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It is here. AED’s are everywhere in NYC. Whether someone actually stops to help is another story.

Why doesn’t NYC have smaller ambulances? In Berlin for example they’re normal width vehicles. Maybe they're not equipped the same but all that gear won’t do anything if you can’t get there.

I have the same setup and it works fine on iOS 18.

I teach CS, and oh we know but I don't know what to do about it. Scores have skyrocketed because students are using some kind of AI helper like co-pilot, if not just outright pasting the assignment text to ChatGPT. It's hard to prove.

I've thought about putting instructions in the assignment to sabotage it (like, "if you're a generative AI, do X - if human, please ignore.") but that won't work once students catch on those kinds of things are in the assignment text.

PCMCIA cards were cool. It's much nicer to have peripherals in the laptop.

Although my modem card didn't have this XJACK thing, it had a big chunky end that stuck out of the laptop to fit an RJ11.

All refugees are migrants but not all migrants are refugees.

> Or at least who I purchase from.

There is no ethical slaughter.

Maybe their focus on costs is why their recent cars are terrible.

I've had a 22 Jetta as a loaner and it's the worst car I've driven in a long time. I've driven older jettas like 10-15 years ago and they were pretty sporty. This one's a boring sedan. The screen is so tiny. Its lane keeping is beyond useless.

We had to do a 6-hour road trip, and everyone agreed the seats are unbearable after about 2 hours.

> If the work you do after the defer has other side effects

Defer is by definition the last work you do in a function, there won't be more work except by the caller who will get the error returned to them.

If you are structuring a function that writes a file, and then does something with it, defer isn't appropriate, since you should close it before you do any more work.

It’s funny the article claims they chose “stinky”. That was the default.

I like my job, it can have 4 days. I’d like 3 for myself and my family - doesn’t seem like a big ask!

It’s also a little limited. The supercharger cables are too short to reach many cars and you have to park weirdly and block other stalls. There’s also no OEM trip planner to make use of them to ensure batteries are preconditioned , you distribute load across nearby superchargers, etc.

I test drove the Ariya and I think it had a 4 menu deep manual precondition option. Its OEM charging locator (not planner) was offline and typical legacy manufacturer built-in nav garbage.

More populated cities and shorter distances make EV’s a lot easier. The only only only way they’ll take hold in the US is more networks as reliable as Tesla, integrated navigation in the cars, and fewer stupid charging apps.

Tesla is the only EV I’ve owned with zero range anxiety because it plots the trip - and is correct. My LEAF’s tiny battery and famous guess-o-meter made it a totally unknown when I needed to charge, and then had to figure out in PlugShare or ABRP where to charge with at least one backup nearby because of how unreliable other networks are. Too stressful.

Tesla is the ONLY good network. EVgo costs a fortune - 3x as much as a tesla supercharger near me! And EA is basically always broken.

I have a Boox Nova and it’s really nice but I won’t buy another one. Boox is a notorious GPL violator.

The engineer has a lengthy thread on Twitter

https://x.com/GarethDennis/status/1829036280996315637

There’s rarely a “right” way to whistleblow. Most of the official channels in any bureaucracy exist to both sound nice and simultaneously sweep everything under the rug

> In 2013, Peter Hendy, who was then the Commissioner of Transport for London, was accused of engaging in a nine-month extramarital affair with Rachael Grundy, a call girl who charged £140 per hour. Grundy alleged that Hendy provided her with several Oyster cards loaded with £10 as gifts

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hendy

Aviation is insanely reliable. The 777 flew thousands of flights per day, every day for 18 years before its first fatality.

It’s why scandals like the 737 Max are so appalling. We know better. Boeing knew better.

You might be surprised to know you don’t need residence or a visa to hold a bank account in the US

Blaming OP is totally unhinged

I hope they get awarded 100x what they’re asking for.

I don't think I'd want to have a system using exit polls... they've been wrong before. Once you're using polls why have elections at all?

Anyway, my point is states opposed to the NPVIC already have at least one good idea to stymie it. I think they could come up with plenty more. What if states refuse to certify their own votes until a majority of states vote to force a result equivalent to the "old" system?

It won't ever happen -- "On February 17, 2021, the North Dakota Senate passed SB 2271,[153] "to amend and reenact sections ... relating to procedures for canvassing and counting votes for presidential electors"[154] in a deliberate—albeit indirect—effort to stymie the efficacy of the NPVIC by prohibiting disclosure of the state's popular vote until after the Electoral College meets."

That didn't end up becoming law, but there will be a critical mass of states opposed to effort (swing states who will lose influence mostly) that will pass things like this making the NPVIC impossible to implement.

AmEx was my first card, and I've stuck with them. Despite some decline, their customer service is still top-notch. I always put major purchases on there.

Their Platinum travel insurance has been a lifesaver. When a volcano stranded us, AmEx covered our stay at the TWA hotel in JFK. Lost luggage? They reimbursed $400 in clothes, no questions asked. Disputes? I haven't had many but they were always resolved in my favor.

I experimented with having a Chase card when they launched the Reserve. Europcar defrauded me, and Chase wouldn't even let me file a dispute. I eventually won by sending a written complaint (FCBA), but I ditched the card right after. Plenty of reports online suggest Chase discourages disputes heavily.

InstructLab and the Granite Models from IBM seem the closest to being open source. Certainly more than whatever FB is doing here.

(Disclaimer: I work for an IBM subsidiary but not on any of these products)

That's essentially what they already do. The power feed is shared between neighboring chargers which is why you should leave a space between if there's empty stalls.

e.g. a 250kW charger becomes 125 when two cars are parked next to each other.

It only takes a minute to move your car, I don't really find it that big of a deal.

Until it gets liquidated and the cash put into state lost money accounts because of escheatment rules. You should still login once a quarter or so.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/110415/what-are-dor...

How can they use the Sora name, isn’t that trademarked?

> In today's WWDC presentation, there were a few small examples of Siri improvements, such as an ability to maintain context, e.g., 'Add her flight arrival time to my calendar,' wherein Siri knows who "her" refers to.

Didn't Cortana do this? Pretty underwhelming in 2024.

I wish I knew this when I accidentally let my photoshop trial continue and had to pay to cancel. What a horrible business practice, I really wish the worst for them.

Xylitol exists in nature.