Has anyone else noticed their website has been having a ton of issues in the last few weeks as well? In terms of bookings failing and trips not appearing? Just my anecdote but software issues seem to have become very frequent over there…

They’ve always been pretty bad but it feels worse post Hawaiian merger

Can definitely relate. There is no correlation to work complexity and quality in performance reviews from what I’ve seen. It’s often how much you are selling something and your director happens to be buying…

Could I sufficiently foil their mechanism here by not connecting any WiFi devices to their access point and then wrapping their access point with foil? Or would you need to take it all the way and put the device in a faraday cage? I’ve always wanted to build one but never had the motivation. Maybe this will be the impetus I need to finally make one! Like others have stated I use the ISP provided hardware to get around the data cap. But connect nothing to it other than my own router.

What microcontroller would you use?

ESP32-C6 on the faceplate board to have the WiFi and Zigbee. STM32 on the "ring" portion - that drives the display and the scrolling ring

What’re you doing with Zig and N64? Sounds awesome.

Eventually, I hope to use Zig for N64 homebrew.

To get there, though, I need to implement Zig-ish interfaces to the N64's hardware, which is slowly-but-surely happening at https://fsl.yellowapple.us/zig64/dir?ci=trunk

There is also the router made in partnership with OpenWRT, the OpenWRT One. I’m using one right now and it has been very stable just on the RC builds for this release for a few weeks now. This is the first actual release supporting this device. The device itself is pretty nice with a JTAG header on the board so it's pretty clear that it is a hacker-friendly device. Haven’t needed to use that yet though…

This would be an awesome way to get more breadth of knowledge during downtime. For example, many times there are interesting algorithms or some technology I would benefit from knowing I just wouldn’t know to search for it.

Or you could make infinite scrolling randomized hacker news front page articles from the past.

If you’re willing to do a little bit of work you can often remove the cellular radio from some modern cars to remove the data collection connectivity, not sure if it’d still be buffered on the device still but it’s a step in the correct direction. I’ve read about this in some modern BMWs so it might be worth a bit of googling if you have a particular modern car you are interested in. Or if no one else has done it with a particular model you could also blaze your own path here.

I worry that removal or faraday caging might cause bricking.

There used to be a great Starbucks in Kirkland that was 24hr. I am equally frustrated that there are no coffee shops open late even close to the universities in Seattle.

Oh the 24 hr Kirkland Starbucks is still there.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UUsVjfy9MPeF3RwT9

There's another 24 hr one in Northgate.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RxT4vwEDsZECTu2k7

So there's 2 in the entire greater Seattle area.

But you're right, there are very few places open late even in the U-district.

SO recently finished 7 years of grad school at UW and we’re both happy to not spend much time around U dist at night. She still gets the police alerts and it’s not inspiring - such crazy violent things happening there all the time. In my opinion that could be a reason 24 hr businesses aren’t persisting in that area. But yes this would be a logical place for late night establishments

I’m really surprised about the Northgate location and it really doesn’t make sense to me. The McDonalds next to it is also 24 hour, so maybe it has to do something with being a rest stop for I5?

Salt Lake City oddly enough has (or had?) 24 hour coffee shops that you could hangout at.

I believe the one in Kirkland is not exactly 24 hrs, though close to it. Left the US in 2017, and as of that time, they'd close from 12am to 3am.

Interesting that the Northgate Starbucks closes for just 4 hours every week from Mon 10pm to Tue 2am.

Nothing quite as disappointing as traveling to a new city for 6 am shift and finding out that there is not a single coffee shop open at that time

If ChatGPT keeps giving you wrong answers wouldn’t this make paying customers leave? Effectively “losing its job”. But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

There was an article here just a few days ago, which discussed how firms can be ineffective, and still remain competitive.

https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

The idea that competition is effective, is often in spherical cow territory.

There’s tons of real world conditions which can easily let a firm be terrible at their core competency, and still survive.

> But I guess you could say it acts more like the person that makes stuff up at work if they don’t know, instead of saying they don’t know.

I have had language models tell me it doesn't know. Usually when using a RAG-based system like Perplexity, but they can say they don't know when prompted properly.

I've seen Perplexity misrepresent search results and also interpret them differently depending on whether GPT4o or Claude Sonnett 3.5 are being used.