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by michaelt 1y ago
The other reason is: If a user figures out a way to upload javascript and have it work, you don't want them to steal other users' login cookies. This is why your gmail attachments should show up on googleusercontent.com instead of
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by michaelt 1y ago
> I'm convinced that it was nothing less than business collusion. Are you sure you didn't just see a sales meeting? If you're a farmer in the market for a $200k combine harvester, sales guys will be happy to put you in a
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by michaelt 1y ago
Why should that be the case? Do the credit card companies go to Wal-Mart, find all the fraud is people buying cigarettes, spirits and razor blades, and tell Wal-Mart to stop stocking those? Of course they don't.
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by michaelt 1y ago
There's an unwritten compact between American politicians and American payment providers. The payment providers get to charge a 2% fee on all transactions, without any pesky questions about antitrust law. In exchange, when politicians
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by michaelt 1y ago
I guess "mid price" isn't the most helpful term when machines vary from $100 to $100,000 huh? I think the X-Carve 3-axis wood carver uses stepper motors with belts of all things. The Shapeoko Pro is leadscrews and stepper m
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by michaelt 1y ago
The UR10 uses 100:1 strain wave gearing in the base and shoulder joints. You’re right that it has a freedrive mode, and force control modes. But it’s a rigid, low-backlash robot with the compliance achieved in software afterwards. Expensive
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by michaelt 1y ago
On the other hand, a 100:1 gearbox gives you much-needed torque if you're lifting a load at the end of a long arm, it makes your encoder 100x more precise (in terms of repeatability) and it makes your motor brake 100x stronger. Back-dr
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by michaelt 1y ago
There's huge demand, for sure. But there's also huge competition. You're not going to out-spend Google or Facebook or Apple or OpenAI or Baidu or Alibaba easily. And the likes of Google may have been caught napping a few year
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by michaelt 1y ago
> That's why pro crews don't use gears and ropes. [...] Instead what you see is the motors right on the joints. The answer here, as with so many things in robotics, is: It Depends. UR10e robot arm that can lift a 4kg object w
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by michaelt 1y ago
Well, it probably wasn't that much effort. When you're 3D printing you're going to end up printing everything 2-3 times anyway , so why not dial in the ratio while you're at it? And you can't really declare your
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by michaelt 1y ago
Their competitors like Google and OpenAI would also be subject to the same salary cap.
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by michaelt 1y ago
If you got to hire the cops to investigate your own mistakes, would you hire competent, motivated folks who'd leave no stone unturned and get access to every classified, air-gapped network in search of license infringements? I wouldn&#
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by michaelt 1y ago
I mean, presumably it's subject to the two curses of modern software:- 1. Unless major customers are actively closing their accounts due to the poor performance, improving performance isn't a priority. 2. The people who pay for it
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by michaelt 1y ago
The CEO who was in the news the other day saying "Replit ai went rogue and deleted our entire database" seems to basically be the CEO of a one-person company. Needless to say, there are hundreds of thousands of such CEOs. You&#x27
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by michaelt 1y ago
As I understand things, part of what you get with these coding agents is automating the process of 1. LLM writes broken code, such as using an imaginary function, 2. user compiles/runs the code and it errors because the function doesn&
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Coding agents are very new. Surely these coding agents, MCP servers and suchlike are being coded with their own tooling? The tooling that, if you listen to the hype, is as smart as a dozen PhDs and is winning gold medals at the Inter
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by michaelt 1y ago
Arainach is advocating for something called "Zero Trust" which, from a user's perspective, is very much like a VPN. It's software your employer pre-installs on your work PC, that asks you to log in with your work SSO c
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by michaelt 1y ago
You can hear Steam's experience with bitcoin straight from the horse's mouth here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail... > transaction fees that are charged to the cust
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by michaelt 1y ago
There are also a lot of religious anti-pornography folks in America, and with views on sexuality they are eager to impose on others. I doubt the pressure came from Australia alone. And there's a long history of people taking credit for
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by michaelt 1y ago
The French felt there was little evidence of Iraq having WMDs, or working with Al-Qaeda, and refused to back George W. Bush's US-led invasion in the UN. The US responded with a wine boycott, renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries on th
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Which is strange because secure boot should be useful in _exactly_ the situation you don't have physical control of the HW, shouldn't it? One of the ways you can introduce your own signing key is as a Machine Owner Key, usi
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by michaelt 1y ago
I would rate the experience as 6.5/10 If you use a major distro like Ubuntu, you might find Secure Boot works out-of-the-box, with no need to dick about with 'machine owner keys' and suchlike. Ubuntu has packages like &quot
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by michaelt 1y ago
Ignore the fact the hand is as thick as a servo motor, for now, and just consider the palm width. This 4-finger hand is just below 4 inches wide, across the knuckles. By the standards of gloves for humans, this is already "X-Large&quot
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by michaelt 1y ago
A chainsaw juggler surely does not want to chop their own hand off. But if they do, it's hardly a defect of the chainsaw .
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by michaelt 1y ago
Let us hope nobody is writing their aircraft stabilizer trim control software in PHP.
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by michaelt 1y ago
I make my employer a million dollars a year by making a 0.1% improvement in a billion-dollar-a-year business. No billion-dollar-a-year business? No million dollars of value created.
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by michaelt 1y ago
> as far as I know, it has never been tried Opera, up until 2000, was trialware that nagged users to pay. At that time, they were one of the first browsers to support tabs. In 2000 they put ads for non-paying users, and from 2005 they
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by michaelt 1y ago
Do we expect Apple to implement a special, privacy-preserving age proof for porn viewers? Apple hates porn, when it's on websites like Tumblr.
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sometimes I believe one can also face legal trouble for unreasonably banning things strongly correlated with a protected characteristic. I can’t sidestep gender discrimination law by refusing to hire people with long hair, unless the job is
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by michaelt 1y ago
This is discrimination of the worst kind: Against me.

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