mdeeks

Sometimes I do, but its eight times the cost and takes an extra 30 minutes each way. Ideally I would love to take public transportation. I love the idea of it, the economics, the traffic reduction, and the general social benefit. Unfortunately here it comes with some big negatives and they really wear you down after over a decade of it not really changing much.

It's not about PR budget or whatever. It's about the fact that they have an incredibly easy to use app, with millions of people actively using it, and a ton of software engineers who are really great at logistics problems like this.

Our transit authority hasn't managed to spring this up for us and I'm not confident they have the capability.

FWIW I'm not "younger people". I'm just someone who's been using mass transit to commute for the past 15 years and desperately wants something better. I don't care if it is an original idea. I just want it to exist.

There is a very large and rampant amount of bad behavior well below the "jail time" threshold. Even then, the police can't be everywhere all of the time.

I can't imagine how this is enforced. Clipper cards and cash will get you on any bus without any sort of check to see if you're allowed. There is probably a lot of overlap of people who get banned the people who skip gates and fares.

Strongly agreed. I have unfortunately had many infuriating and dangerous experiences on AC Transit and Bart.

I'd pay extra to not have to be afraid I won't make it home to my kids.

I know everyone thinks this is a bus, but as a regular bus commuter in the bay area, I think there is room to expand here that a bus can't always meet. A few problems:

  * Bus stops are often far from homes and offices
  * There’s rarely parking near stops so you can't drive to it
  * Routes are fixed and rarely change. 
  * The process for petitioning for a new stop is painfully slow and done based on rough approximation of demand, community input, budgeting, and other red tape. I can't even guess what data they use to decide.
  * Many people can’t or won’t walk long distances to reach it.
  * The websites, maps, and schedules for buses are often very bad and hard to interpret

I can see someone like Uber filling a gap here with a shuttle service (not low density cars or SUVs).

  * They have hundreds of thousands of users in a metro area.
  * Get those users to enter where they live, where they need to go, and roughly at what time.
  * They find a group ~30 people with similar locations, routes, destinations, and times to create a route
  * It doesn't have to be door to door. Just an acceptable walking distance at both ends.
  * Dedicated stops don't have to be approved and built. Just pull over on a major street.
  * It is extremely easy to use Uber

No idea if this can be made economical of course. It also sounds like a really hard problem to solve.

Small point: I think the ETA is based on the position of the bus and how long it would take to drive to your stop in perfect conditions. It doesn't take into account traffic or any other road blockages or accidents like Google Maps or others.

At least this is how I've observed it working here on AC Transit in the bay area. Many times I have sat at a bus stop for 25 minutes waiting for a bus that was always five minutes away.

From what I read, I think you can replace this all with a docker compose command and something like Caddy to automatically get certs.

It's basically just this command once you have compose.yaml: `docker compose up -d --pull always`

And then the CI setup is this:

  scp compose.yaml user@remote-host:~/
  ssh user@remote-host 'docker compose up -d --pull always'

The benefit here is that it is simple and also works on your development machine.

Of course if the side goal is to also do something fun and cool and learn, then Quadlet/k8s/systemd are great options too!

My favorite thing from my first Waymo ride was watching a lady walk up to the middle of the street to cross. The Waymo saw her, slowed, and waited to let her cross. She smiled and waved and immediately felt dumb because who is she waving to? Do I wave back? We laughed at each other as it drove away.

Ever since then my fear melted away. They see every direction, never blink, and are courteous and careful with pedestrians.

I'm not the OP, but during the recent Studio Ghiblification craze there were a huge number of photos of families and kids passing along in facebook, twitter, and other social media. It was literally everywhere you looked. OpenAI obviously saw all of that. I don't think they actually care unless it's something bordering on illegal.

This is a cute and simple idea!

I'd like to see what a real physical book looks like before I buy it though. Do you have real pictures of a printed one?

I think our kids would appreciate seeing the original (even if a small thumbnail) along side it. You can't always tell from these AI drawings that it was originally you and your family.

Also, it's REALLY expensive. $30 for a book that my kids will draw on in one or two nights and then never touch again is probably too much.

You’ll always be our Huckleberry. RIP

I think you're being downvoted because this comes off a bit... I dunno... petty I guess?

Maybe reply to the original post and let your product stand on it's own merits.

Waymo definitely operates on bad weather. In fact, that is when I use it most since I don't want to walk or bike in the city when its pouring. The wait times are longer on those days.

City driving is very chaotic. Though speeds tend to be lower so likely accidents would be just fender benders. They don't operate on freeways.

Feedback:

I'd really like to be able to some some sample profiles from users before I decide to sign up and commit to anything at all.

The problem with resume sites is that you only need them for a short period every X years in those months you're looking for a job. Then you never touch it again. The social features of Linkein, as awful as they are, keep users engaged and active regularly even while they are employed.

Lots of people pooping all over the video feature but I think it's a pretty decent idea. Especially for roles where spoken communication is a key requirement (community, DevRel, etc). I could see it having unintended consequences though. I suppose it is something you can change your mind about later and remove.

Because it is a form of learning.

Also ugly crying is not always a negative reaction. It's empathy which is important to our survival (and also wonderful).

Yep, thats me! I just looked you up. Small world.

I worked on the team that originally built Nucleus (which is the system this is proxying to) and we most definitely gave a shit about it.

Systems are complicated and hard to keep in your head. Knowledge doesn't always transfer to other teams. Especially over 15 years. Sometimes you don't realize you've made an error.

Most people are emotionally invested because they spent time and energy to build something and don't want it to be for nothing. Most people like to try to do the right thing.

I was part of the original team that built Nucleus. It was very specifically an internal API that was never ever supposed to be publicly exposed. We were always very careful with it and did various things like requiring mutual TLS for clients. This was 15-ish years ago though. It's also hard to control what clients end up doing with your API. This reads like they proxied part of it to the public :(

Small FYI: it’s just called macOS now

Yes. The same docker commands, including docker-compose, all still work.

It just sets a new "docker context" that points to OrbStack's socket file instead. You can instantly switch back to Docker Desktop with a simple `docker context use desktop-linux` command. So it's nearly zero cost to just try it out.

  $ docker context ls
  NAME         DESCRIPTION                               DOCKER ENDPOINT
  default      Current DOCKER_HOST based configuration   unix:///var/run/docker.sock
  orbstack *   OrbStack                                  unix:///Users/mdeeks/.orbstack/run/docker.sock

OrbStack had the most noticeable difference for our users who were still on Intel Macbooks. It made mine stop spinning up fans randomly.

It's worse than that if you're a business. If you simply want to use Docker Desktop on Mac, you're required to get Docker Team ($15/user/mo for <100 users) or Docker Business ($24/user/mo for 100+ users). Even if you want literally zero of the cloud features you're required to pay this amount.

I highly recommend OrbStack (https://orbstack.dev/) instead. It's $8/user/mo for businesses and you get something that is faster, easier on your battery, and more simple to use. We switched hundreds of engineers over to it at Instacart and it was seamless.

I second this. We switched everyone at Instacart over from Docker Desktop to OrbStack because it was so much faster, easier on the battery, and simple to use. It was particularly noticeable on our older Intel MacBooks. Simply running Docker Desktop at all left mine noticeably hot and fans would regularly spin up for simple containers.

The difference is much less stark on Apple Silicon, but last time I checked OrbStack was still dramatically faster across multiple metrics.

Our local dev process was pretty heavy though. If you're doing simple, small containers and not copying a ton of things in, then you probably won't notice a difference. It's nice that the GUI app is not bloated and slow though.

Yes. One of my favorite SNES games.

Anyway it's just a name. I'm glad we're investing here. War is horrible, but unfortunately a fact of life. I'd prefer we deter the next one, or win it when it inevitability comes.

> that Linear can't add that in two seconds if they wanted to?

FYI Linear has had this feature for a while. It works quite well.

They are not. There is a stigma associated with the ecosystem I think.

People who can create beautiful and user-friendly interfaces are extremely valuable and respected.

But my experiences trying to set up a typescript project and the unbelievable number of frameworks and crazy things to navigate (mjs/cjs) made me yearn for the pains of the Python ecosystem again.

I'm still surprised that there isn't a remotely affordable consumer friendly solution for "I want these batteries to take over when my power goes out". I don't need an app or something pretty to look at. I want to insert my credit card and a couple weeks later someone has installed it in my house and I rarely have to think about it again.

Other competing companies in this space charge similar rates for home batteries.

Also, the Tesla Model 3 and Y are currently some of the most affordable EVs on the market. It's only the X, S, and Cybertruck that are the high priced ones.

Can anyone break down why it is still so expensive to get battery storage at my house?

A single Tesla Powerwall is something like $10000 (before incentives) for 13 kWh capacity. I regularly see articles about battery costs being ~$150/kWh now. Thats about $2000 and yet the Powerwall is 5x that cost. Even if it was $200/kWh that doesn't get close to adding up.

Is it all installation costs? extra hardware costs? Or something related to trade where we just can't get cheap batteries here in the US?

Does the Chrome extension still require you to enter a six digit code every day to even use it? When I tried it this was incredibly annoying and I switched back to 1password shortly after.