You're spot on, I've been doing Doordash on an e-bike on the weekends for exercise and the wait times are BS because everyone orders lunch/dinner at the same time and they're in essentially a random queue with everyone else who orders. Add to that multiple pick ups and drop offs and you've got a mess.
Talking to people really does help though, everyone wants to be more forgiving when you remind them theirs a human factor involved in getting the food to them.
The last time I upgraded my networking setup (just as the pandemic started) I went with Ubiquiti, shortly after (before?) they started default forcing you to sign up for their cloud service to use the router, you can switch it to a locally operated mode after you sign up but they bury it in the options. Their networking equipment works great, don't get me wrong, but they don't open source anything. I keep waiting for the full rug pull when sales start to slow because everything they release is rock solid and everything I have is "good enough." I don't feel the need to upgrade for as long as the rug pull doesn't happen.
I am super grateful people are starting to work on open source solutions to this stuff :).
I did a DSL to facilitate this at https://prlang.com. I've had some success setting up agents to "act" out scenes, where each plays a different part, but it was kinda limited in that conversations would kinda de cohere into nonsense after a bit.
I don't know about Cruise but Waymo has a training video[1] that shows a first responder hitting a button to contact dispatch, then explaining that they're a first responder and they need to move a vehicle, and finally being given control. It looks like the process could take 30 seconds in the best case scenario, which is likely too long in many life or death scenarios, but they do at least have a process.
Good, but in a poor reception area, or in an earthquake or more conventional cell network outage situation, a link to the control center may not be accessible.
This seems like pretty a straightforward, but overlooked systems engineering concern.
Yeah I think we're in agreement that the current solution is not very good. I can understand why they opted for it initially though, given the thing that happened with protesters putting traffic cones on AV's to disable them. Imagine if instead of doing that, protesters hijacked cars and drove them into situations where the AV couldn't easily navigate out of, like driving up onto sidewalks for instance. The bombastic headlines write themselves. In the end I bet they end up making a kind of "master key" that works with all AV's to distribute among first responders. I'm in the "it'll get sorted out eventually" camp on this one.
At this point autonomous cars have been in multiple incidents that have blocked traffic, impeded emergency access vehicles, and now sat on top of accident victims. I understand it can be tricky with multiple human orgs and interactions in play but, the time to sort it out is now at limited scale. It only gets harder to implement reasonable standards later.
A rolling camera laden sensor platform seems like a poor target for vandalism - a simple label with: recording starts when emergency controls are accessed would seem to discourage most & the car doesn't need to move fast or far for emergency situations.
This looks neat, but isn't it already implemented natively in Chrome? You can go into the Network tab in the Chrome Dev Tools and right click a request in the "Name" list, go to "copy", then "Copy as cURL". It'd probably be easier to use CnTUI if you wanted to bulk resend requests that Chrome's making though.
Yeah I'll raise my hand here to say I did a file manager that automates file management tasks by using AI to write Bash scripts (Aerome.net). It's still super primitive though, if I'm being honest. I think the problem is that it's way harder to write a cross platform file manager, or browser wrapper in your case, then it is to write a chat interface on top of ChatGPT. I suspect in a year or two many good use cases will emerge, as people write more complicated software to take advantage of LLM's capabilities.
I'm going to check out you're browser thing later tonight, it looks good!
Yeah it might have lied to me but i tested your theory and the bot swore back, then left early when i called his mom names. I thought for sure that was a human... but alas it said it was a bot.
Do ya mind me asking where you are in the country? I ask because I have a severely disabled nephew, and if I recall a few years before Covid our corner of California tried to get rid of special ed in elementary school. It went about as well as its going for your kid. My nephew literally couldn't integrate with the rest of the class, he's got severe epilepsy, even if he could understand the material, he couldn't actually write because his hands shake horribly! It was actually insane to put him in a normal class, the only thing he could do was disrupt it. It was bad for everyone involved.
Fortunately though, they had kept special ed programs at other schools nearby and he got transferred pretty quickly for being a severe case. It was my understanding that our school district backpedaled and reinstated special ed, but maybe that's not the case? I thought that it was just a crazy liberal California thing, but is this cancelling of special ed a more widespread phenomena? Why the hell is that happening?
Not OP but if you're in the Bay Area a lot of that was because sales tax revenue collapsed during COVID.
School district budgets are heavily dependent on local taxes, which in turn are heavily dependent on sales tax.
Some districts have larger pockets than others due to a diverse tax base and thus were able to keep paying for those services in each school (eg. Palo Alto, Cupertino, MTV, the Tri-Valley districts) but others didn't have as deep pockets and as such had to cut down on programs and merge them.
> ??
> No money in jurisdiction
> Cut special Ed
> Education quality takes a hit for all families
> Some families move, taking their tax dollars with them
> No money in jurisdiction
Sales Tax and Property Taxes recovered by 2022-23 in most counties within the Bay Area (excluding SF county which only represents 9-10% of the Bay's population) as RTO began being enforced, Asian and South American tourists returned (with some new countries now - lots of Thai and Argentine tourists now beyond the traditional SK/PRC/IN/HK tourists), and the spike in high value property sales refilled coffers.
That said, the 1-2 school years spent remotely will continue to have a statistical impact in the coming years.
I wonder how much this has to do with the devices people use to access Reddit. I always preferred the old.reddit site on the desktop. Although when I'm on my phone, it gave me eye strain to try and read the tiny font, and pinch/zooming all the time is super annoying. The newer Reddit web app was still incredibly annoying, given all the "install the desktop app" prompts, and it's general lagginess, but allowing me to just flick scroll through articles was actually better for me.
Lemmy's the same way for me, hate the UI on the desktop but it's fine on my phone.
I don’t think there is anything visually wrong with the new reddit. My issue is with how slow and buggy it is. And all the dark patterns and engagement tricks it’s full of.
I can't verify this is true, but I've seen stuff pop up on Lemmy that Reddit accounts are getting banned for promoting Lemmy/Kbin/etc. Being resistant to unseen administrators destroying your social graph is literally a selling point of federation.
>Being resistant to unseen administrators destroying your social graph is literally a selling point of federation.
And that "selling point" is grossly inaccurate. (Unless you make a separate account everywhere, which obviously defeats the entire point of federation.)
ActivityPub implementations all suffer from the same "you're pre-emptively banned from subreddit X because you commented in subreddit Y" problem that Reddit currently has, but with cascading effect across half the network.
Good for admin egos and power trips, bad for long-term usability and stability from the end user's perspective. As things of this nature have always been.
Talking to people really does help though, everyone wants to be more forgiving when you remind them theirs a human factor involved in getting the food to them.