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> 'arm/mil' --> this class detects certain types of armored vehicles (very unreliable for now, don't use it yet)

Living near a bunch of the military bases, this is what I really need. My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs.

I haven’t received any mail for months.

Sidenote: what are the export restriction?

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that class never really worked and has been removed from the new version of WALDO FYI, it’s not a military thing and shouldn’t be used as such

Don’t worry this is a suburban defense system. Purely civilian targets.

I created it after joining my neighborhood NextDoor.

Reminds me of an ancient SNL skit with Dan Aykroyd and perhaps Gilda Radner or another gal on the team where the skit is about Aykroyd wandering his backyard talking about all the annoying things about his neighbors and how he has a solution for it now. He has a neighborhood nuclear device that he can use any time of them crosses a line. The skit ends with a mushroom cloud appearing over his fence as he grins that Aykroyd grin if I remember it right.

Anyway, I have never found this skit mentioned in any of the documentation of the show but I know I saw it live, on Saturday night back before Belushi snorted his last snort.

Ai is going to super charge off grid antigov nuts libertarians?

Not just them. I predict it will extend to all classes of folks who use popular schemas for naming taken from self-isolating social forums.

> My suburban defense system keeps mistaking USPS trucks for APCs.

Is... This an american thing? What the heck is a suburban defense system?

It's a joke.

A friend of mine has motion sensors connected to an automatic sprinklers to keep the deer from eating his plants. It works pretty well, even though it doesn't use AI. Just motion sensors.

USPS - United States Postal Service (the governmental mail delivery organization). Not to be confused with:

- UPS, United Parcel Service (a for-profit; USPS is notoriously not-for-profit).

- UPS, Uninterruptable Power Supply

APC - Armored Personell Carrier -- military vechicle for transporting troops. Not to be confused with:

- APC, Formerly American Power Conversion Company, now an initials-only brand of some conglomerate, who coincidently make UPS units (the electronic device, not the delivery drivers).

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