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Well, as a 2 week tenured and very happy Railway customer until now, I am now a Render customer. Somehow DNS cut over within 1 min(!) and live after about 30 minutes of work. Not bad!


In my experience, DNS changes are a lot faster than they used to be. There’s some website that has a map that tries to resolve your domain with a bunch of name servers around the world that was pretty neat to look at last time I migrated something.


I became so conditioned to waiting hours(!) for DNS propagation that I'm always pleasantly surprised when it takes <5 min these days.


Yeah way back in the day I’d be used to waiting overnight


I love pointing my name servers to Cloudflare so any DNS changes from that are practically instant.


as with many things, we say we like decentralization but quietly vote for centralization


I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.


Literally in the same boat. I've been really happy with it, but this is a major eye opener.... It's been done for a looooong time by provider standards.


same


Been a customer with them for over a year now, small incidents here and there but never anything this major.


same same


As a new customer of about 2 weeks, it was a lovely run with Railway until this afternoon!


I am a personal injury lawyer, and am therefore biased. But I submit that they are decidedly not undifferentiated - the problem is that there is no real way for you to differentiate them.

If I were seriously injured, there are about 10 personal injury lawyers in my small state that I would consider. There are no obvious external signals such as billboards, websites, or marketing that convey their superior strategic skill and they just have it qualities before a jury. But if you know them, you know.

If you need a lawyer, call another lawyer (preferably someone involved in the special interest bar association for that field) and ask them who you should call.


Claude and I (mostly Claude) built a web app for lawyers that uses Gemini to extract (and calculate, where necessary) court dates and deadlines from a PDF scheduling order and output them in a structured format. The user can then select which ones they want to add to their calendar and generate an ICS file to add all case dates/deadlines at once.

https://www.courtsynccalendar.com/


how many users do you have?


Only a handful! I am a terrible marketer and have no idea how to promote things.


For some reason, most of the AI-focused subreddits, like r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, etc., seem to convey a sense of mass mental illness or delusion. For example, r/OpenAI is 95% focused on how OpenAI is horrible for taking away their virtual girlfriend/therapist model, 4o. r/Anthropic is 95% either rambling about usage limits in Claude Code or “showing off” by presenting a giant wall of AI generated text describing the stack for their latest zero utility vibe-coded project. I personally find value in vibecoding, but the signal to noise ratio in these spaces is insanely poor compared to generally anywhere else on Reddit, and I’m not sure what that says.


I imagine every gold rush mania is filled with kooks.

What’s the stereotype of the California and Yukon gold rushes? Toothless codgers and Yosemite Sam.

Tulip mania? Not as clear but surely not calm and rational.

NFTs? Hype Bros and Crypto Douchebags.

Social Media is the lens to current set of self selecting weirdos.


Yep. When such a massive "yuge new ground floor opportunity!" hype hits the mass media zeitgeist it not only triggers an influx grifters but lots of lower-effort dilettantes. They're attracted not only by the promise of quick success but also a need to identify themselves with this 'hot new thing'. So they tend to seek out forums where they can express their new identity in the hope of receiving validation. In essence, they need a place to try out and practice their new identity before they trot it out to their friends and family IRL.


I never thought about it, but that would make sense


I am in Copenhagen for the first time and was wondering why there were 20+ people waiting in line at various ATMs last night. I think this explains it!


It’s a fair question and I find your comment to be an interesting example of resorting to a conspiracy theory because you don’t understand something that’s easily explainable.

The Boeing 737-800 has batteries that power certain things in the event of a dual engine failure, including cabin lighting.

Those same batteries, on 737s manufactured more than about 15 years ago, do not provide backup power to the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder.


That seems totally backwards.

In the event of power loss, the data and voice recorded have lower priority than cabin lighting?!

And the cherry on top is that this was the case on 737's until ~ 2010?!

Defusing my bullsh!t alarm with a second layer of bullsh.t?

I would swallow it all ad fundum if you can provide HN with reliable links to manuals, procedures, ... describing how electrical energy for the passenger cabin is prioritized over the data and voice flight recorders!


I don't know if that's correct or not, but if I were to prioritize, I'd put safe passenger evacuation ahead of the recorders.


if the parent poster was talking about merely emergency lights being battery powered, and hence main passenger cabin lighting turning off a full 4 minutes before the crash, we go back in a circle and have to explain the apparent absence of passengers texting friends and family about a scary power loss during descent (people would quickly try to figure out if power sockets for their consumer electronics were no longer providing power either and learn from each other that it is the case).


I'm no expert, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's much, MUCH easier to get "non-critical" systems hooked up to new, better equipment as it would undergo far less checks and approvals.


"This is your Captain speaking, we may only have a few minutes to restore power, I am hereby commandeering all your USB cables, we daisy chain them from the passenger cabin to the cockpit" ... ?


It would be unsurprising if someone who named a company after themselves turned out to be a narcissist who couldn’t help themselves.

https://ma.tt/2003/04/hit-diggity/


I don’t know about that, it’s normal to name a business after the founder. For example JCPenney, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Disney, Boeing, Wells Fargo. The reference is also quite oblique.


King Gilette



Amazing:

  Gillette was also a Utopian Socialist.[16] He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894)[17] which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_C._Gillette


The Court technically can if Google asked for JMOL prior the case going to the jury.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_50


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