David Ellis

Working on https://alan-lang.org prev @iasql @cardash Uber (npub14gv…6d69)

Me: Father of two, married for 15 years
Interests: Programming Language Theory, Multithreading/GPGPU, Sci-Fi & Fantasy (of the more uplifting variety), Cooking, Snowshoeing
Github: https://github.com/dfellis

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2026-07-10 00:51:03 UTC

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I canceled my Netflix subscription years ago because I couldn't trust them to *complete* any of their Netflix originals, so why watch anything new that they make, and YouTube has a more reliable back catalog than they do, so the streaming version of their old DVD business model has been better replicated elsewhere.
I guess their average user had more patience/tolerance than me, but now those decisions are catching up to them.

2025-10-27 21:49:11 UTC

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https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/448/325/380/674/525/original/19392401de6dd9db.jpg

2025-10-08 13:59:36 UTC

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what a vile framing of the situation that title is. Idiotic "think of the children" nonsense to give up essential freedoms.

2025-03-04 15:41:27 UTC

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wait, so I read through this blog post twice, and I don't see any explanation for *why* automatically installing the toolchain is now disabled. This just seems like a bad idea with no upside?

2025-02-19 23:36:56 UTC

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ugh. Killing gate fees was the *one* social good that Uber managed to accomplish and keep around.
Daily fees like this shift the risk from the dispatching company onto the driver - if they don't get enough rides in a day, they won't break even and have essentially *paid* for the privilege of *working.*
(The two positives they gave up on earlier were: no tipping in the app, but then Lyft was able to claim lower prices by factoring the tip into the driver's income so Uber caved on that, and the *explicit* surge pricing telling you what multiple you will pay versus a vaguely calculated up-front fare. The explicit surge price let users understand what a normal fare would be and decide if they want to pay for the congestion price, which, by being transparent, also could not be split unfairly with the driver. This was also dropped to help normalize higher fares with customers and allow hidden fees to increase the cut wrt the driver...)

2025-02-19 02:15:08 UTC

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Pinkerton 2.0

2024-11-04 15:26:21 UTC

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and I have a "high conviction" this is about protecting OnStar revenue, and therefore have a "high conviction" I won't be purchasing any GM vehicles while he maintains this "high conviction."

2024-10-20 18:56:13 UTC

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MAGAts look at historical blights on democracy like Tammany Hall[1] as a source of inspiration. 😕
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

2024-10-16 15:16:26 UTC

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1. LOL
2. This feels like the EU is trying to avoid all of the legal drama that would come about from trying to force Musk-Twitter to follow their regulations. (With the Far Right in Europe gaining power recently, there may be worries about such enforcement backfiring, so letting the toxicity stay contained in one place may be the better option for now.)