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Sounds like you also support a life sentence here for stealing a phone, too!

No one buys a 1-ton to feel quick in traffic. A few thousand lbs going uphill can be easily done with a 1/2 ton, and the majority of them are now turbocharged.

Forced Induction has made its way tho. Not all, but a lot of modern turbo engines are great in all three aspects of reliability, performance, and efficiency.

I can see turbo'ed PHEV being the solution to heavy-duty use cases one day. Pretty stoked for the Ramcharger.

I was given a 2023 Dell XPS 13 for work. I was pretty stoked to go back to an XPS after using one in 2019 for work.

For some reason, the MOBO was dying slowly after a year. My other coworkers also reported similar problems.

Lenovo-wise:

    My personal Thinkpad X1 Extreme was a champ for 7+ years, and a few P series I've used over the years since 2021 were also great.

You should tell us your name and publish the result so we can credit you for the work. Would love to call it whatever your name is instead.

self-driving cars use RL

Some part of it, but I would argue with a lot of guardrail in place and not as common as you think. I don't think the majority of the planner/control stack out there in SDC is based. I also don't think any production SDCs are RL-based.

We gotta add in the "and here's what B2B Enterprise SAAS sales taught me"

I say weird because 99.9% of people in the world would consider it on a range of weird all the way to unethical that you spend tens of thousands on pants.

TIL it's unethical to spend a lot of money on clothes. It's not like the sub-thread's OP was spending $10k on a pair of <Insert crazy designer brand name> pants that actually have more form than function. It's a $500 pair of pants. God forbid people spend money on their own preference for their own comfort.

Pragmatically, capitalism brought in more good than bad. Are we arguing that we would've been better off if the world had gone the way of the soviet/pre-80s China way of life?

Cries in the number of "next Silicon Valley" in the last 30 years.

Your reasonable AI cannot resolve the fact that its arm can only lift 2KG.

I am impressed by Unitree, but the problem that needs to be solved here is not just better software. Better hardware needs to come down in cost and weight to make the generalized robot argument more convincing.

There is still a long way to go for a humanoid to be a reasonable product, and that's not just a software issue.

At the end of the day, you need to put food on the table and a shelter over your head. That doesn't mean you cannot pursue your profession and dreams. It's just harder.

One way I was told how to find product (your service) and market (labor market) fit is to focus on the problem. Sell yourself as a problem solver rather than a software developer. The software is just a tool, and software engineering is a framework to apply those tools in practice. Although the current state of your locale lacks software dev opportunities, it might also be that most people aren't aware of their needs for digitization yet. Software is also in a lot of things. Don't limit yourself to web development.

Closed-form solution makes verification much easier. There's the design and solution space for an engineering system, and then there's V&V.

Yes, you can just ship it and test it in your customer's environment, but that doesn't scale very well if you have to run 1-2 months of testing every time you deploy to make sure the ML model doesn't give you random bullshit that flings the arm around and wack someone in the head or damage other equipment.

Not to mention, IK is something so well understood that it would be stupid not to use it at least as a start to building an arm motion software. It's also much faster than doing inference on a model.

Just like when Trump said he knows nothing about Project 2025 and has done everything by the book for the past 3 months. Keep cranking that copium.

Just like a lot of Americans (including the left) that I personally know who still think "51st state" is a light-hearted joke or "Trump doesn't mean it" or they don't think it's a serious threat.

They don't know or don't think canadians takes this seriously and it's not fucking funny.

We can have a walkable community and still have things we love and do.

Can you please inform me how the US bullied UK into mineral rights in WW2? We exported arms and equipment to them even before Lend-lease acts.

It would be true if you were to mention about our special flavor of freedom exportation during the cold war. However, this time Ukraine is a democratic nation being invaded by our biggest political rival, Russia.

Ah trump and vance playing the 4D chess no one else knows about.

Why does Russia care if US are being tough on Ukraine? POTUS can issue an EO saying all fundings are cut and not be an asshole about it. If the US wants to be isolated from the war, they can do it without insulting Zelenskyy or trying to get a mineral deal done.

You are not alone. I've come to terms with the reality that every controller I've designed and implemented will always need a good amount of unit test coverage to ensure proper behavior (like signs and directions)...