mglz

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by mglz 2y ago
Unfortunately basic experience with git at universities is not something you can expect. Especially professors cause a lot of damage frequently due to not taking/having the time to learn it properly.
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by mglz 2y ago
Has this become any better? Every time I asked ChatGPT for sources it makes up papers, with fragments of real paper titles and topically related authors. The supposed paper itself though can't be found anywhere.
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by mglz 2y ago
There is! https://blog.kagi.com/small-web https://search.marginalia.nu/
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by mglz 2y ago
Another step in the war on general-purpose computing [1]. As people who work in tech we have a shared responsibility to keep technology free and accessible for all who want it. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
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by mglz 2y ago
> being used by profiteers trying to milk it for every last dollar Not just this, but also enshittify service, spam content, increase spying and in general disempower users.
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by mglz 2y ago
Just got my Framework 16 and I highly recommend it. Sure, it is not as sleek but overall very well engineered. I was inconvenienced by having my charge port on the left side, so i just swapped the port to the right. Lovely device :)
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by mglz 2y ago
This is a design choice. Building a device optimized for repairability is possible and has been realized by Framework [1]. Of course it doesn't have to be all-out modularity, but an intermediate solution is easily possible. Vote with y
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by mglz 2y ago
Modern business seems to not care about resilience or having a plan B at all.
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by mglz 2y ago
The space race likely necessitated NASA to show some improvement frequently. Otherwise the Soviet Union would have filled the large gaps between infrequent launches with their incremental successes.
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by mglz 2y ago
They did this distance before in Europe, namely from Stuttgart to the French mediterranean coast and from Stuttgart again to Silverstone, in the UK. [1] [1] https://www.adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/autokatalog/marken-
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by mglz 2y ago
If you can build a Dyson sphere it should be trivial to maintain a few extra planets worth of natural environment, or even life seed some new worlds.
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by mglz 2y ago
> It’s using a new specialized Gemini model to summarize the web and show you an answer. It’s even using Gemini to design and populate the results page. This sounds like a typical overfitting for simple, generic searches, at the expense
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by mglz 2y ago
Why would AI provide better diagnoses if the training data comes from humans?
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by mglz 3y ago
What issues for example?
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by mglz 3y ago
I don't want to say no, however it seems very hard to do. You get feedback about motor position via an encoder, which is usually located on the motors axis and not the output element. Since the motor axis spins a lot more, you get more
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by mglz 3y ago
They do, but cheap is ~10.000€ currently for a general-purpose bot with 1.2m reach. You get a high quality machine and software for that. Note that a robot without really good kinematics software is borderline unusable. Also, besides the ar
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by mglz 3y ago
Servo + Cycloidal or Harmonic gears are usually the way to go, but to get them backlash-free is hard (or expensive, if you're buying). Once you got that down challenges include: * How rigid are the links between my joints? Plastic will
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by mglz 3y ago
One thing that is amazing about industrial robots is how rigid they are when at standstill. Breaking systems start to be a challenge too at high speeds and loads. And once you manage to get the hardware working, getting a kinematic solver t
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by mglz 3y ago
Yes please. The amount of people flying blind for minutes on end is insane.
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by mglz 3y ago
How so? In Europe there seems to be plenty of stuff fot kids to spend unstructured time.
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by mglz 3y ago
My last name contains an ü and it has been consistenly horrible. * When I try to preemptively replace ü with ue many institutions and companies refuse to accept it because it does not match my passport * Especially in France, clerks try to
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by mglz 3y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/505/
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by mglz 3y ago
...which means nothing, especially since string theory didn't solve physics either.
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by mglz 3y ago
Both are even worse for data protection and would immediately leak EU data onto US servers.
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by mglz 3y ago
Thanks, those look super interesting!
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by mglz 3y ago
We need "leadership" people in companies to aign off on decisions like how engineers need to sign off on designs. That signature needs to make them accountable for future issues.
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by mglz 3y ago
I guess it's on everybodys mind due to the war in Ukraine: They sunk 1/3rd of the Russian Black Sea fleet with drones, without having a real navy of their own anymore. Is there a good overview of civilian applications so far? Also
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by mglz 3y ago
FFS, it seems like we need the EU again. Maybe a general law that all connectors must be accessible to third parties?
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by mglz 3y ago
This is correct. That's also why there is an ongoing trend to push users into walled gardens and onto hardware they do not control. Or as Cory Doctorow calls it the "war on general-purpose computing"
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by mglz 3y ago
Managed virtual servers are available here: https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server/

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