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by jefft255 6y ago
We all learn to type on CA-FR keyboards, so using US-INT would require me to learn yet another layout for accents. Plus CA-FR is the one actually printed on keycaps everywhere; using US-INT for accents would be counter-productive.
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by jefft255 6y ago
I typically use French Canadian layout keyboards, and quickly switch to US with Win+Space when programming and switch back for regular typing. I never felt like owning a new keyboard was necessary as a memorized the keys fairly quickly. The
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by jefft255 6y ago
I'm sorry but this is being in total denial of the real adoption of rust compared to C.
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by jefft255 6y ago
Recompiling, unless you're doing some low-level optimization and the like, isn't tricky or bug prone. I expect a lot of apps to be recompiled and smooth after a few months; making sure dependencies are ARM-ready will slow that dow
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by jefft255 6y ago
His advice really concerns more scientific research and its long-term progress, and not really immediate applications. I think that injecting human knowledge can lead to faster, more immediate progress, and he seems to believe that too. The
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by jefft255 6y ago
I wasn't aware of that, thanks!
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by jefft255 6y ago
Same for me. ROS in particular only supports Ubuntu officially; although I know people can run it on Arch, it’s much more hacky and you have to build every package from source.
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by jefft255 6y ago
I wonder if it is finally time for me to give Arch a try. It's a shame that all my lab's machines run Ubuntu; although I find it solid, this sort of controlling behavior by Canonical seems against the spirit of FOSS.
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by jefft255 6y ago
All these years of caffeine addiction and no coffee machine at home.... sounds insane to me. I drink a lot of coffee; typically 3 cups in the morning at home (if I’m short on time I bring a thermos with me) then I buy maybe 1-2 cups at work
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by jefft255 6y ago
Copying my reply to someone else as I think is applies here too: That's a legit argument against Android , but the exact opposite holds for Windows. You can run Windows 10 on 10 years old hardware, 15 if you push it and I'm not e
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by jefft255 6y ago
That's a legit argument against Android , but the exact opposite holds for Windows. You can run Windows 10 on 10 years old hardware, 15 if you push it and I'm not exaggerating. I'm typing this on my 10 years old desktop PC r
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by jefft255 6y ago
But... why?
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by jefft255 6y ago
People in space robotics have been working on that (moon and mars rovers need to deal with this). Perception is also a bottleneck; you have to see rocks, root, grass, mud and predict the effects on the dynamics.
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by jefft255 6y ago
I'm working on autonomous off-road vehicles, and while this is (probably) true for autonomous cars, dynamics modeling for wheeled robots on rough terrain is another beast where these approaches could very much help.
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by jefft255 6y ago
You can always buy and mount the lidar yourself. It is cheap for a working legged robot of this quality. Others (anymal comes to mind) are much more than that.
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by jefft255 6y ago
For researchers like me it’s an easy way to get a legged robot that just works for fairly cheap. One can then focus on perception/decision/control etc. without being a mechanical engineer.
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by jefft255 6y ago
That's doesn't properly look like lidar data to me; at least it wouldn't be lidar that is mounted right on the street view car. Maybe they use aerial lidar somehow? Or maybe the resolution is purposefully poor?
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by jefft255 6y ago
Any photogrammetry software will do the trick. A free one has been shared here recently: https://alicevision.org/ .
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by jefft255 6y ago
Could someone explain to me what kind of new language features the new parser will allow? I'm curious and very incompetent when it comes to understanding what LL(1) grammar would imply for the end-user (the python programmer like me).
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Rodney Brooks on Peer Review(rodneybrooks.com)
2 points by jefft255 6y ago|0 comments
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by jefft255 6y ago
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but trademarking a famous scientist’s name seems legally dubious at best. Is that allowed? I.e. Tesla the car company and nvidia Tesla’s GPUs; is there a gentleman’s agreement between these two or is
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Building a transformative subsea cable to better connect Africa(engineering.fb.com)
4 points by jefft255 6y ago|1 comments
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by jefft255 6y ago
ROS is already mostly in C++. I find it very enjoyable to use with C++. Python documentation and support is lacking, and Python 3 support is very recent. But yeah; ROS has problems and they don't have anything to do with the language.
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by jefft255 6y ago
I’m sure there’s some POS systems that are maintained on MS DOS.
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by jefft255 6y ago
How much active development of new software is being done for MS-DOS? Really curious to know.
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by jefft255 6y ago
Of course! The answer to your question is always yes. This is very helpful to OSS developers.
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by jefft255 6y ago
This work is amazing and I’m a big fan of Tedrake; however the gap between what you’re showing here and a drone a chases humans and slice their jugular might be bigger than you think. It’s very hard to extrapolate stuff like that.
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by jefft255 6y ago
My roboticist opinion is that you need extremely developed AI to do what you’re saying. It requires navigational capabilities that don’t exist yet except in very open spaces like fields. Also, lightweight drones which could do these fast ma
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by jefft255 6y ago
I loved this paper. It's a good example of a VAE+RNN style model learning for MBRL. It's well exposed. Sure the results aren't the best but it's a well worth read.
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by jefft255 6y ago
Yes of course being of the HN crowd I’m not impressed by the website. You know, all quebeckers share the passion of complaining about our government ;)

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