Ricardo Marques

THIS GUY BUILT AN AUTOMATED PIGEON DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR HIS BALCONY pigeons kept nesting on his balcony so he engineered a full detection and deterrent system here's how it works: 1\ camera captures video in real time 2\ an AI model identifies the pigeon in real time 3\ a water gun mounted on servo motors turns toward it 4\ sprays the pigeon automatically the hardware: > an orange pi 5 running the detection model > a disassembled electric battery-driven water gun > USB camera > 2 servo motors for aiming > resistors and a transistor to trigger the water gun the detection runs on an AI vision model (yolo world v2) using the rockchip 3588's built in neural processing unit. the best part is that it's not limited to pigeons. because it uses open vocabulary detection, you can reprogram the target to any object. squirrels, cats, raccoons, whatever is messing with your balcony fully automated, runs 24/7, no manual intervention needed

Portugal does 14 months of payroll a year. So when you are in San Francisco, New York, etc. and you need to run payroll for someone in Portugal, you think "Salary is salary. Twelve months." Then you learn the calendar has 14. What the hell is this, a different calendar or something? And that is one country.

Christopher Nolan is now allegedly considering a movie adaptation of the Russia-Ukraine war

Be Portugal 🇵🇹: - Retardmaxx - Be broke -> need foreign money - Invite foreigners to invest - When foreigners invest, have low-IQ local retards complain - Push high-IQ foreigners abroad after you spent money attracting them - Make it incredibly hard for them to leave a clean sheet with you and pay taxes WTF You're never convincing me to move to Southern Europe or have any business there. Holiday-maxx and that's it. Honestly Indians taking over Portugal is likely gonna be great for Portugal. Bullish on Indians making Portugal better than Portuguese can. You can't do much worse than they're currently doing.

Tenho um filho a trabalhar e a viver em UK que me disse o seguinte nas nossas conversas por Facetime quando lhe perguntei se pensava regressar: “Adoro esse país em termos de geografia, gastronomia e meteorologia, mas era incapaz de viver e trabalhar aí. Já não consigo me adaptar a esse nível de ineficiência. É bom para ir de férias”

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The American mind cannot comprehend Dutch high school lunches:

FR8 is a 12,000 m² palace, filled with geniuses researching or building startups, it charges 0% equity and even pays for your food, living, and flights. One of their founders drank actual poison on stage to demo their tech. Welcome to FR8. Nothing about FR8 makes sense because it’s so over the top in their ambition, but they might eventually become the biggest thing for young founders globally. And it’s happening right here in Europe. They are neither a hackerhouse, nor a startup accelerator, nor a classic research lab. Instead they think of themselves as a university-like institution for the post AGI world that pushes you towards building companies, ambition, obsession, and bias-to-action. Think YCombinator, Stanford and Bell Labs all wrapped into one thing for the most ambitious 20-somethings in the world to work, run by 20-somethings. They just came out of stealth. Until recently people didn’t even know where their latest cohort is based. Because additionally on top FR8 is absurdly secretive. Their target group knows them and that’s about all they care for. We visited last week to join them behind-the-scenes as they prepare for their first demo day in their new building - a 5 floor university building in the middle of Helsinki. We knew them for quite some time so we were allowed to film them as the first team worldwide. But even we couldn’t film multiple floors and rooms of their building. This video gives you an insight into the ambitious craziness that FR8 is – but trust me there’s more to come in the near future. The biggest new thing in startups – isn’t in SF – it’s in the north of Europe and attracts young geniuses worldwide. Welcome to FR8!

Reduced my AWS bill for a project from $80 to $0.50 + $14 on Hetzner. Dropped the RDS to a self-hosted MySQL instance running on a VPS. 2-3 days to properly setup everything, certs, backups, migrate data, etc. Auto-update is configured for the instance, status monitoring using Uptime Kuma. Tailscale + Cloudflare + Firewall. Really recommend you reconsider what your applications truly need. 99% of projects don't require more than a simple VPS.