My brother owned a local franchise for a few years. When he first got into it he really liked the owners, their methods, etc. Last year the owners sold out to a private equity firm that started squeezing all the franchises with insane demands in order to make them more money. My brother got out as quickly as he could, and ended up barely breaking even.
Fuck private equity firms. I hope there’s a special place in hell for them.
Radar & camera can be degraded by snow/ice buildup. A grate that lets wet snow in is also going to be big enough to let rocks and other debris in.
Like snow or ice buildup causing issues with the camera, radar, etc.
I use an older version of Calibre that has a fairly robust plug-in to remove DRM. I use it to remove DRM from all my ebook purchases. That plug-in isn’t supported in newer versions of Calibre so I don’t upgrade.
BD is far from bullshit. I used to work across the street from them and saw them testing robots countless times in the parking lot and surrounding area. They were also nice enough to give me & a bunch of coworkers a tour of their labs. It’s pretty darned impressive what they’ve achieved in 3 decades of research. This recent news story shows a lot of the capabilities of their current generation Atlas robot.
You should check out this news story. It gives a lot more detail about their Atlas robot.
You should see just how far Boston Dynamics has progressed. They’ve been working on it for literally decades, and it shows. They may have humanoid AI robots working in automotive assembly lines within a year or two:
My wife got hers at 14 1/2. That was the legal age in Maine until the late 1980s.
The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.
I was a member of the US Coast Guard Auxiliary for 10 years. It’s a branch of the USCG made up entirely of civilian volunteers. We train to perform many of the same things the USCG does with the exception of law enforcement. I’ve done everything from tow broken down boats to searching for missing boats/people to escorting warships and tankers through harbors to providing security at fireworks and tall ship parades.