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the links says explosives + guidance system, but guidance system still allowed in hobby project as long aim toward sun (eg. sun is the target, same for stabilization), I think having horizontal stabilization hitting an target would be equal to breaking law.
Many mention ITAR or some other issue, nothing about this project is even close to ITAR (as far I understand), connecting camera to rocket using it as guidance will get in trouble most likely, if not mistake only thing allowed is using camera to AIM at sun.

https://www.youtube.com/@LafayetteSystems is similar project, also by actual defense contractor, and less opensource.

I don't understand this, for example, what would you have done if you where Ukrainian right now ? (before 2014 arguably start of conflict and after invasion)
Re:Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event on Saturday July 26, 2025 @09:34AM (#44693993)
Or may be education should be more dynamic, engaging, and interactive, instead of having lowest paid teacher jobs, with overcrowded classes, heavenly focused on boring memorization (without clear purpose), and boring tests.
Re:Missile Game on Sunday February 04, 2024 @12:00PM (#39251975)
this game is more then 15 years old, I remember it on break.com!
Re:Germany: Police seize bitcoins worth €2B on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @06:46PM (#39197669)
in modern day, at least stories I heard, criminals will be placed in temp holding sell (worst places), once max time in temp jail is expiring (legally allowed), they just add new charges, so effectively, you will be held in worst jail cell possible for weeks if not months, this is how I understood from stories of multiple life time criminals with 10+ years in jail time served.
Re:Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:12PM (#39133672)
can't it is looked, should have put more thought before typing, others already pointed out what I intended to say.
Re:Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration on Thursday January 25, 2024 @12:08PM (#39131864)
how sure are you that google is ranking lowest by contributions to open source projects ?
how system updates and maintains own model(s) when new information added in form of single/few observation and/or interactions, without ability to replay data, without catastrophic forgetting etc..., and importantly, how such system's model(s) grow in complexity while retaining stability and redundancies.
Re:Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration on Thursday January 25, 2024 @11:59AM (#39131752)
if google is largest proprietary software developer, which company is not?
at least in my limited perspective, root issue is learning dynamics of internal model that represents self (internal world) and external world.
GPT has no sense, or care when it is wrong or right, such sense is only (arguably) driven by human through prompt interaction and throughout training of model, while humans and other animals able to update there's internal state just from single observation or interaction, and integrate future information with such single observation for very long time.
Re:How to delete your data from data brokers on Sunday January 14, 2024 @11:22AM (#38991773)
I tried Optery, Incogni, and long time ago OneRep, way to lazy to do it myself, don't worry they will have my info, data is already on internet.

Incogni at least in there's claim offers opt-out from private databases (no way to verify ) and some but not all public database (eg. google searches).

Optery has largest list of public databases (with most expensive subscription) out of everyone else, there's costumer service is responsive regarding failed removal.

OneRep was not bad long time ago when they run it from Belarus (I know, crazy), but they would refresh somehow search caches too (it could be ok, or make things worse), they don't seem to offer advertise this service any more.

Don't search your self only via google, for example, bing will give different results, some databases will have misspelled names (could be deliberately), so there still some work to make sure all records are removed.

At this point, this is like privacy tax that you have to budget to have at least your address on cell phone number not easily discoverable.

Re:CLI user experience case study on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:36AM (#38967737)
seems like wrong case study, cli power (at least for me) is in comments and record keeping what has been done months if not years ago, and an "easy way" to script repetitive tasks, I just don't see how same thing can be achieved with GUI:

record video and then comment it ?

have detailed logs what button, and what fields where edits/pressed ?

etc ...

Re:A bank runs serverless with PHP and AWS Lambda on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @11:24AM (#38099507)
In second part (Refactoring to serverless microservices) where is database in there ?
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:18AM (#37534171)
There is not way in hell, I will be able to work for such company more then 6 month (well may be it if it is 7 figures, but even then I don't think I last longer then one year), I am sorry who has to go through this.
Re:I built a Plane Spotter in 120 secs with ChatGPT on Monday September 04, 2023 @09:18AM (#37380194)
Same, I just use in many places instead of first google searches, it is so easy to narrow search to a highly specific topic.
Re:There is no hard takeoff on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:05AM (#37087728)
Not only simulated, but had pending orders on all NYSE stocks both sides, every day for many years.
Re:There is no hard takeoff on Friday August 11, 2023 @08:03AM (#37087708)
This argument (at least the way I am reading), goes deep in uncertainty modeling (Partially Observed Stochastic Games the hardest class to optimize for), stock market here used as analogy more then it is not.
Re:There is no hard takeoff on Friday August 11, 2023 @07:15AM (#37087358)
> Oh wait…every hedge fund bro is already doing this. And most of them aren’t billionaires. The problem is your model needs to include all the computers playing the market, and it also needs to include the other hedge fund bros themselves. This strategy only dominates if you have more compute than the whole market itself, which you don’t.

Best part of this article, honestly, I did not expected this, of-course one can say we just need more abstractions (how does brain/living things build them?), but this would be ignoring dynamical nature of such problems.

Re:Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:43PM (#37008138)
hmm, how, I wonder if Alhazen’ s Circular Billiard Problem[1] results for n steps in simulation will be same for multiple runs.

[1] https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2012volume12/FG201216.pdf

Re:IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view on Friday August 04, 2023 @09:03PM (#37007875)
I don't remember last time when I enjoyed reading blog so much, what a read!

Some how it made me want to get all LP certifications there, hehe

not really civics game, but in my limited opinion, game of trust[1] is best educational game by far.

[1]https://ncase.me/trust/

wow, this looks better at first glance then mini pupper 2.

Does it has servos feedback too ?

This is false to very large degree, you have simulations for robotics, and you can buy/build your self cheaper versions.
I don't want to install anything on my system, want to keep clean and as minimal as possible, containers full fill my OCD in this regard, I run most app's now in containers too, it is best linux setup I ever had in my life :)
I replayed in another comment, seems like it is way better to buy minipupper that is also servos based, it does not make sense spending so much on servos based robot, arguably, it is better to spend 1300+ building bot with actual motors Lorcan[1] alike (there others with 6 motors, if recall correctly).

https://github.com/222464/Lorcan-Mini

everything included in package, I paid (including taxes, shipping):

$529 - Pupper with Ri

$129 - Lidar

$148 - 3D Camera

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