The level that waymo operates requires an insane level of digital space mapping.

Considering san Francisco is the most 3d scanned city on the planet I’m not surprised the expansion is happening at the rate it is.

If you enjoy this sort of stuff make sure to support the Kiwix Project which like 90% of these commercial offshoots are based off of.

I’m reminded of that AI-written book that misidentified poisonous mushrooms.

I wish philosophy was taught a bit more seriously.

An exploration on the philosophical concepts of simulacra and eidolons would probably change the way a lot of people view LLMs and other generative AI.

The problem is that the road between creating a piece of software that does something well, and then creating simplification layers on top of it is typically much longer than just “edit a config file” and “here’s a readme”.

You need extra documentation, config gating and workflow, warnings, UI/UX work etc.

I know there are Linux elitists but kind of expecting that much extra work for what is still at it’s core mostly volunteer software seems like it’s own form of elitism.

Don’t they charge per token?

So they’re also making money every time somebody says please or thank you…

Hledger!

Command line, plain text files so anything can read them, and GPL!

In terms of getting to an exact location, the most efficient is no vehicle, walking.

Cars are less efficient, followed by busses, then probably trains, then boats, then airplanes (unless you parachute).

Cars are the least efficient in terms of moving large numbers of people from places they can then walk from.