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

But they can sue the us government for violation of contract. As long as they do it after he leaves office they likely win.

That’s always been his biggest skill - no shame about putting his name and face everywhere.

I’ll vote for you in the hope there will be affordable eggs with that bacon

He also wasn’t profiting off his office nor helping his donors stay above the law. And his violations of human rights were at least outside the country, instead of also against his own people

Reagan may have started this huge swing to the right, to authoritarianism, but I seriously doubt he’d recognize how far it’s gone. And he would seem entirely centrist , relative to the current travesty

We could bait it with a gold plated bowl of veggies, call it a “peas prize”

Nice generalizations. But if you can’t list anything specific that’s as petty as the Trump-Epstein center or the Trump-Epstein ballroom or the gulf of Epstein, or come up with as huge a list as we can for the current administration, your attempt at “both sides same” falls flat.

Like it or not the current administration is historical. The flood of bs is unprecedented. The self-aggrandizement and profiting off the government has never been done by any party at any level approaching what we see today.

Love this modern concept of equality. Instead of everyone becoming a better person, everyone feel free to be your worst self

• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Headphones
• Game controller
• Occasional thumb drive
• since you’re talking average user, a printer

I’m all for this on laptops. I’ve had external monitors for so long that when I have to work using only the laptop screen, it’s difficult to be effective. It’s great that laptops are small and light but I’ll sacrifice some of that for more screen size

Wtf