I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
How is lede pronounced? Like lead?
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#252I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather. Growing up in a strict Luthe…
Is this autobiographical or is the similarity between the nickname Kazoo and your HN username khazhoux entirely coincidental?
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Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?
No, but it stops straight scraping, and requires a scraper to do a little bit more work to copy the recipe.
Not much extra work surely. Most recipes are on sites that use the same template for every recipe so it's pretty easy for a scraper to find the ingredients and method. The structure is usually even labelled with meaningful class names on the elements.
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#255I’m “unlocking” that this will be dead within 18 months. It will get too hard and bored engineers will head back to Google Corp where the promotion game is better. I’m in manufacturing. Machinery is highly specialised. Making a generic robot without taking up huge amount of floor space and/or huge leaps in programming is like… Kubernetes being good for hosting your moms book club blog.
What do you think of Covariant.ai? They seem to be doing fairly well in automating a lot of common assembly line tasks (picking, placing and sorting).
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather. Growing up in a strict Luthe…
Is this autobiographical or is the similarity between the nickname Kazoo and your HN username khazhoux entirely coincidental?
maybe they're just really really into kazoos
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#258I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather. Growing up in a strict Luthe…
Thanks so much for this. Sadly Bundleron's are online only now.
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Of course there's been quantitative improvements, but fundamentally everything that can be designed and machined today could be designed and machined in late 1970s using very similar tools, processes and control systems.
You could not have done this with 1970s tools and CAD.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqv5SjC4s6w
This was absolutely machinable with late 1970s CNC mill. Probably pain in the ass to design with then existing CAD/CAM but ultimately this demo runs on same G-Code that was there in 1970s.
And as far as parlor ticks go this is not particularly impressive, compared to old ones like turning cube inside a cube on a lathe.
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Of course there's been quantitative improvements, but fundamentally everything that can be designed and machined today could be designed and machined in late 1970s using very similar tools, processes and control systems.
Yes, the technology is the same. But how many machined products were available for the consumer to buy in 1970? I was excited about the Macbook Air not because it was thin, but because it was CNC made, just like the aerospace products I designed. Injection molding remains dominant, but over the last 15 years CNC has made a lot of progress.
I dunno, by the end of 1970s most high end camera lenses were CNC machined with bezels and scales CNC engraved. My 1980 Summicron 35 is certainly one, although the optical stack sits in an injection molded envelope.
When it comes to MBA enclosure it's likely the infill or separation problems with long thin walls that led them to abandon injection molding. Even then it's not done on a mill in one take. Things like speaker grilles are probably something like EDM or etching rather than 8000 operations with 0.2mm drill bit.