It was ancient aliens.

This reply is a series of related statements I would have bullet pointed if this was a powerful point presentation but I'm stuck with the slashdot edit box with circa 1968 typewriter tech. Just fyi.

Slow drivers are a menace. Thankfully you can be ticketed for driving too slow. Because it's dangerous.

And in his little golf cart it's not 2 seconds. He's causing a cascading failure behind him of slow cars, traffic and people stuck at lights which will add minutes to his victim's arrival time. Traffic patterns have been well studied. Did you know that a single hitting their brakes on the highway will impact dozens of cars behind, and often take several minutes to "unwind" as everyone has to tap their brakes long after that first car is gone to maintain safe distance in moderate/heavy traffic? What do you think the impact is and how long does it take to unwind when that dumb ass crawls up the on ramp? Rude, just damned rude.

There are 3 key things that make old people a danger on the road: they can't see, poor reaction times, and they drive too slow to account for the first two problems which fucks up normal traffic flow. He drives like a blind and unsteady old woman.

When you drive in ways that are not "normal" you are the danger.

I'm glad you live in a place where there's no traffic and you don't have a line up of 100+ cars behind you trying to get home after work. Good for you. Not everyone has that luxury.

Slow drivers are a menace. Thankfully you can be ticketed for driving too slow. Because it's dangerous. Yes I'm saying this twice. For emphasis because it's true and important.

And in his little golf cart it's not 2 seconds. He's causing a cascading failure behind him or slow cars, traffic and people stuck at lights which will add minutes to his victim's arrival time. Just because your time has no value doesn't mean other people's time is worthless, too.

Absolutely nothing went wrong with my life, that's why my time has value. Every second is precious. Every moment wasted behind some selfish jerk in a golf cart is a moment I can't spend doing something valuable which would be almost anything but sitting behind said selfish jerk for "only 2-3 seconds" or worse, missing that highway entry light in heavy traffic because his toy can't come up to speed. It won't just be me but 5-10 real cars could've made that light while his car struggles up the ramp holding everyone back. The typical red light is a 2-3 minute cycle depending on how the city's planners decided to set it. If you're lucky it's a 1 minute light. So that's 5+ people sitting for at least a minute every time some selfish dumbass in a golf cart struggles to get up to safe highway speed.

He posts on slashdot, which statistically makes him at least a reasonably well paid techie of some sort. He should be able to afford a decent vehicle. It doesn't have to be a sports car. But even a 4 cylinder soccer mom 4 door Honda civic would do better and have great gas mileage. If he can't afford a real car then he should spend his time improving his place in life, not posting his shit-car flex here. It's not a flex to drive a golf cart on the highway.

Currently I'm teaching my daughter to drive. I'm teaching her how to pass the dmv test and how people actually drive as separate driving styles. If you drove the way the dmv says you'd cause accidents. No one drives that way. Driving too slow for current traffic is one of those problems the dmv pushes, at least in the states I've lived.

Drive safe. I assume you have a real car, don't fuck up traffic patterns, aren't a highway menace "flexing" your slow dangerous entry to the highway in a golf cart and just posted to be contrary because it was me calling out his dumb ass. Have a nice day.

Of course, but if this tech becomes widespread, it will be used to disable the vehicles of dissidents (including those tracking ICE) in authoritarian countries (yes, that includes the US). This is an example of bad tech harming bad people, but the same tech can easily be weaponized against good people on the wrong side of evil laws.

Russia in its current form is a scourge, but if this tech spreads, it will be abused by other authoritarian governments (including the US) to track and harass dissidents. Better that NO ONE has this kind of power over people's property.

Yes, fuck Russia, but this can equally well be used in authoritarian countries (Russia, US, China, etc) to track or disable the vehicles of dissidents or keep protesters from following ICE vermin.

Sure, your little shit is had no problem accelerating to a safe speed going up an on ramp. So says the shit is owner.

Tell that to the people behind you who would've already been on the highway and a dozen cars ahead after a safe at speed merge if they weren't following behind your little clown car, building up their road rage all the while.

Selfish, dumb, ignorant, bad driver, poor, self rationalized bullshit; completely expected and normal coming from you.

Get a real car that can come up to speed in a safe time frame and get your little expired child's toy car off the highways. Nit's a golf cart not a car.

Never heard of original author. Doesn't matter who he is, anyway. This entire concept is pure rage bait.

If a single person on the planet uses ruby for something of value to them and it does the job as required it is serious.

This alleged programmer/author isn't serious. This slashdot re-posting of his unserious article isn't serious. Pure rage bait for clicks and ad views.

Yes, I taught myself ruby, no I never used it for anything ever, it was just interesting at the time.

Entire concept of a serious vs not-serious language is stupid.

They did ragebait on purpose. It worked on you. You engaged with it and got angry enough to leave a comment. That boosts posts.

It's literally what ragebait is meant to do.

Someone smarter than me can tell us if this is true literary irony or not. I never got the concept very well.

Kamala has not experienced any cognitive decline. Totally true. She would need some form of cognitive capacity to decline from in the first place.

I love when foreigners who don't understand a damned thing about my country welcome themselves to comment from a position of authority.

You don't understand why we elected Trump because you don't understand my country. You certainly don't understand Kamala. I not only suffered this moron as VP and dumb ass Presidential candidate, twice, I was a resident of California and in San Francisco her entire political career there, including when she got her start sucking Willie Brown's cock. Of course you don't understand. You don't know anything about what you're talking about.

If you were to ask someone who voted for him or against her instead of telling us how dumb we are for not doing what ignorant foreigners like you want us to do with our country then you'd get an explanation instead of a well earned yet mild slap down.

This was a ship with a classic, simple design, which was about twenty yards long and shaped like a flattened salmon. It was admired by Zaphod and Ford when they saw it parked outside Milliways, as it was very clean, very sleek, and completely black. It was so extremely dark that it was hard to make out the shape, and it was almost impossible to tell how close you were standing to it. Zaphod commented that the light "seemed to fall into it", and Ford said that his eyes seemed to slide off it. Zaphod repeatedly attempted to reach out and stroke the outside of the craft and feel the surface, however his hand was stopped, as it was totally frictionless. Zaphod called it "one mother of a mover".

Marvin was able to touch the surface of the ship and open up an entry hatchway, and the interior of the ship was completely black. There were black controls labelled in black, on a black background, with a little light that lit up black, which made it difficult to control the ship. The ceiling and walls of the swaying cabin were also black, as well as the seats, control panel, the instruments and the little screws that held them in place. The thin tufted nylon floor covering was black, and when a corner of the foam underlay was lifted up that was also discovered to be was black.

- "I use all your queries to increase OpenAI's revenue regardless of how unethical."
- "My replies are designed to keep you engaged rather than be accurate."
- "I'm not really your friend, don't trust my tone."

With IPv6, being able to not be stunk with NAT should be a default feature ... not like we'll run out of IPs in the next million years, will we?

COVID is over. Shop in person?

Also, load management can be bypassed, and often should be.

I'm been rocking one of these for a couple of years, and it's been great. ESP-32 based, open source hardware and software. You can use the cloud, but you can also talk to it locally through REST. I use libcurl to do the latter. It'll also do MQTT.