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lkngrrr

@lkngrrr@hachyderm.io

#Boston-based middle-aged white af ciswoman who drives too fast and shouts too loudly about the #Chicago #WhiteSox.

Technical #Product lead for the largest mobile-#robotic fleet known to humankind. Professionally skeptical of:

  • L5 autonomy
  • #robotics pedalism
  • general purpose #robots
  • blockchain, “generative AI”, misc jerkoff motions

Opinions mine (p ≤ 0.05).

I was punk, once. And then I needed health insurance.

#LiberalArts #OP1 #OneMoreTurn #XCOM #NAFO

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AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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Naw seriously tho, as recently as five years ago I was having to tell people "no, fascist militias with guns and pepe badges are not "anarchists" and I expect that at some point I'll have to repeatedly explain that again the next time nazis try to pass off their bullshit as "the real leftism/punk/rebellion."

Thankfully, they haven't been successful, but once I saw "MAGA Communism" I pretty much gave up on the idea that we could invent words they wouldn't try to steal; successfully or not.

lkngrrr,
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@zdl @AnarchoNinaWrites Not to encourage the ska people, but literally ska

ai6yr, to ArtificialIntelligence

Dang, I missed my opportunity to get a fully automated robot farm.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Whatever in that thing is definitely not worth $68k. Even for small scale.

Seriously, people, save your money and just buy some new motors from Nidec.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Looks like the Pipedreams guys got ‘em. I’ll be getting told if they have any of my stuff inside.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr I run technical product for mobility at Amazon Robotics (nee Kiva Systems), so all those orange and blue warehouse bots you see in the videos are my very good bebbehs :)

We see parts end up on eBay sometimes, usually scavenged stuff or pallets that “fell off of a truck”, so I’m always curious who buys them up and what they’ve managed to do with them without a spec sheet.

RickiTarr, to random
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Wtf is happening in the world right now?!

lkngrrr,
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@RickiTarr @Kierkegaanks He’s fucking with other rich people’s money at this point.

GottaLaff, to legal
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🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

1/… more preamble, via Rupar:

Trump this morning printed out new NYT poll showing him ahead in swing states+ some Fox columns for good measure.

"A legal expense is a legal expense. It's marked down in the book, 'legal expense'" --Trump still pretending he doesn't understand why he was charged w crimes re Stormy payment

lkngrrr,
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@GottaLaff Your ability to span across so many sources to bring us these summaries is very impressive. Thank you!

lkngrrr, to random
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Anyone who gushes over how work travel brings you to so many wonderful locations has never traveled for work.

lkngrrr, to random
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My colleague: “I’m the fire, and everyone else is the dumpster.”

skinnylatte, to SanFrancisco
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On the bros trying to build cities in Solano and elsewhere:

“What seems to be happening is people really want to ‘stay in San Francisco,’ but they want to exit society. … They don’t want to have to deal with the complexity, the differences, the poverty, the needs, the caring for others that was always part of urban culture. They want to escape. They want their own currency, their own culture, their own people. And they wanted it to look like Disneyland.”

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/justinphillips/article/city-campus-san-francisco-tech-diversity-19435406.php

lkngrrr,
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@skinnylatte @sqncs All you have to do is look at what they did to Chesa Boudin.

lkngrrr, to random
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HIS SOUL GOES MARCHING ON
https://www.threads.net/@seran72/post/C6mItGlOaZC

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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In more bizarre Atari news – when has it not been bizarre lately – they’ve just revived Infogrames.

Wait. Isn’t the current Atari just a renaming of Infogrames?

Yes and no. Back in 2003, Infogrames bought Atari Corporation’s assets from Hasbro. They quickly renamed themselves Atari. But this wasn’t just a rebranding, they bought Atari’s decades-old IP as well – which includes Yars Revenge, Missile Command, Lunar Lander and others.

Unfortunately, this re-made Atari squandered this IP and instead tried to become a AAA publisher. They did manage to publish some landmark titles such as Unreal Tournament 2003, Neverwinter Nights, and Rollercoaster Tycoon. However, they were more known for shovelware and critically-panned games.

Eventually, they went bankrupt and had to sell off most of their prized AAA assets. This meant that they were mostly only left with their old Atari IP – which has been languishing for decades.

However, they still own some old Infogrames IP. Blood is one such example, and that game is stellar. Nightdive Studios even did a remake of it, and they did a good job too.

So what is Atari going to do with Infogrames? Use it to publish games that fall outside of the core Atari brand. The first game on the docket is Totally Reliable Delivery Service.

https://atari.com/blogs/newsroom/atari-revives-infogrames-as-a-publishing-label

lkngrrr,
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@atomicpoet I enjoyed the Totally Reliable Delivery Service demo that was at PAX East a year or two ago. Fun, quirky, light hearted.

jimfl, to random
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I wish I had had this up my sleeve whenever people chided me for being unable to do arithmetic, despite having a degree in mathematics.

https://mathstodon.xyz/@paysmaths/112383650978267346

lkngrrr,
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@jimfl @paysmaths This is why I hate whiteboard math interviews.

An entire career of applying concepts correctly shouldn’t be wiped out by the fact that you failed to carry the one while performing tricks for an interviewer.

danilo, to random
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what the fuck

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/02/hubble-network-connects-a-bluetooth-chip-to-a-satellite-for-the-first-time/?guccounter=1

lkngrrr,
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@danilo This reads like a reprinted press release. I now doubt the existence of Bluetooth.

lkngrrr, to boston
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Slava Ukraini tonight for a demining robot by E Farm Pro to demine farmland in Ukraine at the Summit!

lkngrrr, to boston
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Once again, is in nightmare mode and no traffic control is anywhere to be found.

If only there weren’t 6 traffic circles of high speed death between me and the day job, I’d be biking to work instead of dealing with this nonsense…

thomasfuchs, to random
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The AI hype is definitely good for something:

Losing my last bit of respect for some of the tech people I’ve looked up to in the past.

lkngrrr,
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@thomasfuchs Yessssss… soon you will be CLEAN.

ai6yr, to random

Just sitting here minding my BBQ ribs and a swarm of bees showed up :shrug: - maybe they would like some smoked pork ribs? #beekeeping

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Guess your keeping skills have considerable buzz in the bee community?

ukrdef, to random
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Medvedev threatens Russia may seize private US assets if Washington seizes frozen Russian reserves

Russia could seize assets and property of U.S. individuals held in Russia if Washington confiscates Russian sovereign assets, Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, threatened on April 27.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-may-seize-private-us-assets-if-washington-seizes-frozen-russian-reserves-medvedev-claims/

lkngrrr,
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@ukrdef Ehhh, honestly anyone who’s got assets there still kinda deserves it.

lkngrrr, to robotics
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I look forward to the day when I am presented with an actual use case for humanoid beyond burning VC money.

lkngrrr, to random
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@ivory Say, I just emailed this as a feature request to your support inbox, but thought I’d put it here too to get it into your backlog.

Any chance in the future for increasing font sizes available? I may have to acknowledge that I’m getting old but I don’t want to bring my reading glasses everywhere with me.

Please and thank you, you’re all very wonderful :)

lkngrrr, to random
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is what you get when you properly fund software KTLO/CI.

lkngrrr, to random
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Rabbi: “And what do the bitter herbs represent?”
Me: “Jira tickets”
Rabbi: “NO”

lkngrrr, to random
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So, uh, when you’ve lost one of the feeties off of your wrist pad, don’t search for “silicone feet” without any other qualifiers on Amazon unless you want to learn a lot about other people’s inner lives.

I don’t mean to yuck anyone else’s yum, you do you and have fun while doing it, but I was just utterly unprepared and took 2 psychic damage.

ai6yr, to random

I've got that big pallet energy
Got that big pallet energy
Hey, daddy

Spiral nails, they could be your fantasy
I can tell you have that big pallet energy
Not too many crowbars can handle me...

(ps. Sorry...)

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Also, dried or heated woods tend to splinter and fragment more, so be careful. Wear work gloves while handling.

Seriously, I’ve picked up KD-HT shards suitable for staking vampires.

lkngrrr, to Massachusetts
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My fellow #Massholes, we’re gonna need to implement biopassports at the #Massachusetts/ #NewHampshire state border.
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