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by hugs 5y ago
The only video hints at it, but what is something that can be manufactured in space in their station that can't be manufactured on earth?
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by hugs 5y ago
I used to be a "9-5 engineer in a big company". But I always loved playing with robots. It took me years to a) learn how to build robots (started as a self-taught weekend hobby), and b) find companies that want to buy robots I can
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by hugs 5y ago
I've built a ton of stuff with grid beam. I never drilled my own holes. For big stuff, like making office furniture [1], I buy "pre-drilled" aluminum beams from McMaster-Carr [2]. I would buy lots of long lengths, then cut do
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by hugs 5y ago
No money. 2 weeks. That's what I did. I used a study guide app. (HamRadioExam Tech by Roy Watson) There are many other free options, though. Lots of people like hamstudy.org. I spent 1-2 hours a day for two weeks memorizing all the ans
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by hugs 5y ago
It could totally be both. Boston Dynamics' Spot is already doing a good job navigating a human's world, but I also could see home goods manufacturers making new versions of their products "Spot-optimized".
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by hugs 5y ago
"home is always going to be a nightmare environment for this kind of thing" We have two choices: 1) Design robots for places optimized for humans, or 2) Design places optimized for robots -- a future where the living space (and al
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by hugs 5y ago
Check out the Garmin inReach Mini or Rock Seven's RockBLOCK 9603. They're already relatively small -- I could imagine those circuits getting smooshed into a phone case. However, I doubt the connection would be anywhere close to ha
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by hugs 5y ago
If you do lots of test automation (especially on multiple platforms), its utility is immediately apparent.
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by hugs 5y ago
fwiw, I started working on a CV/OCR scripting language a few years ago, now called Wildcard. It's "emoji"-based, but the initial input was meant to be from a camera. https://youtu.be/dSOfMSS9aFY https:&
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by hugs 5y ago
That is so cool! Will they do it again? (Please!?)
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by hugs 6y ago
I was specifically thinking of the ATtiny85 when I made my comment. A beginner's first electronics project is often blinking an LED on and off. When I'm teaching a room full of kids electronics for the first time, the simplicity a
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by hugs 6y ago
Gatekeeping comments like that are not helpful. There are many beginner-friendly tutorials for 8-bit AVR chips, and many projects don't need the extra features of a 32-bit ARM chip.
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by hugs 6y ago
I thought about Amdahl's Law a lot when I started Sauce Labs. To make browser test automation faster, the initial plan was to throw more hardware at the problem by getting more servers and running tests in parallel. But we were always
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by hugs 6y ago
Thanks. I remember reading several blog posts by RPA vendors how RPA is totally not like Selenium... and the more I read the more suspicious I got.
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by hugs 6y ago
While I got your time, how exactly is RPA different than a UI automation tool like Selenium?
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AR glasses are what comes after the smartphone(axios.com)
2 points by hugs 6y ago|0 comments
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Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Is Now Armed(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by hugs 6y ago|1 comments
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by hugs 6y ago
Stories about enterprise open source are so frustrating. They never mention Selenium & the ecosystem of companies making millions of dollars. Selenium basically doesn't exist at all whenever anyone asks "BuT wHeRe aRe tHe Op
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by hugs 6y ago
Like in Aesop's fable, Python was a "tortoise" to many other languages "hare". Many languages (especially BASIC, Perl, PHP, Java, and Ruby) had moments where they had an extreme amount of attention in a short amount
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by hugs 6y ago
Years ago I visited family in Chile, we mostly stayed in Santiago, but we took a side trip flying north to the Atacama Desert, which happens to be where the lithium mines are located. (Chile has the largest lithium reserves in the world, by
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by hugs 6y ago
I always get nervous when stories about Selenium reach the front page of HN. If at any point in the past Selenium has kicked your dog, please accept my apologies.
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by hugs 6y ago
As long as there are buttons to click, people will want robots to click the same buttons. It is surprising, though, how much engineering is required to click a button.
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by hugs 6y ago
That's almost where I'm stuck. I was going down a path where Wildcard would "simply" transpile to JavaScript and inherit JS semantics... But yeah, it's so close to Logo, I couldn't decide if I should transpile
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by hugs 6y ago
I started working on a similar idea, called "Wildcard"... The idea was to create a lower cost alternative to Lego Mindstorms for programming simple robots. So "⬆5" would tell a robot to move forward 5 rotations. The oth
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by hugs 6y ago
Pushing back on Theranos-as-an-indictment-of-Silicon-Valley-venture-capital is a fine point to make, but that's not the point he made. He said Theranos' cap table had an "absence of Silicon Valley firms", which is false.
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by hugs 6y ago
You can go directly to the SEC's website for the information. In Theranos' earliest SEC filing, "Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund VII, L.P." is listed as a Beneficial Owner. Filing Date 2005-01-03 File/File Number 021-7
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by hugs 6y ago
I got into robotics and have been able to do it professionally for several years precisely because it's a useful way to automate real world end-to-end testing.
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by hugs 6y ago
It would look like a gallon of milk or a box of cereal. (Many foods are fortified with vitamin D. Check food labels for the level they provide.)
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Covid-19 Is Dividing the American Worker(wsj.com)
2 points by hugs 6y ago|1 comments
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by hugs 6y ago
A science outpost, specifically as a place to put telescopes, seems the most compelling. The rest of the population would then grow along side the science outpost to service it (food, transportation, etc.) A looong time until a million peop

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