So, just to clarify after looking at the source code:
This is a something that manages a Linux device and makes it behave like a router by maintaining state, managing state changes and calling upon Linux utils written in C to actually make anything happen.
But people are sorta dumb, on average. It's all relative.
Meeting and talking to an IQ 100 person (by definition the average IQ) - after just a couple of minutes you realize they are kinda dumb.
Many of us have spent our entire working lives working alongside other people that have been selected for basically an above average IQ. What I'm trying to say is that many of us live in bubbles of high intelligence. We only breach this bubble when we interact with "normals".
(Ah, this story finally reached HN. It's been like, what, 2-3 days.)
Before anyone starts getting upset about climate changes caused by carbonated beverages - from what I've read it's a totally carbon-neutral affair. Carbon is captured from the atmosphere and eventually burped out back into the atmosphere by carbonated beverage lovers.
2. To run the cores for the vast majority of supported systems you need a custom 32 MB SDRAM board. For timing reasons the DDR3 memory on the FPGA board can't be used.
You really wish for a paranthesis counting pen when you have to write pages and pages of LISP (I think it was Common Lisp in our case) on paper for an exam.
I brought 16 packages for 13 people to one office; one was so light I was sure it was a pack of gum, another felt like a bug-spray container.
Or, while we're speculating, maybe instead of a pack of gum it was a 512 GB SDXC card weighing like less than 20 grams including the cardboard packaging.
How dare these coddled tech people order small packages online!
and also battling a growing rage as I lugged parcels to offices of tech companies that offered free food and impressive salaries to their employees, who seemed to spend their days ordering stuff online
Meanwhile I could ask of you: why do you want to keep these people as extremely low-paid wage slaves, producing goods for the well to do, for something that can be automated? (I find it likely that automation would cause real vanilla to become so cheap that most people could enjoy it, not just the 10% richest.)
The big picture is complex and it's hard to do forecasts, but I'm not entirely convinced that this kind of change would screw these farmers in the long run.
Well obviously you would need a blockchain to track the investments. Each vanilla pod would have an entry in the vanilla blockchain. And also an IPv6 address.
Seems like there already was something called Vanilla Coin (VNL), since rebranded/failed.
So, I assume everyone else's first thought after reading this was: Let's build a vanilla flower pollination robot using deep learning to process RGB camera images and help guide the robot actuators. Startup, anyone?
Edit: turns out this is, in fact, not a unique thought:
"Implementation of Automated Vanilla Pollination
Robotic Crane Prototype, 2017":