city of seattle can deliver a new 5-mile light rail line in 16 years (in the best case scenario)... we need to bring the centrally planned autocratic governance actually, or as they like to call it 工程建设项目审批制度改革.
baseten sealed volumes are pretty cool: it brings the idea of container images to volumes, you build them once and refer to them by tag/digest, and the underlying infra knows how to ship only the diff and start workloads without waiting them to be pulled in full
