Animats

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by Animats 6mo ago
Oh, good. We need more backups. The one in Egypt doesn't get updated.
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by Animats 6mo ago
In the print era, distribution was the bottleneck. The sheer amount of plant needed to produce a book or newspaper was impressive. The equipment needed for TV broadcasting was huge and expensive. In the high-speed Internet era, attention is
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by Animats 6mo ago
> In short, OP had an impressive lack of situational awareness/direction and is trying to play it off as a common burden of the olden times. It wasn't. Right. In the early days of Etak, the company that invented car navigation
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by Animats 6mo ago
They simply scaled until their principles became inconvenient, and then they stopped mentioning them. That's Google and "Don't be Evil".
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by Animats 6mo ago
Air conditioning was originally invented because humidity was giving printing companies trouble in paper handling.[1] [1] https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-air-conditioning
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by Animats 6mo ago
Right. Several of those use stacks of little discs instead of balls. More compact, but if one of those discs gets turned sideways, the lock is jammed. Pick-resistant locks have two known problems. First, if they have to fit inside a traditi
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by Animats 6mo ago
(2024) really. Saw this years ago. Xerography was once a very touchy process. It took insane complexity and skilled technicians to make xerography go in the selenium drum era. The basic idea of xerography is that you charge up a photosensit
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by Animats 6mo ago
Yu-Gi-Oh cards are still a thing? That dates from 30 years ago. I just looked at Cabbage Patch dolls on eBay. The bottom has finally fallen out of that market. Used to see asking prices over $1000. Now they're all around $25.
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by Animats 6mo ago
As a practical matter, that's backwards. One pass with the heavy raking machinery will remove 99% of the trash. That's the heavy lifting. Record GPS-tagged video of what the rakes are picking up. Then make a pass with a strong tra
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by Animats 6mo ago
OK, I have to check the binary.
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by Animats 6mo ago
We have a huge problem. The US is at war. Much of the world is at war at the cyber attack level right now. The US, the EU, most of the Middle East, Israel, Russia... Major services have been attacked and have gone down for days at a time -
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by Animats 6mo ago
> The sheer mass of packages Yes. I just noticed that a Rust program I'm working on had acquired a plotter driver crate. A plotter driver? The program has no graphical output. Turns out that "kdtree" has a dev dependency
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by Animats 6mo ago
40 minutes of video. This needs a Lock Picking Lawyer attack on this lock. He'd be done in two minutes. The trouble with this lock is that the removable key contacts the pins. Even though it's isolated from the outside when it&#x2
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by Animats 6mo ago
> This is a cultural commitment not a logistics problem to engineer away. Not entirely.[1] Not all the workers are happy campers. There's a high suicide rate and injury rate. [1] https://www.salon.com/2018/08&#x
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by Animats 6mo ago
Does education of women have to be reduced to keep the population from decreasing? That's the position of some fundamentalist Christians [1], some branches of Islam [2], and many haredi.[3] Used to be considered silly, when overpopulat
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by Animats 6mo ago
I'm holding off on upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS until we have a few months of experience with the new release. Canonical just had a huge DDOS attack, and there might have been other attacks hidden in all that traffic.
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by Animats 6mo ago
Right, needs a drone pass for mapping before and after cleaning. Needing 150 people for weeks to clean up is too labor-intensive. Are they paid?
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by Animats 6mo ago
There's a machine for this, and you can rent it - the Barber Litter Picker.[1] It's a large tractor-pulled machine, like an agricultural implement. It's a variation on their Surf Rake, which is used for beach cleanup. The L
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by Animats 6mo ago
When Google did that, did they default the "sending data" feature to off? Do I even need to ask?
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by Animats 6mo ago
The nice thing about Trader Joe's is that you can be in and out in 5-10 minutes if you're just buying weekly food items. The store is modestly sized and the checkout lines are short. I'm in there about once a week. I go to Co
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by Animats 6mo ago
But they keep the 4-speed transmission? For what purpose?
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by Animats 6mo ago
Not quite that high. Around 15KHz. (15,734 Hz for NTSC, 15,625 Hz for PAL.)
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by Animats 6mo ago
> The layout is doable with hobby servos Mostly we're past that. Robotics with hobby servos sucks. Been there, done that, robot arm is in electronics recycling bin right now.
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by Animats 6mo ago
The OP has an amusing side point - LLMs have automated sucking up to management. There is a large market for that. His main point, though, is this: I have a colleague ... who spent two months earlier this year building a system that should
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by Animats 6mo ago
Rewinding drone motors for high torque and lower speed seems to be a popular thing. Here's the commercial process of machine winding motors like that.[1] That's a medium-volume machine, loaded and unloaded by hand, and adjustable
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by Animats 6mo ago
For a toy, you might just have a simple thermal fuse.[1] ($0.78 from DigiKey, plus "tariff may apply if shipping to the United States". About $0.15 on Alibaba, if you order enough.). For a working machine for field use, you want
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by Animats 6mo ago
3 DOF per leg, so it needs 12 motors and controllers. Getting that under $1000 is nice. Here's the US$18 motor: [1] Those things are getting really cheap. He did have to rewind it, though, for more turns with thinner wire. The manufact
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by Animats 6mo ago
Trump also fired the Immigration Detention Ombudsman.[1] [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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by Animats 6mo ago
Does Chromium do this?
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by Animats 6mo ago
Right. Early thinking on this was zero moment point (ZMP) control. The zero moment point is where, if you land from a stride there, you continue going in the same direction at the same speed. You can speed up by displacing the landing point

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