San Francisco just stopped enforcing the law about five years ago. Traffic, shoplifting, drug use, car break-ins, etc

If nothing else, the catastrophic results will be fodder for a generation of economists & social scientists to digest & learn from. And in the meantime, a prod…

China is really leading the way in agricultural drones, mostly because their regulations allow it and ours don't. Instead, in the US we have pilots fly crop-dusting airplanes at head height; ten were killed doing this last year alone

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We are members of two NextDoor neighborhoods, one in Berkeley/Oakland and other in Barnes, London. It's interesting to compare them

The Berkeley/Oakland one is full of armed carjackings, break-ins and police inaction

Meanwhile, this is the UK one:

Question for the married guys (for a scifi short story I'm writing):

I assume your wife would consider you having an AI girlfriend is still cheating.

But what if you had a really good AI version of *her*?

Like a sandbox to explore/extend the boundaries of your relationship.…

Congrats Eric Migicovsky!
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First SF Bay Area amateur SciFi writers (and wannabe SciFi writers, like most of us) meetup happening tomorrow in Los Altos
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Seoul this morning, a study in contrasts

Robot drones vs robot tanks in Ukraine yesterday
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This is true, and why AI doing the writing for you is intrinsically limited. The act of writing is the act of *thinking*.

If you're not doing the writing yourself, the end product will be superficial and banal because the prompts were underthought

Our Donkey Car autonomous racing car project now supports the Raspberry Pi 5 as well as Python 3.11. Between those two speedups, you should be able to drive with a ~50% faster camera update rate!

docs.donkeycar.com

In order of enforceability:

Written agreement
Verbal agreement
Non-verbal agreement
Vibe agreement
Vibe
Look
Impression
Guess

Financial scandals aren't what they used to be

FTX collapse -> everyone gets paid back 100%
Tether not actually backed! -> still at 100 cents
Gamestop crowd takes on Wall Street -> no change

Made for some fun movies and books, though...