martythemaniak

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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Yes, obviously. People really need to update their priors on how the US operates now. Laws are out, loyalty is in. There is an extraordinarily powerful unitary executive in whom the will of the people resides and it is the job of the govern
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Yeah, there's commercially available snow plow robots, you can buy a Yarbo for your house today. As far as I can tell, they all operate on a classical robotics stack - for the Yarbo you install an RTK antenna to give the robot cm-level
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
I come from a regular swe background, but I've spent the last few months getting into robotics and trying to build a snow-clearing robot, so here's my noob notes: First, very much expected. Both Google and Qwen have been building
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Yep, people are expanding way too much mental energy on basic bribery. Anthropic will agree to work with the DoD, WH insiders will get some lucrative pre-IPO allocation and Fable will be magically "fixed" and available again.
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Folks, it's just a simple, straightforward shakedown. Anthropic will agree to work with the Department of "War" and give some lucrative pre-IPO allocation to WH insiders and Fable will be back.
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
I think so too. What strikes me most about "pro fertility" people, particularly the SV type, is that they don't seem to particularly like kids, as in spending time with them, playing with them, deriving joy from them. They se
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
There's no population or fertility crisis. The world's population isn't going to fall, it'll level off around 2100, nobody old enough to read this will be around, our kids and grandkids can decide for themselves. Local p
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
There are no long term strategies, neither the "establishment" nor the public (ie you) seem to grasp that simple fact. Americans simply do not wish to engage with reality any more, and that's why they're perfectly happy
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
There's a simple answer actually, FIFA decided to cash out and their objective is now to get the maximum amount of money out of attendees, even becoming their own scalper. This video is a good overview: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Protip: you don't need buttermilk, you need milk and acid. 1 cup milk and 1tbsp vinegar do the same job and are already in your kitchen. Source: Frank Proto's pancakes https://youtu.be/vkcHmpKxFwg?si=a9GeGHKp0WzTmq
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
Am I the only one that doesn't with about this "crisis". The world's population isn't going to fall, it'll level off around 2100, nobody is enough to read this will be around, our kids and grandkids can decide
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
The most talent dense place I've worked had a dead simple process - two one hour chats, one with your potential manager/team and one with the CTO or CEO. If things didn't work out, well you got sent away, probably happened tw
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
Ok, I'll take the bait. I have a thermostat at home, I set a temperature, it keeps my house at that temperature. I have a thermostat in my car, I set the temperature, it keeps the temperature. Fiddling with with climate controls and ve
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
It should be the least surprising thing about Canada - it has been dealing with separatist referendums for decades.
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
I think they're jumping to the right conclusions - because the impetus to get as rid of as many people as possible isn't generally based on understanding, analysis, results, or lessons learned but a FOMO-like mania spread primaril
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
There's been a massive mask-off shift amongst elites* the last few years where displaying open contempt and hatred towards normal people - employees, students, public servants, etc. You can see this most clearly near the epicentre of t
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
> barrier to switching IDEs is nontrivial That was definitely true in the hand-crafted code era, but I've found all the agentic-type things to be basically the same? Even if you're fairly involved in the code, you're still
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
Tough problem! Perhaps the US commentariat should listen to Thomas Friedman's wisdom and start loudly hectoring the rest of the world to step up and fix this problem.
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by martythemaniak 5mo ago
Things have changed and I think most employees in SV/big tech have not yet come to the realization that the executives really, genuinely, honestly, actively despise their employees and gleefully want to see them suffer. It doesn't
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
AKA container ships and locomotives, lol.
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
It's actually dead simple: there are battery electric EVs and internal combustion cars. That's it. ICE cars come with a variety of add-ons and schemes to improve efficiency: fuel injectors, ECUs, braking energy capture systems (ak
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
There's a lot of people wondering "Why not just do this all in code", to which there is a very simple and straightforward answer: compression. An LLM/agent can take 100 tokens worth of spec and turn it into 1000 tokens w
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
Rodney Brooks has a great essay on why he's skeptical that the current humanoid hype will deliver and the central claim is that human dexterity is extremely advanced any today's humanoids lack even the sensors and data needed to s
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
Quick! Both the .com and .AI are available!
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
Because Xurxor is free! If that's not a winning brand, I don't know what is.
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
As the article notes regular Gemini and Gemma also have spatial reasoning capabilities, which I decided to test by seeing if Gemini could drive a little rover successfully, which it mostly did: https://martin.drashkov.com/20
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Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0(steve-yegge.medium.com)
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
After many many years in fintech, I'm now getting into robotics by trying to build an autonomous snow clearing robot, think of it like a miniature electric loader. I've been using AI heavily to do this, so everything is in ROS2 si
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by martythemaniak 6mo ago
Well, directly managing all your employees is the new hot trend and how else are you gonna do it?
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by martythemaniak 7mo ago
It's a mix, depending on what the task is, everything impressive is teleop. Which is fine in the abstract - all humanoids from all companies (there's probably like 3 dozen now) are either teleop, doing slow and cautious autonomy w

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