monkmartinez

Anecdote:

I tried intermittent fasting for 11 months with very, very little to show for it. I did the 18 hours off and 6 hours of eating plan. I have also tried a strict vegetarian diet for 6 months with no real changes in blood work. My Cholesterol didn't move to the dismay of my PCP and myself quite frankly.

Biology: I am a professional Firefighter that ran 1000 miles and bicycled 250 miles during this time frame. My sleep isn't always consistent which may have played a role due to my profession. I also drink two beers (Karmeliet, Chimay are stocked in my house) with dinner when I am off. So I drink roughly 8 - 10 beers a week. I probably could do better with calorie counting, but frankly it seems futile so long as I like the way I look naked, lol.

If we are still thinking of a house that has hidden wires in the walls and plumbing that is hidden in walls.... Then yes, printed homes as they are currently are not going to work.

If we embrace exposed conduit, exposed ducting and exposed plumbing lines, printed homes could be an order of magnitude cheaper.

If you could own a $10000 dollar machine where you add concrete and a sd-card... then it printed a new room for your house, wouldn't that be revolutionary?

I don't know how much these machines will cost in the future, but I do know that I would love to have one. Construction is very expensive even for houses that are basically sticks and stucco. I would like to buy some land and print a house with modules for plumbing, electrical, etc. This enables a complete rethink of how we currently build homes.

My children attend a charter school where the Cornell system is taught and is mandatory. They are grade school age (9 and 11 y/o) and use their notes to study for tests. It is awesome to see them put effort into the notes as they intuit an almost direct correlation between those notes and their performance with exams.

This is super cool! UTI's are a major problem in the eldery community as well. While I don't have vetted data, I do have my day-to-day experience working in the Fire/EMS industry as a first responder.

I had a patient yesterday, 77 y/o female that was initially called in for erratic behavior. Right when I got in the truck I had a suspicion this was a UTI based on the address, care home, and the comments on the MDT. While UTI's don't always present with a fever, this one did and the care taker knew enough to not flush the toilet... Yes sir, I was 99.999% sure it was a UTI. However....

I had to call a BLS ambulance to take her to the ER because we don't transport to urgent care. The costs associated with this UTI will be in the thousands. I hope we could carry your kit on our fire engines and ambulances as it would reduce unnecessary visits to the ER and the burden on our EMS system.

I don't like it for a few reasons;

1. It looks like you are going to fight "ringing" with lack of rigidity.

2. Its a bowden extruder... which I suppose is a necessity due to the lack of structure. Still I would rather have direct drive on every machine.

3. It's very expensive. You can buy an Ender for $200 or less on sale... or around $230 normal price. Upgrade the board to a 32bit Bigtreetech for $60 with Trinamic drivers... plug and play.

4. Most people find they want a bigger printer... not smaller.

This is my initial reaction. I am always looking for innovation in this space and most of it is happening in the "industrial" realm. For example, I wish they would make an SLS machine or a "beginner" industrial machine.

The companies like Creality are just dominating everything.

We need prosumer/industrial machines that have features you can't get with $750 dollar machine.

You could use better apples as PB transport. I never buy apples at full price and rarely spend more than $1.29 a lb. for Gala, Fuji or Honeycrisp (they do go on sale now and again)...

Most of the apples I eat are for Almond butter or PB transport... I live for that meal.

Do you live in London? It has been said, without too much digging on my part, that London has more cameras than anywhere in the world.... (or is closely behind Beijing).

And which modern GPU... my 1050ti struggles with out of memory issues and pytorch.

I really like Python... it is fun to program with and has a decent library for just about anything you can imagine.

However, I would really like a Flutter like UI experience for Python. More concretely, Python would rule the world if it had a modern cross platform framework upon which to build graphical interfaces for all the devices we see today. From iOS to Android to RasPi to Google Home to anything with a screen.

Kivy and the Beeware project are just too janky to really accomplish anything. No offense intended to the creators or maintainers. The complexity to get anything out there is just too much.

I have been looking at Flutter/Dart and React/JS to fill this gap. Also, thinking about possibly learning Swift. My logic, Python seems like it is going down the ML rabbit hole with no signs of abatement... I don't know what that means for long term adoption.

If Swift, Dart, Kotlin and JS can tap into the same ML pipelines, I don't see the benefit of Python in the long run. I mean a Pandas library for anyone of the languages mentioned above would be a game changer for ML adoption in that language, imo.

Not Industrial...

"During a 7 unit fabrication run in-house, Bill of Materials (BoM) cost for each arm was tracked at $3328 as shown in Table II. Plastics were printed on Markforged Onyx One and Monoprice MP Select Mini 3D printers. About 75% of our prototype costs were motors and driver boards."

This isn't "industrial"...

"During a 7 unit fabrication run in-house, Bill of Materials (BoM) cost for each arm was tracked at $3328 as shown in Table II. Plastics were printed on Markforged Onyx One and Monoprice MP Select Mini 3D printers. About 75% of our prototype costs were motors and driver boards."

That seems ridiculously expensive. How much is a Universal Robotics "Co-Bot" or one of Kuka's lower end models?

Exactly... There are a lot of open source robot arms on thingiverse and youtube. Some of them are $100 dollar proof of concepts with basic RC servos [1] to full blown awesomeness like the BCN arm [2] with many flavors in between.

It would be super cool to get the prices of the control boards down, standardize the software stacks that run these things, and really integrate them into everyday life. For now, I suppose we have to watch a group of people reinvent the ARM every few months.

[1]http://www.eezyrobots.it/eba_mk2.html [2] https://www.bcn3dtechnologies.com/en/bcn3d-moveo-the-future-...

Not true... How about all the makers out there? They are going to make with or without approval from strangers / aquaninstences. I am happy they share on IG as I wouldn't see their creations otherwise... especially folks in countries that do not use an western style keyboard.

> That's like saying most homeless people choose to be on the street

While hard to show real data, I have 14 years of experience in the EMS field were a LOT of our "customers" are homeless. I can say unequivocally that greater than 50% of the homeless in my jurisdiction have no desire to live a "normal" life. That is... life with a job, mortgage/rent and/or insurance... and TAXES. We (tax payers) literally pay for everything and they know it. They abuse the living shit out of the 911 system and emergency rooms because they know they will be treated regardless of the ability to pay.

Goodbye, Things

It is already popping... like it did last time and like it will do next time. Welcome to the financialization of everything!

Look here for more data: http://www.doctorhousingbubble.com/

ICS seems like a natural fit for so many professions. I wonder if there is a future for a Fire Officer to teach/adapt ICS for <insert profession>?

How or why is this better than an iPad with the Apple Pencil? It had better be wayyyy less expensive or better in every aspect otherwise it is dead in the water, imo.

Most of the products are cheap Private Label stuff. "Good" is very, very questionable here. PL'ing cheap Chinese stuff is the "git rich quick" of the 2010's. They have paid courses to teach prospective PL'ers how to game the review system.

All in all I have ditched Amazon and if I want cheap Chinese stuff I go directly to the source for a LOT cheaper.

Pretty cool, but I can't shake the feeling that the first example looks an awful lot like javascript...

Perhaps... Maybe ... its because I have been "cheating" on Python with JS. I mean, it is a pain in the booty to code up a web app in python without JS. Try to code a mobile app with Python and Kivy... not all that fun (not practical). In less than a week with React, I have done both. So... why not just skip Python all together? I have been asking myself that question.

Bottom line: The authors of this "service framework" states the Python world doesn't need another web framework, I agree.

It needs some serious love in GUI land.

Is TypeScript worth learning? I know that is a loaded question, but I need to ask it anyway.

I am super frustrated with lack of screens for python. I don't want to pigeon hole into an ecosystem where I am limited to a certain platform like Java/Kotlin or even (dare I say) Swift (no real web, still need JS). As a single developer, mostly hobby, I want options for all the things!!!

I have been migrating my Python scraping to JavaScript with node, puppeteer, and it has been quite illuminating, and the speed is ridiculously better. Furthermore, I can easily turn my scrape into a desktop app with electron with an api that is consumed by a mobile app with react-native. Long story short, I can now think about making some of my Python ideas into cross platform desktop apps with mobile versions as well. Not super easy with Python.

The question is would TypeScript be even better for a long term bet?

You sure do put a lot a faith into a $500 watch. I routinely see $40000 cardiac monitors spit out false positives Ie. actute MI or Afib with RvR on healthy patients in the field.

You probably had a either a 12 lead or 3 lead EKG... the Watch is only a single lead. Therefore, much less is needed in terms of conductivity for the sensors to measure.

The exploding ER / EMS system would like to have a word with you! Every niggle or discomfort, it seems, can generate a 911 call and a visit to the ER. Legally, EMS can not diagnose in the field so we send the bulk of people that call 911 into the ER for further evaluation... whether they really need it or not. I can tell you that most don't.

What kind of stack are you currently developing in?

> Yes, one's entitled to that opinion, but it's slightly misplaced sentiment.

How do you figure? How long have you been using/developing with Google products?

Microsoft had the same reputation a few years ago. They learned the hard way what happens when you piss off developers. They are now making great strides to right those wrongs. What is Google doing to assuage those fears?

The way they have managed Android itself should give all mobile developers some consternation. It is an absolute mess with a ridiculous amount of cognitive overhead. Its a utility OS now and a really bad one at that.

My gut tells me that Android will be abandoned soon. Samsung could kill Android if it wanted to...

> but I'd hazard that some people are posting from Google Chrome, which would defeat the point about worrying.

Uhhh, how do you draw that conclusion? There are lots of browsers and they take literally zero time to learn. Comparing a browser to programming language or framework is apples and oranges.

> Is Google going to abandon Flutter, what about Dart? Should I not learn Go because they'll also abandon it? Heck, should I not develop for Android because they'll abandon it too?

I have been a strict Android user for years. Google has effectively abandoned it with the way they've managed the project. I am moving to iOS for a variety of reasons, one of which is that I know where they (Apple) stand with the platform.

I wouldn't learn Go or Kotlin either, honestly, as there are arguably lots of languages that do the same with less separation anxiety.

My only mobile apps are Android only and regret it. I was a big android advocate and now I am not. I have been excited too many times and let down too many times to really care at this point. Google really wasted a lot of my time in retrospect. They announced projects like they are the second coming only to kill them once you have invested countless hours of time learning. I still have the OG Android ADK from I/o 2011...

I am moving away from Google as fast as I can in most areas. Every time I bird-dog one of their products I am ultimately let down. There is no way I can trust anything they build at this point. I wish it were different as they have some really good ideas, they are just the worst when it comes to follow through for the long haul.