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I moved from US to Australia a couple years back, some notes on tipping.

- Not only is there no tipping here, things cost what they say they cost. Taxes are always added in. Worst case you pay 2% for a credit card fee. - There is basically no tipping. I see jars occasionally but it's not a thing. - Service is often not as good but fine. If you want a second drink, go up the bar, mate. - However you NEVER self-bus your table here. I've seen almost no restaurants with bussing stations, which were very common in Seattle.

The wages are higher, healthcare is covered, taxes are higher. When I went back to US earlier this year the tipping culture shocked me - POS 22 / 25 / 28% -- wth?

Agree there is no way to change this as an individual consumer. But I sure don't miss it.

Because LLMs don't understand anything. That's the tech. They can only predict what they have been trained with and fail daily at the most basic tasks. Granted they can do amazing things, no question there. But they are not "smart".

For example, it seems that even at Fable scale, simple concepts like the passage of time or (gasp) timezones elude them. I live in UTC+10 and with any RFC8339 data LLMs are constantly confused - is it Sunday the 10th or Sunday the 9th, etc. I have tried many solutions for this and every time it finds a way to get it wrong.

No definitely not true. It was in Source Depot if not SLM.

Honestly sort of all of them.

The Seal looks almost exactly like a Model 3 with better range Atto/Sealion are the SUV shapes that barely exist as EVs in US (Equinox maybe)

100% this

I noted below that I have recently moved from US to Australia

The Chinese cars are taking over here: it’s a product people want at a price they like

GM wants to monetize yesterday’s market, and are just going to fall farther behind.

When these cars eventually come in, EV mandate or not, the US car companies will get crushed

I have recently moved from US to Australia and it is 100% clear to me the US automakers will get absolutely crushed by the Chinese companies if/when they are able to access US market.

Especially EVs and PHEVs. This place is awash with them, they are cars people want at the right price.

This is the best comment I have ever seen on HN. Nailed it

This has been a concern for me too. But the agent is just a statsd receiver with some extra magic, so this seems like a thing that could be solved with the collector sending traffic to an agent rather than the HTTP APIs?

I looked at the OTel DD stuff and did not see any support for this, fwiw, maybe it doesn't work b/c the agent expects more context from the pod (e.g. app and label?)

Temporal is designed for industrial strength flows and scale. For example an HTTP based push mechanism can overload workers hence the queue.

And its jusr code so not sure about the DSL reference (of course thats common with other systems)?

What use cases is this designed for? Easier to learn and build usually has tradeoffs

OK well then, we'd better not do anything about it! <s/>

I don't think this is strictly true. Oil production is not fully fungible due to all kinds of issues including sanctions and production capacity.

But this is also a strawman - this isn't saying "we should shut them all down" or even begging that question.

At a minimum it's saying "there were people and companies who intentionally chose to mislead the public on a potentially existential issue - perhaps there should be some reckoning for that?"

We followed the book The Contented Little Baby Book for our kids. Others recommended to us and sleep has never been a problem after a few months old.

Kids thrive with structure but it takes discipline to maintain consistency.

It’s not magic, in a nutshell it just makes sure your kids have a very reliable routine and they are never super tired or super hungry.

Goodness springs from there.

I worked at a large valley based company that had their own data centers and badly wanted to decrease infra spend.

It's WAY harder than it sounds.

Remember Twitter is not a profitable company which means the likelihood of a bunch of low-hanging fruit for savings is very low. That's been done already.

There are not likely "oh look we found a whole DC sitting idle, oops" sort of savings. Any vendors they use are ALREADY giving them huge discounts.

I'm not saying Twitter is efficient or that this is physically impossible (tho it might be), I'm saying its not easy and takes skilled people a long time to iterate to lower-cost systems or designs that don't have massive stability or performance tradeoffs.

It's not a few people.

Twitter runs their own data centers, which means they own all of the THOUSANDS of machines in them. These machines, and all of their parts, have shelf lives and CONSTANTLY need replacement.

When they are replaced you can't just go to Best Buy with a credit card. At scale VERY SMALL changes matter: oh look they changed something in the disk firmware and haha now your databases corrupt data one out of 1M writes.

New machines need to be tested, burned in, installed. Old ones need to be cycled out.

Same goes for power equipment, networking, all that.

Because you built your own data center, and you were an early scale company it ALSO means a huge percentage of your systems are home grown - asset management, deployment, health checking, metrics, you name it. There are no articles on Stack Overflow. There is no blog post. How that shit works is mostly a function of what people knew about it and, well, at least half of those people are now poof - gone.

This hasn't even gotten to the services themselves, many of which are now running without an owner or any person at the company who has ever looked at them before. The remaining people are now up to their eyeballs in drama, survivor syndrome, fear, and, oh yeah, the work of many of their laid-off peers.

Few people, pfft, give me a break.

Remember that time FB was down because they had lost access to a core server and everyone was like "STAY DOWN"