Technically you do. There’s always been talk about that. For like half a century. It’s a totally important issue we need to talk about

Spread by top secret government contractors to control the population! It’s not like it could be contamination by unscrupulous manufacturers with completely insufficient oversight or environmental protection.

Is this not the test? Make it available, but you have to jump through hoops to enable?

Friend of mine who just retired, started getting into Lego for the first time in his life. You’re never too old

My speculation is a safety feature working as intended.

As someone familiar with automation and machine learning, I certainly hope most of the processing is happening in device. It’s just not realistic to have a cloud driven car.

But it makes more sense to have a dead mans switch on the safety operator. “If you can’t connect to the safety operator, you can’t go”

Like a flashlight, or laser pointer …… or gun. “Just point this gun-like object at the car you want to stop…”. What could go wrong?

I almost tested that first example but was too slow. I had a one month free trial of self-driving and approached a similar construction site where I didn’t see the officer at first …… thinking “I wonder what the car would do?”

I’ve seen both. Places where the lights are only intended to work at busy hours default to flashing red and flashing yellow. Lights with a power outage can be random but I’ve also seen flashing yellow in all directions. I don’t know why that’s even an allowed configuration though

It can be tough not to. Earlier this fall I was out of town and drover through an intersection before realizing no there was a traffic light there. Since it was night and the light was out, I had no reason to expect one so I effectively treated it like a green light.

I’m probably not the only one: next time I went past that intersection the city had placed cones and temporary stop signs

It seems like one of the first things you’d want a self driving car to do is to pull over

Actually this is getting me excited. Maybe I’ll join again despite bing only one person!

Just checked my favorite CSA and they even have winter subscriptions, with separate mushroom and egg crops!

Edit: dammit, sold out. Registration opened Dec 1 so all the summer subscriptions are sold out. There’s one remaining fall subscription but that’s not my favorite

It highly varies.

• when I used to live in Boston, the huge market was dirt cheap with huge variety and and excellent quality. Bonus seafood fresh off the boat too
• now that live in a suburb, the local farmers market is small and overpriced. There’s less produce than products
• however a couple towns out are actual farms, with farm stands, selling better produce for a lot less than my towns farmers market

I also highly recommend these. We did them for quite a few years. The last one we tried also had u-pick flowers, plus programs for kids to learn organic farming and integrated pest management, as well as cooking. They also had a store for people not on the program.

I no longer subscribe because it’s just me at home and I can’t keep up.

The negative factor is you get what’s in season, which is not always what you want

My towns farmers market has horribly high prices and realistically is mostly crafts and other products. It’s just not worth it, except maybe the Indian food buffet and the meadery!

However a fairly short drive away are actual farms with farm stands that have much better products for a much more reasonable price (when in season). One of them also does pies and while expensive, are so amazing it’s well worth it

Hell yeah: anchovies, marmalade, dark chocolate, bitter or sour anything really

Yeah I do play one game but resisted for the longest time. There’s no way I can invest the time to get good enough to have fun.

Even learning the controller was a huge time investment - so different from the simple joystick I learned on as a teenager

Eventually I did but only to game with my kids. It’s been a ton of fun …… because they know what they’re doing. However in the last few years they’ve moved on to other games and no longer want to play “the one”. While I understand that, now I’m back at step one, I don’t know how to play and don’t have the time to invest. At least I’m familiar with a controller but ….

I’m fine watching them play, and I’ll stick with the casual games that really don’t require an investment

Soda and juice is too sweet for me.

And ketchup. How did anything be ever want something that sweet?

Yeah I wish the article went into more of those details instead of trying to create an analogy to breathing and the widely known facts about expansion during charging.

There should be no such function. A scroll back/forward in time, and a map/flow graph but no save