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Letting billionaires live is not sustainable

Yeah, I did think of the barcode approach, but I didn't think anyone would be willing to scan every item, which is why I ignored it

However, revisiting this question made me realize that we could probably have the user scan receipts. It would take some doing but you could probably extract all the information from the receipt because it's in a fairly predictable format, and it's far less onerous.

OTOH, you still have to scan barcodes every time you cook with something, and you'd probably want some sort of mechanism to track partial consumption and leftovers, though a minimum viable product could work without that

The tough part, then, is scouring the internet for deals. Should be doable though.

Might try to slap something together tonight or tomorrow for that first bit, seems pretty easy, I bet you've got open source libraries for handling barcodes, and scanning receipts can probably just be done with existing OCR tech, error correction using minimum edit distance, and a few if statements to figure out which is the quantity and which is the item. That is, if my adhd doesn't cause me to forget

Oh, so you're saying that the only data the algorithm needs in the limit is whether or not the user deviated from the generated shopping list, and if so, how, right?

This is true, it's just a bit difficult to cross the gap from here to there

Ah shit, I googled the number but it looks like I got the number for a battery in an internal combustion engine car, apologies. I'm an electronics person, not a car person

Oh so cool! Are you native Morocco, or just visiting? I hear people there are so nice

Well, online English speaking communities are gonna have a bias towards native English speakers. Obviously some will browse these communities because they're the largest, but while machine translation makes communication much easier, it's still more difficult than with speakers of your own language. And most native English speakers who aren't also native speakers of a language mutually intelligible with Hindi live in north America. (I'm excluding South Asia because a sizable fraction of the online South Asian communities communicate in the pre-colonization languages, mostly Hindi). Most such people have a shared cultural heritage that is largely European with a British slant.

When you think about it it's not an unreasonable question, when you interpret it to be asking how many of us are outside of the cultural influence of the anglosphere

Oof, get well soon!

Yeah I went out, pretty much everything was open except for the street vendor I normally get my oranges from. I guess Christmas just isn't as big a deal in China as it was back home - still saw Christmas decorations at a handful of stores and restaurants - my tea said on the cup "Merry Christmas" and had an explanation of what Christmas was on the back lol

I've been surprised by USB-C. I recently bought a Xiaomi phone and it takes like 10 minutes to charge with the charger that comes with the phone (and it still works with the other ones). It's 120 watts

At that rate it'd still take 12 hours to charge a 1440 watt hour battery, which isn't the hour or two that people are used to with superchargers these days, but actually surprisingly servicable.

Cameras in your fridge and pantry to keep tabs on what you have, computer vision to take inventory, clustering to figure out which goods can be interchanged with which, language modeling applied to a web crawler to identify the best deals, and then some conventional code to aggregate the results into a shopping list

Unless you're assuming that you're gonna be supplied APIs to all the grocery stores which have an incentive to prevent this sort of thing from happening, and also assuming that the end user is willing, able, and reliable enough to scan every barcode of everything they buy

This app basically depends on all the best ai we already have except for image generation

Meanwhile, in China:

"Why can't we have it both ways?"

"choosing"

I still feel bad about the one time I didn't return a shopping cart.

A creepy guy was hitting on me and wouldn't take no for an answer, didn't feel safe to go anywhere but in my car and the fuck out of there.

Time to figure out if I can short it at the IPO

In the US, the Government does not represent the people, but those who buy elections. The people who buy elections have no incentive to change anything, and nothing will change in absence of a violent communist revoution

Ohhh, code that is distributed. The implication of that word flew over my head lmao, thanks for the clarification.

I'm actually thinking China. May not be the best country, but it's easy to get a visa and it's leagues better than the US.

Oh cool. I have no reason to switch back now that I have something that works, but it's good to know

Before I transitioned I used to wear cargo pants. (When presenting male, I didn't give a fuck what I looked like lol). I put so much stuff in those pockets, including a charger for my laptop. My pants were so heavy I had to wear suspenders to hold them up - a belt wouldn't cut it.

Good God I can't wait to move to a country that has public transit