At 0:10 someone is fare evading through the emergency gate directly to the right of these new gates but they've been blurred out.
Seeing a large migration away from Rails convinced me of the benefits of languages where types are checked at compile time.
Twitter existing in 2023 is proof that you can get pretty far with Rails but eventually the tech debt bill comes due
Gotta love the pivot from "it doesn't scale" to "you can't write real systems without types" as the new ding-dong argument against dynamically-typed languages like Ruby (and vanilla JavaScript and Smalltalk and...). rubyonrails.org
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I dropped my membership after “opposing bike theft is racist” but in case you need another reason here it is. I’ve never encountered road rage from a driverless car.
Last weeks CPUC vote to expand AV permits on our streets has major implications– more cars on our roads, equity concerns, and continued safety issues. Read more and stay updated about what happens next:
sfbike.org/news/the-sf-bicyc…
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I rode in a Cruise AV last night and it complied with several traffic laws a human SF taxi driver would’ve ignored. We need to update the laws to reflect how humans actually drive (u-turns across a double-yellow and double parking should be allowed when safe)
Listened to @jeffreytumlin’s interview to figure out which statement they had to retract for being misleading, and there were so many, I couldn’t tell.
Let’s start: “you’ve got cyclists dealing with a bike lane that’s blocked.”
Here’s how Waymo actually deals with bike lanes.
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Camera enforcement could help. I once had a driver accidentally drive into a similar bike lane in South London and it ruined his entire day because he was sure he'd be getting a £160 ticket in the mail for a maneuver that saved 2 mins. No cops & instantly regretted the mistake.
If you are driving and a garbage truck is ahead of you on its pick up route, you are now stuck. Your option? Yup, the bike lane. A mess.
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Making GIL-less Python an "n" ABI tag instead of a major 4.0 release seems like an attempt to avoid the marketing cost of a breaking change without avoiding the engineering cost. Existing C extensions would need to be recompiled and audited just like 2to3 peps.python.org/pep-0703/#ba…
These projections seem difficult to believe
Tourism spending in San Francisco is set to hit 2019 levels next year. People coming here are finding a beautiful city ready to welcome them. A recent survey by SF Travel found 92% of visitors would come back to San Francisco. We know our challenges, but visitors love this city.
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In the UK you settle your bar bill after each round and leave a 0% gratuity, but in the US you settle it after the last round and leave a 0-20% one. This is to compensate the bartender for the risk of serving you alcohol without a credit check
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If you'd told Twitter SRE Intern Kevin that 11 years later he'd be joining another Facebook social network he wouldn't have believed you, but yet here we are 🤷♂️
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Not much different from vandalizing a driver-operated vehicle by spraypainting its windshield at a stoplight.
You're abusing a safety feature, and you should have to pay for the cost of dispatching someone to remove the cone.
We can fight back.
The Fun Way- All you need is a cone and an empty AV. Gently place the cone on the hood- you just created a 🦄 & temporary traffic calming!
The Responsible Way- Tune into next week’s CPUC meeting (7/13) at 11am & give public comment. tinyurl.com/WeekOfCone/
ALT Self-driving cruise car with a cone on its hood at night
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I think every Safeway with a pharmacy and liquor license should be allowed to sell it. Creating an entirely-parallel bureaucracy to the ABC was not required to collect cannabis taxes from law-abiding businesses.
Sup. @Ahsha_Safai, who authored the bill, said the cannabis industry is struggling with oversaturation and competition with the black market.
"It's a pause, not a ban," Safaí said. sfstandard.com/politics/san-…
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This reads like Soviet propaganda. I rode Tuesday night and had a guy board with a speaker blasting some terrible music. He lit a joint. The whole carriage smelled like weed. Last night I saw a man passed out with drug paraphernalia around him in the corridor at Powell.
Just rode @SFBART. A few observations:
✅ The station was very clean
✅ Lots of people waiting on the clean platform
✅ The train came within a couple minutes
✅ The train was clean, full of passengers & felt super safe
✅ The arrival station was clean, with lots of riders
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Just took the new #SFMTA central subway for the first time. The transfer at Powell was smooth and well-signposted, but I thought the new T was supposed to have signal priority on the surface streets? Lots of time spent standing at traffic lights but the project is marked complete
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The issue is that if the alleged murderer and the alleged child rapist are extradited and skip bail, then they're now running around SF instead of stuck in Mexico, having gotten a free ride across the border from DHS. That's a bad outcome versus leaving them where they are.
“BOS President Aaron Peskin argued in an interview Monday that the waiver Jenkins is pressing for is unnecessary, because nothing in SF's sanctuary city law prevents Homeland Security from apprehending and extraditing the two fugitives so that they can be prosecuted in SF.”
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