Indeed. I built a Raspberry Pi Pico based controller for some flashing LEDs on my drone. It has red and blue LEDs and I wanted them to flash with the cycle of three short flashes then a pause; alternately the red LEDs then the blue LEDS. Took barely a minute to code that in python and dump it onto the board. In such cases it doesn't matter that the language is interpreted because the task is not demanding of the hardware.

The "Police Drone" still flies to this day! :-)

How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.

Just saying, for a friend :)

Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast! :-P

That was my first thought. It's a big step towards pointing out how invasive it is.

How long before the labels start going after new artists that sound like existing ones?

You know, where someone is "inspired" by a singer, a band or a songwriter that they've idolized for years and thus their own creations are heavily influenced by those artists?

If there's a chance for a new Lambo or Porsche in the corporate car park at EMI or WMG you *know* they'll be working on such law suits right now!

I've also wondered why there's no restriction on voice-actors who impersonate famous people -- but if you do it with AI then you are right in the firing line.

I wrote a compiler for an ObjC-like language (with less brackets), which can produce binaries for any of {Mac, Windows, Linux, WASM, Arm A9 (Zynq), m68k or 6502} running on any of {Mac, Windows, Linux}. So you can produce a dev-signed Mac binary on a Linux box. I’m just going through extending that output range to mobile {Android, iOS} and I’ll release it as open source.

The compiler docs for the language (xc) are at https://compile-xc.org/ - feel free to browse.

I didn’t think getting the signing working for Mac/iOS was terribly hard.

Based on my back of the envelope calculations a 5% drop is a drop in the bucket when humanity amounts to close to 50% of the carbon load. Sadly this information was presented to the public exceptionally poorly, as if somebody wanted us to disbelieve it. Presenting massaged data while apparently arranging that the original data was rendered inaccessible was a HUGE er YUGE mistake. It left room for too much skepticism. Then all pundits did was demand humans sacrifice their standard of living for publicly admitted tiny changes. NO serious preparations were made to keep Florida, the Netherlands, London, et. al. above water. That is a big clue that the pundits were not taking this seriously or at least our putative leaders were not. Europe, Canada, and the US are about the only places this was treated as real. China gave lip service and added MORE carbon to the air from power plants they built. (It appears they saved their uranium for bombs rather than power plants.)

Now it's probably too late even if we go back to 10th century life styles. Intelligence is where a species goes to die.

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It has happened under both.

What real expert has said we can stop the global warming cold (pun intended) with the puny changes we, in the West, have implemented while some nations have started wars (Putin's Russia), opened new coal fired power plants (China), and ideologically nixed suggestions such as nuclear power that might make a real difference.

The numbers I saw suggested a 1% change in humanity's emissions, half the CO2 budget for the world, would solve the problem. I went to college when the engineering education received was real. 1% is more than an order of magnitude smaller than what is needed.

{^_^} This is probably one more message than I should waste time posting. You guys are not thinking beyond slogans and "Gretta told me." (That child is STUPID.)

I have. You have not. About all humans can do without mass deaths is a small single digit percentage point. That is not really enough to end the global warming. All it can do is reduce the rate of change. You've been sold a bill of goods if you think humans can end this spiral without experience massive physical effects with which we must cope. Even if all humans vanished at this point the climate will continue to warm for quite some time. And I did not consider the carbon emissions from billions of rotting corpses.

Where the (censored++) are the efforts to cope with the coming problems. Until I see those efforts I am convinced our species is not taking this situation seriously. As far as the species is concerned the climate is not changing out of usual bounds. Otherwise we'd be protecting what will be destroyed, working seriously on our CO2 emissions (at which time "Hormuz" becomes little more than a strange name on an odd geographical feature), and "modifying the behavior" of nations that claim to be limiting their CO2 emissions but aren't. (Hello China - where they paint hillsides green to make them look nice on satellite imagery and plant rebar with tufts of cotton on them to show how they are planting to mitigate their CO2 emissions all while they are rapidly building chains of coal fired power plants - all while the world "hohums" this nonsense.)

Does ANYBODY sit back and iterates asking about their pet changes that must be made, "So, what happens next?" Really, guys, what happens next? As a species humanity is pretty damn stupid but somehow we manage. I just hope our successors, artificial stupids, manage to do better when we're gone. I started out cynical. 82 years of watching this BS repeat itself with slightly different clothes each time have left me even more cynical. "Intelligence is where a species goes to die."

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I'd also add an SDR to that kit... opens up a whole new world if you're needing it for a survivalist or prepper situation.

A cheap RTLSDR stick and wire antenna will do the job fine with one of the many SDR programs that'll run on the Pi.

So all the climate change weenies have been predicting this was going to happen. They made our lives miserable with their harping and insane predictions that a small change in our behavior to satisfy their need to control would save us all. The totally predictable has happened. The measures taken did - nothing. Now we have the serious Global Warming, a least this year. And we have done absolutely nothing serious to cope with the problem, haven't we? Perhaps it is time to exercise our collective masses of grey matter (and our AIs) to figure out some feasible coping measures and implement them.

When that happens I'll believe Global Warming is something other than a Global Barming, dumbing down. I'm too old to do it myself.

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That last one really chaps my hide. Those mountains of fake drama posts punctuated by the 'negative parallelism' structure (now I have a name for the thing I hate.) It's everywhere and it's infuriating.

All you can do is try to ignore it and focus on your own (AI-free) stuff. Of course anything you post online will then become free AI fodder. It's hard to get away from it.

Yes it makes use of the thumbwheels, but that's missing the point. You have to go to the touch screen first before being able to do ANY of that. Sure, it's fine once you're in that mode for the scrollwheels, but getting there is completely obnoxious when you're also trying to drive.

Go to the screen...menu -> controls -> mirror icon. Adjust one. Fumble with screen to select the other mirror, adjust.

On my Mazda3 and every other car I've owned it's a selector switch and a joystick on the door. Very intuitive and within easy reach without ever looking at it. They've been that way since the 80s when power mirrors came to the masses. My '85 Celica had the same setup.

AC? If it's not in the little controls in the bottom corner you have to flip-up the larger control screen, and do weird pinchy things with your fingers to adjust the vents, looking at the screen while driving. Fumble for the fan speed at the bottom of the screen. Try to slide around to adjust the temperature at the bottom of the screen.

Compare to conventional car with knobs where you can take one glance at where your hand is going and do it by feel.

There are reasons why certain things are the way they are. It's because a company spent a LOT of time doing ergonomic studies and trials. I hate it when people throw out all that work in lieu of something else just because it's different, without a lot of thought and study first. It's putting the cart before the horse.

"OK, what would you do if you couldn't have any buttons, how could you make it suck less?" I feel they're working backwards from 'terrible' to 'only mostly terrible'. Not much of an improvement.

She wanted it, and she actually likes it. I found it ridiculous when I drove it, but she likes all the creature comforts. More power to her, I just avoid it. I think I'm a more of a driver-centric experience sort of person. She likes all the bling and frilly features and does not drive as much as I do.