Maybe "Buy us some crayons" instead? You could even do a partial donation for coloring supplies to a kids' charity.

Taxes should also be included in the advertised price, then. Just imagine!

That would be nice, but there is a LOT of background work before that is feasible (in the US). As it currently stands, for many products a vendor would need to know who you are and where you live before they could quote you a total price. That's unacceptable.

In Europe they make a best guess based on IP location, and if logged in using the account address or previous delivery address.

Then the price may change at the checkout if you put in a different/unexpected delivery address.

other countries have figured that out even countries with multiple levels of taxation like in the U.S. it's not an unsolvable problem.

> not an unsolvable problem

I never said it was. In fact, I specifically said that there is work to do before making the rule about listing all prices inclusive of taxes.

but you did say that figuring out the final price is "unacceptable"? why is it unacceptable? my point is that other countries have figured out a way to display the final prices, but USA still hasn't figured out how to do it or they don't have any plans to do it.

As things stand currently, it would be unacceptably intrusive as you have to collect information on all shoppers whether they purchase or not.

Do the pre-work first, and then make a rule about displaying the final price.

Actually there's a purpose to keeping taxes separate. Policymakers want the tax burden to be visible, it is not part of price transparency because the vendor has nothing to do with the tax rate.

Taxes are also hyper local and can differ between dine in/out making it hard to show the final price up front.

US policymakers want this. Euro/Asian policymakers have moved beyond this - whenever you travel you pay the sticker on the tin.

It's a solved problem but we can't make it happen here. Why?

Is this specific hardware necessary? If I wanted to run this on a Raspberry Pi zero, for example, is that possible?

Dean I think that's important feedback. It's important for us to be platform agnostic. Like Junru stated, we are supporting ESP32 models: WROOM/WROVER and S3. But down the line would like to support rasp pi 4B, 5, zero etc.

Would you like to try building it with our devkit? We will prioritize raspberry pi firmware support if there is enough demand around this.

Sorry, it currently support esp32-devkit and Seeed Studio Xiao ESP32S3. For the Raspberry Pi Zero, you may need to switch to a different PlatformIO environment and replace the corresponding GPIO pins.

I read your comment, then looked at Bob's and thought "Ah, he's from Seattle." And I was right.

What do either of these comments have to do with Seattle?

It's not clear what can be searched on this. The interface suggests "concepts", and I'm not sure how I would define those in a movie trailer.

Being able to search actors or movies would be interesting, but IMdB already serves this purpose. Searching dialogue is what I was hoping for, similar to morbotron.com or frinkiac.com. filmot.com does this for general YouTube videos, but I would love to see that applied to a quality film collection.

yeah theres millions of movie search by metadata (title, actors, even script) we're not doing that here... we've run movies through embedding models to capture the semantics and make them searchable. reproducible code: https://github.com/mixpeek/use-cases/tree/master/movie-trail...

Beautiful. Must-read.

I happen to have a copy of "Bruculinu, America" at home. Looking for rice recipes at roughly those positions in the book, it's either "Tumala d'Andrea: Rice Bombe" (blue bookmark) or "Arancini al Burru: Rice Balls with Butter".

I'm going to guess it's Arancini al Burru, because the Tumala d'Andrea is way more involved (and stuffed with pasta)[0]. Here's a similar recipe for Arancini al Burru[1].

However, Arancini al Burru is fried and Tumala d'Andrea is baked. So I'm still speculating, it could be either or something different. It's a nice cookbook worth adding to your collection.

[0] https://inasmallkitchen.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/tumala-dand... [1] https://www.196flavors.com/arancini-al-burro/

You are right. We simplified the Arancini al Burru: Rice Balls with Butter on our own. Also "Frittata di riso" is a very good match (relaxing the regional requirement).

As the article states, domestic oil does less environmental damage than foreign oil. That makes logical sense to me just on the transportation. Seems like a good step on the way to eco-friendly energy– and there will be many if we ever even get there.

No. This section of the full report[1] shows it is 3.5% of all subscription apps. See the chart for a clearer visual.

[1] https://www.revenuecat.com/state-of-subscription-apps-2024/#...

Wow, really neat idea! Even if you're just using two monitors close to each other (a laptop and a monitor for example), I could see scenarios where it would help a ton to have fast access on one or the other.

Especially with magic track pad, I could imagine this working quite well. You might be able to use both simultaneously with a single hand for some use cases.