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541.
by eichin 3y ago
I recall an article that part of the prep work for shuttles landing in Florida included the usual "Foreign Object Debris" walk through to check the surface for things that might be a problem for the shuttle... but that this often
542.
by eichin 3y ago
Even amazon seems to do a lot to err on the side of "automatically make the customer happy" rather than "actually have someone look into the problem" (I did a recent round of "order a three-pack, get a singleton lab
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by eichin 3y ago
The Kinect (and especially the cheap knockoffs that followed) changed the field of amateur robotics, just not gaming... in robotics, there was a lot of "it was great for us but we really have no idea why they did that" :-)
544.
by eichin 3y ago
Kin! lasted 48 days in the US, never launched at all in Europe (squarish smartphone for "the younger set".)
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by eichin 3y ago
Thus, over time, most people working on commercial robots favor increasing the minimum wage :-)
546.
by eichin 3y ago
Ooh, you figured this out early. I had a project back around 1998 where we were using Oracle "because it was there" for a content store... I was doing a performance review and concluded that "we shipped new software more oft
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by eichin 3y ago
Mmm, the screenshots bring back memories... a place I worked in the early 80s (right around when you could still look at the IBM PC and plausibly predict that even with all of IBM behind it, it just wasn't going to work out, it got s
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by eichin 3y ago
Or the MacIvory (lisp machine stripped down to fit as a card in a mac)
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by eichin 3y ago
Logseq is definitely worth a try just to run the operations through your fingers, and it's amazing for some people - but after roughly a year and a half, I'm about at the point of picking up the two or three things I really like
550.
by eichin 3y ago
ugh, you're right, I'd seen a bunch of older articles but thought that one had a September 2023 dateline. I haven't found anything else with usage numbers either, sorry.
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by eichin 3y ago
You can use ML to do the visual inspection - https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/2021/06/22/behind-the-scenes... is for birdsong, but that's just a lower-frequency signal, right? :-)
552.
by eichin 3y ago
I thought the DEKA arm was shipping, but apparently https://www.unionleader.com/news/scitech/dean-kamens-new-luk... it's finally coming to market this quarter - "testing by nearly 100 amputees for more t
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by eichin 3y ago
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/sax/chap6.htm in particular: > One does not provide such an opportunity for older people or inexperienced visitors by building a highway to the top of a mountai
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by eichin 3y ago
Because it isn't - `float* foo, bar;` foo is a pointer, bar is not. (There were suggestions back in the 90s that to make C easier to parse for humans (and not-coincidentally simplify the compiler grammar) this should be `foo, bar: floa
555.
by eichin 3y ago
trickle is clever, but when I've tried to use it for "use no more than this" bandwidth shaping (basically going for "rsync --bwlimit" but for a set of "related" rsync processes) the arguments given had ver
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by eichin 3y ago
Heh, I recently did a "clean sweep" of my .emacs files (inspired by the new support for `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/config/emacs/init.el` in 27.1) and something like 90% of it was workarounds (some dating back to the late 199
557.
by eichin 3y ago
Isn't this the essence of teddy-bear/rubber-duck debugging? You're forcing yourself to run your abstract concepts through the narrow channel of language and instantiating it in a way you haven't previously done (becaus
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by eichin 3y ago
Perhaps it would be clearer to "follow the money" - from my perspective (as a patron) the relationships are "patron → patreon" (I pay a single bill from them, once a month or slightly more, but not once per artist) and
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by eichin 3y ago
The IRS and Patreon need to know who you are. Patrons don't. The article is pretty specific about the distinction. (Looks like the US is 30% of patreon's business, more than any other single country, so I'm reasonably comf
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by eichin 3y ago
What's particularly fun is that it's doing the identification by using machine vision techniques on the spectrogram. https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/2021/06/22/behind-the-scenes...
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by eichin 3y ago
Or https://tapster.io/ (which is actually in the testing space - delta-geometry robots for interacting with touchscreen apps on actual hardware :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
"At his death, he had a lot of tabs open on his browser" (while it is intended as a testimony to his lifelong curiosity - maybe ponder that no, you really aren't going to get to all of those tabs and can let some of them go
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by eichin 3y ago
There's a meme in some AI circles that "once we understand it, it isn't AI anymore" and things like ML, NLP, and most of the Machine Vision field, while they came from AI, have "escaped" and are no longer AI be
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by eichin 3y ago
hmm, is the powershell example something you don't expect to have to do again, so it's not worth really understanding the details? (and did you feel you needed to verify the output, or was just running it enough? Not trying to jud
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by eichin 3y ago
Confirmed, with curl. Thanks for closing the loop!
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by eichin 3y ago
Those all sound like great things to ask of an assistant tool - that ChatGPT isn't actually capable of answering. (I have lots of those too - things like "review this code" or even better and more specific, "given the d
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by eichin 3y ago
yeah, I often have more keyboards than that on my desk at one time. (But as someone who knows Marcin Wichary and Jesse Vincent - I don't have a problem, I am the problem :)
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by eichin 3y ago
cool, thanks! I'm sort of surprised it didn't get attention via some other path, but then I never got around to filling a ticket myself :-)
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by eichin 3y ago
You may have missed the part about "telling people they can trust the vendor instructions"...
570.
by eichin 3y ago
Much worse performance (which might have been idiosyncratic, or might have been improved in recent years, but repeated authentication vs. single stream design hasn't changed.)

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