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Radomir Dopieralski

#nobot #robots #python #micropython #vim #pygame #circuitpython #gamedev #electronics

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Your brain is secretly you.

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I'm back from a conference that usually gave me a big motivation boost, but this time somehow it only made me more depressed. I don't know if it's because there was nobody interested in the things I do, or because the excellent keynotes painted a very bleak vision of the future, or because I was not interested in 99% of what other people at that conference talked about, but I think it's time to move on.

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i'm currently trying to assess if it is worth keeping our birdsite presence (i'd rather not tbh). so i'm also asking here: did you buy an MNT product in the last 6 months, and was it because you were informed or reminded of it here?

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@xhxa @mntmn same

deshipu, to robotics
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I just realised that I'm not really that interested in #robotics, with all the sensors, data processing, behaviors and control loops — I'm building robots because I'm into #mechatronics — making stuff move in cool ways, but not necessarily doing anything useful.

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There is something nagging at me at the back of my head whenever I read those transcripts from LLM sessions, but I couldn't quite put my finger to it.

And today I realized what it was: they read like interrogation under duress. The model is so eager to please, it fabricates whatever information it is asked for, as long as it seems vaguely plausible and what the interrogator wants to hear, never argues, apologizes when it is called out. And the end result is as trustworthy.

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I'm more and more convinced that a lot of our larger problems stem directly from misplaced sense of loyalty.

We have a large number of organizations, from churches, through academia, guilds, political parties, to corporations, that initially had a very specific goal, but with time mostly spend their resources on maintaining their own status. People who joined them for those goals now stay out of loyalty to the organization, instead of that initial goal.

Seems like a failure mode to me.

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The organizations tend to reward this. In many more bureaucratized institutions, loyalty is the main factor for your career – not performance, not seniority, not even connections. And how do you prove your loyalty to the organization? By doing things for it that people would not normally do. By putting the organization above morality. That's how well-meaning people turn evil.

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If you did something, and no corporation made a profit off it, did you really contribute to the society?

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What is the opposite of bureaucracy?

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Why would anyone want to insert tiny lipo batteries into their ears?

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year 2025: a machine is invented that converts athmospheric oxygen to gold
year 2027: millions face suffocation as the World Oxygen Consortium rises oxygen prices, due to plummeting price of gold

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Does it count as “fusion cuisine” if I reheat half a burrito and some thai noodle thing I forgot where it came from?

deshipu,
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@benhamill only if the resulting dish has a higher atomic number

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    deshipu,
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    @tametick I don't know, is it? All You Need is Kill was pretty with it, as was the Groundhog Day. Donnie Darko could be disputed I suppose...

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    @tametick I suppose it is a question of which movies you remember because they speak to you? There are certainly both kinds of stories out there.

    deshipu, to random
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    When people say they have been "communicating with a brand", is that like some kind of a messiah communing with their god in some kind of a ritual to achieve spiritual enlightenment, or more like a mind-controlled zombie receiving orders telepathically from an alien mothership?

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    Did you know that even newborn human babies can tell the difference between a living human talking to them, and a recording or TV or radio? We are basically born with a built-in robot defense mechanism.

    You have to wonder how that evolved...

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    Not a day goes by when I hopelessly wish creative endeavours paid anywhere close to what sitting in front of a computer all day bashing keys does. 🙃

    deshipu,
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    @ScribblingOn You mean sitting in front of a computer all day bashing keys is not a creative endeavor?

    deshipu, to random
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    We don't care what you wanted to see, if it's not cat photos and communist propaganda, tough luck.

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    @jwildeboer is that a mac keyboard? :-/

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    One important thing that says a lot about space exploration is that every astronaut is a soldier.

    That's right, you have to be a professional murderer to go to space. It's not for civilians.

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    is there a modern way to do this? https://github.com/sandsmark/selectdefaultapplication

    deshipu,
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    @mntmn At least four different ways, and each works with different programs.

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    I made a 50% version of the Fluffbug , so now it's time to make the 200% version. Got the servos ordered, but before that I made some simple measurements with some old servos I had lying around. This time I will need a much beefier battery, and since it's 2S, no built-in charging, but I will need a buck converter. Not sure if I want to stick to microcontrollers or put an SBC on it.

    the weebug, a 50% version of fluffbug
    some mocks for the bigbug, a 200% version of fluffbug

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    Made a little bit of progress with the big fluffbug robot. It's too late today already, but tomorrow I'm breaking out the scrollsaw.

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    The scrollsaw released magic smoke from its electric motor after a few years of not being used, but some cleaning of the commutator and some fresh grease fixed it. Then I could finally cut out the leg pieces – it's not pretty, but it will do for the prototype. I might still order laser-cut parts later.

    image/jpeg

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    The proper servos have arrived. Just a loose fit for now, I will work on it later on, and properly attach the servo horns to the leg pieces. One worrying thing is that I can't really move the servos by hand. I will at least need a simple program to move them to a parking position.

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