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droneserver was indeed the abstraction mentioned in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.15486 . The video/image perception is why I started looking into this domain in the first place, but …

I was looking into the MCP route too, and found some libraries abstracting mavlink for this use case (there’s at least one white paper documenting failure modes of LLMs trying to i…

There are many (some strikes, some protests): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings * https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/childrens-crusade * https://encyclopediao…

I live in the US. There is a history of armed forces being used against the people generally striking. If you include large protests, even more. > If your claim is that violence is…

I see quite a lot of "violence is never justified" sentiment throughout the comments. I ask as a "thought experiment" - why? At least from my understanding, the history of America …

I find this quite cynical, but I also can't speak to half of your family, ha! I am one of the folks who, in my youth, purchased land in between Fort Garland and San Luis, with drea…

100%. Lots of things work as markers, too! I ended up substituting markers for taped-on construction paper when scanning stainless steel surfaces with curves, the tape serving as f…

Don't feel like a noob, SketchUp's interface and controls are AMAZING (or were in 2016, which is where I am stuck because I do not want to "upgrade"). I have tried many modeling to…

The Einstar Vega goes for $1,799 USD, which is about 2x the price of a standalone iPhone. The scans will be better than anything you can get using a mobile phone (though it's essen…

One of the parodies is a “hot takes” interview: https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/enron-ceo-connor-gaydos-subw...

A complaint from 2001 regarding the addition of the abstract stained-glass Windows of Cefalù in a Sicilian cathedral: > In most countries, this kind of modification, based on artis…

I remember this offshoot from a few years back: https://github.com/tinylanders/tinyland

More info from previous interview: https://faircompanies.com/videos/living-alone-on-a-camper-ai...

> How many RV disposals are nearby? Do they have the necessary volume? Will anyone pack up their entire permanent home once a week to tow it to the dump station? Those are great qu…

I agree with you to some degree, but if your statement were 100% true, you would be able to do both of these things below in my area: - Store (not live in) an RV on an empty lot yo…

I never thought I would see the SLV in the New Yorker! A friend and I purchased 5 acres in the SLV around 2008 from a guy on Craigslist for 5K. We had no serious intentions at the …

I worked on some components of SOFIA - the "garage door" actuators - at my first job after engineering school in 2008 ish. The actuators, 1 upper and 1 lower if I recall correctly,…

I was wondering that too. If I wanted to design a wood-burning apparatus that would be efficient and last 1000 years, I'd use a design that was more like a masonry stove (centrally…

If you are looking for more material to help you better understand your soil, the best book I've read on the subject was A Soil Owner’s Manual: How to Restore and Maintain Soil Hea…

> certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness That is quite a stretch. As an American I'm rolling my eyes :) I guess I'm still not u…

Think of it from the other side (with levity): "I am using a composting toilet, which is using less energy/infrastructure overall than say what happens to everyone elses poop (it g…

From 2016 - https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1039.1.full seems to point to a paywall link https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5b05478 > They show that envi…

That is a pretty bold wager! I'm curious as to what your experiences have been to come to it. Anecdotally speaking, most of the folks I've worked with in tech (including myself) ha…

I've had success pursuing bad i.e. potentially illegal cancellation practices by filing a complaint through the attorney general's office where the company is located. In my case: …

It's worth mentioning that the logistics and engineering side of the Pollock/Surimi production was just as interesting. Paraphrasing the book from memory, https://www.amazon.com/Ca…