I think Baltimore soon. Seen them testing around the city.

Wouldn't Baltimore be the first Waymo market that actually gets snow? I don't think they've cracked driving in a real Midwest/northeast winter.

We do get ice and snow in Portland, along with flooding and landslides. No, it's not the same as Midwest, but we do get a few days every other year or so that you just don't drive out in. The black ice around a couple curvy sections of i-5 are notoriously bad at night in winters. (Terwilliger)

I have lived in the midwest, as well as Portland. It is good that Portland only occasionally gets ice, because in like-for-like conditions it is way more dangerous than the midwest. Primarily because of hills. I found driving in snow & ice in the midwest to be mostly a non-event, even on inadequate tires.

They're currently testing in Minneapolis and plan to launch in the next year to the public, so they seem to think they can crack tough winters

I really hope we're able to get them without the city council messing things up. The way they reacted to the news at first, you'd think Minneapolis was the first city to ever have autonomous vehicles. That, mixed with a heavy dose of "What about the buggy whip makers??"

Considering Minneapolis city council tried to ban Uber and Lyft entirely I have a strong feeling they’ll mess it up…

Wow. That will be a tough one. Driving on dry and even wet roads is quite predictable but snow is a completely different game.

Portland gets very occasional snow. But they'll probably just shut the Waymos down along with everything else that shuts when there's snow and ice.

> Wouldn't Baltimore be the first Waymo market that actually gets snow?

No, we have them in St. Louis and it snows a few times per year here.

Let me put it this way, I don't think they're operating in USDA Hardiness Zones of 1-5.

https://www.botanicalinterests.com/community/blog/usda-hardi...

They're in Detroit, Denver, Minneapolis, and D.C.

They’ve been testing in Truckee, CA for years

portland gets snow

They’re being tested in Philly right now too

Started ozempic over a year ago. I can do like one beer per social outing these days.

Is that because ozempic has reduced your tolerance, or because your tolerance has reduced due to less consumption in general?

Not the original commenter, but for me, I just .. don't feel like it anymore. I used to be a rum enthusiast, now I've got two very nice bottles I bought myself just as I started ozempic, that are still unopened one year after.

It has the same appeal as room temperature water when you're not necessarily thirsty.

I remember people with various "tunes" at the racetrack would run this stuff. It definitely smelled like candy!

Welp. Now I'm in a wikipedia hole of how cats came to be.

The universe was created to incorporate cats.

This is great. I remember playing this for the first time at a Wizards of the Coast in the mall. They had 8 or so PCs on a LAN in the back of the store. My first true LAN party I guess.

Same, one of my very first gaming experiences. Nothing but great nostalgia!

Interesting. I work in higher ed and we have thousands of GPUs under my team. Rarely ever seen a failure. Mostly when we put consumer grade GPUs in servers (Nvidia doesn't like this). True server-grade GPUs never have any problems.

IS this for some kind of HPC cluster? What kind of utilization are you at? For an AI company these GPUs are going to be at near 100% utilization 24/7. These kinds of loads destroy hardware quick.

Every site I've worked at has plenty of GPU failures. Not consumer grade either, H100/A100

And what looks like a keychron mechanical keyboard! (Loud AF)

One random story I have...I remember there was a legit riot on the Prexus EQ forums I was on because SOE decided to drop Windows 95 support for Everquest. I believe it was because Win95 wouldn't support DirectX 6 or something. I was good to go though...I had Win 98 and a Geforce MX 240 I purchased at Best Buy.

I think W95 supported up to DirectX 7-8a.

Something like OWS - but outside the Whitehouse?

Not enough exit nodes.