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Our systems are collapsing under the weight over our own vibes.
Jensen Huang making sure he takes the country down with him?
It's not like anyone predicted the apocalypse would happen today.
As usual, Australia got lucky thanks to the fact that most prophecies neglect to specify the timezone (It's currently the afternoon of the 14th here).
The word of the day is: cascading.

Coming soon: car rental sites, hotel booking sites, food delivery services, taxi and ride share services.

I mean I can barely get the Amtrak site to work on a good day.
Planes, trains… automobiles are next!!!
Amtrak's site has always been the worst example of a national rail website
Renfe in Spain is awful
I use the app frequently and I actually love it. Pick two stations, pick a train, apple pay, done. It’s not flashy, but I appreciate the simplicity.
I've been wanting them to have an api for years with a TOS that you cannot resell tickets or make any additional fees from the sale to discourage SEO snakes from hijacking things.

A more reasonable front-end could be made without much effort and a very low monthly overhead to host since it's mostly a proxy

Require the same upsells with the insurance and credit card offer I don't care, that's not the problem I have with the site.

Now that US AI psychoses is reaching pandemic levels, I wonder if governments outside the US will accelerate their migration plans. Too bad we can't socially distance ourselves, wash hands and wear masks.

When I get back to the office on Monday I'm going to start making steps to make sure that skill atrophy gets limited so that we don't fall into the same helpless incompetence.