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I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race

309 pointsby nxtenover 1 year ago

21 comments

mhbover 1 year ago
Colin will make you a pizza while he&#x27;s delivering it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YjyJRTM0knE?si=fes2lbRntUlciPSH" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;YjyJRTM0knE?si=fes2lbRntUlciPSH</a>
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CalChrisover 1 year ago
Very nice. A 21st century take on <i>pizzatool</i>.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;donhopkins.medium.com&#x2F;the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;donhopkins.medium.com&#x2F;the-story-of-sun-microsystems-...</a><p>FWIW, there&#x27;s a pizza restaurant, <i>Waypoint Pizza</i> in Tiburon, which if you ask nicely will deliver on the water in the San Francisco Bay. This comes in handy during weird less serious sailing races like <i>Three Bridge Fiasco</i>.
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rcarrover 1 year ago
Dean Karnazes did this in an ultra running race minus the tech. He rolled the pizza up like a burrito and ran with it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gffmag.com&#x2F;the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-dean-karnazes&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gffmag.com&#x2F;the-raw-endurance-of-ultramarathon-man-de...</a>
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nhanceover 1 year ago
If it is a react website that would imply it has an api you could just use directly. Might still need to login to get a token but that&#x27;s a lot more robust
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avg_devover 1 year ago
i cannot tell you how much i enjoyed this article. it was very funny. it had so many great elements. a fun tech problem, pizza, getting me to look up what “s-tier” meant, a dash of humor (as if the premise wasn’t already hilarious), the mea culpa at the end and the ideas as to what the bug was (his theory sounds plausible to me, but idk).
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fullspectrumdevover 1 year ago
This is pretty neat not gonna lie. I wonder now if something similar can be done with Deliveroo or similar - on day X if certain conditions are met (eg: working late), have preprogrammed order Y submitted when approximately Z distance from house.
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zschuesslerover 1 year ago
I have fond memories of growing up with Casey&#x27;s pizza. I pick it up any time I am back in the Midwest.<p>I can&#x27;t place it, but it has its own distinct charm.
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loegover 1 year ago
Oof, and it didn&#x27;t work. That&#x27;s pretty rough to find out at mile 200!
throwaway413over 1 year ago
Software, cycling and pizza. Some of my favorite things in life. This project and write-up was thoroughly enjoyed, and has inspired some of my own similar ideas now! Cheers
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stevageover 1 year ago
I think I would either:<p>- just call up using hands free - have a friend do the call, and message them to trigger it<p>Also he keeps referring to &quot;delivery&quot; but it&#x27;s actually pickup, no?
fullstackchrisover 1 year ago
Great stuff! Thanks for the Playwright link and detailed Lambda blog posts, I had a similar project I was working on trying to convert text into animated (typed) code videos (on visual studio code) - trying to get anything non trivial in lambda to run is indeed an <i>interesting</i> endeavour to say the least!
hardware2winover 1 year ago
&gt;My going theory is that the Lambda had terminated processing as soon as the final form.submit()<p>Kinda odd behaviour
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Gelobover 1 year ago
If they take phone orders you could just play a pre recorded messages and call them using twillo. I&#x27;ve done this in the past to call many stores and check inventory of an item
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sambalbadjakover 1 year ago
that was a fun read! hope you get your fresh pizza next race
exabrialover 1 year ago
Ok let’s fix one thing: Casey’s pizza is not great, despite the cult following :)<p>Source: Missouri resident
perebasover 1 year ago
LOL this guy is amazing and does amazing things. I would never think of something like that.
bilekasover 1 year ago
There&#x27;s a great way to get motivated for the last leg of the race!
weirdkidover 1 year ago
But… Hawaiian pizza?
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terminousover 1 year ago
The lengths people these days will go to in order to not make a phone call...
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doolsover 1 year ago
&gt; In other words, after having wasted an ungodly amount of money trying to make pizza in the most complicated way possible, Zume decided that the best course of action was to just try selling boxes instead<p>Started off as a Futurama episode, finished off as a Simpsons episode.
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thrdbndndnover 1 year ago
Sorry for being kinda off-topic, but what&#x27;s going on with these small(-ish) businesses configuring their websites to block users randomly through Cloudflare nowadays? I&#x27;ve seen this happened at least 5 times this week clicking random links, they are all local business websites.<p>I&#x27;m talking about <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caseys.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.caseys.com</a> in this article, which gives me<p><pre><code> Access denied Error code 1020 You do not have access to www.caseys.com. The site owner may have set restrictions that prevent you from accessing the site.&quot; </code></pre> Is this a GDPR measure (but My IP is in Japan, not EU), anti-proxy measure (I do use one), or cost-saving measure?
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