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I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

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Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

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Post by lostlogin »

rafram wrote: post #19
mhb wrote: post #3

Colin will make you a pizza while he's delivering it: https://youtu.be/YjyJRTM0knE?si=fes2lbRntUlciPSH

You laugh, but the concept of this funny YouTube video was the actual business model of a SoftBank-backed startup that raised half a billion dollars [1]. The crucial flaw in their otherwise ironclad plan was that the pizza had a tendency to fly around and lose all its toppings when the truck went over a bump in the road. [1]: https://gizmodo.com/zume-softbank-ai-pizza-delivery-stellar-...

They need that tech tanks use to keep their gun level, that multi axis gyroscope thing. This is the sort of tech crossover that could make military spending more acceptable.

Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

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Post by rendall »

internetter wrote: post #57
nhance wrote: post #15

If it is a react website that would imply it has an api you could just use directly. Might still need to login to get a token but that's a lot more robust

Agreed! I always am confused when people screen scrape instead of just monitoring and replaying network requests. Much cheaper and much more robust. Is there anything I'm missing?

I was curious about this myself. Perhaps the pizza request is arcane or buried in lots of other requests?

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Post by fullstackchris »

Great stuff! Thanks for the Playwright link and detailed Lambda blog posts, I had a similar project I was working on trying to convert text into animated (typed) code videos (on visual studio code) - trying to get anything non trivial in lambda to run is indeed an interesting endeavour to say the least!

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Post by OrsonSmelles »

sublinear wrote: post #38
Waterluvian wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Colin’s recklessness a fake act, like Electroboom, or is he really as reckless as it seems? I’m not sure I’ve ever really figured it out, and for some reason it makes it hard for me to watch. I guess obviously they wouldn’t publish a video where something goes horribly wrong, though.

It's an act, but I wouldn't call it fake. He has more in common with photonicinduction than electroboom.

I think I'm slightly more worried that photonicinduction has actually died when he goes silent for a while, though. I know it's mostly down to career/relationship ups-and-downs, but there's always a chance it's "got turned inside out by a flying washing machine drum".

Re: I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

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Post by nathancahill »

rcarr wrote: post #30

Dean Karnazes did this in an ultra running race minus the tech. He rolled the pizza up like a burrito and ran with it: https://gffmag.com/the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-de...

Endurance running is really just eating.

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Post by cjmcqueen »

nathancahill wrote: post #65
rcarr wrote: post #30

Dean Karnazes did this in an ultra running race minus the tech. He rolled the pizza up like a burrito and ran with it: https://gffmag.com/the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-de...

Endurance running is really just eating.

It's literally the second hardest thing to do after the biking/running/swimming/skiing itself. Fueling is the operational excellence challenge of endurance sports.

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Post by dools »

> In other words, after having wasted an ungodly amount of money trying to make pizza in the most complicated way possible, Zume decided that the best course of action was to just try selling boxes instead

Started off as a Futurama episode, finished off as a Simpsons episode.

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dools wrote: post #68

> In other words, after having wasted an ungodly amount of money trying to make pizza in the most complicated way possible, Zume decided that the best course of action was to just try selling boxes instead Started off as a Futurama episode, finished off as a Simpsons episode.

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thrdbndndn wrote: post #11

Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what's going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I've seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites. I'm talking about https://www.caseys.com in this article, which gives me Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to www.caseys.c…

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