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by ragebol 2y ago
Quality of life costs money, and if we're not competitive, sooner or later that money will run out.
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by ragebol 2y ago
The group I most often play with has a school teacher in it. Guess who gets to read the rules to the rest.
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by ragebol 2y ago
More mass means more fuel means more speed?
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by ragebol 2y ago
*local maximum. Maxima is plural, maximum is singular. /pedantic Now I'll read the actual article
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by ragebol 2y ago
But normally they do risk any other people? No, not at all. People are miles from where the robot could potentially go even after it is remotely aborted/blown up.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Why fire? Why is that so different from other tools that require significant effort to create? Some animals use some tools, but mostly just sticks IIRC, with no effort to creating them, beyond breaking one off a tree. Maybe the criterion &
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by ragebol 2y ago
LOL, Blue Origin is not new btw. But new to launching orbital rockets
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by ragebol 2y ago
I'd gladly run whatever model you want at home, rent it out so you can pay for both heating, the GPU and the power consumed :-)
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by ragebol 2y ago
Probably saves a bit on the gas bill for heating too
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by ragebol 2y ago
Plenty of of want-to-be competitors, but not so far with the amount of capital behind Musk. And space remains capital intensive, if not for hardware, then for people.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Not to mention his politics. I see space exploration as progress, which doesn't really mesh with conservative, backward politics.
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by ragebol 2y ago
There's some new competitors, like Stoke, Relativity, Blue Origin, bunch more I'm forgetting. This sort of diaspora of talent with experience is good to have, if there is capital
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by ragebol 2y ago
Musk inspired and hired a lot of great engineers that made this all possible. His vision, passion and capital are crucial in this, but he dis not catch these himself, nor did he engineer any of the control systems to the detail needed to
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by ragebol 2y ago
As per the blog post, only Zoom allows to stream a selected area of the screen. What other proprietary SW can do this? With this tool, they should all be able to
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by ragebol 2y ago
I still have that island fortress thing somewhere in a closet, or maybe my parents. With the pool that could swivel out the way, the trees that fold down and some sound effects IIRC. Was all the rage in my class when I was a kid (in the 90s
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by ragebol 2y ago
I'm amazed it goes right so often in humans at all. During my wife's pregnancies, there is so much the check for, so much that could go wrong!
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by ragebol 2y ago
Some good advice here! Too often I've heard: why make a robot open doors with it manipulator, just install a door opener on the door! Fits the bill here exactly: making a better robot helps you scale. Only relatively recently that robo
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by ragebol 2y ago
Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure most people only care about money efficiency: what choice is cheaper, now and over time.
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by ragebol 2y ago
You're saying: why buy a dishwasher and a washing machine and a dryer and a vacuum robot etc if you could buy a home robot to do all of those chores by robot-hand?
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by ragebol 2y ago
Having worked on home robotics (in university, for RoboCup@Home so nothing commercial), home robots now finally feel really feasible. The breakthroughs from LLMs and other ML technologies could finally bring this dream to reality. I'd
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by ragebol 2y ago
They suck for carpet as well, which you'll find in a home environtment. The diagonal motion chews carpet with short strands up over time. If you have long strands in a carpet, you'll lock up in those pretty fast I suppose, though
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by ragebol 2y ago
Bigger mecanum wheels. What matters is the size of the rollers wrt the size of the obstacles they face.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Mecanum wheels are great when used in the appropriate setting. Which is: indoors, where there are only very small disturbances in the floor. And even then you might want a very little bit of suspension like on the robot on the left here: h
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by ragebol 2y ago
Assuming you live in the Netherlands judging just by name: our power grid is pretty damn reliable with little shenanigans. I'd take that risk indeed.
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DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine(diypresso.com)
325 points by ragebol 2y ago|285 comments
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by ragebol 2y ago
Came accross this cool idea. Downside is I don't like coffee, much less espresso
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by ragebol 2y ago
Apparently, Draghi asked Pieter Levels (@levelsio on Twitter) for some input: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1833126426142179653 , pretty cool.
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by ragebol 2y ago
> 5.6 GW of hydro storage capacity The unit police issues you a warning! Storage is measured in watt-hours (or Joules), so 5.6 GWh in this case?
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by ragebol 2y ago
Would be interesting, maybe name it after a color... Can't find the name of that now. But there's also RedoxOS and probably several more.
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by ragebol 2y ago
Meaning: Maybe there should be a competitor to Linux written in Rust BTW: There are a few Rust OS kernels, but none of those have the popularity of Linux of course.

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