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blakesterz commented on Privately-Owned Rail Cars amtrak.com/privately-owne... · Posted by u/jasoncartwright

blakesterz · 3 days ago

I'm not into trains at all, but the American Association of Private Railroad Car Owners has some pretty nice looking cars you can charter:

https://www.aaprco.com/charter-a-private-car

I guess it starts at $30,000? Though that might be for an entire train, not just the cars above.

https://www.amtrak.com/charter-your-private-train

blakesterz commented on The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care marginalrevolution.com/ma... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

moomoo11 · 25 days ago

There’s a lot of PE activity in this sector imo.

They buy out all these established places and jack up the prices. It goes from calling them to book to some polished booking portal.

It’s mostly catered towards those who can afford it, so the 200k base SWE x 2 family can afford the 2x jacked up prices, and they continue increasing the prices every 1-2 years.

blakesterz · 25 days ago

That was my first thought as well. I know PE is famously eating up Vets, I wonder if they've started on these too?

blakesterz commented on Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors? washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

blakesterz · a month ago

There's a famously old accusation against Lance Armstrong

https://telegrafi.com/en/keshtu-funksionon-motori-vogel-per-...

The video of him reaching behind his seat is interesting I guess.

blakesterz commented on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers nytimes.com/2025/07/01/te... · Posted by u/stephendause

blakesterz · 2 months ago

The list of bots is pretty short right now:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/#ai-bots

blakesterz commented on Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

blakesterz · 2 months ago

I would've held off on buying a new phone another year (AT LEAST) had I known all that Apple Intelligence hype was just hype.

blakesterz commented on Rolling the ladder up behind us xeiaso.net/blog/2025/roll... · Posted by u/techknowlogick

blakesterz · 2 months ago

There's a photo on that page with this description:

  "A picture of two patches of wild grass bifurcated by a retaining pond"

I was just thinking how I'd describe that different, and how many different ways it could be described.

blakesterz commented on So Much Blood dynomight.net/blood/... · Posted by u/debesyla

blakesterz · 4 months ago

It's worth a read, even if it's not obvious what it's about from that title.

  "To get the actual data, you need to go through a website maintained by the US Trade Commission. This website has good and bad aspects. On the one hand, it’s slow and clunky and confusing and often randomly fails to deliver any results. On the other hand, when you re-submit, it clears your query and then blocks you for submitting too many requests, which is nice."

blakesterz commented on How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare ingau.me/blog/how-i-write... · Posted by u/ingav

blakesterz · 4 months ago

Very cool. I first setup my blog way back in the 90s and wrote the HTML by hand and used FTP to get it on the server. Then moved to phpslash and slashcode, Drupal and then Wordpress. Probably something else in there too. This setup feels much closer to how I was doing it in the 90s in some ways. It kind of feels like we've come full circle!

blakesterz commented on Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat wsj.com/world/asia/north-... · Posted by u/Bostonian

blakesterz · 5 months ago

Apparently the title of this story changed at The WSJ. That word "Cheat" seems wrong, while the old title makes more sense.

  "How Hackers Stole Billions in Crypto to Keep North Korea’s Regime Afloat"

The archive link from the @Bostonian comment below has the original I guess: https://archive.is/1vkXG

blakesterz commented on Abusive AI Web Crawlers: Get Off My Lawn mythic-beasts.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/bluehatbrit

intellectronica · 5 months ago

Right, but how is it related to AI?

Is there just a correlation between crawlers that don't respect indexing norms and crawlers that operate in the service of AI products?

Or is there something about the sort of indexing people do for AI that makes this nasty behaviour more likely?

blakesterz · 5 months ago

If normal crawlers are a light rain, AI crawlers are a hurricane. Most sites can handle some rain, but they are not built to handle hurricanes. AI crawlers can look like DDOS attacks. The worst offenders will just crawl a site as fast as possible until it goes offline.

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