I live on campus at Cornell Tech. The student residence hall[0] there is built following Passive House standards and it is actually surprising how good it works. My one complaint is the heating and cooling systems in every apartment unit are very heavily regulated, so at times the inside feel and temperature aren't ideal. It's a minor thing though.
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ricardou commented on The maze is in the mouse: what ails Google medium.com/@pravse/the-ma... · Posted by u/npalli
I'm going to call out one specific point I disagree with, which I'm curious whether others will or won't agree with me on: google3 and the associated set of internal tools actually are better than what exists "in the real world".
I went from startup world (mostly rails and frontend frameworks of the early teens) early in my career to google3 for about half a decade to the whole suite of public cloud stuff starting about a year ago and I really miss google's internal tooling.
It's not at all that any given component is much or at all better than any given public competitor. Indeed I think the article is right that on an individual component basis there are strong competitors to everything google has internally. But taken as a whole, I found it much easier to figure out what tool to use for a given job and get it working well for my task within google than it is with all the public tools. But it's an integration and analysis paralysis / paradox of choice and sales cycle problem, rather than a technical problem.
Do I go with a fully managed service or self-host? How well does the self-hosting work with my infrastructure? What about cost comparisons? Do these three tools work together at all? Do they support my particular sso setup? It's just so much crap before even getting to the point where the technical capabilities are important. And it is either prohibitively time consuming or just actually impossible to do any sort of objective analysis of different options, so everyone just guesses and cargo cults. "This seems to have the most mindshare in the community."
I experienced variants of some of these same problems with google internal tools, but there were easy and good answers to a large enough set of the questions that it always seemed a lot easier to get an answer and move on.
Do you think this is more a reflection on the fact that the more mature company has already made these decisions for you vs the other company having to still figure out this stuff? Your point isn't really saying much about que quality of the internal tools vs the external ones. I see your comparison more along the lines of a company that's already decided how they'll tackle the problem and answered all your questions vs one that's starting to.
ricardou commented on FTX’s balance sheet was bad bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/latchkey
Time and time again it seems like the people involved in the crypto industry are speedrunning through dynamics that are now either clearly understood as a failing strategy, or outright illegal. Another such example here.
ricardou commented on Building an e-ink weather display for our home kimmo.blog/posts/7-buildi... · Posted by u/jorde
cool, but these : https://www.homedepot.com/pep/La-Crosse-Technology-Atomic-Di... are super cheap, last forever and don't require an internet connection. Sure you don't get multi day weather but that's what the weather widget on my phohne is for.
That's quite limiting though. The OP could very well expand functionality to hook up calendars, email notifications, etc. This is just a dumb display.
ricardou commented on Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/alphabetting
> It means that it's a manager very high in the hierarchy
It doesn't, because there are so many of them. Looking at this for example: https://www.zippia.com/google-careers-24972/salary/vice-pres... I wouldn't say VP ranks very high at Google.
This is so wildly inaccurate. I know L3s making that much.
Trading halt announcement at FTX.US.[1] Announcement says withdrawals still up.
But Twitter messages indicate withdrawals are not working.
FTX Japan shut down by order of Japan Financial Services Agency.[2]
FTX.intl processing some withdrawals, according to blockchain.[3] A few lucky people got to exit.
Way too much happening to mention here. Just use Google to search "FTX" and limit search to 1 day. Margin calls all over crypto land. JP Morgan says expect 50% drop across the board in crypto. Around 10 AM PST, somebody just pulled a billion dollars out of Tether. Word of the day: "deleveraging".
[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/japan-cracks-down-...
[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/crypto-exchange-ft...
SBF tweeted[1] not too long ago that FTX.us was safe and was 100% liquid. I suppose that wasn't the case?
[1] https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709195892195329?t=tQR...
ricardou commented on We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX twitter.com/binance/statu... · Posted by u/sbuccini
This whole thing is such a mess. Binance's statement is quite scathing. It is a shame that crypto institutions continue to fold after mismanagement. The free money era will sure take a couple more entities with it.
ricardou commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts
It is but it will depend on a number of factors including what status you were in when you entered the U.S., when you applied for asylum, and where you are in the asylum process.
I actually entered the US as an F1 student. My parents then came here and applied for asylum. Since I was underaged, I was included in their asylum application. we've been waiting for six years now. In essence, just waiting, and renewing EADs every two years as expected.
Thank you for the sharing knowledge!
Every two weeks I check all credit cards, pay my mortgage, utilities, etc.