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If he's a true programmer, he'd code up an iphone app that controls an arduino that mixes up the precise amounts of amino acids, boron, saccharides, glucose and

by dxbydt 14y ago

If he's a true programmer, he'd code up an iphone app that controls an arduino that mixes up the precise amounts of amino acids, boron, saccharides, glucose and polyphenols for the perfect Soylent to start his day. Maybe even post his objective C on github so I can issue a pull request with 200% more boron. You know, here in the bay area, we have plants that tweet when they run out of water. I can rig up a tweetbot so his body tweets whenever he is dehydrated, and Amazon can intercept that tweet to dropship amino acids to his kitchen where the arduino mixes up the next batch of Soylent. I should stop watching scifi.

Kluny 14y ago
"plants that tweet when they run out of water." Get off my damn lawn.
- randomchars 14y ago
  But I was only trying to water your lawn! It sent me a DM!
  - ph0rque 14y ago
    "randomchars, you gotta help me... Kluny has blocked me on twitter, and I'm like literally dying without water here!"
zanny 14y ago
If you took it to production you could just distribute a mixer that has compartments for independent ingredients, maybe even go so far as to standardize cartage sizes of them to use as a fixed insert, have them delivered regularly, and plug them in to make your nutrient sludge once a day. Then just go a step further, have it delivered by automated transport, brew itself, and you just go grab a cup of juice to keep you alive and get on with your day.
- dxbydt 14y ago
  >standardize cartage sizes...have them delivered regularly When I first arrived in the USA in 1995 as a CS student, I was surprised to see these identical Walmarts. They were all the same - same aisles, same items in those aisles, same prices, same senior citizens manning the checkout counters.. So I asked the gent at the checkout counter - Sir, instead of me coming to your Walmart every weekend to buy groceries, why doesn't Walmart standardize on groceries & deliver them weekly to all American citizens ? Huge savings on driving costs, shopping time,... He looked at me and said - Son, that's called communism.
  - evan_ 14y ago
    Ignoring the fact that this never happened there are plenty of stores that deliver, just not Wal*Mart.
kumarski 14y ago
He is capable of this.

by dxbydt 14y ago

Kluny 14y ago

"plants that tweet when they run out of water." Get off my damn lawn.

randomchars 14y ago
But I was only trying to water your lawn! It sent me a DM!
- ph0rque 14y ago
  "randomchars, you gotta help me... Kluny has blocked me on twitter, and I'm like literally dying without water here!"

zanny 14y ago

If you took it to production you could just distribute a mixer that has compartments for independent ingredients, maybe even go so far as to standardize cartage sizes of them to use as a fixed insert, have them delivered regularly, and plug them in to make your nutrient sludge once a day. Then just go a step further, have it delivered by automated transport, brew itself, and you just go grab a cup of juice to keep you alive and get on with your day.

dxbydt 14y ago
>standardize cartage sizes...have them delivered regularly When I first arrived in the USA in 1995 as a CS student, I was surprised to see these identical Walmarts. They were all the same - same aisles, same items in those aisles, same prices, same senior citizens manning the checkout counters.. So I asked the gent at the checkout counter - Sir, instead of me coming to your Walmart every weekend to buy groceries, why doesn't Walmart standardize on groceries & deliver them weekly to all American citizens ? Huge savings on driving costs, shopping time,... He looked at me and said - Son, that's called communism.
- evan_ 14y ago
  Ignoring the fact that this never happened there are plenty of stores that deliver, just not Wal*Mart.

kumarski 14y ago

He is capable of this.