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Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by ianburrell »

delduca wrote: post #3
cbracketdash wrote: post #2

Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?

My wife doesn't check email frequently, so SMS (or even better, WhatsApp) would be more reliable. Maybe an alternative is to store the WhatsApp contact information of people who could help behind a password. Then, if I need help, I can ask to borrow someone's phone on the street. If they don't have WhatsApp, I can just make a regular phone call instead.

Why hide emergency contact info? Put it in Emergency group on everyone's phone.

The goal should be to send a single message with nature of emergency, what you need from them, and what they do like call police

I could see a private reference page with important info. Including checklist for various scenarios. That's what I thought you did. Then print out a copy and put in binder somewhere at home.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by BaudouinVH »

dstroot wrote: post #78

In a wider disaster, such as a fire, earthquake, tornado or hurricane both companies and families want to contact employees or loved ones to make sure that they are OK. Unfortunately, land networks, Internet, links and mobile networks may be compromised by the emergency further, people may be caught away from home. Their laptop or mobile device might run out of power. I thought a solution might be some type of “check…

Or maybe ping their equipment and react in case the ping stops responding on all the devices ?

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by dylan604 »

toast0 wrote: post #59
rsyring wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The right thing to do is stop speeding like that. Needlessly endangering others. It's good you are trying to stop. To help you continue in that effort... Check out HPDE events to get your speed fix and keep it off public roads. I've ran with Chin Track Days and 10/10ths and can recommend both orgs (USA based because that's what I know).

I recently purchased my mid-life crisis car; it's rear-engined, manual transmission, air-cooled, same engine block as a Porsche 914 ... but it's a VW Vanagon. Anyway, my super sweet high performance sports car can really only get up to highway speeds, and it takes a long time to get there. Getting on the highway means at least 20 seconds of full throttle driving, and staying at highway speeds is pretty darn close to…

> One of these days, I'm going to take it to the drag strip for fun. I'll get a better value, since I'll be on the strip for at 2-3 times as long as someone in a fast car :)

If you're paying for the track time, might as well get your money's worth!

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by NewsaHackO »

qurren wrote: post #60

I don't get it. Is this for your family to message you in emergency (e.g. they lose their phones) without needing credentials to their 2FA-infested apps of sorts that they're locked out of? Are you not getting a ton of spam from this form being open to public? I've had similar ideas but I'd probably make it something easy to remember like myname.com/message and it quizzes the user or various things that only my famil…

Yeah, I hope this is just a demo that he is showing. You usually are fine if you have a reverseDNS domain name that you don't advertise + CF, but he is now going to get spammed by genuine human traffic.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by dylan604 »

ge96 wrote: post #49
rsyring wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your almost a curse sentiment. My interest in fast cars, BMWs in my case, is a blessing and a curse. But HPDE gave me a "safe" (for others) out and I took it. It's expensive. So, FWIW, buy a car that's really reliable and parts relatively inexpensive so you can spend your money on track time and not the car. I have an F80 M3 dual purpose car and would have got an older dedicated track car (E46 maybe) if…

People's car interests are interesting like for me I'm looking at visuals, I like the 2-door rounded back (Coupe?) design like Porsche 911 or Nissan 370z Nismo, Lotus Exige is not like that but damn what a sexy car 240 S in Chrome Orange. This is not the same car but love this video https://youtu.be/0c9prOTdp_M?si=7q7ffymWuGKZvmaf&t=155 I drive a manual I like downshifting closest thing I can get for now lol. For Bim…

As I'm watching videos like this shot with very fast shutter speed cameras, it's really hard for me to get a sense of how fast the car is actually going. Even the static shots of the car driving past, there's just no sense of is that really that fast? I've attached plenty of cameras to cars and have shot at the Indy 500, but the video has just never given me that "wow that's fast" sense.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by dylan604 »

gosub100 wrote: post #73
ge96 wrote: post #33

When I was really bad at speeding all the time I had this fear I'd go to jail and my cat would die alone in my apt. So I started working on my own dead man switch, I actually have not finished it but I at least bought him like a self-feeding thing that would last a month or more and he unfortunately drinks out of the toilet too so I leave the top cover off. I've recently stopped or working on stopping the triple digi…

Fear you'd go to jail, but not crash and die or be in a coma? I think cats can tolerate a week without food which should be longer than your jail sentence.

> I think cats can tolerate a week without food

What cat would this be? My cats act like the world is ending because the bottom of the dish is visible. Tolerate is clearly the wrong word here.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by gosub100 »

dylan604 wrote: post #86
gosub100 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fear you'd go to jail, but not crash and die or be in a coma? I think cats can tolerate a week without food which should be longer than your jail sentence.

> I think cats can tolerate a week without food What cat would this be? My cats act like the world is ending because the bottom of the dish is visible. Tolerate is clearly the wrong word here.

oh it would be terrible, I dont think they would die though. I would never do that to any pet!

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by ge96 »

dylan604 wrote: post #85
ge96 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People's car interests are interesting like for me I'm looking at visuals, I like the 2-door rounded back (Coupe?) design like Porsche 911 or Nissan 370z Nismo, Lotus Exige is not like that but damn what a sexy car 240 S in Chrome Orange. This is not the same car but love this video https://youtu.be/0c9prOTdp_M?si=7q7ffymWuGKZvmaf&t=155 I drive a manual I like downshifting closest thing I can get for now lol. For Bim…

As I'm watching videos like this shot with very fast shutter speed cameras, it's really hard for me to get a sense of how fast the car is actually going. Even the static shots of the car driving past, there's just no sense of is that really that fast? I've attached plenty of cameras to cars and have shot at the Indy 500, but the video has just never given me that "wow that's fast" sense.

I get that, Barry's videos with the Lotus Elise on the alps are like that, feels like he's going really fast but only like 60mph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vF7ApxbAg

For the Exige above just the racking and down shifting sound, blip the throttle damn love that, that's why I'd never get an electric sports car even if it is faster, though the C8 can do a sub 2 second 0-60.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by delduca »

QuercusMax wrote: post #79
delduca wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The LLM is just to make the message short for the SMS. The entire message is sent by mail without any AI.

That makes no sense. Why don't you just set a char-limit on the input and reject anything that's too long?

If I trim I may lost important context. I understand the concern here.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Post by QuercusMax »

delduca wrote: post #89
QuercusMax wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That makes no sense. Why don't you just set a char-limit on the input and reject anything that's too long?

If I trim I may lost important context. I understand the concern here.

Who said anything about trimming?

Make your text box only hold as much data as you can transmit. Or send two messages if you need to. Do you think someone is going to paste a novel in there or something? This is a VERY stupid reason to use an LLM.

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