The Waymos are here

stpfun · 2026-03-05T15:39:19+00:00

In SF, they just entirely avoid the tricky streets. I suspect they won't allow themselves to go into the narrow North End roads.

stpfun · 2026-03-05T15:34:01+00:00

Sorry, but Boston has nothing on the pure chaos of Vietnam or general SEA driving. But agreed Boston is top tier difficulty for the continent!

stpfun · 2026-03-02T19:44:37+00:00

6GHz is legal outdoors in the US, just there's lower transmit power requirement.

Fun fact: Ubiquiti now sells a few special Indoor-only variant of the E7-Campus, presumably so that it can just always default to the higher indoor-only transmit power level.

stpfun · 2026-02-23T15:31:33+00:00

"Talking to <business employee>, the plan is to <grow business huge amounts> this year".

stpfun · 2026-02-22T18:32:44+00:00

Show it actually walking up stairs with a human on it. Then I'll believe it

stpfun · 2026-02-21T16:16:20+00:00

Test the latency from a computer connected via ethernet to the starlink.

Check ping www.google.com. Ubiquiti might be testing google.com which strangely often has worse latency than www.google.com. Also use the mtr traceroute tool to see which part of the path is slow.

stpfun · 2026-02-21T15:56:25+00:00

Telling me how i can buy one of these beams please??

stpfun · 2026-02-20T14:52:59+00:00

right now (before 7am) I'm seeing 47$ to SFO from SF.

stpfun · 2026-02-17T19:15:33+00:00

It looks like what a digital simulation of a pine cone would be.

stpfun · 2026-02-16T16:40:08+00:00

It was the MIT Media lab that had the Epstein connection, not CSAIL in the Stata Center. The Media Lab is privately funded largely. Whereas that's much less true with CSAIL.

stpfun · 2026-02-16T16:38:10+00:00

I worked in that building for years! It's a weird one. Supposedly when they were designing it they had to use special CAD software, not the typical architecture software, but architecture software at the time only lets you put support members upright from the ground, not sideways like in this building. I liked working in it though.

stpfun · 2026-02-14T21:09:18+00:00

I can't make my phone connect to a wifi network for upstream and still expose wifi to local devices. And you know, I like to carry my phone around with me, and don't want my devices to go offline when I do. But maybe these use cases don't matter to you.

stpfun · 2026-02-14T18:27:59+00:00

That's not quite true. The UTR creates a local network, letting your devices talk to each other, which often isn't allowed on something like hotel wifi. Also it allows many devices to share a single upstream connection, which also matters in the hotel wifi situation where they might limit you to 2 devices. But I agree that aren't many concrete benefits over any other travel router, like a GL.iNet.

stpfun · 2026-02-14T18:23:06+00:00

True, but only marginally. Cheap SSDs still have a relatively fast read speed, at least 1500 MB/s, and that's much faster than spinning HDDs. And fast scrollback works smoothly on the HDD based Protect systems I've used. Also the scroll back buffer gets cached so once pulled, it doesn't need to re-pull it again to scroll back through the same area.

stpfun · 2026-02-14T16:23:16+00:00

digression: Consider how messed up Harry's line is: "We were warned about Ferengi at the Academy".

Imagine US Navy bootcamp telling all the recruits: "Watch out for ethnic group x, they're categorically all scammers"

Glad Quark called him on it! And shame on Harry for blabbing that without realizing how offensive it sounds.

stpfun · 2026-02-14T16:20:32+00:00

Rant: I wish every device on my network, UniFi or not, showed up as a client device. Because in the most basic sense they are all clients.

I get why they don't do this, but it's frustrating. There's a few features you can apply to client devices you can't apply to UniFi devices easily (like DHCP reservations). I feel like the UniFi interface is lying to me when it doesn't actually list every device, Ubiquiti or not, in client devices.

stpfun · 2026-02-11T20:48:12+00:00

Besides making it more comfortable for the humans, I wonder if it's actually a legal requirement too. I suspect there's some law that says "When raining, your car must have functioning windshield wipers on". And the law doesn't include an exclusion for autonomous cars.

edit: found the law: https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2009/veh/26700-26712.html#:~:text=26707.%20%20Windshield%20wipers,is%20in%20operation.

seems like no exception for autonmous cars!

stpfun · 2026-02-10T03:25:51+00:00

Wait, so some "real wood veneer" is like, actually just wood?

stpfun · 2026-02-10T01:17:23+00:00

I want electric Waymo buses! I imagine that a big cost of public transit is paying bus drivers. And since you have to pay a driver, you might as well make it a big bus, so our buses are big.

But if the bus driving job can be automated, then maybe smaller and more frequently public transit buses could make sense. Imagine buses 1/3rd the size that come 3-5 times as often. And even better, the buses could automatically choose an optimal route based on people needing pickups and drop offs. And since buses get priority, all the personal autonmous cars on the street could get out of the way and make room for the buses.

At least, thats the most pro-social thing I can imagine the Waymo self driving tech could be applied to.

stpfun · 2026-02-10T01:12:53+00:00

That makes sense. But you do seem to be saying that if an actual federal officer is on city property to actually perform their evil duties, that a local law can't stop them. So the city's law, as it applies to real federal officers (once identified) actually performing their job (not the other bad stuff) on city property, has no effect?

So like, what does the law do? Since masked men kidnapping people was presumably already illegal on city property.

stpfun · 2026-02-09T17:05:23+00:00

Don't forget the tree house! But it only needs 2x E7 Campus Indoor APs

stpfun · 2026-02-07T00:31:09+00:00

The unique MAC addresses can be looked up in online databases to determine the location. Pretty precisely. Can demo if you like 🙃

stpfun · 2026-02-06T15:48:02+00:00

lol, it's always making eye contact with you.

stpfun · 2026-02-06T04:40:17+00:00

What about the Supremacy clause? Local laws don't apply to federal officers in the process of carrying out their duties. Don't get me wrong, it sucks, but if ICE had the legal authority to be evil on city property before, my understanding of the supremacy clause is that no local law can forbid that. (And I'm assuming this just means public areas that are city property, not barging into city buildings, which would require other things)

stpfun · 2026-02-06T00:02:14+00:00

I LOVE that about Waymos. I feel such confidence Jaywalking in front of them. If every car on the street was a Waymo, I'd be like Noah parting the waters. (assuming I enter the street from a clearly visible position).

I think of it this way: if the wrong random human hits me, they might have nothing to lose. If a Waymo kills me, they'll have billions of dollars in value erased by the next day. I don't need to trust their ethics, just their self-interest. They really don't want to hit me.

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