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krosaen

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About krosaen

I work on autonomy and related tooling at Skydio

Previous: Toyota Research Institute, UM robotics, VP Product at food52.com, co-founder of realtimefarms.com, engineering at google/android, masters/undergrad at umich engineering

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    Interesting that your experience is so different. I didn't mean strangers in my neighborhood though, just acquaintances / neighbors who I talk to sometimes - and airpods nudge the …

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    Comment #48600073

    Wearing on public transport: meh, the chances I chat with a total stranger is quite small. Wearing on walks around my neighborhood: yes, totally see how this nudges away from spont…

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    Comment #48211649

    The CEO of Toyota Research Institute, Gill Pratt, had some good (albeit self-serving) points about the benefits of hybrids and PEVs to complement EVS a few years back that I bookma…

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    > But research is showing that social media and smartphones have made us addicted to screens from a young age. It’s taken a toll on how much time we spend together Agree completely…

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    Comment #46466284

    Ha whoops. But yes, the ads on the neal site I meant to link to had the aforementioned problem

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    Comment #46465545

    Assuming you go down the path of allowing online anything, seems like, after doing your best with parental controls, the most effective thing is time boxing screen usage. Only so m…

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    Comment #46277793

    Anyone have experience with https://valetudo.cloud ? Seems like could be a good solution to using best rated (chinese) vacuum's while mitigating privacy concerns. I am bummed that …

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    Comment #46250101

    Interesting, yeah, my instinct is that the sensor weight delta would be negligible but perhaps not.

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    Comment #46246760

    You probably don't want a long range EV then?

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    Comment #46222556

    Saw this too on mobile - I think it's an ad - I requested a paid ad-free version elsewhere in the comments

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    Comment #46222404

    Neal.fun is good clean fun - my kids love it too. Neal, if you are listening, would pay for an ad-free version (I already bought you some coffees too).

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    Comment #46150802

    The founder of Zingerman's (famous deli and family of businesses in Ann Arbor) description of servant leadership is a bit more complete and overlaps heavily with what the author of…

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    Comment #45926697

    If there is a primitive not currently supported (say running a temporal workflow service) is it possible to define a new primitive for this? Just wondering what it looks like if/wh…

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    Comment #45893118

    No so much about why collaboration sucks as and argument for how important direct ownership / responsibility is. Good post.

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    Comment #45890953

    This reminds me of the pains taken to reproduce original Game Boy Advance fidelity in the chromatic by mod retro https://modretro.com/blogs/blog/display-the-hard-way

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    I like the idea of the `defer `keyword - you can have automatic cleanup at the end of the scope but you have to make it obvious you are doing so, no hidden execution of anything (u…

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    Comment #45339950

    Hammock driven development :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

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    Comment #45335373

    This looks pretty awesome, and excited it's not only a cloudflare product (Cap'n Web exists alongside cloudflare Workers). Reading this section [1], can you say more about: > as of…

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    Comment #45334069

    We've lost our sense making ability in our coverage of AV progress. Setting aside Elon's polarizing behavior (which is a big thing to set aside) all of these things seem true: - El…

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    Comment #45224400

    I find this post interesting independent of the question of whether leetcode problems are a good tool for interviews. It's: here are some kinds or problems constraint solvers are u…

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    Comment #44799363

    Reminds me of https://github.com/bhauman/devcards

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    Comment #44341909

    Yeah probably, if I didn’t get it bundled I may very well be using spotify. But Yt music doesn’t suck and its YT integration is mildly nice.

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    I pay for YouTube premium (which gives me YouTube music too) and am happy with the lack of ads, even though many creators still mix paid sponsors into their videos. It seems the cr…