GlenTheMachine

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by GlenTheMachine 6mo ago
It's more complicated than that. "The system" almost always consists of mid-level bureaucrats. Maybe not this particular one, but her bosses -- a job which, if she sticks around long enough, she will eventually get promoted
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by GlenTheMachine 6mo ago
“ It reads like an indictment of the government employee personally” As a government employee: it often is the employee personally. Not always, but surprisingly often. There is a type of mid-level bureaucrat who just can’t be bothered to
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by GlenTheMachine 6mo ago
As a government employee, enmeshed in the bureaucracy: This is the way. The problem is that it took Karen zero effort to say “we only accept fax”. She doesn’t care about how much effort it takes you you — in fact, as implied, it taking you
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by GlenTheMachine 8mo ago
So after almost 50 years of hacking, I'm starting to feel it in my hands. But I don't have any wrist problems -- no carpal tunnel. What I have is tendonitis in my fingers, primarily in my middle fingers and my right pinky (from sl
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by GlenTheMachine 8mo ago
“Extendible” —> extensible, I believe
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by GlenTheMachine 8mo ago
That’s certainly an opinion. I’m not convinced that it's a good one, but it’s an interesting one. I think it’s probably important to remember two things: 1) the novel is a relatively modern invention — Don Quixote is often thought of a
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by GlenTheMachine 9mo ago
I was a grad student in Dave Akin's lab from 1994-2003. Like many labs, we had a journal club. Once a week (Wednesday, I think) somebody would give a presentation over lunch on a paper they'd read. We would get takeout Chinese and
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by GlenTheMachine 9mo ago
I’m Henshaw (#37). AMA.
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by GlenTheMachine 10mo ago
I travel internationally all the time. Someone tell me why I need this.
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by GlenTheMachine 11mo ago
I wrote code to do this between a C64 and a 1541 disk drive when I was in high school. It got me to the international science fair and (probably) earned me a full tuition scholarship for undergrad.
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
I called MS support once because some random dude managed to get my son's account registered under his "family", and then locked my son out of being able to update his own machine. The MS support guy literally tried to get m
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
We don't want it.
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
My Operating Systems class as an undergrad used a book written by the Multics guys. I hated it. It would present a bunch of apparently incompatible techniques for e.g. job scheduling, and then say that Multics implemented all of them. I imm
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
Space roboticist here. As with a lot of things, it isn't the initial outlay, it's the maintenance costs. Terrestrial datacenters have parts fail and get replaced all the time. The mass analysis given here -- which appears quite
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
Two things… one, they didn’t sail across the Atlantic. They hired ships and professional sailors to sail them across. They were passengers. That crossing wasn’t necessarily an easy one, but it was much more like what happens today with weal
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
Like most disasters, there were many causes for this one. The general unpreparedness of the Jamestown settlers is, however, an important one, and probably the primary causative one (although see edit #2 for a strong contrary argument). We k
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
From the article: ‘They suffered fourteen nets (which was all they had) to rot and spoil, which by orderly drying and mending might have been preserved. But being lost, all help of fishing perished.’ (25) (25) Strachey, W. 1998b [1610], ‘A
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
The Jamestown colonists starved to death literally living on the shore of the most productive marine environment on earth. They didn’t know how to care for the fishing nets, so they rotted, and then didn’t know how to fix them. The issue wa
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
Also, for the type of work I'd do with an arm like this, I'd be more than happy to just have the follower arm. You need a leader arm to do some types of teleoperation or imitation learning, but not really to do reinforcement learn
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
• Adding one DOF to match ARX kinematics is doable, with a price increase of $30–40. You need at least six non redundant DOF to arbitrarily position the end effector in space, three for x-y-z translation and an additional three for
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
They did ask for suggested upgrades. “I’d love your feedback! Beyond manufacturing, cleaning up the codebase, and writing docs, I’m considering: a force-controlled gripper, a parallel-jaw gripper, an extra wrist DOF (matching the new Trosse
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
You need some technical specs on the website. How many DOF does it have? Does it have joint angle sensing? If so, what's the resolution? What's the interface to the servos? What's the payload capacity? Does it have integrated
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by GlenTheMachine 1y ago
Yep, and in 1986 I had just interned at a NASA lab where they were investigating multiprocessors, which at the time was a wild and crazy idea. I had the epiphany that I could bit-bang a driver between a C64 and one or more 1541s and make my
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
So my kid has ARFID. I am not a doctor, but what I have learned is that eventually, anything that causes nausea associated with eating can progress into ARFID, even if the original underlying cause resolves. ARFID is technically an eating d
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
I work at NRL, east of DCA and about 500 yards south of the crash. Can confirm that it is not unusual for flights to pass directly overhead of us, however I don’t understand the statement that this was a new flight path.
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
I work at a Navy installation on the Potomac just south of DCA. As of 10 am EST today there was a moderate police and rescue presence on the water. There is a significant amount of debris visible floating in the river, and the boats are fis
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
I desperately wish I had been introduced to Forth when I was learning assembly circa 1984 on my Commodore. Would have changed my life.
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
You're not wrong, but it's more complicated than that. My town never recovered economically after the US Civil War. It was a fairly wealthy place before then because the main economy was tobacco plantations, which slave labor enab
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
In grad school we built a lot of logic boards from scratch. They were used for submersible robots, and we had a 350,000 gallon water tank that we kept heated to 88 degrees. This was three stories above the ground in a metal building. You ca
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by GlenTheMachine 2y ago
This, exactly. Nobody can defined what consciousness is in terms that can be experimentally validated. Until that happens not only can the question not be answered, it isn't even a question that makes any sense.

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