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My biggest frustration with WebRTC was precisely captured in the article: even if you don't need p2p and your video source is the process on the same host with your browser, you have to dance around connection setup like you're on a different side of a planet

I tried to do brick sorting (because we have great detection and classification models at https://brickit.app/)

It turned out to be much more complex than I expected.

The biggest issue was grabbing. Typical approach for this type of task is to use vacuum suction actuator, but it does not work for Lego parts, because they have stubs and prevent suction from working.

Also there are issues of part separation.

We abandoned this idea, but I still hope that we can return and achieve something working some day.

Everything runs on device in tflite and it gives us some headaches, especially Android ecosystem.

We do not use anything fancy, detector is ssd-like, and classifier is either resnet or efficientnet depending on your device capability

The use case "let me reassemble all the parts that I have" is out of scope of Brickit app. It works explicitly with the contents of a single scan, that's why you see small ideas to build: it's just what fits into the parts you scanned.

But! We recognize the intent, and we have something in the works which will be released very soon, stay tuned!

There's a plugin for VSCode that brings draw.io editor for local .drawio files. IMO it's the best of both worlds: nice editor and git version control.

Also this plugin works fine in github.dev so it's like a better version of draw.io official site.

Foxglove is my best argument to use ROS instead of custom solution in semi-robotics cases (several cameras/sensors + ML, but no actuators)

Just want to thank you for all the work you do! We are heavy users of sqlalchemy, our life would be much harder without it!

Fugue is a translation layer from SQL to underlying runtime: pandas, dask, spark.

Each of the runtimes, supported by Fugue, can be compared to Ray, but Fugue is a tool of a different kind.

The thing is, that it's all very time-sensitive. And I expect pressure was unreasonably high.

We have elections in Russia this weekend and Navalny app was used as a tool to coordinate protest voting. It is called "Smart Voting" by Navalny team and it is getting a lot of attention for upcomping elections.

If Apple and Google would just be a little bit slower and complied next Monday :)

Still there are more ways to coordinate Smart Voting. Google Docs with recommendations are published. There are youtube videos where Navalny team reads whole list aloud. There's a Telegram bot.

So I hope this action would just bring more attention to the matter.