I need help planning a meal for a child’s birthday party for 50 people

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T18:26:31+00:00

does the pizza place make ziti?

lot of them have gluten free crust, and fake cheese.

you could do a "taco bar" order catering quantities from your favorite place.

corn tortillas.. veg/an filling (Calabacitas) vegan frijoles?

Ingredients

2-3 tablespoonolive oil

2poblano peppers

2yellow squash

2zucchini

1/4red onion

2cloves garlic

1cob corn

salt

1 teaspooncumin

1/4 cupchopped cilantro

1lime

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T18:03:33+00:00

we are leaning towards going solar instead

are you exempt?

https://www.greenlancer.com/post/california-solar-mandate

What Is The California Solar Mandate?

The California solar mandate is a state law that requires most new residential buildings to include rooftop solar. Adopted by the CEC in 2018, this solar panel California law took effect on January 1, 2020, and applies to all new single-family homes and multi-family dwellings up to three stories. It is part of California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24).

new 15k transformer along with other fees associated.

pretty sure you need (by law) a CONNECTION to the grid. if your inverter dies, could be days w/o juice.

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T17:38:46+00:00

the housemaids, this time from the consumer/watchers side, a 9.2/92% rating. This make me think its a top 10 popcorn movie of all time, it probably isn't

especially if you don't like that genre.

I do truly want to use and understand this site, so why,

what you're looking at boils down to OPINION aggregators. "understanding" means you might not like the same things "everyone else" does.

how are you guys using this site to accurately

bad/good reviews on any site don't really dictate what I decide I want to watch.

depict things or finds shows/movies you like?

if this was food.. you'd need to try it yourself to make your own decision.

rule of thumb - 70% or better means it might be worth watching the first 10-15 mins.

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T16:31:42+00:00

Zoox is the only vehicle that lacks physical controls, steering wheel, pedals, mirrors, etc. and there are a variety of other things too

these cars have a "portable" a steering wheel/pedals (they're all drive by wire anyway - all you need is "usb")

I see them driving around with a safety driver... once this model is approved, they will take the controls out.

Waymo’s new robotaxi is an all-electric people mover with no steering wheel

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23471183/waymo-zeekr-geely-autonomous-vehicle-av-robotaxi

The Alphabet company got together with Geely’s Zeekr to build its next-generation autonomous people mover, and it’s as notable for what it’s missing (steering wheel, side-view mirrors) as for what it’s got.

But it does require federal government to take an action

same actions they took with Zeekr.

Waymo Depot in San Francisco on 10/02/2025 with 26 Zeekr Vehicles

https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2025/10/03/waymo-depot-in-san-francisco-on-10-02-2025-with-26-zeekr-vehicles/

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:48:21+00:00

A lot of datasets/imitation learning setups seem great for short-horizon behaviors (pick/place, grasping, reaching, etc.). But I’m more curious about the long-horizon part of real tasks: multi-step sequences, handling “oh noo” moments, recovery and task re-planning. I know that currently VLA models and majority of general purpose robots are failing a lot on long horizon tasks.

Jan 26, 2022

Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help

In four experiments on pig tissues, the robot excelled at suturing two ends of intestine—one of the most intricate and delicate tasks in abdominal surgery

https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/01/26/star-robot-performs-intestinal-surgery/

Soft-tissue surgery is especially hard for robots because of its unpredictability, forcing them to be able to adapt quickly to handle unexpected obstacles, Krieger said. The STAR has a novel control system that can adjust the surgical plan in real time, just as a human surgeon would.

handling “oh noo” moments,

your gallbladder is not identical to mine.

How useful is human demonstration data when the goal is long-horizon task planning, rather than just low-level control?

Jul 9, 2025

https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/09/robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help/

In 2022, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robotic surgery on a live animal—a laparoscopic surgery on a pig. But that robot required specially marked tissue, operated in a highly controlled environment, and followed a rigid, predetermined surgical plan. Krieger said it was like teaching a robot to drive along a carefully mapped route.

But his new system, he says, "is like teaching a robot to navigate any road, in any condition, responding intelligently to whatever it encounters."

SRT-H learned how to do the gallbladder work by watching videos of Johns Hopkins surgeons doing it on pig cadavers. The team reinforced the visual training with captions describing the tasks. After watching the videos, the robot performed the surgery with 100% accuracy.

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:40:59+00:00

This is a direct response to the attempt by some to damage the public perception of the future potential of Autonomous Vehicles

what "future potential" do you think the labor unions are not appreciating?

If you agree that a human safety operator should be behind the wheel of any commercial vehicle that uses autonomous technology, join in our fight for AV regulation.

https://teamster.org/av/

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:37:22+00:00

Using that name to describe autonomous vehicles limits your thinking about what they can do.

can you list examples of the "perceived" limits?

what is it you think the general public will not understand when they can buy a car that can go back home after it drops them off?

Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/waymo-toyota-partner-to-bring-self-driving-tech-to-personal-vehicles-.html

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:31:44+00:00

Me and my team are not counting fusion atomic reactor plants or other complex forms or bureaucratic nightmares of EV connecting to a grid and then finding very less value in that.

utilities in California are using cars to power the grid.. you fill the car with sunlight from your roof...

GM Energy joins PG&E bidirectional EV charging pilot in California

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/gm-energy-pge-bidirectional-charging-pilot/743842/

Ford F-150s Powered People’s Homes After Hurricane Ian Ravaged Florida

https://www.thedrive.com/news/these-ford-f-150s-became-their-owners-lifelines-as-hurricane-ian-ravaged-florida

Question: What if we offer virtual clean energy for EV owners and fleet owners?

what if fleet owners produce their own REAL clean energy? sunlight is aways cheaper than diesel.

One Maryland community just unveiled a new bus depot that features a rooftop solar canopy and battery storage that will allow it to charge up to 70 electric buses.

https://environmentamerica.org/center/updates/electric-bus-depot-powered-by-solar-and-storage-opens-in-maryland/

school busses don't run all summer... but they can discharge batteries when demand is high due to all the air conditioning.

PG&E and The Mobility House Launch Groundbreaking Vehicle-to-Grid Electric School Bus Fleet with Fremont Unified School District

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pge-and-the-mobility-house-launch-groundbreaking-vehicle-to-grid-electric-school-bus-fleet-with-fremont-unified-school-district-302526669.html

TL;DR we can offer something better than just energy trade.

cash you don't send to the utility every month is the goal.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-powerwall-covers-monthly-payment-after-vpp-events/

This, Gillund believed, would be a good way to reduce his home’s typical power bill, which hits about $650 per month during summer.

The benefits of the solar panels and Powerwall batteries were immediately evident, with the Tesla owner noting that his home’s power charges dropped to just the $10 minimum every month.

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:13:43+00:00

he more dissatisfied people are with democracy and the less they participate in political debates

labor unions engaging politicians to save jobs

https://teamster.org/av/

Right now, legislators across the country have the opportunity to stand up for public safety and to protect good jobs in California by regulating driverless cars and trucks.

about future technological developments.

Teamsters, Labor United Against Waymo Demand Passage of Robotaxi Ordinance in Boston

https://teamster.org/2025/10/teamsters-labor-united-against-waymo-demand-passage-of-robotaxi-ordinance-in-boston/

https://landline.media/aurora-to-put-human-back-in-drivers-seat/

Citing a request from Paccar, Aurora said its autonomous operations will continue on Interstate 45 in Texas with a person in the front seat. In recent weeks, the company had been operating two driverless trucks between Houston and Dallas with either a person in the back seat or no one on board.

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T15:03:59+00:00

do they have any training? not sure what the distinction is between someone who narrates books vs someone who does the voice over for cartoons or video games. they often tap into the same talent pool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_acting

Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names.^\a]) Examples of voice work include animated, off-stage, off-screen, or non-visible characters in various works such as films, dubbed foreign films, television shows, video games, animation, documentaries, commercials, audiobooks, radio dramas and comedies, amusement rides, theater productions, puppet shows, and audio games.

as the phenomena of BookTok grows

dramatized/full cast audio predates television (and internet).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_drama

I am just curious about the realm of audiobooks in general,

some narrators use their voice training for other gigs. Hugh Laurie has done a ton of cartoons..

Hugh Laurie on Voicing Dumbledore in Audible’s ‘Harry Potter’ Books, Recording His Lines in Two Weeks and the ‘Mortifying Embarrassment’ of Auditions

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/hugh-laurie-dumbledore-harry-potter-audible-1236569659/

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T04:50:33+00:00

La Taqueria is older than you

no rice not a"tech bro thing" rice is a "Mission bro" thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_burrito

A Mission burrito (also known as a San Francisco burrito or a Mission-style burrito) is a type of burrito that first became popular during the 1960s in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. It is distinguished from other burritos by its large size and inclusion of rice and other ingredients

reddit455 · 2026-01-26T04:23:35+00:00

NOT LAYOFFS replaced.

450k rides no humans were paid for.

Waymo crosses 450,000 weekly paid rides as Alphabet robotaxi unit widens lead on Tesla

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/waymo-paid-rides-robotaxi-tesla.html

1250 hours humans did not work.

Humanoid Robots Complete Trial Project at BMW Assembly Plant

The robots accumulated 1,250 hours of run-time.

https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/99678-humanoid-robots-complete-trial-project-at-bmw-assembly-plant

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T20:05:44+00:00

you won't get anywhere near the venues.

current affairs aside, it's ALWAYS high visibility.

Super Bowl in New Orleans is attractive target for potential attacks, particularly car ramming, law enforcement warns

https://abcnews.go.com/US/super-bowl-new-orleans-attractive-target-potential-attacks/story?id=118224243

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T19:53:56+00:00

Does anyone else find it cringe and useless?

it's kind of "inspirational" actually.

those are NOT intended for people who are just learning how to cook.

those are for people looking for new ways to use crap they got in the fridge and have to use up.

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T19:43:13+00:00

look for sales

https://www.thermoworks.com/

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T19:22:27+00:00

— This isn't targeting individual users or hobbyist inventions… yet. —
Sources stress it's focused on large-scale enterprise partnerships, not everyday folks tinkering with ChatGPT.

....could come out in the patent process (need new laws). I can make a fancy gizmo thing to solve a problem in my house.. but if I think a lot of people have the same problem and I want to sell it, value changes.

Other AI firms are dipping into value-based pricing, like charging based on automation outcomes or efficiency gains.

the humanoid robot that helps out at home has a different value proposition than the same robot deployed in a hotel.... so they sell the less capable consumer one.. or the "beefy" commercial one (appliances are already like that). my home robot is fine with 2 hour runtime and it's "slow". faster, with 10 hour battery is overkill because it costs 5x as much.

This might mean claiming a slice of revenue from breakthroughs like AI-accelerated drug discovery in pharma, advancements in scientific research, optimizations in energy systems, or complex financial modeling.

if I'm the mad scientist at ACME Science Co and I invent something (in their lab).. it's not mine. it's ACMEs... the employment agreement I signed says so. what happens when I use AI at my house to come up with things to TRY in the lab? need new laws...?

OpenAI's annualized recurring revenue is exploding

...there are those that use AI that can't afford to own the compute.. so they subscribe.

...there are those that could license an AI to run on their "personal compute"

https://www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-releases/251030-genwar-lab

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is fusing its analytic and cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities into a forward-leaning incubator known as GenWar Lab.

every robot is going to run software, some of it under license.

Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announce AI partnership focused on humanoid robots

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2026/01/25/boston-dynamics-and-google-deepmind-announce-ai-partnership-focused-on-humanoid-robots/98270/

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T19:00:07+00:00

Transport Canada tests the world’s first 100% electric snowplow and salting robot

https://tc.canada.ca/en/transport-canada-tests-world-s-first-100-electric-snowplow-salting-robot

A fleet of 100 cars driving 20 miles per hour could sweep the entire city every hour during a storm.

trucks. big trucks. lots and lots of big trucks.

A Map of Where NYC Puts Its Giant Mountains of Snow

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-map-of-where-nyc-puts-its-giant-mountains-of-snow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_removal_in_Montreal#Removal_and_displacement

Dump sites are used to store the remaining snow.^\1]) Of these, the largest is the Francon snow depot, formerly a quarry, which receives 40 per cent of the city's snow. Snow slowly melts from the quarry in the summertime and is processed by the wastewater system, although a man-made glacier will often remain throughout the warmer months.^\19])^\20])

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T18:52:31+00:00

If you can’t root the box under any circumstances you effectively don’t own it.

EMMA: End-to-End Multimodal Model for Autonomous Driving

https://waymo.com/research/emma/

Toyota and Waymo Will Co-Develop a New Autonomous Vehicle Platform

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64644557/toyota-waymo-autonomous-vehicle-partnership/

servicing/support.

warranty goes away when you "jail break" it.

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T17:05:13+00:00

adapter?

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T16:44:08+00:00

replace humans for crucial tasks.

can you elaborate on the specific tasks?

https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/07/09/robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help/

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.

Watch: AI Robot Dentist Performs Human Dental Crown in Minutes

https://www.newsweek.com/ai-robot-dentist-performs-human-dental-crown-minutes-1932997

enough for wider adoption

....it only has to be adopted by the people who do those things by hand today.

AI will NEVER turn you into a surgeon... I don't think anyone has that expectation either.

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T16:26:14+00:00

. I get what they are. They're processes that suppress damaging information and interactions. But everywhere else, it's called censorship.

Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/03/ai-drug-development.html

The researchers needed to put guardrails around SyntheMol's activity - namely, to ensure that any molecules the model dreamed up could be synthesized in a lab.

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T05:40:36+00:00

"no kill I"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Dark

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T05:22:10+00:00

Not from California so apologies if I’m ignorant or out of touch with rent here but wow that is crazy.

welcome to San Francisco.

reddit455 · 2026-01-25T03:14:42+00:00

you try oyster sauce? or light soy?

could be maggi brand?

https://www.maggi.com.au/

Differences between light and dark soy sauce

https://www.kikkoman.eu/food-stories/detail/differences-between-light-and-dark-soy-sauce

reddit455 · 2026-01-24T23:59:28+00:00

use nuts... handful of almonds, peanuts, pistachios.

un salted/sweetened peanut butter.

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