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I guess my trip was probably biased towards states with lots of parks and forests, who probably had more incentive to protect their local environments.
This is also a very interesting story about the importance of diversity on a team. While TXDOT wanted to go with "Please Keep Texas Beautiful", this guy knew the kind of guy he had to convince wouldn't listen to that stuff. Brilliant.
There's another one (less successful though still successful) which I remember just because it's so catchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_It_or_Ticket . When I had family visiting from elsewhere you could just say "Click It or Ticket" and they'd get it. Sure the real reason I want them to wear the seatbelt isn't because of the ticket, but the slogan combined with the fact that I can outsource the argument to the state is great.
And I chuckled at how they used the "Don't mess with Texas" phrase despite having much lower littering fines than most other states.
Like with everything else in this country, it's all about the marketing.
Do you think the NSA is shadier than the KGB? What about the Iranian Revolutionary Guard? Or even the CIA?
I know people are upset about the Snowden revelations but there are much graver sins that have been committed by other agencies.
Anyways, plenty of countries have security agencies whose main job is to violently protect the local kleptocrats these days. China might be a better example to point to for even worse behavior, with their balkanized net and mass surveillance being used to carry out the mass internment and repression of ethnic minorities in regions like Xinjiang.
It's a flexible way of writing one-off applications; you can run them locally, remotely, or on someone else's machine in the cloud. One useful example is Tabula[1], a browser-based utility for extracting tabular data from PDFs. As it is often used by journalists and other organizations that don't want to leak the data they are analyzing all over the place, it is easy to run locally instead of uploading files to their website. You just point the browser to 'localhost:port' while the server is running.
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It's pretty big, but there are only so many variations on "tree", "mountain", "valley", "cave", "swimmy thing", "flying thing", "walking thing", etc etc.
It's not like you can ever expect to walk over the next hill and see an octo-monkey spiraling across the veldt.
Sometimes you can get more insight on how to solve a problem from a discussion than from an answer. Why and when can be as important as how.
Also, if people dislike your question, even it obeys the rules, it gets down voted. They can dislike your question because they dislike the problem you are going to solve or the way you are trying to do it.
Some comments instead of being related to the question at hand, suggest that you shouldn't solve your problem but instead do things another way. Which can be fine, but doesn't fit well the site format because it doesn't allow discussions.
However, I don't see alternatives. You can ask on reddit but there are not many people willing to answer.
They're nice because like you said, discussion can be much more helpful than a single answer.
The second core is meant to handle the network stack, leaving the first core to focus on program logic. With ESP8266s, it can be hard to write complex applications while keeping heavy WiFi usage stable.
Although, I'll bet the 8266 firmwares and libraries have improved a lot since I was using them.
Texas has amazing (and clean!) state and national parks as well. Definitely worth a visit, especially Big Bend.
Mostly I drove through Texas to avoid Oklahoma (one of my least favorite states), but the Guadalupe Mountains were very nice.
I'm not sure I'd call it 'clean' though; the air seemed awfully smoggy and I saw almost as many flaring wells as I did in North Dakota. But there were lots of open spaces and the people were friendly.
Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Utah get my vote for the best places to do a parks/forests vacation, depending on your interests.