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They're trying to strong arm people into coming back now.

Best application I can think of is a mid-level robot prototype. Small enough that you don't need a lot of computing horsepower, but also need lots of high speed I/O for cameras, LiDAR, etc. This is a small niche since most robots that need that kind of I/O also need much more computational horsepower.

Hah, I'm surprised he mentioned Lauterbach at all. It's ruthlessly powerful, but not remotely hacker / user friendly.

It seems that we've learned over the last few years that a big part of getting a robot to operate in an unstructured environment is contextual understanding. Example - a woman fell under a Cruise car recently in SF and the car ran over her leg. The car correctly guessed that something was wrong, but it did the wrong thing in that context. It stopped on top of her leg and pinned her under the vehicle.

Sure, but NASA is concerned about an emergency landing scenario on Mars. Astronauts that crash land while physically incapacitated from long duration microgravity will face near certain death.

EMS = electro muscular stimulation? No, not 100%. Astronauts have very good resistance training onboard the ISS at this point. Some of them come back to earth stronger than they left. However, it turns out that your body also needs skeletal loading in order to produce strong bones. That kind of loading comes from having large forces distributed through the entire body. NASA tried a variety of shortcuts around resistance training, but none of them were satisfactory.

A spinning drum is probably the best method short of artificial gravity, but it has a couple problems. A rotating reference frame creates some pretty non-intuitive effects (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ_seXo-Enc). Research is ongoing about just how fast a human can be spun for a long duration, although data is hard to come by. We also don't know how low of a gravity a human can stay healthy in without intervention like serious exercise. If it turns out that you need 1G, that involves a much larger spinning drum than a G/3 (Mars) or G/6 (Moon) environment. The problem is that we really have no way to simulate those environments for a human.

Not to mention time traveling to and from the airpot. The Hauptbahnhof is usually right downtown.

That's incredible. I was just speaking with colleagues about the best conditions for surfing waves. The best waves here in California originate in storms on the opposite side of the Pacific. The waves travel thousands of miles over the course of days without appreciably dissipating.

Star trackers have been around for quite a while, so I'm not surprised! Even the Voyager probes had the ability to orient themselves relative to the Sun, Earth, and the star Canopus.

School still isn't the same work. There's a lot more intricacies in the real world than you can ever be taught in school.

You could say that drawing and writing occurred spontaneously several times.

Does anyone have a good apples-to-apples comparison for MicroBlaze, vs Risc-V, vs a legacy softcore design like the SPARC/Leon3?

I know this article is satire, but it certainly strikes a chord. Putting big metal robots capable of moving at highway speed in close proximity to squishy humans is going to cause issues. It might be the human's fault. It might be the vehicle's fault. It might be completely unrelated.

However, there are industries like aviation that take these issues seriously. They're investigated, reported, and learned from. We need to do the same for autonomous vehicles if they're actually going to be safe. This means we need an open, independent body outside of industry control, like the NTSB or NHTSA that can produce in depth, transparent, and publicly available reports that manufacturers can't bury or buy away.

On the other side, we, the (future) passengers need to be conscious of these safety issues. We need to hold companies accountable for fixing flaws in autonomous vehicles. Airplane accidents can be spectacularly big, which captivates the public. I'm worried that car accidents will just be too small for enough people to care, and therefore we will continue to have a trickle of fatalities in every city and we will never be free from cars.

Welders are exposed to a heavy industrial environment on a daily basis... Harsh chemicals, metal fumes, grinding dust. None of these things are healthy to be around.

Welding is the epitome of selling your future for money now... There's virtually old welders.

Yes, that's often the case. Many interests (alcohol, police, private prisons) gain revenue from all the 'drug crimes' that really shouldn't be treated as severely as they are. It's also a common excuse to arrest, search, and oppress minority groups while the affluent majority generally gets a pass.

I just started a job using PoDL and so far I'm quite impressed with it as a technology. I'd like to see consumer devices start to use it too.

Thanks for the perspective. It's a refreshing difference from the HN refrain of "everything is an interface, and we can bend it to our will". The natural world will come for us all sooner or later.

I think it's evident to most people that write Ada that the language is too English-heavy. This gets in the way of actually representing the computations. This was a design decision when the language was created, since the emphasis was put on maintainable code

Hah, my perfect niche!

I think that an ada-like language could make a real resurgence in embedded programming. Ada gets all the things about bare-metal right that C got wrong. However, it's held up by legacy tooling, clunky syntax, and obtuse compiler errors. Adacore has gone a long way towards alleviating those issues over the last few years, with alire and the ada_language_server. Time will see where this language takes us.

Where is this? I'd like to go see it before I (soon) move away.

I feel like this is weak argument these days, places like reddit.com/r/unixporn are overkill when it comes to styling a desktop environment, but a quick change to the Numix icon set and a new GTK theme makes most Linux installations with Gnome look great.

I always enjoyed https://youtube.com/@Analogzoo?feature=shared

I really wish we'd hear more from them. That was an incredible project.

Many choices are made for us by society. Without going to extraordinary lengths, how should I assure that my life does not produce greenhouse gasses?

That's rough, I'm sorry to roscosmos.

Fantastic, hopefully this is motivation for an improved charging grid as well.

You're confusing the actual campaign with twitter trolls. The actual campaign is registered, and is required to obey a variety of laws.

If an independent repair man a la Louis Rossman can make a living doing component level repair on macs, then I'd expect the margin to be good enough that the original company could do it as well. However, the economic sense to Apple is about selling new products, and an actual repair program would cut into product sales.

Federal prison is still held to much higher standards when compared to county jails, especially those run by for profit corporations.