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ROS isn't really one thing. Per the "about"[1] it's really made up of several pieces: Plumbing: ROS is centered around a publish/subscribe messaging framework, with a central broke…

It would be triangulation if the system was measuring the arrival angles of the incoming signals. If the system relying solely on arrival time differences, it's likely doing someth…

If you're into this stuff and ever in the Seattle area I recommend visiting the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport. They have a good collection of torpedoes on display, including a J…

There is an implementation of rust bindings for ROS 2: https://discourse.ros.org/t/announcing-rust-bindings-for-ros... https://github.com/ros2-rust/ros2_rust It looks like they cou…

catkin packages are just CMake projects, and you can use find_package to discover them without making your module into a catkin package. I've written a few drivers this way without…

Why haven't I tried ROS on Windows? I never really had the need to, I primarily use Linux at home and work. I did briefly evaluate ROS 2 (ardent) on Windows at my previous job. It …

I've never tried it, so I don't know how easy it is, but there has been a lot of work recently to improve ROS on Windows: https://microsoft.github.io/Win-RoS-Landing-Page/

If you're not looking for a full size rack, I like the Hammond Manufacturing RCH series. They come in several heights and depths, and you can add locking doors and casters.

ROS runs on Mac, and ROS 2 adds Windows support.

The 'assertion-evidence' approach to creating slides focuses on for keeping text to a minimum and using pictures and other visual aids to support your message. They emphasized it i…

The 90s wasn't exactly the stone age, there was plenty of self-driving vehicle work taking place. For example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-national-automate...

Sure, but even then, I think his point is still applicable. It's urllib2 and requests, not urllib2 and requests and 20 other libraries. The fact that an inferior library is being k…

I don't think he's arguing that the language designers are the ones that need to be curating crates, he just brought up Python as an example of some sort of curation happening in a…

Thanks for taking the time to write that out. My intention wasn't to call you out specifically, it's just that I see a similar sentiment expressed almost every time Fedora is menti…

If you can't definitively prove that a class of changes won't break things, then you probably have to treat that class of changes as breaking and version accordingly, no?

That's an interesting point. If you're using a language that adds more rules to the API compatibility than the language that a module is released in, it's probably not possible to …

So it sounds like you're trying to quantify the runtime stability of a library with the risk metric: e.g. if I update this package, what are the chances that the foobaz function I'…

What do you mean by risk? How would you quantify it? As I understand it, all semver is trying to tell you is when backwards-compatible changes happen, and when backwards-incompatib…