I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

produces higher quality sperm

That's really important for the sperm destined for the septic system, sure...

Dennis Ritchie could also be argued to be the first, last, and only one to ever make a C compiler from scratch.

Take your pick.

Would someone, please, think of the children?!

designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials

I love, that it is a prime number!

Not all computation is algorithmic. Some things are heuristic. And how, exactly, do you use the incompleteness theorem to prove you have a complete answer to what lies outside your domain of study?

Stalking laws tend to cover surveilling someone without their consent. If they can claim they have cause to follow me home, I can claim they’re being malicious and threatening doing so. Followingme home with the implicit threat of sending armed government employees after me is threatening.

Or they live in the neighborhood, or took transit to the store. Maybe they rode a bicycle.

In any case, if I’ve done nothing wrong and your drone follows me off your property I’m filing stalking and maybe doxxing complaints against your security guard, your store, your store’s manager, and Flock.

It was coming right for me. I feared for my safety. ;-)

Failed, exploding-cost projects like this are a good reason to consider whether replacing your legacy stack is worth the risk and expense.

The "de minimus exemption" isn't a loophole or cheating, it's a choice by virtually every collecting tariffs to only collect tariffs from large cargo shippers, not one-off purchases, because it's a waste of time and money to do the import duty paperwork for every single little item shipped. The whole system globally, for all countries, does the same thing because they don't want to charge a typically $50 or so processing fees (to cover the manual labor and processing fees for doing the paperwork with the various governments) in order to collect a few dollars in tariffs, they want to focus that work on tariffs for bulk shipping containers, etc., not wasting their time on tens of millions of individual items. In response to the US cutting the de minimus exemption dozens of countries have stopped all shipments to the US as they're not prepared to process an increase of several orders of magnitude in the volume of bureaucratic paperwork, so other than letters and gifts under $100, which aren't tariffed, they're cutting the US off.

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