colin_mccabe
(Removed comment about it being AI-generated since that might be unfair.)
> This bit of propaganda has been surprisingly successful, especially since it doesn't really make any sense.
What doesn't make sense to you? California did ask electric car owners to charge off peak hours to avoid overloading the grid. See https://www.newsweek.com/california-facing-power-crisis-fret...
It was not a legally binding request, so electric car owners could ignore it if they wanted to.
The newest large refinery built in the US was completed in 1976 in Garyville, Louisiana. Since then, while some existing refineries have expanded, new refinery construction has faced significant barriers in environmental regulation, permitting, and local political opposition.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_in_the_Unit...
I agree that skipping the gas infrastructure will save some money. However, you can't skip all the chimneys, vents and fans for the kitchen because heating foot produces particles and sometimes smoke.
> Thus, for example, wine that has been casked in wooden barrels is often said to have a pleasant smoky smell, even if the barrels are not actually burned.
Those barrels are always burned. There are various levels of "toast": light toast, medium toast, heavy toast.
> And to create initial demand in new buildings, where you are actually making significant savings by not hooking up gas at all, is just an easy slam dunk decision.
I mean, it saves money for the builders, but will probably cost more money for the people who live or work there. Unless electricity prices go down drastically, which doesn't seem likely.
On the plus side, it's nice not to have gas lines around if there is an earthquake.
In general, working from home makes cities and public transit a lot less relevant. There isn't a strong reason for everyone to get on a train to the big city, if they can just sit at home and work. When you add crime, COVID-19, pollution, etc. into the mix the case for just staying home seems even better.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinelle_(software) 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse
One for the history books.
This is a commonly repeated factoid, but it's not really true. Or at least, it's very misleading. Let me explain.
Rural populations tend to be older. That means more spent on Social Security, more spent on Medicare, and so on. This is by far the largest reason why people say that cities "subsidize" rural areas. But if those old people moved to cities, they would still be receiving Social Security and Medicaid. So it would be more accurate to say that young people subsidize old people.
Farm subsidies exist and probably should be reduced (or eliminated) but in the grand scheme of things, we're not talking about much money. It was about 22 billion in 2019, according to NPR [https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/31/790261705/fa...]. That's comparable to some of the increases in yearly budget that are being talked about for Amtrak, a program that mainly benefits cities.
So don't move to a rural area believing that the federal government will shower you with cash. In general, it won't, or at least not more than it does for city dwellers.
On the other hand, being old or poor may cause the Feds to shower you with cash, but not more than you would have gotten in a city (and many things will be more expensive in a rural area than a city).
Assembly language doesn't have function arguments. You just decide what to put in each register when you begin the function. So you can remember that eax is the count, ebx is the pointer to the buffer, or whatever. Or if you're a nice programmer you write a comment there.
There is plenty of live music in the Bay. Example: https://thefillmore.com/
Public Transport (or lack thereof): The Bay Area has none
Wrong. The South Bay has Caltrain, the East Bay has BART. SF has... a few systems, but mostly Muni.
Variety (or lack thereof): There is a lack of variety, whether it be in the type of people encountered, the conversations, the cities/suburbs, or the scenery.
Very untrue. Try visiting Oakland, San Francisco, Palo Alto, and Santa Cruz and see if you think they are the same.
Affordability (or lack thereof): Flimsy, modest houses cost north of a million bucks minimum. Everything that requires human labor is stratospherically expensive.
The situation is the same in NYC. Housing is expensive.
I agree that Cargo is much better than the Go build system, though.
Cloudera actually started in the cloud, but quickly moved to selling mostly on-premise software. Back then, cloud was a lot less cost competitive (it still is not really cost competitive) https://a16z.com/2021/05/27/cost-of-cloud-paradox-market-cap... The on-premise business had much higher margins, which kind of "took the oxygen out of the room" for the cloud side of the business. In retrospect, neglecting the cloud market was a big mistake, of course.
Cloudera management knew even back then that Hadoop was eventually going to be superseded by a newer technology. We tried to build that technology, in the form of Impala, an optimized SQL query engine. Unfortunately, it never really took off in the marketplace, for several reasons. For one, its dialect of SQL was not compatible with Hive, the traditional SQL frontend for Hadoop. For another, early versions of Impala were somewhat unstable, and didn't have the fault-tolerance of traditional Hadoop tools.
From my perspective, the main issue that cloud solves is that managing the server side stuff is really hard, and requires experts. Cloud also aligns expectations: it's really clear to both customer and vendor that a cloud contract is not a stepping stone towards self-managing. Unfortunately, Cloudera just didn't see the shift towards cloud coming, and they're now paying the price.