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These kinds of systems are rare or super rare.

Or a 7 byte register, if you really want to get freaky.

A bit amusing. I took Anna Karenina off Gutenberg and used that as test data for some of my flashing algorithms. I called it the "Anna test". I could have used random data, but where's the fun in that? Besides, during dev, structured text showed the kind of error I got much better than random data would have.

Super cool, what did you make? How large was the factory? How did it work out? One observation from my experience, the closer you are to production, the more stressful things are. But probably scale changes experience. For me, working on stuff that entered automotive production lines, anything that made the line stop or go slow was insanely stresful.

I would be a bit more charitable to OP here because it's not their fault, it's the Roborock app's fault. They convey in their UI the information of total surface cleaned in xxKm2 with the K bolded. But the km doesn't mean square kilometer it means thousands of square meters apparently. It's easy to just take the information at face value as OP probably did here. He went in app, saw the number and the very weird unit for the info and just posted it.

I have a car that doesn't have bluetooth, and trust me, when it's not there, you miss it.

On the other hand, you are limited by having CD's which compared to streaming stuff from Spotify is much much less convenient, take up space and you need to create/buy them, your playlist don't synch up with your other devices. CD experience is much less streamlined than a smartphone. Perhaps nostalgia makes them seem cooler for you, but I am not sold.

I personally am somewhere between you and the author. I don't check _all_ the intermediary steps, but I do try to understand what it's doing [1] and follow the process. Mostly I let it do the changes itself without supervision at each step but when a coherent "chunk" of work is done, I go through it really thoroughly. In almost 90% of the cases after a chunk is done some adjustments are needed.

I find broad architectural design to be _better_ if you follow along in the process because you better understand the direction it's going earlier and you can shift the high level direction much earlier. Even if you check its steps, you can ask it for its take on high-level architectural aspects along the way, no problem. I think personal touch matters a lot though, because I naturally ask it and try to get the big picture image.

[1] I actually find it really instructive what tooling it uses to tackle a problem, I got to become a much better console user because of it

I'm not so sure. I think you can, you just need to intentionally drill into what you don't understand and it's exhausting. What I do agree with though is that I can't seem to build the ability to build it myself the same way as I would if I wrote it.

For example, I know my mental model works because I know what change I should do in order to get an effect and when I do the change, I get what I expect. But if I were to build myself something similar, I could not build it because the approach is somewhat out of my reach, I know it sounds weird, but it's hard to explain.

I am a bit confused which part you disagree with specifically. Reading AI responses and reviewing code seems to be what you propose as well.

Your example with MLIP is something that would not be prevented by this approach, during the planing phase, it would surface.

I guess the devil is in the details and the way you prompt it for starting the task matters.

But IMO you absolutely need to check the output, need to engage with what the model is doing, need to probe why something is built the way the model tries to build it.

I don't know why you would say that, my Xiaomi s6's wheel motor died, I was bummed about it. I ordered a replacement motor, and to my surprise, I only had to open one or two screws and the motor module popped right out. The module had a nice slitting connector. I put the new motor back in and I was done. The thing must be at least 8 years old by now and it's still chugging along. I now passed it on to my parents and it's cleaning their house.

I have been following them since they were Halodi robotics. They're cool, but nowhere near the level of autonomy you need. My theory is that before household robots become a thing we should have self driving cars be a common occurrence, since that is a much much simpler problem.

I have touched these things. This whole mess is a self-inflicted wound. There can axist good systems software, but Autosar ain't it.

> you know someone's desperate when you see a bogus DMCA claim like this

I don't think this means desperation, it's just these assholes weaponize the law on a regular basis.

Honestly, I usually like to give people the benefit of the doubt. But these Pollen guys seem like grade-A assholes. It is astonishing to me the gall to double charge people on the order or $3.2M and never return the money. I can't bear to not repay someone even a dollar, but intentionally doing stuff like this seems to be run of the mill for these guys. I can't even get in the headspace of people who would do this.

Interesting this pops up on the front page now, I just listened to the "In our time" podcast episode about this civilization a couple of days ago. Baader-Meinhof strikes again!

I recently discovered Shinsuke Yoshitake:

"I won't give up my rubber band" is a sweet, imaginative, thoughtful exploration of the thing we get attached to in our lives. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58739625-i-won-t-give-up...

"I wonder where I am" is a exploration of maps in various forms, a bit over my 2.5 year old's cognitive abilities, but I think it's great. Can't wait until he's able to get it.: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204810909-i-wonder-where...

The books from Julia Donaldsson are classics. I am partial to Gozzle:

Gozzle https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gozzle-Julia-Donaldson/dp/152907641...

The snail and the whale: https://www.amazon.com/Snail-Whale-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150983...

My kid had a loooong "The hospital dog" phase: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hospital-Dog-Julia-Donaldson/dp/150...

I skipped some of the native romanian books we read since there are no known translations that I am aware of. One of the main reasons I want to teach my toddler english is so that we can appreciate a wider selection of books, because there are many books not translated in Romanian.

I also noticed that the quality of the translation matter immensely, probably more than for normal books. And a lot of books just don't translate all that well because they rely on rimes or alliterations.

Waste heat from these things is negligible compared to the sun heat. I know people love to hate on these things, but come on...

> But they also create workers that can hop off the ship.

Sounds to me like a win for the workers, a win for the employer(in that they get better companies) and a win for society at large.

If that is true, they are incredibly stupid. Empowered workers create better, more effective companies.

Fair-ish point, if a bit cheeky. But threads can be still threads, i.e. in the same address space, but without actually having shared state between them. And then they're still threads, not processes.

You could also have stuff like message ques going between them, the cost of passing data around is small then, you don't have do leave user space to put stuff in the mq's. But can you still call it "not having shared state"? I'd say yes, even though you do share memory and you do have the mutually accessible que. But I can see why you could argue otherwise.

Soo... Essentially, still threads, but no shared state between threads, and they talk through this message interface?

My dad used to work as an electrician at the "Wind Research Institute" in Romania, back when the communists were still in power. So of course, I was regaled with all sorts of stories on wind turbine deployments all throughout childhood.

One of them was when this huge vertical axis turbine research prototype suffered a destructive failure while he was in the control room underneath because of a flaw in the emergency braking system. Apparently, when the blades (that normally are under tension) break off they make a loud noise and having that thing fall on you is super dangerous.

Only mildly related, but thought I'd share since only now, as a grownup, I realize it's actually interesting, whereas as a small child I really did not appreciate it. And, well, not sure how many times vertical wind turbines come into discussion.

Can't wait for my kid to roll his eyes at my stories.

Yes, it's just the people who's needs are met with it have no means to pay for it themselves. This just won't plug itself with this system of incentives and power.

I mean... you've got to have faith in your theory before testing it out. I am not having any opinion here about this, but the cycle in my mind is theory, belief, test, updated model of reality. I can imagine similar things said before we managed to have powered flight, "Pshhhsst! We'll never fly! The law of gravity forbids it."

You do need to have unreasonable goals for things once in a while. In this case, I don't have a particularly fixed stance about SMR's, but the claim that "Thermodynamics are the reason why SMR aren't, and will never, be economical" feels a bit stronger than it is warranted. Never is a damn' looooong time. And I can easily imagine things being less efficient, but having other advantages that make them more economical. Claiming it's impossible is just stretching.

Oooh, I saw this memory scrambling trying happening on the Open titan chips and I couldn't wrap my head around why they would scramble the memory since on read you descramble it anyway through the circuitry. That makes sense! Thanks for the explanation.

Ok, this is interesting. I am skeptic about DC's in space, but I do appreciate people actually doing stuff. What is it computing up there. How did you get it up? How does one usually talk with their satellite. I guess you don't merely have a dish since it's probably not geostationary.

How are SMR's "gaslighting themodynamics"? I mean, sure, I can accept that they're not economical with current tech, but it's not a frigging' perpetuum mobile, it's feasible technology.

Well, at least he sold something. Only halfway joking. Because probably worse than knowing you put slop out is putting thing out nobody likes.

> Engineering has never been, nor will it ever be, about "repetition" or "memorization."

Having memory of how to do things and techniques and tools and patterns is absolutely important for solving problems. The very reason experienced engineers are just better at many classes of problems.

> This cleverness can't be augmented by AI, and it can't be rotted by AI: it's something that's innate to people

I argue "cleverness" is a learned and honed skill by exposure and exercise. I just reject the idea that some people are just incapable of original thought. They just didn't get the circumstances to flourish.

I think it's reductionist to say politicians are psychopaths.and it's completely dependent on how you structure your society. And, regardless, social coordination is absolutely necessary and you won't be able to do it without the state.