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Ignatius M. Meen posted:Alternatively global warming will make large quantities of snow rare enough that fixing the problem of rain is all anybody needs to do. Silver linings! Climate change is increasing snow fall in many areas. When it kills the Atlantic coast current Europe is going to look like Canada during the winter. As someone who moved from SF to Eastern Canada recently, it really does blow me away how much people in SF don't realize how much snow changes driving conditions, in part because I didn't.
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pr0zac posted:Climate change is increasing snow fall in many areas. When it kills the Atlantic coast current Europe is going to look like Canada during the winter. As someone who grew up and learnt to drive on the Swedish countryside, cars as a concept are not suited for heavy snowfall. Hell, Stockholms traffic stopped for almost 9 hours last month due to snowfall.
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I've never understood this idea that we will somehow be able to deliver packages via drones in the next couple of years considering a lot of problems still need to be addressed.
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no it will be great for amazon prime to leave my packages outside in the yard because a quadcopter cant open a screen door
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boner confessor posted:no it will be great for amazon prime to leave my packages outside in the yard because a quadcopter cant open a screen door It sure is going to be a boon for hikers who run out of toilet paper on the Appalachian trail.
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Finally, a use for one of those Amazon button things.
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BarbarianElephant posted:It sure is going to be a boon for hikers who run out of toilet paper on the Appalachian trail. What do you think squirrels are for?
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BarbarianElephant posted:It sure is going to be a boon for hikers who run out of toilet paper on the Appalachian trail. yeah there are stores that sell toilet paper along the trail unless you're talking about remote delivery of a handful of low margin items into dense forest to a customer with spotty gps miles from the nearest roadway, in which case yeah no amazon's not sending an expensive drone out there
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Anywhere further than 30 miles from a major city (and many places closer) will have the other issue of people firing guns/throwing stones at drones. Because why not!
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Not a Children posted:Because why not!
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The real issue with drone delivery so far is battery capacity, IMO. Otherwise I see no problem with them dropping something off in the backyard, on the roof of apartment buildings, or pushing a notification on your phone to go outside and meet it at a nearby park or parking lot. The app that's really failing to live up to expectations however is Tinder. Somebody should combine it with the Uber model.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I'm in Albany, and for years lived and worked in different parts of the Tel Aviv metro area. I can see how what you're describing is sub-optimal, but increased public transport investment sounds like it could help with that. You can definitely see how more investment (like, adding 10 more metro lines) would improve the situation. But that is true of so many things - if only they received more money, higher priority, etc, things could be better. The public health system needs more money desperately (that trainwreck deserves its own thread, omg). Education needs more money. Transportation needs more money. There are so many priorities but there is only so much money to go around. I think technology could actually help a lot here, appropos to the unicorn thread. One of the big problems with bus crowding here in Santiago is that there is no adherence to scheduling. Waiting at a stop where a bus is supposed to pass every 5 minutes, for instance, you might see 1 in 20 minutes and it's so full that people are falling out the doors. Then a little later, 4 arrive stacked up at the stop and one is packed, one is sparse, and the other two are almost empty. If people had access to an app that tracked the buses on a route as they moved, with an indicator of fullness, they could feel confident waiting a bit and crowding wouldn't be as bad. And if managers had access to the same data, they might be able to (though they wouldn't, because culture is a hell of a thing) lean on the drivers and dispatchers to keep things on schedule.
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I have always wanted us to go back to the 19th-century solution and drive sleighs in the winter. With bells on.
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MiddleOne posted:As someone who grew up and learnt to drive on the Swedish countryside, cars as a concept are not suited for heavy snowfall. Hell, Stockholms traffic stopped for almost 9 hours last month due to snowfall. The self-driving snowmobile is right around the corner! Halloween Jack posted:Finally, a use for one of those Amazon button things. I found out that these exist a week ago and immediately thought of this thread.
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mobby_6kl posted:The app that's really failing to live up to expectations however is Tinder. Somebody should combine it with the Uber model. Hookr.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Hookr. TinderPool, for when you want to share expenses.
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MiddleOne posted:As someone who grew up and learnt to drive on the Swedish countryside, cars as a concept are not suited for heavy snowfall. Hell, Stockholms traffic stopped for almost 9 hours last month due to snowfall. Not that it has anything to do with self-driving cars since it's not like we'll ever stop forcing people to drive in snow, but this is totally true. Driving in snowy conditions is one of those incredibly bad and dangerous things that we just kind of accept as a society even though we really, really shouldn't.
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There is an app that tracks buses, sort of like this, where I live. There is no capacity indicator, but all of the buses have GPS and are tracked on something that looks like Google maps. As far as I can tell, it has done absolutely nothing to make them more timely, except let me know how late they will be, or occasionally how inexplicably early they left.
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Wallet posted:There is an app that tracks buses, sort of like this, where I live. There is no capacity indicator, but all of the buses have GPS and are tracked on something that looks like Google maps. As far as I can tell, it has done absolutely nothing to make them more timely, except let me know how late they will be, or occasionally how inexplicably early they left. That would most likely be the case here, too. But at least you'd know you could pass on taking the first human meat mold that pulls up because three more are a minute behind it. =(
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Paradoxish posted:Not that it has anything to do with self-driving cars since it's not like we'll ever stop forcing people to drive in snow, but this is totally true. Driving in snowy conditions is one of those incredibly bad and dangerous things that we just kind of accept as a society even though we really, really shouldn't. The radio always says "Don't make any journeys unless absolutely necessary!" but everyone does anyway because you can't usually take a day off work for snow unless it's like 10 ft deep.
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Self-driving snowplows would be easier because they don't give a gently caress about other cars or indeed most landscaping.
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Wallet posted:There is an app that tracks buses, sort of like this, where I live. There is no capacity indicator, but all of the buses have GPS and are tracked on something that looks like Google maps. As far as I can tell, it has done absolutely nothing to make them more timely, except let me know how late they will be, or occasionally how inexplicably early they left. our bus system has a number you can text to get updates on the schedule and it's supposed to have real-time info on where buses are, but it's almost never right or useful. the bus seems to only be on time when it first starts running at 5am  baltimore/central maryland is currently loving around with the buses/routes and I hope it improves reliability but ~who knows~. they're introducing bus-only lanes in baltimore city for this, as well. we live on the northern-most part of the routes and rely on it for work/groceries/etc. and honestly thank gently caress we have any public transport at all, and it seems to be cheaper than other cities. wateroverfire posted:human meat mold no
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know about the US but UK buses have, on average, about four cameras watching the passengers. A lot of the BART cameras were fake, I think they've been slowly replacing them with real cameras but at one point like 3 out of 4 were fake
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Tars Tarkas posted:A lot of the BART cameras were fake, I think they've been slowly replacing them with real cameras but at one point like 3 out of 4 were fake Typical Silicon Valley: placeholder features.
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Tars Tarkas posted:A lot of the BART cameras were fake, I think they've been slowly replacing them with real cameras but at one point like 3 out of 4 were fake Yeah they had to put stubs in to make unit tests pass.
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Not a Children posted:Anywhere further than 30 miles from a major city (and many places closer) will have the other issue of people firing guns/throwing stones at drones. Because why not! imagine the service fee amazon will charge you the first time a drone tries to drop off a box in your backyard and your freaking out dog takes it down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B9Q7Fytiq0
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Pebble has just called it a day.
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Kerbtree posted:Pebble has just called it a day. Wow, that was fast. And the Gizmodo headline nails it: Pebble Is Dead, and Its Customers Are Completely Screwed. e: From their cheerful "We're shutting down, oops!" Kickstarter page, the most assholish photo of all time? Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Wow, that was fast. And the Gizmodo headline nails it: Pebble Is Dead, and Its Customers Are Completely Screwed. The picture is gone already. I don't suppose you uploaded it elsewhere?
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Why yes, yes I did.
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Why must this be the reality in which I am cursed to exist?
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Why yes, yes I did. Are these all the people who just made bank by lying on kickstarter? (as if that would be atypical for kickstarter but lol they're all so punchable.)
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Rabble posted:Are these all the people who just made bank by lying on kickstarter? (as if that would be atypical for kickstarter but lol they're all so punchable.)
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Not a Children posted:Anywhere further than 30 miles from a major city (and many places closer) will have the other issue of people firing guns/throwing stones at drones. Because why not! if anyone flies one over my head, I will absolutely Cabbages and VHS fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 7, 2016 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:They're the people who did "the most successful Kickstarter ever" for Pebble and then did another round of Kickstarter this summer that ... didn't turn out so well. And yes, they certainly are punchable. I mean its not like they did anything terrible, supposedly people are getting a refund and kickstarter is a "spend at your own risk" libertarian paradise...but drat if this photo isn't the most gently caress you-iest gently caress you.
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Well there's no warranty or any other support for existing customers. But that photo is definitely their worst offense.
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mobby_6kl posted:Well there's no warranty or any other support for existing customers. But that photo is definitely their worst offense.  (from the same Kickstarter post)
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Why yes, yes I did. None of those people are the founder Eric, the only person who might've made any money from the deal (though probably not even him). As far as I can tell most all of the money went to paying back creditors.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Why yes, yes I did. Is that one of those prehistoric adding machines behind them?
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Boot and Rally posted:Is that one of those prehistoric adding machines behind them? Rabble posted:Are these all the people who just made bank by lying on kickstarter? (as if that would be atypical for kickstarter but lol they're all so punchable.)
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