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by Animats 6mo ago
Next, Yahoo Search? (It's still live.)
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by Animats 6mo ago
What did they write that article with? The year is 2026. The unemployment rate just printed 4.28%, AI capex is 2% of GDP (650bn), AI adjacent commodities are up 65% since Jan-23 and approximately 2,800 data centers are planned for construc
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by Animats 6mo ago
Mechanical picking has been too slow. It's not a problem with the robot mechanics. Here's 300 picks/minute from 2012.[1] The parts are all the same, so the vision problem is simple. But picking arbitrary objects from fulfillm
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by Animats 6mo ago
APL was the first language to have operators for "do this to all that stuff". They were headed for functional programming. But the syntax was too weird.
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by Animats 6mo ago
We'll know this works when it starts replacing Amazon pickers in quantity. Amazon has been trying to automate that for years, with many demos and contests. So far, nothing can quickly and reliably take random products out of one bin an
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by Animats 6mo ago
It's already quite feasible to record meetings and get AI summaries. As that works better, it will become more widespread.
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by Animats 6mo ago
It happened to Bank of America.[1] [1] https://abcnews.com/Business/bank-america-florida-foreclosed...
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by Animats 6mo ago
What is Uber developing? They're an app and a car allocator back end. Both work OK. Why are they spending so much? They gave up on self-driving, so that's not it.
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by Animats 6mo ago
Ubuntu.com seems to be fine right now. A bit slow, maybe. Ubuntu 26.04.LTS is out.
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by Animats 6mo ago
The idea for the company came when Burick was building a “white box” PC from standard, off-the-shelf components, and realized there was no comparable product for robotics. ... They sold about 200 robots in 17 countries, Burick says. Yup.
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by Animats 6mo ago
> I like the networking perspective, but the ML perspective is such a loose analogy that it's hard to even judge. Right. ML doesn't have to work well because it's used in situations where the cost of the errors falls on so
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by Animats 6mo ago
This is like cheat codes, except they make it harder.
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by Animats 6mo ago
Something I'd like to see from the hobbyist community: DIY injection molding. Injection molding is a process where the first one is a huge amount of work, and then you just bang them out for a few cents each. Which is why most of the w
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by Animats 6mo ago
Ehang had a scaled-up multi-rotor drone that could carry one person. They're a drone company. Worked, but max flight time was something like 17 minutes. Their new model has both lift props and wings, plus a pusher prop for horizontal t
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by Animats 6mo ago
The same logic applies to comments. No comments are better than wrong comments.
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by Animats 6mo ago
You go after their bank account, which is a slightly different procedure. The main headache is finding their bank account. The best way to do this is to find someone they pay and seeing what source account was used.
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by Animats 6mo ago
> The article doesn’t really tell us what is gained by rejecting infinity. Decidability. The issues around undecidability all involve the lack of an upper bound. In a finite deterministic space, everything is decidable, although some thi
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by Animats 6mo ago
Are there other undocumented codes Anthropic recognizes in Git commits?
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by Animats 6mo ago
It's useful if you have multiple FCGI programs that handle different kinds of requests. Depending on what's being requested, programs start up and shut down.
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by Animats 6mo ago
Right. There are plenty of cheap plastic stethoscopes on Alibaba. There are even metal ones in the $2 range. If you want to bang out simple parts in quantity, 3D printing is not the way to go.
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by Animats 6mo ago
If the business has a physical presence somewhere, it's not hard. In California, you can get an order to the Sheriff for a "till tap" or an "8 hour keeper". A till tap means a sheriff's deputy or two show up an
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by Animats 6mo ago
FCGI is also an orchestration system. It launches more server tasks when the load goes up, shuts them down when the load decreases, and launches new copies of tasks if they crash. It's like single-system Kubernetes.
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by Animats 6mo ago
> only humans can be granted copyright. No, a copyright application can be filed with a corporation listed as the author. Watch for the copyright notice at the end of the next major movie you see.
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> Filing isn't the gate, registration is. Not really. Copyright registration is pretty much automatic. The Copyright Office does not check for duplicates. Patent registration involves actual examination for patentability. Issued pat
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by Animats 6mo ago
Can't even run F-Droid any more? That's the only source of apps I use.
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by Animats 6mo ago
The question is, when it screws up, who gets blamed, and who pays. If it's the customer, and you can afford to lose a small fraction of customers, it may be worth it. It's just another form of crappy customer service. If it's
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by Animats 6mo ago
It's not oscillating at 50MHz. Look at the waveform, with the big spike in the middle. That's a spike at some lower frequency, wider than the screen, followed by ringing. Need to zoom out the time base some more to see the period
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by Animats 6mo ago
It seems to be using more info from pre-1900 rather than 1930. It doesn't know about the Great Depression (1929-WWII). It knows about WWI if you ask it specifically, but talks about European politics as if it's 1900 or so. On tech
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by Animats 6mo ago
Like solder dendrites.[1] Same mechanism, different materials. [1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2017/ra/c7ra0436...
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by Animats 6mo ago
Register a US trademark on line here: [1] Current wait times: [2] About 4 months to first reply, 10 months to issue. I've registered ANIMATS, DOWNSIDE, and SITETRUTH. It's not hard. [1] https://www.uspto.gov/tradem

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