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lkngrrr

@lkngrrr@hachyderm.io

#Boston-based middle-aged white af ciswoman who drives too fast and shouts too loudly about the #Chicago #WhiteSox.

Technical #Product lead for the largest mobile-#robotic fleet known to humankind. Professionally skeptical of:

  • L5 autonomy
  • #robotics pedalism
  • general purpose #robots
  • blockchain, “generative AI”, misc jerkoff motions

Opinions mine (p ≤ 0.05).

I was punk, once. And then I needed health insurance.

#LiberalArts #OP1 #OneMoreTurn #XCOM #NAFO

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w7voa, to random
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The US Coast Guard says it has recovered “presumed human remains” from the seafloor in the area of the Titan submersible’s debris field.

lkngrrr,
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@w7voa So… spatula or sieve?

glynmoody, to random
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Top EU court advisor says technical standards, like laws, should not be locked down by copyright - https://walledculture.org/top-eu-court-advisor-says-technical-standards-like-laws-should-not-be-locked-down-by-copyright/ bravo - we need more to recognise that copyright is not a boon

lkngrrr,
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@glynmoody This is great. You’d need governments to support the change in revenue model for standards publishing bodies but it’s totally feasible.

mekkaokereke, to random
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🤔How can people just ignore material science, and call it "experimental?" Like using carbon fiber for a submarine (Ocean gate), or not having a heat and noise suppression system for a rocket launch pad (SpaceX)?

I see this as different than building a spaceship without a heat shield (Scaled Composites, Virgin Galactic). Because Scaled Composites had a (correct!) theory that didn't require ignoring the properties of the materials.

https://youtu.be/dU9TTRfM_9Q

lkngrrr,
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@2CB @mekkaokereke Ignorance, wow factor.

Carbon fiber and titanium sound much cooler and high tech than being clamped into a welded steel pipe.

lkngrrr,
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@whetstone @2CB @mekkaokereke It’s the tech funding culture written in headlines, to be honest.

Rich dude who thinks he’s smart gets wowed by whizbang things that sound cool, brushes aside everyone who tries to convince him otherwise, then gets burned. This time he bet his own life rather than everyone else’s on it, and lost.

Functionally safe design— like design for scale— starts with humility, thoroughness, and a dedication to the unsexy but proven.

lkngrrr,
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@beckrd @shoq @mekkaokereke “it’s never DNS, until it really REALLY REALLY is DNS.”

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random

NGL tho, watching all you bougies lose access to your shit because your smart homes are going Maximum Overdrive is not doing anything to change my belief that I will never be an early adopter of anything tech related because those people are typically muppets with too much spare cheddar and shit like this happens to them.

If you're gonna buy a "smart" home; just rip out the wires. Or don't, but like I'm not really crying for ya either.

lkngrrr,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites Or be sensible and have manual, physical backups for when something shits itself. Invest in convenience, but bank on paranoia.

Like, smart bulbs on a switched circuit that just function like normal light bulbs when not otherwise commanded.

We do have a “smart” thermostat, but I can just rip it off the wall and put the original back on in like 15min if it bricks.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random

Also, hashtags are weird; people can search them, which means they bring people to your posts. Why would you want to do that, given what "people" are usually about tho?

lkngrrr,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites Sometimes I use hashtags just to attract people I want to yell at more.

emilygorcenski, to random

It turns out, actual engineering is a lot harder than software engineering, and this is something you should keep in mind as people start to claim ChatGPT can do a better job.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/22/23770260/titanic-tour-titan-submersible-catastrophic-implosion-oceangate

lkngrrr,
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@emilygorcenski Literally this.

My favorite thing in the world is when some diptwat comes in and asks why we can’t just A/B it until we get some code right and the answer is because

  1. “You can’t just fucking hit compile and spit out a part”, per one of my HW TPMs, and
  2. that is literally industrial machinery that can maim or kill, and unless you want to end like a billionaire in a submarine we’re not fucking doing that
mattblaze, to random
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Trump must be wondering why Biden hasn't called for his supporters to riot over the prosecution of his son.

lkngrrr,
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@mattblaze Hardly, he can’t imagine anyone caring that much about their kid.

0x00string, to random

seriously though i dont care about your or your businesses circumstances at all, this is at the same level as "i cant afford to pay a living wage" for me. if you're still packing shipments with styrofoam, i hope you personally go bankrupt and i hope your business goes insolvent. fuck you personally.

lkngrrr,
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@0x00string I’d be curious if anyone could come up with a styrofoam use case where there exist no alternatives.

lkngrrr,
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@0x00string Thanks, neat!

Totally agree with you btw.

lkngrrr,
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@0x00string Aside from the profit margins, there’s also just good old organizational inertia. The dinosaurs who have their emails printed for them are the same ones making materials decisions like this. They can’t imagine any other way.

lkngrrr,
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@0x00string Yuuuuup.

Standards committees are also a useful way to push this.

emilygorcenski, to random

ChatGPT's been publicly available for several months and despite its widespread ability and ease of use, we have not seen:

  • massive shifts in the disinformation space
  • meaningful changes in market dynamics from companies using it over companies who are not
  • at-scale changes in the workforce due to ChatGPT

If these things were to happen, they probably would have happened by now.

lkngrrr,
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@emilygorcenski Exactly this. The guys now flogging AI startups are the same set of vampires who were flogging blockchain last year.

erinwhalen, to random

Ha ha ha ha NO.

lkngrrr,
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@erinwhalen @spydoggie The orca didn’t mind pleasure boats until a boat fucked up an orca. It’s seriously just FAFO.

emilygorcenski, to random

Kudos to Charlottesville parents, families and schools for pushing back against this fascist garbage

https://dailyprogress.com/news/local/education/right-wing-media-circulating-video-of-charlottesville-students-at-pride-event/article_8e5f3530-0bc5-11ee-b1f6-97900750be96.html

lkngrrr,
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@emilygorcenski What kind of gross weirdos share videos of kids with all of their friends with the intent of meeting those kids? Sounds kinda, y’know, predatory.

privacat, to random

Look, everyone just needs to go subscribe and read Matt Levine's Money Stuff because stuff like this is every day:

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-16/don-t-insider-trade-drunk-on-the-squash-court

lkngrrr,
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@privacat @qkslvrwolf braiiiiins

universalhub, to boston
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East Broadway resident sues to block new two-family house on lot behind his; says it would ruin his property value
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/neighbor-sues-block-new-two-family-house-east-4th

lkngrrr,
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@universalhub Poor baby. With that attitude he should consider moving to New Hampshire with all the other people who managed to build entire towns full of people who hate having neighbors.

mekkaokereke, to random
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As I said with Meta/Oculus/Holo: I will stan any VR product that can be used by the majority of women for 2 hrs without causing nausea.

So far, most VR/AR headsets can't do that. It's expensive research to get that solved. And it doesn't make sense for a company to bet the farm if they can't do it.

lkngrrr,
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@quigs @Paxxi @fifilamoura @mekkaokereke Nope. Just assuming a smaller male model would suffice for women and children.

timbray, to random
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Just dropped by Twitter. Yeah, it’s stinky. But AFAIK it’s still the best place to track what’s going on in Ukraine. (Which BTW is pretty weird at the moment.) I follow the #ukraine tag here, any other good Ukraine-related follow recommendations?

lkngrrr,
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@timbray I follow @ukrdef here, it’s a repeater so I don’t have to go to the birdsite.

drcaberry, (edited ) to random
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My robot is driving in a clockwise circle with a 2 feet diameter. I want it to drive in a 3 feet diameter circle, which of the following will fix it?
NoireSTEMinist.com

lkngrrr,
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@drcaberry OMG my entire fleet uses dead reckoning locomotion and I still had to stop and think of this was some sort of weird application of the right hand rule for vector cross-products.

I blame vacation brain!

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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How did you pick your first fediverse server that you joined?

Based on...

lkngrrr,
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@stefan I started on mastodon.lol for the sole reason that their blocked server lists was full of “Nazi shit, terf shit, redpill garbage humans”

I loved the very Frank labeling.

timbray, to random
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Both these teams are playing horrible sloppy baseball.

lkngrrr,
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@timbray Coming in from the game and I’m inclined to agree.

botwiki, to ai
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Do not let this thing in your house.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/12/23721400/amazon-astro-smarter-home-robot-ai

lkngrrr,
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@botwiki More “robots by other parts of Amazon”. deep sigh

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