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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 HWR_14 »

gregoryl wrote: post #76
HWR_14 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His cellphone uses GPS and connects to other computers over the internet using TCP/IP, but I guess you're waiting on pizza gyroscopes to see any valuable tech crossover relative to this project.

Imagine the things achieved if the money being spent wasn't focused on military applications.

I imagine military applications for "know where something is in world" and "have network of computers communicate in a damage resistant way" are no more costly to develop than non-military applications.

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

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Post by mhb »

wayfinder wrote: post #78
Waterluvian wrote: post #32

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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.

What’s something that Colin did that was reckless? Everything he does looks pretty run of the mill for a workshop, but cool.

Maybe:

https://youtu.be/soxxPyaAT1k?si=-LPT22_aPrOx9xyT

https://youtu.be/fzMi6yf1Roc?si=v6s9QcCX5ughgnlk

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

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Post by Theodores »

terminous wrote: post #42

The lengths people these days will go to in order to not make a phone call...

Exactly. Personally I like making calls whilst riding my bicycle, in part to make motorists go mad because we all know that texts, calls and such phone activity causes accidents. But, on a bike you are not going to kill anyone.

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

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Post by CydeWeys »

p1necone wrote: post #85
bipop5000 wrote: post #36

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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.

Why would it be a challenge? An Ooni oven can do it in a much smaller space.

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

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Post by m-ee »

rafram wrote: post #31
d3vmax wrote: post #27

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From the article: /// Most notably, the company enjoyed a generous infusion from Japanese investment firm SoftBank, which injected a whopping $375 million into the startup in 2018. By the end of its lifespan, Zume had raised as much as $445 million. /// They actually nearly raised half a bil.

Yeah, the headline’s wording implies valuation, but that’s actually the amount they raised. Who knows how they managed to spend it. That’s a lot of Bali offsites and kombucha on tap.

My current company was somewhat involved with them as a supplier I think, before my time. They never had robotic pizza trucks, they were just regular pizza trucks with an app. They hired so many engineers they loaned some out to my company because they had no idea what to do with them.

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

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Post by avg_dev »

grayclhn wrote: post #84
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #80

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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.

Really interesting. I wouldn’t have conceived of this. But it only makes sense.

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

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Post by science4sail »

gregoryl wrote: post #76
HWR_14 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His cellphone uses GPS and connects to other computers over the internet using TCP/IP, but I guess you're waiting on pizza gyroscopes to see any valuable tech crossover relative to this project.

Imagine the things achieved if the money being spent wasn't focused on military applications.

Hard to say. Would the research even have occurred if there weren't military applications? At the end of the day, there are only a few ways to get politicians to fund research:

* War (physics, chemistry, computer science, psychology)

* Fortune-telling (astronomy, economics, political science)

* Immortality (medicine, fine art, humanities)

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

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Post by thghtihadanacct »

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

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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.

Im kinda with the other reply, sneak. Isnt softbank a Japan/asian based cartel? From the first articles I can find they just cost saudia some money (not to say it wasnt laundered ... maybe they bought some softpaintings?)
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