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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • This is true, but I think the bigger deal is that some people actually like driving (maybe not the trafficky daily commute). Some speeders fit this category, but also others who just like being precise on the curves, being in the flow of an uncrowded road, and even expressing their neighborliness to others.

    So far, self driving cars drive very clumsily even when they are safe. More scope for embarrassment and frustration than anything else if you identify with the behavior of your car. “Chill mode” for example, chooses the right of a four lane road until the last minute instead of making lane changes when space allows. Awful.

    But even if the cars get better at it, some people will miss driving.














  • I think what we lack is the understanding that just knowing the right thing to do doesn’t make it happen, individually or collectively. Because if you look at any of the issues we face you can find people talking about it a hundred, three hundred, a thousand years ago, but it’s like the solutions only get traction under some special lightning in a bottle circumstances. So you have to keep up the consciousness and the effort and especially creative inspiring things, and know that the failures are to be expected and the successes are so rare they need to be celebrated even when they are imperfect.


  • Yes, I think the second. You have a pool of 100 http clients and a queue of one million requests and a queue to accept the responses as the clients complete, and a little machine that waits for capacity in the client queue to send the next request until there are no more requests. If the response is important to this process, your machine is also pulling from the response queue as available and computing whatever it needs from that, for example to decide whether to abort the rest of the requests. Any other use of the responses can be handled outside this loop.

    The other way would work fine, but I think it’s actually slightly more complicated and slower because you now have a queue of 10000 batches of 100 requests each and the machine has to watch for all one hundred clients to complete before sending off the next batch. Otherwise, it’s the same situation.


  • I love this and have had similar thoughts in relation to my non verbal kid wanting to keep memories in a way they can point out different parts and link together multiple things to make new stories or comments or hypotheticals. Important to have the context and the parts and named things all relating together. I don’t know much about it, but there is a thing called “sidecar” file that can be associated with media. There are some moves to make EXIF data more standardized. So there’s a chance this could be done in an open format.