If you have cheap, abundant land it makes no sense to build densely.
Look at Houston with ~zero zoning laws and ~infinite sprawl.
"A neighborhood" in a high-sprawl suburb wouldn't be able to support local mixed use amenities because even singular "neighborhoods" are gigantic enough to warrant driving across them. Once you're in the car, why would you go to the place 2min down the road instead of the far superior place 8min down the road.
These allegedly cover only ~25% of residential lots in HTX (mostly the wealthy ones). So sure that's a similar tool and probably distorts things, but I would be very shocked to hear this is anywhere near as important as the infinite supply of ultra-cheap land on the outskirts of town plus public subsidized roads (which will eventually bankrupt the city).
Houston has these, parking requirements, etc. I would argue if anything that mandatory parking requirements have a larger impact than zoning. Parking lots themselves push things farther apart and make not driving unpleasant.
I agree with you but I don't believe the marketplace does. If you get rid of parking requirements in Houston I doubt you'd see a significantly different development pattern because ultimately people there actually do need to park their cars.
I realize "makes no sense" carries a double meaning here. I am speaking of the system-level decisions which end up actually producing infrastructure. You're right that sprawl is absolutely inhumane – we should absolutely nudge processes/incentives such that it's discouraged, but doing so is not as simple as just "get rid of zoning."
Average commute time in Houston is just under half an hour (depend on which source you read, varies from 26-29 in my quick search). Sure you can do commutes more than an hour long, but people generally don't - if they get a new job more than about half an hour away they will move.
> It only makes sense to sprawl like in Houston if you never mind spending 3-4 hours commuting to work and back.
Much easier to do with self driving cars though. Remember the promise? “Take a nap in your car and arrive at your destination” or “be productive on your commute”.
At this point it is more because they have always been that way and people don't think about it anymore. in 1920-1950 when they were first enacted they were for those reasons, but now people are more afraid of change.
You said you don't understand it while explaining it in the second sentence. They don't have a decent integration, hence the vulnerability. Devices that do have a good to great AI experience will win in the long run imho.
What integration features are they missing that people use/want? Genuinely not trying to be dismissive or stick my head in sand - I am out of the loop.
Tailscale (and similar services) is an abstraction on top of Wireguard. This gives you a few benefits:
1. You get a mesh network out of the box without having to keep track of Wireguard peers. It saves a bunch of work once you’re beyond the ~5 node range.
2. You can quickly share access to your network with others - think family & friends.
3. You have the ability to easily define fine grained connectivity policies. For example, machines in the “untrusted” group cannot reach machines in the “trusted” group.
4. It “just works”. No need to worry about NAT or port forwarding, especially when dealing with devices in your home network.
Also it has a very rich ACL system. The Immich node can be locked out from accessing any other node in the network, but other nodes can be allowed to access it.
Tailscale uses wireguard, which is better in a lot of ways compared to OpenVPN. It's far more flexible, secure, configurable and efficient. That said, you probably won't notice a significant difference
OpenVPN is far from "no fuss", especially when compared to Tailscale.
I like to self host things so I also self host Headscale (private tailnet) and private derp proxy nodes (it is like TURN). Since derp uses https and can run on 443 using SNI I get access to my network also at hotels and other shady places where most of the UDP and TCP traffic is blocked.
Tailscale ACL is also great and requires more work to achieve the same result using OpenVPN.
And Tailscale creates a wireguard mesh which is great since not everything goes through the central server.
Wireguard is great, I have personally donated to it and have used Wireguard for years before it became stable. And I still use it on devices (routers) where Tailscale is not supported. But as Jason stated - it is quite basic and is supposed to be used in other tools and this is what we are seeing with solutions like Tailscale.
Tailscale makes it simple for the user - no need to set up and maintain complex configurations, just install it, sign in with your SSO and it does everything for you. Amazing!
That's pretty cool, thanks for the info! I've been looking into Tailscale the past few days since it actually seems pretty convenient.
I've seen they offer to use Mullvad as an exit node for devices which is very cool. Sadly it seems like for this to work, you have to have them manage your Mullvad keys, which to me kind of defeats the purpose of Mullvad in some ways. But I can see how it makes sense to them from a business-perspective.
I think on some level it is being done on the premise that further advancement requires an enormous capital investment and if they can find a way to fund that with today’s sales it will give the opportunity for the tech to get there (quite a gamble).
IMO within the documentation .md files the information density should be very high. Higher than trying to shove the entire codebase into context that is for sure.
You deffinetly don't just push the entire code base. Previous models required you to be meticulous about your input. A function here a class there.
Even now if I am working on REALLY hard problems I will still manually copy and paste code sections out for discussion and algorithm designs. Depends on complexity.
This is why I still believe open ai O1-Pro was the best model I've ever seen. The amount of compute you could throw at a problem was absurd.
He's the leading AI researcher at the 3rd largest company in the world in the middle of an AI boom. He's naturally going to have quite the marketing budget behind him!
Our society is leader based. Otherwise the garbage Trump wouldn't matter but he does. The same thing with garbage Musk. Musk gets what he wants from Tesla because the shareholders believe that Musk is critical to Tesla.
Both are fundamental to their followers.
So its quite clear that you can't just say 'its DeepMind' but have a figure in the middle of it like Dennis.
I mean yes. We've hosted internal apps that have four nines reliability for over a decade without much trouble. It depends on your scale of course, but for a small team it's pretty easy. I'd argue it is easier than it has ever been because now you have open source software that is containerized and trivial to spin up/maintain.
The downtime we do have each year is typically also on our terms, not in the middle of a work day or at a critical moment.
I've seen gnarly code everywhere, from kernel drivers to desktop applications to web apps. At the end of the day this describes most of computing imho.
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