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Ask HN: Universal testing machines OEM software needed?

Posted by DrNuke on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Is anything resembling the Android (for mobile) and the ROS (for robotics) o.s. still needed for legacy and especially new universal testing machines, the likes you use for tensile, compression and a lot more tests of materials? With new and cheap materials being tentatively produced all the time these days, entry level and mid-tier universal testing machines of any form are popping up weekly...

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Re:Universal testing machines OEM software? on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:20AM (#45990698)
Is anything like Android (for mobile) and ROS (for robotics) still needed for legacy and new universal testing machines (the likes you use for tensile and compression tests of materials)?
Re:How can newbies make proper use of AI and still be good developers? on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:50AM (#45550080)
If you know the fundamentals, AI agents become horses/cars/rockets and you have the reins.
Re:They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:00PM (#45545513)
Wasn't "tiny" the magic AI buzzword just 12-18 months ago?
Re:Ask HN: Is Substack worth the hassle in 2022? on Sunday January 09, 2022 @09:14AM (#29863368)
Both… I think subscribers are generally happy for what they get, and there a number of interesting providers. I also can read about a few providers not being happy. Are you on there in some capacity?
Re:Ask HN: Marginally viable AI-driven ideas for 2022? on Friday January 07, 2022 @09:21AM (#29839384)
Thanks… and you are right, of course! I’m just wishing to suggest them a path towards something fungible or pivotable at the end of the road, whatever their success as entrepreneurs. At the end of the day, it’s their time and their life.

Ask HN: Marginally viable AI-driven ideas for 2022?

Posted by DrNuke on Friday January 07, 2022 @06:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Happy New Year folks, I am with three youngsters asking me for AI-driven ideas making sense in 2022. I am not sure I can help: big corps are all over industrial applications, and the internet bubble is so crowded they have no statistical chance with recommenders and content projects. Therefore, their best shot may be looking into something that would come good in two, three or even ten years...

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Re:Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed? on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:37PM (#29832260)
I’m afraid the boss’ boss was talking with the wrong part of your team, in that his criticism really seems made for your boss, not you? That said, you were not treated like a novice at all, being given a fair share of high-level feedback. Take it as a nudge to improve and do better, without thinking too much: it will be your manager’s job to assess your output fairly.
Re:Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position? on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:59PM (#29828174)
It’s a numbers game really depending on the role and the hierarchy level, though? I mean, we should know in advance what to expect by going into that process, and the cohort we are willing to join. It’s just a preliminary fit, at any level. If employers want prospective employees to bark and you enter that race, you bark.
Re:What is the point of imagining new technologies without new ways of... on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:58AM (#29824283)
Innovators combine new technologies to improve or expand human capabilities, and that’s happening in many many sectors indeed!
Re:Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing? on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @06:31AM (#29807752)
> How can I move to this "next level" of prototyping and small scale manufacture?

Maybe opening a small lab for youngsters, schools and happy triggers in your neighborood? You would personally benefit from new, like-minded acquaintances while keeping your running costs covered and surveying business opportunities.

Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with not being able to build products on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @10:50AM (#29796053)
Nobody can really tell what’s going on with your attempts, yet ten years are a long time for showing no success from a number of projects. Maybe, just maybe, you are in love with the idea of “build a side-project, and passively make money of it” without fully practicing or proficiently practicing these well-defined (from startup or lifestyle manuals) number of plan + commercial + technical + communication steps needed to ship and sell competitive solutions? If the case, you might even reconsider some of your unsuccessful projects from the past ten years and give them a more focused go.

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