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I've been in this situation, and it's something that seems to get tweaked every week.

They definitely pushed the "aggressive" lever up a little over the last month.

I think it's one of those cases where it's sort of obvious it can calculate trajectories and speeds much better than a human, so it's a safe manoeuvre in theory, but it "feels" bad as a passenger.

Same thing for where it can see that it can squeeze through a tight "lane" but a normal human driver would probably wait until the oncoming traffic had passed.

I saw a Waymo come to a screeching halt in a split second as a... less than intelligent individual... skateboarded in front of a bus, into the extremely busy road.

If it was a human that person would have been dead, no question.

Sometimes I'm riding in a Waymo (which I do every single day, 4x) and it does something, and I double take. Then a second later I see whatever it was it reacted to, and I'm like "dang, why did I doubt you, robotic overload?"

The best part is that it works the same way in the day time vs the night time.

Magic.

I would never let my family ride in a Cruise (and have never).

Waymo's are far, far better. I ride one every day, and trust them more than I trust 99% of Uber/Lyft drivers.

Ah, when not logged in, it defaults to light mode.

When I logged in with my Google account, it detected the system setting.

Absolutely love Hetzner -- we use a tonne of the RX220's.

Good to see tools and scripts around their offerings.

Hoping for that US DC at some point.

This is cool but everything is too verbose.

`austral compile hello.aum --entrypoint=Hello:main --output=hello`

vs

`go build`

Etc etc.

Did this once. Took 5 years (old system was still available, we swapped out various parts over time, etc, etc).

Rewrite/relaunch did increase revenue a lot, but not enough to justify the 5 year investment of R&D. Pain.

The most annoying thing about this is that they broke unfurls in Slack, Discord, etc, etc.

... so?

Tech is never the hard part in payments.

I mean... yeah. Also she's literally the Rep for SF, home of tech.

That they're invested in tech stock is the least shocking thing imaginable.

Yup, it's absolutely horrible to use as a developer.

I work in Web3 and I would say cryptocurrency as a "currency" / speculative asset etc is a failure.

However, the underlying technology is legitimately interesting and solves a lot of hard problems (e.g. distributed systems, consensus, clock synchronisation across wide networks, provable ownership of assets, etc, etc).

I don't see any value in the coins blockchains operate on except maybe as a means for paying for execution on that network.

I do see a tonne of value in say, abstracting something like USDC payments/remittance/etc that runs very cheaply/quickly on (for example) Solana and remove middle men from these equations.

I think the market/world will optimize out of the un-interesting parts over time and the use cases that add value to the world will rise to the top.

At least this China-based RCT isn't underwritten by GILD?

That's something.