it's actually pretty easy to automate the state of the vehicle. if anything is left in the car the video is sent to an operator. The service instructs a cleaner to check the car and the passenger is sent a warning and eventually is banned from using the service.
And when margins compress the first thing that will go is the threshold for cleaning. Cleaning is not just expensive in labor but also taking a car out of circulation. All incentives point towards lowering standards to the absolute minimum people will tolerate.
The car drives itself to a cleaning station, or it is scheduled to be cleaned while charging. I don’t get why you think it will just be a race to the bottom and all common sense will be thrown out the window.
We need accurate reporting to learn and fix problems. Any good engineer knows that. We saw how the public quickly started to trust Waymo because it is safer than human drivers by orders of magnitude. This totalitarian regime is going to undermine progress and get people killed by allowing unsafe robotaxis on the streets.
I think we all agree that making the Gov more efficient is a good thing but this is about terrorizing federal employees for ideological reasons. There is no crisis to justify this. We do have a crisis in healthcare which is being ignored.
Ha. I have the complete opposite take. That the terrorism being done here is by unelected bureaucrats weaponizing tax payers money against the tax payers like myself. And it’s gone unchecked for decades. That’s the crisis.
Unelected bureaucrats can weaponize public spendig against citizens ... sounds very distorted and biased to me. "Weaponized" is a term i immediately associate with propaganda.
Could you please elaborate on that decades long terror, but please try not to make it about only you.
I am certainly not a supporter of this government, but I do find it unsettling to have massive amounts of ideologically fueled bureaucrats running the government. It goes both ways. The pendulum is now swinging in the other direction. I am losing hope that it will return to the middle one day.
Probably not fueled but in some agencies most staff is Democrats
> Democrats made up about half of the workforce during the 1997-2019 data period (compared with about 41% of the U.S. population). Meanwhile, registered Republicans dropped from 32% to 26% during the period, with an increase in Independents making up the difference. The most heavily Democratic departments are the EPA, Department of Education, and the State Department, where about 70% of employees are registered to the party, while the most conservative departments are Agriculture and Transportation.
Wasn’t there a study that identified that college educated individuals are more likely to be Democrats? Most US government jobs require a college degree (or higher), so it wouldn’t be surprising to see that population match the findings in the general population?
Additionally, the republican image typically espouses the idea of private industry and private capital more so than the democrats, where public service takes a bigger role. If people already identified with a given ideology, it’s likely that their career choice would reflect that.
Finally, one’s political leanings aren’t being used to determine if they should be hired.
How is being registered with a political party even anywhere in the same ballpark as "ideologically fueled"? And why does that only apply to one political party? Career government employees by definition serve during both Republican and Democratic administrations and at any point the President is going to have a lot of people in the executive branch who voted for the other side. If this partisan mismatch was such a massive problem, we'd have heard about more than a handful of individual cases.
Ideologically, it seems like Republicans or Libertarians oppose the federal government generally. Wouldn't it make sense for there to be less of them wanting to work for the government?
I'd imagine you wouldn't find an abundance of pacifists working in the military either
> massive amounts of ideologically fueled bureaucrats running the government
You will have a different type of ideologically fueled bureaucrats running the governemnt, just look at what’s happening and who got appointed where. I mean, come on, Kash Patel running the FBI? Kash Patel was selling his own merch.
People have a hard time understanding the nuances and the context. Because he is somewhat crazy, he is able to do things a normal politician wouldn't do. Clearly, eliminating corruption and waste is a good thing. He was also able to end the endless street protests. He was also the only option that was expected to make radical changes. On the other hand, the guy is pretty crazy, lacks empathy, is authoritarian, hates dissent, lies a lot, and so on. He is in love with Israel and Trump in an emotional way. Everything he doesn't like is extreme left, etc. My hope is that a new force will emerge that can continue fighting corruption, establish rule of law, create a vibrant market economy in a democratic way. It will be a long journey.
Hey, I checked your Reddit thread [1] and I see a good discussion with useful suggestions. I don't see "anything but hate" at all. There are pros and cons to using frameworks. True, many people seem to prefer to use smaller libraries. I personally don't like magic because sooner or later I lose track of what's going on and need to start guessing. With direct code I can understand faster without having to read docs and layers of source code. It's all about finding the right balance of abstractions.
Fair. Maybe this is good evidence of my naturally pessimistic disposition. I was quite active with the initial replies and didn't feel like it was giving any credit to a framework.
I had to use an iPhone for a month when I lost my Android phone so I tried Spotify for podcasts. I can't describe how bad it is, impossible to control what you want to play, complete garbage. AntennaPod is an example of what software can be when you remove greed from the equation.
I miss AntennaPod from Android. It's on a list of about 5 things.
Having said that, Overcast for iOS is great. The main missing feature vs. AntennaPod is that I can't browse + select podcast episodes using the job wheel / touchscreen on my non-CarPlay car.
That feature barely works with Apple Music (and not at all for other first-party or third-party apps), so I suspect it's an iOS issue more than an Overcast issue.
If you're on an iPhone then Apple's own Podcasts app is what you want. It's basically identical to AntennaPod in normal usage, and that's a good thing.
Software engineers tend to think in deterministic terms. My code tells the machine exactly what to do and that's it. In real world systems there is uncertainty which requires different thinking. A real-time process needs both, a deadline and the concept of errors. A process must be completed within a deadline or there is an error. As the author said, the absolute time (or latency) is irrelevant. Think of a tennis match. you either hit the ball or you lose. There is a deadline and an error. It's not that complicated yet so many people are confused by the concept.
The OS that runs the ECU (engine control, sometimes other such safety systems), sometimes things like brakes, is an rtos because delays can cause death.
But the OS running your driver systems, music player, WiFi, climate control, etc is a non real-time OS, more like android, and that’s reflected in the delays you can sometimes see.
With no background in accounting, I was impressed with the Beancount documentation. Very well written and a great way to learn accounting. I am looking for a solution to track my investments but I find it a bit overwhelming to get started with Beancount from scratch. Is there a tool to convert brokerage data into Beancount data from scratch?
> I was impressed with the Beancount documentation.
Me too, one of main reasons for choosing it.
> Is there a tool to convert brokerage data into Beancount data from scratch?
Problem is they are all different. But other people share what they have come up with. Maybe check the mailing list, also search for Red's Importers. If those do not work for you 'out of the box', you might need to hack something together. But you can get help on the mailing list.
One of the surprising things in this saga is how Walgreens partnered with Theranos. I actually had a blood test done in the downtown Palo Alto Walgreens. The results were obviously wrong so I had to redo them in a real lab. Any elementary school child can do a science experiment comparing the blood test results of Theranos with a standard lab. Walgreens deliberately failed to do due diligence because of some type of corruption. They contributed to the fraud and they should be investigated.
