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by Animats 10mo ago
Not unexpected. - Google cutting off using search from other than their home page code. (At one time there was an official SOAP API for Google Search.) - Apple cutting off non-Apple hardware in the Power PC era. ("We lost our license f
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by Animats 10mo ago
Will Apple and Google merge now? That would create a new #1, bigger than NVidia. It would take US antitrust approval, but under Trump, that's for sale.
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by Animats 10mo ago
It's not possible to make a competitively priced product that way. What are you going to do, sell artisanal circuit boards on Etsy? Here's a small US-based PCB board and assembly facility in the US, in Hesperia, California.[1] Loo
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by Animats 10mo ago
The working fluid for that thing costs EUR205/liter. Ouch.
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by Animats 10mo ago
This is painful. They got a used solder mask holder, a Lumen pick and place machine, a bunch of old Siemens feeders, and a small automatic reflow oven. All these tools needed major work. Everything with firmware needed firmware mods. Everyt
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by Animats 10mo ago
Narrow field of view LIDAR units have been moderately priced for years. Forward looking LIDAR is useful for anti-collision systems. It doesn't yield the situational awareness of full coverage needed for full autonomy, but it's goo
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by Animats 10mo ago
If you want heavy concurrency, to get some value out of all those CPUs on a desktop, you need all the help you can get from the language. Unity and Unreal pushed it through in C++, but both required huge efforts.
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by Animats 10mo ago
Right. Meta wants big enough plants that an AP1000 or two would be the right size. They're known to work. There are four in operation, two in the US, and another dozen or so under construction. Most of the small nuclear reactor startup
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by Animats 10mo ago
With doom scrolling for the comments. And cat pictures.
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by Animats 10mo ago
Would that be this item? [1] The product description and SKU match. It's not clear who "FS" is. A reseller? A manufacturer? They seem to be in Singapore. There's no excuse for the external plastic sheath disintegrating.
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by Animats 10mo ago
Measles charts (US) [1] Line goes down to nearly zero and stays there. Polio chart (US) [2] See the line go almost straight down to 0 after vaccine introduction and stay there. Smallpox has been totally exterminated by vaccination. Any ques
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by Animats 10mo ago
In the Rust graphics community, we have My First Renderer about four times, and no good renderers. It's about a year of work to get to where you can load the standard glTF examples and render them. Those are all small static scenes. Th
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by Animats 10mo ago
> More than 1 million people died in the US from the COVID pandemic so it seemed reasonable to work hard to get herd immunity but the backfire effect made that counter productive. There is no herd immunity for COVID, because you can get
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by Animats 10mo ago
Bindless Vulkan is in some ways simpler than binding for each draw. But there are now more synchronization conditions. That big table of descriptors is an unusual data object. It's normally mapped as writable from the CPU and readable
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by Animats 10mo ago
Education can be viewed as intellectual property theft. There have been periods in history when it was. "How to take an elevation from a plan" was a trade secret of medieval builders and only revealed to guild members. How a power
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by Animats 10mo ago
Engine control alone can be self-contained. The Ford EEC IV of the 1980s had its program permanently etched into the Intel 8061 CPU, and was designed to last 30 years. It did. I finally sold off my 40 year old Ford Bronco, which was still r
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by Animats 10mo ago
Yes. That should be done along hiking and biking trails under power lines. There's one in Silicon Valley along the bay shore line. The fluorescent tubes don't wear out; the filaments at the end are not in use. Just slip them insid
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by Animats 10mo ago
The Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago). One of the big classics. It once contained exhibits from major manufacturers. US Steel, General Electric, RCA. AT&T, IBM, Whirlpool, International Harvester, the Santa Fe Railroad... Most of
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by Animats 10mo ago
Exactly. This supply chain requires four quite different plants, none of which make money until the other three are running. US capitalism isn't good at setting that up from a cold start. Market forces may get there incrementally, but
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by Animats 10mo ago
Protectionism is failing to revive manufacturing Yes. The rare earths situation is embarrassing. This has been a political football for years now, but the efforts to fix it aren't working very well. First, you need a mine site and a
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by Animats 10mo ago
The future of serious cheating is probably a second machine watching the video and playing the game.
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by Animats 10mo ago
That's how bug reports work now. Stall, and the bug report goes away.
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by Animats 10mo ago
Their own CPU, too - 88 ARM cores. So it's an all-NVidia solution - CPU, interconnects, AI GPUs.
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by Animats 10mo ago
The Nordic Nano connection is strange. Here's their web site.[1] They claim to make solar panel coatings, solid state batteries, and do something involving hydrogen. This is all done from a little metal building in a small town on the
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by Animats 10mo ago
For small screws, in the millimeter range, the jump between metric sizes is too big. So, in addition to M1, M2, M3, M4, M5, etc. standard metric screws include M1.4, M1.6. M1.8, M2.5, and M3.5 (rare) to fill in the gaps. Screw sizes and dri
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by Animats 10mo ago
A0 paper is for drafting. That's what people used for engineering drawings before we had AutoCAD with zoom.
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by Animats 10mo ago
That's what I was thinking, but could not find the link. Here is it working on some standard tasks.[1] Grasping the padlock and inserting the key is impressive. I've seen key-in-lock before, done painfully slowly. Finally, it&#x27
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by Animats 10mo ago
I'm fine with social media, but not with the illusion of it from Facebook, Instagram, etc. Those are ad delivery systems. I'm on Discord, Github, Substack, and Reddit.
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by Animats 10mo ago
There are at least 18 humanoid robots good enough to have Youtube videos of them moving around. Some are far more agile than this one. Needs more manipulation. Such elaborate fingers and all it does is mime carrying a box. There are some br
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by Animats 10mo ago
That's a real service. Some airports, including LAX and London Heathrow, allow a "tarmac transfer", where the limo goes directly to the plane. [1][2] Cost is $200 to $1000. That could save an hour or more at each end. VIP Te

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