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Technically, but nothing miles away caught on fire. The ignition zone is likely only a few hundred yards even in intense Santa Ana winds. So that means only homes in fire prone areas (or adjacent) would need to be made very defensible.

It is mainly cost – like 6x more. Utilities like LADWP eventually want to underground everything but the time scale of such a project is probably eons.

The fire quickly grew into a firestorm due to the 50 mph+ winds. Southern California is known for this phenomenon of dry winds that blow from the desert called the Santa Anas. They only affect certain areas, so the perfect combination of the winds + being in a fire prone area + having record rainfall the year before + being in a drought caused the fire to burn crazy fast with access to lots of brush (fuel).

If you don't stop it within the first 5 min, it quickly gets out of control. There's so much stuff to burn.

Anyone know what are some good data centers or providers to host your bare metal servers?

> Most of us today could go back to the 70s and live not much different than now (compared to the any earlier decade). It's mostly a side effect of being the world's reserve currency.

There's been 50 years of technological innovation since then. The entire fabric of society has been changed by it and has affected how we communicate and do business.

That's epic!

That sounds promising! What about when needing to do a dance when there's an oncoming car on a tight street in the hills? Does it find a gap or even backup to let the car by?

Waymos honking at each other is hilarious.

Anyone have any insight on how Waymo handles the tight roads? Wonder when it will be coming to the hilly areas of Los Angeles.

They are monitored

How are you using it with coding?

Another significant factor, perhaps even more influential, is the shifting priorities of the younger generation regarding child-rearing. Today's potential parents place a greater emphasis on providing an optimal environment for their children compared to previous generations. There's a growing consciousness about the importance of ensuring that any child brought into the world is guaranteed a stable home and secure living situation. And with increased living and housing costs now, it makes sense why lots of young people are delaying children until those conditions are met, if ever.

This is so awesome and solves a business need. Anyone know if something like this exists for Ruby?

I'm using it as a failover so on the Roam plan which gives 50 GB/mo for $50/mo. Verizon was $60/mo.

I live in central Los Angeles and use Starlink as a failover to my cable internet. Sometimes there are outages and Starlink takes over. I've also tested Verizon 5G home internet but Starlink was faster and more affordable.

Yea it's possible to do it with a coupe/sedan but things are just easier and more situationally capable with a bigger car.

"He found a way to further boost the number of electric vehicles when he met with President Joe Biden’s top environmental adviser, John Podesta. That led to a deal in which the government provided $3 billion to the Postal Service, with part of it earmarked for electric charging stations."

There's different requirements and use cases.

Most people in the US live in suburbs, which means it's more efficient to carry larger loads due to larger distances. For example, bigger grocery trips since the grocery store is farther away. Bigger home sizes in the suburbs also enable larger families.

The Nissan Leaf is not that practical. There's a reason why SUVs are the most popular type of car in the US.

I was a previous Pinboard customer. I've since moved to Linkding[0], a self-hosted solution, and highly recommend it. It's got the same feature parity as Pinboard but gives me much more confidence about the longevity of my bookmarks.

0. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

I think this is a common fallacy and an incorrect extrapolation, especially made by those who are unfamiliar with what it takes to build software. Software development is hard because the problems it solves are not well defined, and the systems themselves become increasingly complex with each line of code. I have not seen or experienced LLMs making any progress towards these.

The link is broken, but I can see that article is from 6 years ago. It needs to be a protocol that is developed with the purpose driving in sync with each other – perhaps it needs some sort of oracle or centralized entity that maintains the state.

Teslas communicating with each other isn't using an open standard that can be used by other car companies, nor is Waymo's.

What's a good alternative?

> But most people who drive metal boxes would actually take long fast metal tubes that don't have issues with traffic if they were given the opportunity to. This means all the people who really want to drive metal boxes or have to drive metal boxes don't have as much traffic.

Even if most people would take the tube, that still leaves millions who need to drive into LA for work. Since everyone has a backyard and the population density in the suburbs doesn't come anywhere close to Tokyo's, it's neither economical nor practical to build public transportation options out there.

> Tokyo is of comparable size to LA and they don't have these issues. LA used to have the largest streetcar network in the country but they stripped most of it out circa WWII. See also NYC, London, etc.

Used to, but those days are gone and it's now 100x harder to reverse that decision. Los Angeles is currently spending the most money out of all the cities in the US on its metro system in preparation for the 2028 Olympics, and even that is still scratching the surface.

It should also be mentioned that you can self-host this: https://github.com/leafac/kill-the-newsletter

Sure but you are still going to have people want to drive in their own metal boxes, like those who prefer to have their own space. And for a sprawling city like LA, it's not possible to build efficient public transit connections between each point. It's not realistic for everyone to take the train or bus.

There's no communication protocol standard yet, so there's nothing to implement. Once a standard is developed, every car company will be onboard.

Yes but that's progress. You can still drive in the other lanes.

As long as there's soul-sucking traffic, the public will demand solutions. Traffic has been getting worse in LA and they've already gone beyond HOV lanes. Now there's toll lanes on most of the major freeways where you can pay to bypass traffic. The next step after that will be congestion pricing just to enter the city (Metro is already studying it).

You don't even need to drive. As soon as you enter in the lane, the car drives for you since every car needs to be in sync.