helltone

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Comment · 3 months ago
How do you think of uv vs pixi?

Follow up: has anyone suggested the projects collaborate or eventually converge?

Comment · 3 months ago
I thought glass was a solid?
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm building in robotics. Setting up a new 3d camera today. I found that the 10m active USB C cable that I bought transfers power in both directions, but only transfers data in one direction, it turns out to be some weird video USB variant. Next I needed to plug a gripper into a modbus controller. That uses an M8 8-pole 20cm cable. The controller manufacturer recently decided to switch from male to female connector, so now the cable needs to be male-male. After searching online for hours, I believe that is impossible to find as everyone only sells male-female cables.

I'm continuously surprised by how difficult it is to plug things together and how non-descriptive cable "standards" are about the actual capabilities of cables and connectors.

Comment · 10 months ago
Is there anything like a linter to force you to stay within some subset of c++? I like the language, but it is hard to avoid language constructs that are outdated or enforce a single (or a few) ways of doing things. A c++ subset could be nice.
Comment · 11 months ago
In the UK, probably nuclear.
Comment · 1 year ago
The goal of automation is not necessarily reduce personnel, it could be increased reliability, reduced risk to life, reducing waste from scraps, faster lead time, etc
Comment · 1 year ago
Do you have some references for the pick and place and other reconfiguration things you mentioned. I've been out of this space for a while but last I checked these were still incredibly challenging things to get right.
Comment · 1 year ago
No amount of fine-tuning can prevent models from doing anything. All it can do is reduce the likelihood of exploits happening, while also increasing the surprise factor when they inevitably do. This is a fundamental limitation.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I have a background in program analysis, but I'm less familiar with the kind of kernels you are optimising.

- Can you give some more insight on why 12 ops suffice for representing your input program?

- With such a small number of ops, isn't your search space full of repeat patterns? I understand the will to have no predefined heuristics, but it seems that learning some heuristics/patterns would massively help reduce the space.

Comment · 1 year ago
This heavily depends on share classes and preferences. Surely the new investor wants better terms. The issue isn't so much dilution as a preference but added risk of never even getting a payout at all.
Comment · 1 year ago
This resonates with me a lot. Can I contact you? My email is in my profile.
Comment · 1 year ago
Every time I see these headlines, the tech seems to be at least 10 years away from product.

- demos done in a lab controlled environment without the crazy things that happen in a real world.

- no humans nearby so none of the safety features that would be needed should this thing work alongside/near humans.

- no regards for economics, expensive vision models, expensive hardware, no consideration for maintenance and repair costs

Comment · 1 year ago
This is very cool. I'm wondering if some of the templates and switch statements would be nicer if there was an intermediate representation and a compiler-like architecture.

I'm also curious about how this compares to something like Jax.

Also curious about how this compares to zml.

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