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ShaunK commented on Honda targeting 50% weight reduction with EV solid state batteries   thedrive.com/news/honda-s... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
rgbrenner · 2 years ago
Currently Toyota and Nissan plan to have solid state batteries in 2027 and 2028... and Honda is planning sometime after that.

Honda currently has 0 EVs for sale.

These guys dont give af about EVs... touting Panasonic's research while they twiddle their thumbs and do the bare minimum.

Currently Honda is planning to have solid state batteries at the same time as the rest of the industry. So they make a lot of noise about this, but they're exactly as far behind as it appears.

ShaunK · 2 years ago
Yeah between this and Toyota's similar talk about amazing tech just around the corner (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833836) it feels like this could be a concerted effort by Japanese car manufacturers to create some FUD to keep people out of EVs while they get their act together.
ShaunK commented on iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on   9to5mac.com/2023/06/08/io... · Posted by u/belfalas
onlyrealcuzzo · 3 years ago
Google doesn't sell your data.

It allows advertisers to bid on you.

Apple will do the same thing.

ShaunK · 3 years ago
Apple already does the same thing. Apple Search Ads is not limited to the same restrictions that Facebook and Google are with regards to iOS tracking and reporting for advertising attribution.
ShaunK commented on Gen Z Is Thinking of Retirement Too Early and All Wrong   bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/mirthlessend
pfannkuchen · 3 years ago
Has there previously been a system where one could live without working at any point, except in the case of positions taken and held by force?
ShaunK · 3 years ago
My understanding is that pre-agricultural hunter/gatherers worked a lot less than post-agricultural workers.
ShaunK commented on Cube.js: Headless Semantic Layer   github.com/cube-js/cube... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
mbesto · 3 years ago
So how does this compare to am embedded analytics service like SiSense, Looker? Is this sort of in between?
ShaunK · 3 years ago
My understanding is that it's essentially Looker minus the dashboarding. What you would define via LookML is essentially the "semantic layer" that this is addressing. DBT is attempting to do similar work: https://www.getdbt.com/product/semantic-layer/
ShaunK commented on “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees   gsb.stanford.edu/insights... · Posted by u/t23
nkozyra · 3 years ago
> During the pandemic consumer spending moved online.

I keep hearing this repeated as canon but is this quantified somehow? Did we really see a spike long enough for hiring sprees? And did it last until ... when? A few months ago?

It seems intuitive but I'd really love to see numbers.

ShaunK · 3 years ago
The Shopify layoff memo (https://news.shopify.com/changes-to-shopifys-team) has a pretty interesting graph of exactly this effect. Basically a huge leap in e-commerce adoption with a subsequent dip right back to where the pre-pandemic trend line was heading. It’s not hard numbers I suppose, but it was at least the reason shopify gave when explaining their layoffs.
ShaunK commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes   voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s
beyond_based · 3 years ago
This will be easy to side-step as it has been done all along now. Linking a random redditors interpretation is absolutely meaningless.
ShaunK · 3 years ago
Can you elaborate on some of the points the random redditor made that you think aren't valid?
ShaunK commented on How Snowflake Rebuilt Its AWS Stack on Azure   snowflake.com/blog/how-we... · Posted by u/the_child
SteveNuts · 7 years ago
Does anyone have experience working with Snowflake? I feel like what their promising is too good to be true and their website is extremely lacking in substantive details.
ShaunK · 7 years ago
Used it for several years, beat the pants off Redshift and was comparable to BigQuery for our use cases. They have a ways to go on the maturity/reliability front though.
ShaunK commented on Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley   theglobeandmail.com/busin... · Posted by u/paulashbourne
Kluny · 8 years ago
Canadian here. I get $65,000 USD from my remote American job. That's low enough that people on this forum snicker at me, and high enough that companies in the "tech town" that I live in physically wince when I tell them my salary expectation. I'd rather work locally, but what can I do?
ShaunK · 8 years ago
I too am in Victoria. I used to be a hiring manager and had people turn down 6 figure (CAD) offers due to receiving a better one. Although there is admittedly a huge gap between the local companies, and the satellite offices of American companies. Look at KIXEYE, Change.org, Workday, Abe Books (Amazon subsidiary). They typically pay up to 50% more than the local companies, but also typically have higher expectations around skills and availability.
ShaunK commented on Redshift vs. BigQuery vs. Snowflake benchmark   blog.fivetran.com/warehou... · Posted by u/georgewfraser
boulos · 8 years ago
I should have been more explicit: it won't be linear-ish. As you fill up any per-box sort of system, you start contending (pretend that you simulate 100 analysts) while the BigQuery results will be closer to linear. It does suck that to benchmark that "accurately", you have to make the queries different enough so that no reuse occurs (unless that's reasonable!).

Again, thanks for doing this!

ShaunK · 8 years ago
When we've looked at BigQuery it seemed that if you prepay you essentially get a similar effect to what you're describing. You're given a certain number of "units" of compute, and if you exceeded your concurrent units available you end up with the same compute resource contention you would with an improperly scaled Snowflake warehouse or Redshift cluster.

If you're willing to just pay per gigabyte scanned with BigQuery you can scale near linearly I'm sure (although I haven't actually tried it), but you could accomplish the same thing using Snowflake's API to add warehouses as concurrent query load increases. That's what we do (although we just pre-allocate and suspend the warehouses because you only pay when they're on).

Redshift does suffer from this problem because the compute is tied to the data, but Redshift Spectrum is attempting to rectify that as well. I don't know anything about its performance though.

ShaunK commented on Never buy Epson printers   e-nouri.com/epson-product... · Posted by u/e-nouri
JensRex · 10 years ago
I bought a Brother (HL-2170W) laser printer about 8 years ago, and it's still using its original cartridge. I do very little printing, but I do need it from time to time.

During my last move, I accidentally tipped a book shelf on top of it. Cracked a few plastic bits, and bent some metal things inside it. I unbent the metal, and glued the plastic, and the thing still prints like it's new out of the box.

I've talked more than a few people out of buying inkjets.

ShaunK · 10 years ago
I have the same printer and I too have had no issues in 5+ years of use.

u/ShaunK

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