns into disillusionment

kalefranz — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:52:46 +0000

Article URL: https://sfgate.com/business/article/For-Airbnb-Employees-Dream-Turns-Into-14457034.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041926

Points: 1

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Inside Airbnb, Employees Eager for Big Payouts Pushed It to Go Public

kalefranz — Sun, 22 Sep 2019 15:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employees-ipo-payouts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041900

Points: 2

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New comment by kalefranz in "Ask HN: Hosted DNS providers with command line client to update records?"

kalefranz — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:02:12 +0000

Cloudflare’s DNS has a command line client. It’s called curl.

New comment by kalefranz in "Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3"

kalefranz — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 04:32:05 +0000

If somebody else gets something for free that you yourself paid for, you also cry.

Databricks Runtime 5.4 with Conda

kalefranz — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 15:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://databricks.com/blog/2019/06/04/introducing-databricks-runtime-5-4-with-conda-beta.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20125767

Points: 1

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New comment by kalefranz in "Apple introduces 8-core MacBook Pro"

kalefranz — Wed, 22 May 2019 07:34:30 +0000

> Why not physical escape and power keys at the ends?

Courage.

New comment by kalefranz in "“Python's batteries are leaking”"

kalefranz — Sun, 19 May 2019 00:06:00 +0000

Former conda dev lead here. Definitely interested in more details regarding what part of the conda experience you found to be a hassle, if you’re willing to share.

New comment by kalefranz in "Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github"

kalefranz — Thu, 09 May 2019 13:11:51 +0000

Conda can create environments with literally nothing in them. If you’re putting the full-blown anaconda metapackage in every environment, then it sounds like you’re using conda wrong for your use case. Just tell conda to install the packages you actually need.

New comment by kalefranz in "Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard"

kalefranz — Sat, 04 May 2019 05:21:48 +0000

Honest question, is pydist just a hosted version of devpi (https://github.com/devpi/devpi)? What features distinguish pydist from devpi?

New comment by kalefranz in "Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard"

kalefranz — Sat, 04 May 2019 04:34:00 +0000

Hi! I was the conda dev lead for 2.5 years. We work really hard to make sure conda does the Right Thing in unpredictable, almost hostile, environments. It’s a large surface area to guard against, but in general we’ve been incredibly successful.

I hate to hear that you had a bad experience. If it’s at all possible, please provide something on our issue tracker (github.com/conda/conda) we can replicate and write regression tests against. Help us improve on what we’ve missed.

New comment by kalefranz in "Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale"

kalefranz — Thu, 02 May 2019 13:51:31 +0000

VW and incumbent manufacturers never built a supercharger network that made long-distance travel in their EVs feasible.

New comment by kalefranz in "Vim.wasm"

kalefranz — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 01:35:57 +0000

Where’s the escape key on my iPhone?

Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is a mechanical ostrich that loads pallets

kalefranz — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 11:35:08 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/boston-dynamics-latest-robot-is-a-mechanical-ostrich-that-loads-pallets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19528914

Points: 3

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