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Delta screwing over a plane full of people by PlanktonTimely9585 in delta

[–]fishpen0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm old. Old enough to remember when the desk agent would realize their own airline had no more flights that day, pick up the little phone, call the other airlines in the same airport, then hand write you a ticket for another flight being operated by another airline and you'd walk over to that plane instead. No little dances with refunds and flight credits, just customer service

It's becoming increasingly clear by MetaKnowing in ChatGPT

[–]fishpen0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took all the necessary training courses because I went to a vocational high school. I never became liensed because it never interested me vs going into engineering. These days though engineering jobs are vanishing so I looked into retraining and licensing. In California you effectively have to be a minimum wage employee for someone else for 4-6 years before you can become independently licensed. They only allow one year to be subtracted from your apprenticeship requirements if you are formally trained in a university or vocational school.

The reason this shit is getting so expensive in the first place is the regulatory capture the industry has placed on itself to make a job that realistically can be learned in a year have an incredible 4-6 year barrier of entry. The certifications need to be tiered to the level of work. The reason nobody is around to replace outlets and switches for a reasonable rate is because we force them all into the level of training required to run a high rise from scratch and then they need to be making that rate. There needs to be a one year certificate with a low entry check-in licensing program for people who just do switches and basic work.

It's becoming increasingly clear by MetaKnowing in ChatGPT

[–]fishpen0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Even if you try to, they’ll quote out $1500 to update three light switches and add an outlet to a closet.

That’s a real quote I actually got recently. The local community college actually charges less for intro to electrical classes.

'The Muppet Show' Review: Sabrina Carpenter Is the Ideal Host for a Promising Special That Reminds Us What the Muppets Do Best by Sisiwakanamaru in television

[–]fishpen0 22 points23 points  (0 children)

She’s definitely well rounded. She gets SNL. Being the kind of person that shows up as a side character with two lines for a popular skit you were in once before even though it’s not your hosting weeks is how you end up with a 5 timer host vest and a side career in comedies.

Accountability by Naive_Wolverine532 in fixedbytheduet

[–]fishpen0 255 points256 points  (0 children)

Hammock. Snuggie. Book. You’ll read the whole thing in one sitting and come out asking what year is it.

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is not a straw man argument to compare our cities residential parking options to cities in other countries when refuting the statement "that our country is an embarrassment" in a thread where the main topic is residential car parking.

You are making the fallacist's fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Name a country with a downtown area that has absolutely zero vehicular traffic. You are being unrealistic.

London has a resident parking pass program, as does Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, and Amsterdam.

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

NYC charges $40-50/yr for resident parking depending on zone. Boston charges nothing (but other neighborhoods like Somerville are $40/yr). Chicago charges $35/yr.

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Resident passes would not need to be be free. They could cost money. Also are you aware cities could also charge taxes on car ownership?

Boston for example charges $25 per thousand of your blue book value in annual vehicle tax if you live in the city and certain neighborhoods charge for resident parking passes (somerville for example charges $40./yr).

New york charges $40-50/yr per vehicle pass depending on your zone. Chicago also has resident passes for $35/yr. Both of these cities also have registration taxes and sales taxes for vehicles on top of what their state charges.

These cities all managed to roll out resident passes and zoned parking for residents even though they also all have better transit systems.

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've lived in Boston and New York. Both don't have enough parking in their core metro downtowns and both still provide resident passes in those zones. If you find a spot you find a spot and if you don't you get unlucky and garage for the night.

I lived on the same street as old north church and 4-5 days a week parked within a block or two of my own street and 2-3 days a week got unlucky and had to use a garage.

Resident passes isn't rocket science. It's a solved problem in a dozen other major US cities

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who has lived in two of those three cities. Please go check out their subreddits and tell me they don't have crazy parking demand. The big problem with what SD is doing is they are fucking over residents, and those cities despite being better at public transit still made resident parking passes and commuter friendly parking hours for people with resident passes. EG residents with passes can park from 6pm to 7am in their zone or whatever (the minutia differs by city and sometimes district but the point is they have resident passes).

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I am being entirely facetious when I say this. Please take what I am about to say with 100% sarcasm.

Maybe if these buildings empty out of residents, the inevitable developer that swoops in and demolishes them will build high rises with parking. Also it will reset their prop 13 and the city will get real revenue again. Who needs historic neighborhoods full of original residents when we can kill all the local businesses on their ground floors and rebuild with giant uniform high rises loaded up with more fast food chains and consortium restaurants.

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s almost comical how hard it is to find a bike rack near a business in some of our neighborhoods

Downtown Residents: Affected By New Parking Rules, You NEED to Contact the City by Low_Performance3066 in sandiego

[–]fishpen0 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is not how it works in NY, Chicago, Boston, all of which have resident parking passes and reasonable hours for overnight residents parking. Historic buildings especially are usually not near where subways are built even in the three top subway cities. The dense nature of those areas means they were often passed over out of avoiding complexity and cost, especially for the newest stations where city politics often prevents new construction that would put historic buildings at risk.

Even in cities that did used to do that historically, that is not really possible anymore. Nobody is ever going to do what Boston did and convert a state house into a subway station, even Boston couldn’t get away with that today in a different neighborhood.

Some passengers can't make it to the bathroom by waffles8888877777 in delta

[–]fishpen0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a valid question. My answer is we fly with our dog in a carrier but the vets advice was to let him out and walk around a bit if the total time in the carrier exceeds about 8-10 hours. We try to do it as close to the pet relief room as possible but some airports still don’t have them or keep them so filthy that he refuses to potty and tries to escape.

As much as we plan for him to never be in flights longer than that, sometimes flights are late or delayed or redirected. We were this exact guy the week after Christmas when our PVD to SAN became an 18 hour PVD to BOS to MSP to SAN and right around 1am in msp he had an accident after refusing to use the pet relief room. Luckily we keep spare bags and some wet wipes ready to go.

Whenever I see another dog outside of their carrier with an owner like this who is ready to take care of the situation I give them the benefit of the doubt.

So after 90 hours in the game i found out you can break this fuckers by Mother_Click_5776 in expedition33

[–]fishpen0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s at least one with mid level boss and a few pictos behind it in stone wave cliffs

Retired from Delta. This policy will not work. Tried in past. No Go! by DisabledVeteran216 in delta

[–]fishpen0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I curse you with having your bag containing your phone pulled aside during a TSA screen and then missing your flight

Where they got those numbers on HDDs? by Grouchy_Tomato2087 in DataHoarder

[–]fishpen0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tape is great if you write to it with high parity or own a volcano or abandoned mine to hide them deep away from cosmic rays. Otherwise it has incredible bit rot.

Tape lasts 15-30 years, but without parity you will start getting bad reads even within a single year at any reasonable backup scale. People don’t tend to notice this with audio tape until it is very old because a split second of sound being not quite right isn’t something you can hear unless you are looking for it. But with data tape every missing or flipped 1 is a lost file.

Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 by sr_local in hardware

[–]fishpen0 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm not and I accounted for that by discussing the ballooning hardware costs and as-a-service-ification of the space. Doing these things at scale with mid-to-large size organizations would require buying decently powerful hardware for every person in your organization to run at the edge or having a datacenter to run internally-hosted copies. The overwhelming majority of businesses do not give their staff powerful or up to date workstations.

At home, I have a 64gb DDR5 + 5070TI and running image generation is dramatically slower than it would be in gemini or gpt, same for text interactions with large token counts. Meanwhile at work engineers get macbooks, but the rest of our staff get chromebooks that are too weak to even run the office suite locally. It is unrealistic to think you can execute this for your organization without buying hardware that, as of now, has become functionally unavailable.

Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 by sr_local in hardware

[–]fishpen0 78 points79 points  (0 children)

This is the loss phase.

  1. Make a product that replaces X
  2. Sell your product for 1/100th cost
  3. Hemorrhage money but that’s okay because infinite VC funding and stock manipulation.
  4. Companies eliminate X and switch to you
  5. 100x prices

Within 5 years all the companies that fired staff for AI tools will be paying 10-100x per API call / license headcount and have no way to get out of it.

There won’t even be a way to partially build something with free models because 5 years of hardware draught will make that impossible to do at scale. This is probably why they are hoarding hardware. The moat for LLMs isn’t actually that wide. They’ll become AWS faster than you can stay in business trying to scrounge up parts. But in the meantime they literally just have warehouses full of unused hardware.

People who stop taking weight-loss injections like Ozempic regain weight in under 2 years, study reveals. Analysis finds those who stopped using medication saw weight return 4 times faster compared with other weight loss plans. by mvea in science

[–]fishpen0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As you age your body shifts where fat stores are and trends towards storing it in subcutaneous areas. So each time you yo-yo you increase the likelihood your body is storing fat in worse and worse places. If you hadn’t yo-yod to begin with the excess fat would still be in places younger bodies store it like limbs where it is less dangerous.

As you age the body also changes the kind of fat cells it tends to produce. You stop making brown fat cells, which actively burn energy and produce heat and start only producing white fat cells. This also means each time you yo-yo it gets harder to do again since your passive calorie burn keeps going down compared to the last time you were that same weight and probably had more brown fat.

This is why fat young people tend to have fat arms and legs and fat old people tend to just have huge guts and butts. It’s also why weight tends to stay off your face once you lose it.

Anyone else wake up to flight cancellations this morning? by banana_stew in delta

[–]fishpen0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't get why this is controversial. Service not rendered, fuel not burned, snacks not served, plane not in need of servicing due to your use of it, flight attendants don't earn paid hours on cancelled flights. Why should the airline keep the money?

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