DoctorDabadedoo

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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
True, but all the buzz on the humanoid robots from recently is putting the robots in the same environments human use without having to change it at all, not because it's impossible but it's a lot of effort and every minimal possib
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
It's a matter of interface: people like the idea of humanoid robots because all the interfaces are already optimized for humans, thus if robots have that form factor they can use the same devices/tools that humans do and we wouldn
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
I feel you. This week we found a race condition induced segmentation fault in our lidar drivers (by Sick) that have always been there and the only reason we came across it was because we had to customize them and increase the poll frequency
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Working on robotics software is still exciting to me, unfortunately that is but a small part of working in the field: supporting operations/customer support is something that can take a lot of your time due to a multitude of factors (l
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
That would fall under the "automation" category: a very specialized customized application of robotics, doing the same set of tasks over and over, this is the kind of application where we can really see the power of robotics, but
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Loved the TFA. I've been working on robotics pretty much my whole career and people usually miss how complicated it can get even for simple things once you consider what can go wrong AND it's a meeting place for a multitude of are
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
> Currently it's bad, like horrendously bad, 30x less efficient in some cases that I've tested. Ouch. Back when I played with it efficiency wasn't even under discussion, as the basics had just gotten there (topic/serv
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
> The final product probably doesn't use it. I disagree here, usually projects that are not keen on relying on ROS end up re-implementing a lot of the groundwork (shared memory, message distribution, parameter server, logging, etc.)
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
I'm using ROS 1 Noetic on Ubuntu Focal at my current job. I've touched ROS 2 back in 2019 during the Crystal Clemmys era but it still felt experimental back then (and I believe still was considered beta), I plan to re-evaluate lat
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Robotics is a broad field and is a confluence of many specialties: mechanical engineering, hardware engineering, software engineering, control, machine learning, computer vision, anything in between is a good entrance. Coming from software,
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Mobile robotics, slam/localization and robotics backend.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
SLAM and localization in general are early bottlenecks in mobile robotics solution, unless the core business of the product is localization itself (e.g. waymo, cruise, etc.) it's not uncommon for that to take a back seat during product
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Robotics is very niche and the market is dominated by early stage startups (since most of them go out of business a few years in), so salaries are average unless you are working specific jobs for FAANG. Job hoping usually means moving elsew
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Big Tech could afford to do that due to their aura of mysticism and greatness, but if you're a mom and pop shop with Google-esque aspirations but none of the compensation and status, I wonder how many candidates have the patience and i
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
I've had two in the past 5 years. One with inverted colors and noise on the image from Logitech and another one from a Predator notebook that could very well be a cabling issue. These days I consider cameras disposable.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Application devs don't need to know the spec, but someone in the committee having a hard time of knowing the language in full is an interesting fact of how complex the language itself is. "Why do you think that a programmer has to
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
"This isn't relevant. The standard is for compiler writers and library writers who use advanced meta-programming." It is. It is a metric of how ungodly complex the language is. You can infer by this that having a comprehensiv
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Varies, but it is a layer of stress. I have around 10y in a field where getting rid of C++ is close to impossible and I'm more excited about maybe changing areas than spending ten more working with C++ codebases. The things that affect
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Exactly like the new generation of JabRef and Mendeley.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Plot twist: OP was the IC8 and has now been promoted.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Anxiety and hobbies. Leetcode grind while that happens. I joined an european robotics startup a couple of years ago in a promising field. Things aren't looking well for the business, we've been through a couple of layoffs at this
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
We're going to have to wait and see. Eletric cars didn't make much economic sense 30 years ago, but we've come a long way. Maybe in 20-30 years they might taste/have nutrients somewhat similarly and have a smaller enviro
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Time will tell if synthetic meat substitutes take off, if that's technically feasible and well received by consumers, but I welcome the possibility of looking beyond what red meat mass producing monopolies impose us. The discussion of
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
You're a not forced to eat or do anything. That's the same argument religious people have against abortions, even though no one is forcing you to have one.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
`union` is all I need to mark my territory and make sure no one touches my property!
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
I was raised in C++ spaguetti code bases, I didn't see a loved and well groomed project until I became a man.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Tbh, little, mostly convenience (best metaphor I can give is installing Sublime Text vs manually installing your vim and your own personal configs). By default it supports a bunch of interesting things, autocomplete, iteractive filesystem n
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Not bad if you have a junior that knows they are a junior, bad otherwise. My pet peeve with bitbucket was that when doing code review, you couldn't send all comments and overall review in a batch, every single comment was received in r
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
Didn't know you could get the base images directly from Microsoft, safe third party tools to validate the installation would still concern me, unfortunately.
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by DoctorDabadedoo 3y ago
I'm not all that concerned with the legality of it and more about the chain of trust, if there is need to download images/tools from shady websites for the thing just to work.

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