CodiePetersen

Wow! Very cool, looks like it is more of a world hard drive for now, but sounds like you have bigger plans for it. Very very cool. I'm downloading it right now. I've shot you a connection request on linkedin. I would really like to stay updated on this project. I work in blockchain development sometimes and I think ease of use has been a HUGE hurdle for adoption, but it seems you have overcome that a bit in your project. In fact I think your project could be compatible with/useful for one of the blockchains I develop on.

I specifically liked when you talked about people (kids in particular) being able to program simply again without the need of specialized knowledge in networking etc. I think this is actually what Stadia and other streamed gaming services have been trying to do. Except they seem to be doing it ass backwards (centralizing the service and serving it to the customer).

Anyways, really cool project, looking forward to using it.

I normally hate node based programming because I'm basically relearning programming but with nodes and the systems are a lot of times opaque so I can't read it at a glance to see what it does, but with this custom node stuff I could get behind that.

I'm actually a bit excited to try this out.

This is great stuff. I make video games and its some times hard to find what colors would go good with others. This is a nice collection I think.

Also, it looks like it would be great for deciding colors for a pitch deck/presentation. Good stuff.

It really does kind of feel gross that these sound like business pitches.

I completely agree with you. Really getting sick and tired of the tech industry thinking they are better than everyone else because they can program. Very egotistical culture. Down to even morals. I had one guy comment to me "Hard to believe someone in the tech industry believes such things."

But I think it is mostly just American programmers. Or maybe just big city programmers. I've had the opportunity to work with people in Spain, The UK, and Prague, others remotely as well, but I haven't seen the level of ego in those guys as I have seen in Americans.

It's part of the reason I loathe the idea of hiring developers from America. EVERYOTHER industry is perfectly fine with criticizing or reanalyzing the work of others either underneath their authority or about their competitors. I'm sure even some of these programmers have even said "OMG this caffe macchiato is crap. I'm never drinking from this place again." But nope, don't criticize programmers or ask them to redo work. It's just so rude.

But it is probably the fact that companies like Google literally put slides and children's toys in their offices for their apparently adult programmers to enjoy. An artifact of programmer scarcity I'd imagine.

>>We’re programmers, so writing code is what we do, is it not ? As the title suggests, our job is a bit more complicated than stroking keys on a keyboard in front of a screen all day.

I don't know what it is about the tech industry but it really seems to think highly of itself and is constantly self congratulatory.

You should be careful with the "can penetrate the trees" statement for people who don't understand the technology. But you are correct. Like light, some of the lidar can make it to the ground and give us a partial map of the floor.

I'm sure more passes from different angles would get a better picture as well.

This would be a lot more useful if any of those things were in the store. Our stores here in Las Vegas are constantly being stripped. My mom said she had gone to go pickup some milk for my nieces and had two quarts that she could find and even then people were complaining about her "taking so much" and one lady tried to take one. It's hard to find places that have stuff. When you do, it weird stuff that you just have to use because there is nothing else.

I don't know who made the website but shouldn't the least volunteered ones be at the top.

Hey John. I know how you feel a bit. Dont worry about people thinking its depressing. It's your struggle and your story and you can tell it how ever you want. I remember tiny things like being able to tell my story helped me when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

People may not understand what milk has to really do with your situation but it is those tiny things that make the most profound impacts I'd say. I still look at the tiny needle scars and that reminds me more than the actual scar on my head.

So feel free man. I found being able to talk about it openly helped me deal with it A LOT MORE than anything else.

> Appeal to tradition. Denied.

That's rich coming from the guy who just said we can call it Spanish Flu because it's old.

There is implied failure of services in Spookies response. Already here in vegas, my step dad works at a bread factory as supervisor, they are seeing an increase of demand. He's had to go in several times late at night to relieve someone who was on a longer shift. He says if they lose one person they will start falling behind.

The short term consumables or raw resources are the ones that matter the most. If people stop going to work to make bread or toilet paper or refine oil it's going to put a strain on a lot of things. The oil and chemical industries are really going to be important for producing medical items like gloves, sanitizer, cleaning agents, plastic ventilators, sanitary plastic containers for equipment and needles, etc. Not to mention the effects of lower oil production and the strain and cost on shipping those things back and forth to their respective factories.

But it will have to be pretty bad before we have to worry about that I think.