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This BNN, btw, is basically a playground for an advertising wunderkind
(1) https://www.wateronline.com/doc/new-10-mile-long-sewage-tunn...
(2) https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/ploovol4_15.pdf
Pipes tend to last a long time, in large part because it's relatively straightforward to manage the chemistry problem in the pipes.
> coupling, decoupling and light guiding elements to divert incident light to a concealed sensor
So, there's a camera in the dash looking up at the windshield and focusing where it expects to see a face, thereby using the windshield as a reflector? And maybe there's some additional etching and deposited films in the windshield to support the angles required?
And perhaps you can put cameras elsewhere, and similarly subtly modify the windshield or other glass to look at other things as well?
Keep in mind, it may very well eventually switch, where gas stations are less common than high power EV chargers in the remote areas. Sort of a Dutch disease issue: once the EV chargers are the dominant market, the gas station market is likely to quickly fade until it's just diesel and finally all electric.
The Mad Max theorists worry that they won't have power for their electric vehicles in the event of an apocalypse. Friends, how long do you think refineries, pipelines, and oil freighters are going to stay going in the event of an apocalypse? Better to get good at rigging some salvaged solar panels, an inverter, and re-learn the old pass times, like dominos, dice, and cards.
Ask HN: Mac Recovery over Internet Shows Earth. Why?
I mean, when the machine starts, does it check the accelerometers, see 9.8 m/s^2 and assume Earth? If it saw 3.7 m/s^2 would we get a Martian surface?
https://www.al.com/wire/2013/06/navy_puts_all_caps_communica...
https://www.doncio.navy.mil/chips/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=489...
Every hospital basically tells their staff, several times a day, via an electronic health record system served over Citrix: we don't trust you, and you time is worthless, fuck you. All in the name of security.
Meanwhile, 11 hours ago over on Reddit a dude has connected a robot to ChatGPT. The robot sees and talks, and clearly has motorized limbs. All you need now is to turn verbs into servo commands:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1811bct/m...
So, sure, if you've got a stand-alone B2C service that's making money today, enjoy your FreeBSD, SUSE, whatever. But if you're clients include big banks, chunks of governments, etc, think really hard about going off the reservation.