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by gertlex 2y ago
> Nvidia is clearly pointing the way here. Could it be argued they're producing big picture tech demos of robotics ideas? I'm fuzzy on how much their in-house robotics work to-date is actually in use. Absolutely, their hardware
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by gertlex 2y ago
For me LA was spread across several courses (I was at Michigan in engineering too), and I never got enough internalization of when it was useful from these, sadly. It definitely seemed more useful that a lot of the higher level maths, like
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by gertlex 2y ago
Curious: What are the "obscenity regulations", and which entities are "the internet" doing firebombing, in this case?
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by gertlex 2y ago
Yep, I saw that section. To my interpretation, these average percents are so much smaller than the variation seen, that it's basically /not/ addressing the outlier variations. Perhaps plots would be better/less alarming
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by gertlex 2y ago
20x variation in their measurements of "Black Tea Pearls" (and 8x or so in the tea juice). Would have liked to see more reflection on that. (I feel like I'm still seeing plastic straws for boba everywhere in San Jose; but I&#
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by gertlex 2y ago
It seems noteworthy, but not commented that I can see (in the article), that the different samples of "Boba Guys Black Tea Pearls" have 20x variation in measured amount. So what's up with that? (I have uninformed ideas...)
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by gertlex 2y ago
I think the most interesting bit from the Visa podcast was that in the past 5(ish?) years, their revenue has massively increased... From a "things are nice the way they've always been", this felt like a indication that change
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by gertlex 2y ago
I saw this a couple years ago. It was great looking then. I finally got around to trying to model some "real" considerations today, and it's just an awesome experience to use/explore so far. Congrats on the success, and
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by gertlex 2y ago
Lightweight software that does one thing well always makes for a great casual conversation topic here. You learn how widespread knowledge of it it is or isn't. And, often adjacent tools that might be of interest are mentioned. Admitted
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by gertlex 2y ago
Curious: do you also do script-writing in other languages? And just pull out perl for a subset of problems? Or are most things at the "bigger than a script" level for you? I'm not here to judge. I still prefer to write my pyt
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by gertlex 2y ago
That's one sentence; it's a good sentence, but it's not a lot. Nothing about running it. And I already noted (in a very offhand way): > the About section/link being there... it's offscreen by the start of the REA
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by gertlex 2y ago
This is a bit off-topic, but: am I just dim or could the README be a bit more informative? What it's for, who it's for, etc. (I'll give partial blame to me or github for the About section/link being there... it's of
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by gertlex 2y ago
I could see this being a super-short-term thing, because we've lately been having dry windy weather (bay area), aka Red Flag warnings. But sadly sounds like it's longer-term.
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by gertlex 2y ago
As per the first line of the writeup on the page: It toggles between on and off every 16 seconds.
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by gertlex 2y ago
Not sure that counts, as we're not using nuclear weapons in practice for current conflicts/engagements. We have the whole other range of combat capabilities, and the distribution of those capabilities in our arsenal/armed for
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by gertlex 2y ago
I bought a few of a similar product probably a few months later than the timeline covered here. Got mine from Etsy, and kind of assumed they were made in a home setup (obviously this is far from universally true with Etsy products). Living
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by gertlex 2y ago
I assumed it was mostly distance from painting surface to camera that needed to be controlled for.
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by gertlex 2y ago
As an American, I'm probably heavily influenced about non-state-by-state discussion in the media and thus ignorant... (and work in tech and don't directly pay for health insurance...) but I don't think I'm aware of signi
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by gertlex 2y ago
I might have made this mistake via confusion from my more recent use of XFCE then. (I've never bothered trying to change my file manager; let alone learn the name, except that I needed to launch nautilus from command line, years ago an
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by gertlex 2y ago
Was happy to read this, as I've often imagined doing this myself (i.e. thoroughly hashing out commentary on a bunch of nits in a GUI that annoy me and I'm convinced should be better). I agree that ctrl+L is a weird shortcut in a v
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by gertlex 2y ago
Further, I'm not sure you can do command injection, as the the `host` variable is treated as a single token in the shell call. `host = "google.com; wget exploit"` won't run `wget exploit`. Happy to learn if there's
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by gertlex 2y ago
Slack and chatgpt behaviors here are regular reminders to me of "using tech still sucks for the [non-nerds]". I'm pretty resilient to these whoopsies and just live with it... Teams does the discord thing mentioned in another
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by gertlex 2y ago
You /can/ totally do it hardmode though. I did small plastic battlebots several years ago, and I went for Xbee teleop communication to a microcontroller, controlling PWM motor drivers etc. (no, didn't go far enough that this
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by gertlex 2y ago
Enlighten us, then? And does "broadly unproductive" have a specific meaning, too?
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by gertlex 2y ago
Thanks for the insights on that half of the hypothetical! 9mg is indeed wild, and made me go check the article... The article is a bit confusing, or I'm missing some nuances. It seems to talk about 2-3 drones, I think, mentioning weigh
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by gertlex 2y ago
In this case, I really like the silver/black contrast. I actually had a prototype pinky ring for years that was just aluminum and carbon fiber (lathe-made). The aluminum is whiter/less shiny, so an even starker contrast. (I really
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by gertlex 2y ago
> Knowing what I know now, I probably could have made these rings without casting. I could have heated up the metal, hammered it into shape, reheated to undo the work hardening, and repeated that process until I had the ring I desired. I
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by gertlex 2y ago
I also used shapeways and CAD (Solidworks). Printed a steel one first (cheapest metal), then iterated and did a brass one, finally a silver one. I got a spare silver one made as well. Then I did a wrap of unidirectional carbon fiber around
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by gertlex 2y ago
For anyone wondering, these were called the Dash buttons. I have a few from ~2016 that I was playing with a couple months ago. You have to block them from connecting to amazon servers... I got them working and started but didn't finis
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by gertlex 2y ago
I remember diagramming being covered once, maybe 5th grade, and not sure it was addressed again. I seem to have ended up with a very strong "sense" for correct english (though I know some parts where I'm weak; and also my onl

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