Let’s see em doordash that

And less shit to deal with.

Dogs can poop at night…

Great article. Also pretty sad to see what we’ve ended up with in the name of business. Maybe if humanity survived another few hundred years we will look back on this time of corporations with disgust.

The whole “woke” buzzword thing is just dumb. It’s just the latest bigotry dogwhistle / Fox “News” Pavlovian Response Training, where chuds are trained to react with visceral disgust at any word.

They made the chuds flip about WelFaRe QuEeN, HilLaRy, bEnGaZi, SoCiaLiSM and LIbRuLS and now WoKe. Fox could train these people to hate the word TURNIP.

Maybe there’s a whole degree program

As a lifetime resident of the arid Western United States, I am also gonna nope on outta that damp hell.

I got ya, totally agree

We need to change our mindset in regards to anti-competitive practices.

It shouldn’t be so much about monopoly.

What we need is to focus on anti-competitive behavior. Just because a company doesn’t have a monopoly doesn’t mean it isn’t extremely anto-competitive.

We need to fight against that and against consolidation leading to oligopolies.

The more I make… Well nothing changes.

We have helped friends out on various occasions to varying degrees.

Nobody demands shit from us let alone asks. Ok well, asking to donate to a school thing maybe.

Idk what kind of weirdos surround you but that sucks. Do you live in a gold plated house in the suburbs or something? Or are the matching Bentleys in the garage tipping them off? :)

Hmmm

I am a big fan of Cherry myself. Seems to be food contact safe and I find it a joy to work with.

I bet it will be in the $10 range in a year.

POLISH HIM!

I thought that much was obvious, sheesh

I mean motion is all relative anyway, right? So would teleportation be like throwing a ball on a train? That is, the ball’s motion depends on the frame of reference. So maybe teleporting would work that way if it were actually possible.

For what it’s worth, ADHD folks tend not to fit social norms, either, and have blind spots about their behavior and how people perceive them.

I don’t think it is simply “huh this place looks sketch”. Not sure if you read the article.

The thing is, the criminals knew that Google routes rental cars along a typical route and so they ambush tourists violently along that route. For all I know the route may look fine.

Anyway, you don’t have to label neighborhoods. Just have the app route them differently…

…But wouldn’t the criminals catch onto that before long so that the new route becomes the ambush zone?

Maybe there is a solution like randomly choosing a particular path at different hours but the fewer alternate routes the less effective that will be. Criminals could simply stake out one route and wait a little longer before a victim passes by.

But is this really a mapping company’s problem to solve? Is the map app responsible for traveler security? What if you ask to be routed into or through a war zone (e.g. somewhere in Ukraine). Does the map app refuse? Warn you? Or what?

What if someone gets a paper map? Is the map maker responsible? How about the rental car employees?

Where does the responsibility of the tourist begin and end here?

PS: to me RPi is overkill for all but the most intense compute requirements. So is the esp32 to a lesser degree. Don’t always need 240MHz dual core RISC with FreeRTOS and 2.4G radio…

I default to Arduino, usually attiny devices for simple, low power stuff. I am really liking the new TinyAVR line. Quicker programming, way more functionality, etc.

You might want to check out OpenMV Cam which does some cool machine vision stuff and runs MicroPython.

I would probably start looking at OpenCV software for RasPi if you need more processing power.

I’ve been playing with ESP32 lately. I’m frankly kind of shocked at how well documented the API is and how well it all works. And it’s mostly open. I haven’t done anything with ESP32 Cams I bought, yet. No idea what is possible there or where to start.

Hopefully that helps.

Meanwhile I’m over here trying to wrap up a simple Bluetooth-enabled amp project for the last couple months lol. I should do more with machine vision.