Would love to be able to have this buy my the flight at an optimal purchase time. Like I say “LAX to JFK for Jan 10th to Jan 15th, between $400 and $600” and it will wait until that is seen and then buy for me. That would be a real new feature.
why would you ever set a minimum price? If you're looking for a certain service level just have it look for that. Otherwise I'd be worried you'd miss out on a flight that fits all your criteria but costs $385 or something
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As the poor sap who’s had to build lots of these types of sites, I’ll tell you that it’s not the devs that want this. It’s the damn client that keeps complaining about the “gravity” or the “momentum” or the “scroll speed” of the site. Locomotive.JS being the main thing clients want us to use… no amount of explanation of all your valid points will persuade them if “this one cool site we like had it”.
I will say this… the scroll speed being different between Chrome, Safari and Firefox doesn’t help our cause… wish these were normalized at the very least so we can avoid “it feels better in X, but we use Y browser” notes.
Allowing an easing function API for scroll would be a middle ground I could live with. It’s better than what we have now (a bunch of award winning sites emulating scroll with translates).
At my agency we probably build two custom sites a month. We used to do this with PHP WordPress templates, then we moved to Nuxt server side rendered on Node (Heroku), but now we are all static site Nuxt on Netlify and it’s SO MUCH better. Headless WordPress as backend. As long as you/client can deal with the build times it’s fantastic from a speed, SEO and uptime POV. Also just way cheaper to host it. Incremental Static Generation seems like the ideal solution, looking forward to that with Nuxt 3.
You are actually running a Wordpress site with a reverse proxy cache with forever TTLs. The fact that the cache is implemented as HTML on a file system is incidental. You could deliver the same speed, SEO, and uptime with any such technology, such as putting a regular Wordpress site behind Cloudflare or Fastly with forever TTLs and running a cache warming script.
I assumed the point of this product was to buy it in a tax deferred account, then loan against it. You’d have zero risk of a margin call ever happening. Then after you’re dead it’s a guaranteed payoff of the loan. Would be a very very cheap way to convert your tax deferred accounts into tax free liquid cash now.
Fantastic summary of Gutenberg’s mistakes. They also completely missed the Headless CMS movement when they designed Gutenberg this way.
Having said all of that, we use Headless WordPress for many many client projects and have got it working really well for us. For us it’s much better than Sanity, Craft and Prismic. The WP-GQL plugin and ACF are really amazing.
Nice, that's good to hear! I've been using Contentful which has felt super familiar to editors and devs alike, but does have some pain points, such as the lack of ACF-like repeaters (IMO the relationship fields don't stack up as well for what we normally do for clients), the never-ending modal rabbit holes you go down to edit nested content (page -> section -> component -> image wrapper -> image, all because you can't force alt text on their default media uploads, and that was their suggested method of getting around it!).
At my company Funkhaus, we are looking to hire a freelancer that understands Gatsby and the Sanity CMS. Just need a 3-8 hours of your time to have you explain to our team how Gatsby and Sanity work together. Would want you to explain a code base to us that we inherited. Must be able to get on a screenshare and explain it to us, so English is a must.
Email me drew@funkhaus.us please, ready to start ASAP.
It should be doable. What I built only works for videos with transcripts, but I've been looking to improve it using OpenAI's Whisper for Speech-To-Text. I'm just lazy so I haven't gotten around to it (...which is why I spent an hour throwing together a 30-line script to summarize youtube videos for me)
For you or anyone else reading this I recently ran across this video documenting setting up and using whisper. It's probably a little overdetailed, but I found the github docs a little underdetailed so might be useful. Whisper is pretty powerful. One of the more useful open source ai tools available right now.
But as you implied in your comment, it should be possible to do it quite well with any video by transcripting with whisper and then sending the text to gpt or another LLM to summarize.
I’ve done something similar here https://github.com/mcdallas/summarize it feeds an audio file to whisper and then summarizes the transcript. You can easily wrap it with yt-dlp to download the audio portion of a video
I also did the same but its a web app, https://github.com/mkagenius/audioGPT (i also have it hosted but I am afraid if i post the link, it would eat through all my credits)
I’m currently working on this with the caveat that I want to do the work locally. Using whisper but the summarization portion if this task is not straightforward given the limited context size of models.
Does anyone have any additional insight into this problem?
I'll check it out (or maybe let my script check it out first), thanks.
From what I remember the Whisper API docs weren't too bad, but I didn't try actually implementing anything, so you could be right that they're underdetailed.
In 2019 I purchased land in Mt Washington, about 15mins outside downtown Los Angeles for $200k. My father is a builder back home in Australia so we know more about building that most. Even the after 3+ years, we finally received permits. The city is making us widen the road ($75k), extend a water main 12 feet ($75k), move 3 power poles (can’t get LADWP to tell us what that’s going to cost yet as they have to design it) and install a septic system. We are going to go all electric so we don’t have to run gas lines.
The amount of bureaucracy is insane. Often times we have been the go between for different departments of city that have offices in the same building as each other. They all point the finger at each other. Can’t get answers to the power pole questions from LA DWP without Bureau of Street Lighting, Bureau of street lighting won’t do anything with out LA DWP etc… it’s madness.
House will be 3200sqft, very nice with a pool but lots of value engineering (thanks to my dad). Construction budget is $2m. Will be getting a construction loan. Requires monthly income of $35k combined. Lucky I’m doing this with my twin brother, so we might just be able to afford it, but currently can not due to interest rate rises since we started. Swinging big.
Bank appraised finished project at $3.5m.
My take away from the whole process is that LA infrastructure is terrible, and the city has effectively made it impossible for new construction by family’s. LA DWP single handedly cost us a year in permitting and its incentives are just so not aligned with home owners. My dream is we can go solar and batteries and tell them to get lost. I now have a real respect for what Starlink is doing. Down with the entrenched utilities!!!
You have to be rich to build a house in LA. Renovation is the only real option for individuals. Which just drives up house prices. New houses built is the only way out I think, and the government seems to only be making it harder.
I've looked into building in Portland OR. I don't think we're quite as bad as what you describe (except for the bureaucracy which is spot on), but I came to the conclusion that there'd be about $100k in fees. Just the fees to be allowed to hook up to the city sewer I think came out around $30k if I understand them correctly. (It's possible I'm missing something. I'm not an expert.)
For some people that's probably a bargain, but if you're not wealthy it's a lot of money just for /permission/ to do something.
In my AHJ, if the sewer line passes by your property YOU HAVE TO PAY DISPOSAL/SEWAGE FEES (based on water usage), even if you have your own functional and safe septic system.
A lot of what you are describing is regional issues for costal cities. My specific comment was pointing that {Base land + Materials + Labor} is very expensive, and while addressing these fees and red tape might be important, it's not the whole cake. I was also targeting a more modest experience.
In Texas it might be $40k land (varies by size and location), $250k for construction ($115/sqft * 2250 sqft), and maybe $50k for utilities/landscaping/driveway/permits etc (varies by taste and location). So $350k for a house in a state with a $70k median household income. With a 20% downpayment and a 6.5% interest rate this median family for a median house would spend 1 year salary on the downpayment and over a third of their gross income on the mortgage. If they had a typical amount of debt from cars, credit cards, or student loans their DTI would be too high to qualify.
EDIT: To my original point. Saying "Build more homes" is an oversimplification. Homes are largely priced such that they equal {Land + Building value}, and new homes are largely priced at { Land + Construction costs + reasonable margin for developer }. If you want to build more homes, look at how building can be cheaper. There are some clear low hanging fruit you are describing in your LA experience, but even where the regulatory environment and labor costs are more reasonable the numbers don't crunch well. Let's have conversations about how to reduce the cost of producing housing. Getting cost low enough that the median household income can afford new construction would absolutely drive up the number of homes being built.
I have built a personal house with two brothers — one my own Twin — and wow ya'll are in for an undertaking.
I've built, all-together, about similar budget (for two houses with brothers) and I don't even think I have enough energy to build my own house, now. But gonna try, on some land in a county with minimal regulations.
House Twin and I built was in a Historic District, which was the biggest nightmare of the entire construction. We literally did the rebar and formwork and roof and plumbing and electrical. And they made us re-do windows and other such bullshit to "be in conformity with the neighborhood, but without giving the impression of being historic itself." JFC, make up your minds [worse than any HOA nightmare].
> move 3 power poles
> House will be 3200sqft
> Construction budget is $2m
> impossible for new construction by family’s
Sorry, but this looks like one of the most incredibly out-of-touch rich people comments I've ever read. You're building a freaking castle in the middle of the city, moving roads around, and then you go on to say "families" can't build??
Maybe you're right and even building a modest home in the suburbs is harder than it should, but your project is definitely not proof of that.
Choosing to build a giant home in the LA hills with a budget of $2M just for construction is the out of touch rich people thing, not the additional issues with the city.
I think you missed my point. Our land is super cheap for LA (hence all the infrastructure work). Even if we built a garden shack on it, we’d have spent $600k. How could a working class family ever afford to build a house like this?
If the goal is more houses, make them faster and easier to build. Less red tape, less infrastructure requirements. Otherwise it’s only well of people like me that can (barely) afford them.
Now I’m sure you’ll say “don’t live in a coastal city then”. That where the work is. And it’s also where 40k homeless people live. Connect the dots. We need more houses. There is land to build them, it’s just insane to do that under current rules.
