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This is very much expected while the kinks are worked out. The reason Waymo is rolling out their vehicles in Atlanta in partnership with Uber is precisely for scenarios like this. Standard Uber service provides a backstop for when times when Waymos can't fulfill rides.

I was hoping the project would be like Twitch Plays Pokémon when I read the headline. Build the scaffolding and just let it run!

If they relocate engineers to Palo Alto, that's halfway between San Francisco and San Jose. And a lot of engineers (not necessarily at X but in general in Silicon Valley) live in the suburbs between SF and SJ already. It might be mildly less convenient for some, but also mildly more convenient for many.

This was me with Neeva but they sold out. I fully expect Kagi to do the same unfortunately.

They didn't actually launch anything though. And self-hosting is also a real pain. There can be reasons but I seriously doubt many IT departments yearn deeply for the on-premise deployment days of yore.

A very foone Christmas!

I remember Steve Jobs explicitly forgoing ads for iCloud during his last keynote in 2011. So sad to see where Apple is today. https://youtu.be/KTrO2wUxh0Q?t=412

> We build products that we want for ourselves, too, and we just don't want ads.

The worst part of this is how the Mobile Web experience is actively hampered on iOS by Apple. When web apps on mobile do have a worse experience for me, it is often due to Safari. This is especially frustrating because the average consumer blames the website for the poor experience and doesn't understand Apple is at fault.

For SF specific data on housing and zoning I highly highly recommend http://socketsite.com. Such a thorough and great resource! I only wish more cities had something like it!

This! I don't doubt that Bolt still requires a lot of work and honestly the 4 day work week is probably more marketing speak than anything real. But the world (at remote companies at least) has drastically changed and there is no reason to expect everyone to always have the same hours. Work when you need to to get your stuff done. Be around at pre-decided hours when you need to collaborate. But the rest is up to you.

It got worse during the pandemic. All policing stopped and downtown became a free for all. When I moved to San Francisco in 2016, I constantly had to reassure others it’s not as bad as the media makes it out to be. Now it is worse than media reports. I had someone threaten to stab me with a pencil when commuting to downtown at 9 AM. I had someone detached from reality and naked yell they wanted to kill me at 1 PM across the street from Salesforce Park. My home was broken into with my bike stolen and the cops told me there was nothing they can do. Then politicians tell you that there is no crime problem and you are just bigoted.

My eyes were opened when I went to Manhattan last summer and found it way safer and nicer than San Francisco. Finally getting out.

It really is that bad.

Also worth noting that AWS is not exactly the most stable either.

Any chance going through the process of updating all my cards could earn a Cashback key? :)

I thought this way until I realized I personally value portability over simplicity of signup. Most apps I use often I use on my phone and laptop. When I had an iPhone, I ran most subscriptions through IAP. As soon as I wanted to try Android, moving everything over was nearly impossible.

For most services I now sign up directly through a developer. I also find for services I subscribe to developers provide WAY better customer support than Apple.

I thought this until I tried an app with IAP and wanted a refund when it didn't work for me. The developer told me they had no way to issue one on their side since I went through IAP. Apple support gave me the runaround before eventually saying they don't do refunds, even when I showed emails from the developer saying they supported refunding me. Apple is not pro-consumer.

IAP is convenient, but I don't think Apple is truly motivated by the customer as much as they are charging a tax.

There is so much corruption in this city the trash cans are an entertaining artifact of a much, much deeper problem. The quest for trash cans isn't bizarre when you consider where the incentives for those in government lie...

This is a city spending $55,000 per tent to "support" a parking lot camp ground with porta potties.

Mask mandate for everyone who isn't the mayor.

https://www.sfgate.com/bay-area-politics/article/London-Bree...

A native app from the ground up in 10 weeks is impressive.

Now I want to know how Superhuman has gotten away with not having an Android app for so long, and what on earth they could be doing given they say they have been "working on it" for years and over $100 million in VC funding.

Raising prices. Even with higher prices they will still be relevant in much of the country where there is no credible alternative than to drive.

NYC is exceptional. Manhattan is dense enough you can hail a cab on demand. The same can not be said for the rest of the country. Uber may never be competitive in Manhattan but they don't need to.

In much of the country, a ten minute drive would take over an hour on public transit if you take infrequent headways into account. And that is when it is possible to take public transit.

Uber operates in almost every major US city today. It has overcome years of predictions it would fail. Yet I still can get an Uber in minutes almost anywhere in the country. Will it get more expensive? Probably. Is it a replacement for car ownership or transit? Definitely not. But Uber will live on. It's good enough to ensure sizable marketshare for the long term.

This is magnified by the fact that Apple won't allow competing rendering engines on the iPhone. If you could install Chrome or Firefox (the actual browsers, not just re-skinned Safari) they would be forced to keep up.

And Google Workspace still doesn't play nice with Google Home, Photos, etc. I used to pay for GSuite and switched back to Gmail because of all the services I was ironically locked out of when I paid for them.

Autocomplete is a black box. Trying to build a form that consistently works with Autocomplete is basically just trial and error. There should be a standardized API for this. I understand trying to support pages that weren't built with support but it's frustrating that there is no programmatic way of defining how autofill works with your app.

I think your comment is solely calling out Americans' singular focus on cars as transit but I wanted to make a tangentially related point that Americans care deeply about accessibility. ADA has cemented accessibility into the core of public spaces. Driving is much easier to navigate in many ways than public transit for those with many mobility disabilities. And many American companies (many mentioned in this thread) strive to provide quality experiences to users with disabilities.

I remember being shocked the first time I went to Europe that if you were in a wheel chair you couldn't access 90% of building. Even new ones. Also good luck navigating their subways and train stations.

And 12 weeks is a long time. I honestly would rather get an immunity boost after 3 weeks than wait the 12 for a second. A lot can happen in twelve weeks.

I used to not get Ember but of all the frameworks its users love it the most. I remember when Ember was the "cool" framework almost ten years ago. The community has evolved it and kept it relevant which is truly impressive. Ember entered the world at a time Backbone.js was cutting edge. Ember is still relevant and has adopted modern best practices, moved to TypeScript, and most importantly provided an easy upgrade path.

Most companies burn money on a total re-write when old tech gets too hard to support. Ember has never accepted this. I love that!

The bubbles are such a stupid status symbol.

I hate the conspiracy theory that Apple did it intentionally to make iPhone users hate Android. The original iPhone had all green bubbles. The blue was only to differentiate.

No one wanted iMessage when it came out. Making it opt out on iPhones and defaulting made people try it and they started to prefer it when they realized. The opt out was Apple's key to success. Google should have done the same on Android.

That is some very, very back of the envelope math that ignores a lot of factors. For example, the idea that Google will indefinitely suspend promotions is preposterous. And the idea that taking exceptional financial numbers from the beginning of the pandemic and multiply by 4 to get a meaningful "annualized" figure only makes sense in a 4th grade math textbook. I hate click bait headlines that use exceptionally exaggerated facts.