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Comment · 17 days ago
Looks like the upgrade instructions for PHP 8.3 for Fedora 39 and earlier are not working ... yikes.
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Inside the house? How? They shit wherever they happen to be ...
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you.
Comment · 2 years ago
Diagrams from code are nice ... until you want to nudge that one particular little thing ...
Comment · 2 years ago
Consider the possibility that your brother might be a cat ...
Comment · 2 years ago
They've figured out how to detect and cut off the flowers. No solution to picking the threads yet.
Comment · 2 years ago
A couple of years ago I trained some ResNets to detect saffron flowers and their stigmas and then simulated the picking process in Blender. One would have to develop a suitable soft gripper and use a precise pick-and-place robotic arm (delta robots are great for this), but IMHO the amount of manual labour during harvest can be solved with today's technology.
Comment · 2 years ago
Love it. One suggestion: it would be nice if one could choose the galaxy. I'm not from here, so ...

("Check your galactic privilege!") ;)

Comment · 2 years ago
LOL I just played through Lemmings in one of those DosBox emulators a few days ago ... so much fun!! The music alone brought back some good memories.
Comment · 2 years ago
> if an antagonist bot is mistaken, it's hard to convince it that a different answer is the right answer, it almost always sticks to its original mistake

s/bot//

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Comment · 2 years ago
If they can't tell whether you'll be a good fit after the screening interview, the tech panel interview, and the interview with the hiring manager and who else, then that says more about the company than about you.
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh SoftICE, you got me past many shareware nag screens ... :)
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh, to have the privilege of spending my time on a grey brutalist vessel ... all my friends on their slick yachts would be envious, I'm sure.

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