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Re: Microduck

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post #77

Now that Nvidia owns huggingface, I fear their days being able to support open source products are over.

.... Minus that Nvidia keeps contributing to the open ecosystem with nemotron, among countless other open contributions.

Those are cute, but as long as they ask every single user to run their proprietary code in system memory to use the GPUs users paid for, their commitments to open source higher in the stack are a joke.

Re: Microduck

#252
post #218

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You don't get it, do you? The "genocide" that you describe is happening constantly. None of the chicken we have today will be alive in a couple months. We kill them to eat them. If we cease to "use" them, we just keep that "genocide" going for a year, but we just stop breeding new ones. The result is no more animals after a few months/years. And you didn't kill any more than you would have anyways. If you have a sink…

> we just keep that "genocide" going for a year, but we just stop breeding new ones "Carry on for a year and then it's all good" is not one of the available choices. Your choices are (a) wipe out the species entirely, or (b) allow them to continue breeding on their own, and commit to culling them for the rest of eternity.

None of these animals breed on their own, they are mostly artificially inseminated. You truly have no idea what you are talking about.

Re: Microduck

#253
post #75

Tried out the simulator and was surprised to find that the movement keys are ZQSD; then realized that's the equivalent of WASD on an AZERTY keyboard. Checked and sure enough, Pollen Robotics is a French company. They may want to at least add a preference for keyboard layout, pretty sure that QWERTY and QWERTZ are much more common worldwide than AZERTY.

They should do a deal: “We fix this for QWERTY users, and in return American web devs vow to stop filtering out Shift in numeric fields, which is fine on QWERTY but prevents AZERTY users from typing top-row digits because those digits require Shift.”

Apparently this bad habit impacts DVORAK users too : https://brennan.io/2021/03/03/textboxes/

Re: Microduck

#254
post #22

It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

Both are expensive e waste, companies come up every 5 years with these "house robots for kids", they're used for about 5 days, I've seen the cycle many times already

I got a Big Trak in ~1983 and came back to programming and using it and hacking it over years until it got lost in a fire in my mid-twenties. I'm sure most of those weren't used much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

Re: Microduck

#255
post #22

It's either this or https://mondorobotics.com/ and I'm torn. Obviously it's for my daughter and I will just be safety checking, definitely, 100%.

That's a completely different class of robot. The Beni robot is just a toy, it's just connect the app and drive it around, record videos and do some fancy tricks like flips. It is not meant to be a platform you program yourself. The Microduck is meant to be a hacker toy. Train it yourself, write software, hack it, etc. It depends what you're trying to get for your daughter. Is it something to get her into robotics? T…

Weird phrasing "just a toy" for one and "hacker toy" for the other. Beni is actually something you can use more than a toy.

Re: Microduck

#257
post #75

Tried out the simulator and was surprised to find that the movement keys are ZQSD; then realized that's the equivalent of WASD on an AZERTY keyboard. Checked and sure enough, Pollen Robotics is a French company. They may want to at least add a preference for keyboard layout, pretty sure that QWERTY and QWERTZ are much more common worldwide than AZERTY.

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

Re: Microduck

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post #75

Tried out the simulator and was surprised to find that the movement keys are ZQSD; then realized that's the equivalent of WASD on an AZERTY keyboard. Checked and sure enough, Pollen Robotics is a French company. They may want to at least add a preference for keyboard layout, pretty sure that QWERTY and QWERTZ are much more common worldwide than AZERTY.

As a French guy who grew up playing CS 1.6 on an AZERTY keyboard, I have a feeling that the people who made this website are either a generation above or below Millenials. Because it doesn't make sense: you don't make a website in English, with prices in USD... while expecting users to have an AZERTY keyboard. We even had a meme and tshirts about it: https://wiki.nofrag.com/Jte_niaue_q_lq_Kqlqsh

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

Re: Microduck

#259
post #166

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As a French guy who grew up playing CS 1.6 on an AZERTY keyboard, I have a feeling that the people who made this website are either a generation above or below Millenials. Because it doesn't make sense: you don't make a website in English, with prices in USD... while expecting users to have an AZERTY keyboard. We even had a meme and tshirts about it: https://wiki.nofrag.com/Jte_niaue_q_lq_Kqlqsh

I'm a millenial and can say you can absolutely make a site with i18n + currency conversion without knowing what keyboards people use. Especially Americans, who are much less familiar with "other markets", because companies can stay within US customers for so long.

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd

Re: Microduck

#260
post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a French guy who grew up playing CS 1.6 on an AZERTY keyboard, I have a feeling that the people who made this website are either a generation above or below Millenials. Because it doesn't make sense: you don't make a website in English, with prices in USD... while expecting users to have an AZERTY keyboard. We even had a meme and tshirts about it: https://wiki.nofrag.com/Jte_niaue_q_lq_Kqlqsh

It is a bit weird. As someone from Belgium (we also use our own variety of Azerty) you are very frequently reminded that you're on a weird keyboard. At least for someone who games, you wouldn't make ZQSD the default. It's the first thing you do in every game, change WASD to ZQSD

I just open-sourced a brain for the Microduck (GitHub stars appreciated): https://github.com/rokbenko/quackd
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