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by beau_g 1y ago
Being a designer myself, but in the interest of public good, I will share my design here and urge anyone else to copy it. The ideal form factor for this device is a cowboy hat. Here's why 1. Such a device will require significant local
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by beau_g 1y ago
An older version of their repo (or some section I cannot find anymore) indicated they were at the time using a few different Robstride actuators - https://www.robstride.com/products/robStride04
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by beau_g 1y ago
Bad news for Bryan Johnson, he will have to adjust some of his long term plans
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by beau_g 1y ago
Late to the party, but no mention of Winamp? My all time favorite UI, masterwork in maximizing utility for it's size
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by beau_g 1y ago
Speed bumps are much rougher in my idiot monster truck than they are on my Mercedes station wagon, idiot monster truck spring rates and damping are engineered to tow heavy loads/carry heavy payloads so especially when unloaded speed bu
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by beau_g 1y ago
Any tree near civilization that someone wants to pay to cut down is likely going to be at a distance from a structure, powerlines, or pipes in the ground (that's also the reason they want it removed) where felling it as it lies is not
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by beau_g 1y ago
I was thinking I could use a tool just like the wire you described to remove a stump, after I spent 6 hours with a 5ton Bobcat trying to dig up a 3ft diameter pine stump to no avail today. For felling trees though, you need precise front cu
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Threehalves – 7ft tall centaur general purpose robot(satyress.com)
5 points by beau_g 1y ago|1 comments
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by beau_g 1y ago
On a freestanding humanoid robot, you have an inverse kinematic chain running all the way from the touch point to the ground, with many actuators in between, each of which to some degree squares the complexity of the problem. The parent art
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by beau_g 2y ago
Can you expand on this? Looking this up, most sources I find indicate the bird flu outbreak began in 2022[1], with a new strain particularly affecting egg producing chickens in Sept 2024[2], and affects many countries, not just the US [1] h
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by beau_g 2y ago
What would your feelings be on a news outlet called "Public Health Watch" publishing 250 well researched, factually verified articles on dangers of wearing masks long term from 2020-2021 and zero articles on COVID mortality? How a
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by beau_g 2y ago
Do you mean for the framing of a piece, or the decision on what to report and to which degree/frequency? The former is more simple - 1. HORRIBLE MASS GENOCIDE BEGINS IN SPRINGFIELD (partial, even though it's within todays overton
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by beau_g 2y ago
Of course, laws/regulations are enforced by the party in a country that has a monopoly on violence, and use the threat of violence to enforce (either imprisonment or a monetary fine, monetary fines are a derivative of kidnapping as mon
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by beau_g 2y ago
I personally think it's polarized, and either the Pentti Linkola/Ted K way of thinking that the industrial revolution (or maybe even the agricultural revolution) were a detriment to humanity is correct and there is no turning it a
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by beau_g 2y ago
If you distill every metric in your life and put it in a Tableau dashboard, the load time would be so long that you could achieve immortality
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by beau_g 2y ago
Nope, there's a 25 year import rule on cars that aren't homologated for US market https://carbuzz.com/features/25-year-import-rule-everything-...
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by beau_g 2y ago
>Is there a market for a white-label EV platforms that are proven able to be executed well on a production line and allow the startups to actually complete on the fit and finish bits? That was more or less the arrangement between Magna S
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by beau_g 2y ago
>We still don’t know what Bitcoin really is and how it behaves We know both of those things 100%, it's in the source code and ledger of every transaction that has ever occurred from it's inception. We certainly do NOT know that
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by beau_g 2y ago
I think those comparisons are poor - TikTok is service that could be used to send instantaneous information to 170 million users in the US. It's potential to cause a problem if it's controllers choose to do so is many orders of ma
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by beau_g 2y ago
They should rename the pass Train Trapped in Snow Pass to serve as a cautionary reminder for anyone traversing that pass in the winter
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by beau_g 2y ago
If you think humans getting emotionally attached to robots is bad, wait til you hear about the type of stuff that stems from humans getting emotionally attached to other humans
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by beau_g 2y ago
If you think those issues are bad, just wait til you hear about the safety issues that have happened with non-driverless freight trains
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by beau_g 2y ago
Agreed, but only in the circumstance that the flirty someone else picks you up from the International Space Station after your other friend bails, otherwise seems like a poor analogy
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by beau_g 2y ago
There's more success metrics to take away from a startup than just sticking around and creating a 3x or greater monetary return from an initial arbitrary valuation. If you were funded, you were getting paid something, if you were attem
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by beau_g 2y ago
Jiu Jitsu practitioners have incredible conditioning from repeating that exact same story of {guy who thought he was tough} being defeated by {unlikely protagonist} in any scenario they can shoehorn it into, with extreme enthusiasm
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by beau_g 2y ago
I agonize over this decision a lot. I normally figure the tipping point is about 8 hours of me looking into the data, or planning to revisit it 3 or more times in the future. Whichever way I choose, I normally later decide I made the wrong
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by beau_g 2y ago
Use gimp, add a new layer, paste something into it, and resize it, then you will know
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by beau_g 2y ago
Agreed, I recall a short time some arm of my company used workday learning for training courses. To do a course, you had to add it to a shopping cart for some reason, then "check out", which opens a popup. If you somehow managed t
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by beau_g 2y ago
From what I can measure from most HN posting at least, I have had the a relatively uncommon experience in that I've both worked in a union (carpenter's union, doing acoustic ceilings in SF) and worked as an engineer in SV. Of cour
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by beau_g 2y ago
Elected officials should not vote their conscience, they should vote according to the wishes of their constituents

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