Many routes have "hail and ride sections" without designated stops. You can't get off, but can hail and get on at any point. Here's a list for London [1].
I assume it’s region specific. There used to be alternatives in my area, but they’ve all died, and even with all the fake Google reviews, it’s the only way to get an idea about restaurants.
It absolutely does that - o3 knows your current location based on IP address etc. This means for a fair test you need to use a photo taken nowhere near your current vicinity - that's why I added examples for Madagascar and Buenos Aires at the end of my post: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/#up...
In 2017, the Hollywood actor Shia LaBeouf (and two others artists from a trio called "LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner") put up a flag in an undisclosed location as part of their "HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US" work [1].
> On March 8, 2017, the stream resumed from an "unknown location", with the artists announcing that a flag emblazoned with the words "He Will Not Divide Us" would be flown for the duration of the presidency. The camera was pointed up at the flag, set against a backdrop of nothing but sky.
[...], the flag was located by a collaboration of 4chan users, who used airplane contrails, flight tracking, celestial navigation, and other techniques to determine that it was located in Greeneville, Tennessee. In the early hours of March 10, 2017, a 4chan user took down and stole the flag, replacing it with a red 'Make America Great Again' hat and a Pepe the Frog shirt.
including honking a horn and seeing if the camera picked it up.
We did this once when trying to find someone's house who was transmitting on a CB. it was my first transmitter hunt and i learned 2 lessons: people don't like it when you honk your horn to see if you can hear it through their microphone (but really it was to see if they said 'is that you honking, what a jerk'); and secondly, if the person switches to a handheld transmitter when they think you're getting close, it completely throws you off.
AI slop, but also for all the imagery. The early 00s called, and want their large icons back. This is the worst landing page I’ve seen—almost screams crypto-scam.
But is it more comfortable, then say, an old school analog expensive mattress? I can’t shake the feeling these companies are selling snake oil (that is not to say that old school analog mattresses aren’t overpriced either)
You may be misunderstanding the product--it's a topper that goes on top of your existing mattress. It doesn't replace the mattress. I do indeed have it on top of an old school analog expensive mattress. It cools/warms to the desired temperature without impacting the comfort from the mattress. I don't think there's much room for snake oil here: it pumps cooled or heated water through the mattress topper. There's no mystery.
How does it feel? I have a nice foam mattress and I'd hate to buy one of these and have it feel like I'm sleeping on a bunch of tubes and plastic rather than foam.
I can't feel the tubes at all. It does have some electronics stuff on the sides that you can feel through the topper, but nothing on the top where you sleep. It maybe feels slightly firmer than the mattress feels without it.
> But is it more comfortable, then say, an old school analog expensive mattress?
Mattresses wear out, and people end up keeping them too long. Somewhere like walmart.com sells great mattresses for inexpensive prices. They are not related at all to what they sell in stores. Because they are inexpensive, as soon as they start to wear out, buy a new one.
I’m genuinely curious: do you really get back to those tabs and read them? I find I end up in these rabbit holes, then realize what time it is and context switch to something else. Once I happen to get back to the collection of Wikipedia tabs, I have most often already lost the spark of interest that I’ve felt initially.
Nobody has time to sit and read all of (or even a small portion of) Wikipedia so your options are to either open endless links you know will never get read or be progressively more selective in which links you choose to follow as the time you want to set aside for curiosity runs out.
The only way you end up with tabs you don't read is if you chose the wrong thresholds for following links through the given session. This is self-correcting after a few goes as you realize clicking too many links leads to spending time reading articles you cared less about rather than ones you cared more about.
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