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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 mschuster91 »

lostlogin wrote: post #61
rafram wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To illustrate just how capable that tech was even back in 1986, look at 1:45 of this Bundeswehr video demonstrating a Leopard tank carry a keg of beer and not lose a drop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mcO6l-0cY

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

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Post by tesin »

avg_dev wrote: post #9

i cannot tell you how much i enjoyed this article. it was very funny. it had so many great elements. a fun tech problem, pizza, getting me to look up what “s-tier” meant, a dash of humor (as if the premise wasn’t already hilarious), the mea culpa at the end and the ideas as to what the bug was (his theory sounds plausible to me, but idk).

Hm. I thoroughly disliked it - 100 layers of abstraction, glue and duct tape in the cloud to construct a rube Goldberg machine that doesn't work. It felt like everything wrong with modern tech.

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

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Post by Loocid »

whywhywouldyou wrote: post #29
fullspectrumdev wrote: post #2

This is pretty neat not gonna lie. I wonder now if something similar can be done with Deliveroo or similar - on day X if certain conditions are met (eg: working late), have preprogrammed order Y submitted when approximately Z distance from house.

Why would you lie about this being pretty neat? Seems like a weird thing to clarify.

Its just an expression, dont overthink it.

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

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Post by grayclhn »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #80
nathancahill wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Endurance running is really just eating.

how does your body not have a hard time processing cheese/sauce/butter/fat/grease while running?

It does. Getting your stomach good at that (and figuring out what food you can personally tolerate best) is a nontrivial part of training for longer ultramarathons.

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

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Post by p1necone »

bipop5000 wrote: post #36
rafram wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-...

Seems like it would have been a better option to do the final cooking which is around 7-8 min in the oven at the delivery doorstep.

Neapolitan pizza needs to cook for like 3 minutes tops, but getting an oven hot enough for that on the back of a truck would probably be a challenge.

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

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Post by notatoad »

smabie wrote: post #53
siva7 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure that was a money-laundering scheme disguised as some silicon valley-esque startup to not trigger alarm bells with institutions

I'm pretty sure it was not: there's much more effective ways to launder money than a high profile startup

isn't all of softbank a money-laundering scheme? it's just kingdom of saud buying influence in the west.

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

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Post by CalChris »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #79
CalChris wrote: post #24

Very nice. A 21st century take on pizzatool . https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-... FWIW, there's a pizza restaurant, Waypoint Pizza in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the water in the San Francisco Bay. This comes in handy during weird less serious sailing races like Three Bridge Fiasco .

> if you ask nicely how much does that cost if a normal pizza delivery can cost $5-$10 extra?

You'd have to call+ask. It was a thing circa 2012. It's been awhile but the woman who ran Waypoint was a racer on the America3 team. It was more of a courtesy to other racers than an Uber Eats thing. Dunno if she's still there or if they still do it.

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

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Post by dronodeath »

mschuster91 wrote: post #81
lostlogin wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To illustrate just how capable that tech was even back in 1986, look at 1:45 of this Bundeswehr video demonstrating a Leopard tank carry a keg of beer and not lose a drop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2mcO6l-0cY

It’s actually a stein of beer, carried on the end of the barrel of the tank’s main gun, for others that like me did not understand. It’s cool.

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

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Post by sneak »

notatoad wrote: post #86
smabie wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure it was not: there's much more effective ways to launder money than a high profile startup

isn't all of softbank a money-laundering scheme? it's just kingdom of saud buying influence in the west.

Your second sentence contradicts your first.

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

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Post by hayleox »

mhb wrote: post #3

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

Omg my entire Sunday evening gone. Just watched this man build a tunnel from his house to his shed for 2.5 hours. What a fun channel.
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