Kai Backman

Vibe coding for robots. Amateur CNC software engineer.

[Kai Backman @kaibackman]

I had BeBox #149.

The machine was a beauty but they tried hard locking down the ecosystem. I was working on a scheme compiler/jit toy project and it was pretty much impossible to generate stand alone binaries calling system libraries.

Open source isn't exactly the full answer but it is directionally correct.

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@cmuratori @Gammitin A600 was a bit of a let down, plus nobody had it so you couldn't really share any of the cool stuff you wrote.

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@jwt0625 That fanout number is important, nature has managed to map a very high dimensional graph onto just 3 base dimensions. The claim in the third column is questionable, not because the node limitations but because of graph mapping limitations.

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@jedisct1 About the shoelaces. If the rabbit ears are vertical you have indeed been making them wrong, reverse the first step. You can check this by pulling out the rabbit ears to see if you have a proper square knot or a granny knot.

Pro tip: make a surgeons knot as an advanced trick.

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@awesomekling IMGUI, more like an algorithm however.

Insufferable as in know you are right and will not back down.

Bonus: goto statements in CSP code.

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@nikitabier ObHack on alt.hackers

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@Jonathan_Blow @svpino Honest question, can you elaborate a bit more?

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@wrowclif The time reset is very real. I wonder if this works with grandchildren as well.

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I really want a small bore boring machine. There are so many tunnels you could dig in the yard.

[The Boring Company @boringcompany]

Big tunneling milestone!

For the first time, TBC has continuously mined in a Zero-People-in-Tunnel (ZPIT) configuration. There is nobody in the machine (besides the videographer), which is simultaneously advancing forward and erecting a ring (i.e. building the tunnel). Each full ring weighs ~24,000 pounds.

In the same way that full and rapid reusability is the holy grail for rockets, ZPIT continuous mining is the holy grail for Boring Machines.  This is the safest, fastest, and least expensive architecture to build tunnels.

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@yacineMTB buy proper transportation. a small bus is quite versatile for hauling people and cargo

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@yacineMTB the first ice cream blows your mind. imagine getting four more of the critters and watching what they come up with together.

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@NolanWolcott @zanehengsperger Very true, but either can be a satisfying recreational activity.

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@Jonathan_Blow I refrained from posting on the original thread, but our demoscene code from the late eighties was at par with Clojure. But then again we had beefy 4 MHz CPUs and our code always ran vsynced to screen refresh at 50 Hz.

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@oldestasian The one assumption that might break is lack of automation in the repair work. Full automation is probably way out, but there are often repetitive sub-tasks that could benefit from automation, like @tkanarsky comment on phone teardown.

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@yacineMTB The endgame are ideas where the gap is a few trillion GWh to push the atoms into correct position.

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@ConradBastable @shakoistsLog My wife is an unexpected expert on tunnel boring machines. Based on past experience she didn't even try the animal trick.

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@slimjimmy I hadn't seen this, excellent material to refer folks to. @cmuratori Thank you!

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@benjamin_bolte Congrats! I recommend vocational training. Start with PPE, the world opens up when you can wear safety glasses!

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We used to hunt whitetail near farmland with free range Herefords. Cows would give birth in blizzards and heading in and out to stands we would always check on the herd and any newborns.

Robots will dramatically increase livestock quality of life.