bodangly

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by bodangly 3y ago
Understandable. I do think knowing how to play paper magic leads to a better understanding of the game but being a spike isn’t everyone’s goal.
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by bodangly 3y ago
You can just use Cockatrice for that. Sure it’s not as pretty or as easy, but it supports every card since you pretty much are playing paper magic and it’s not trying to be the referee.
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by bodangly 3y ago
That to me is one of the most interesting aspects. Somehow, these people who were deeply spiritual, also were adepts of science, and while we can’t say any of them got it exactly right, the paths intersected enough that their contributions
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by bodangly 3y ago
Respectfully, Zosimus is one of the earliest Hellenistic writers on alchemy and he speaks of chemistry as a symbol: “There are two sciences and two wisdoms, that of the Egyptians and that of the Hebrews, which latter is confirmed by divine
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by bodangly 3y ago
I’d say it goes beyond not being mutually exclusive. They complement each other, sometimes in surprising ways. Sacred geometry, concepts of frequency and vibrational rates, extracting signal from noise, if you are well versed in math and sc
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by bodangly 3y ago
It was mostly VIO. The drone had 4 cameras, two front facing, two aimed more at the sides. There were two IMUs on the companion computer (and more on the flight controller of course), as well as a downward facing rangefinder.
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by bodangly 3y ago
Well, for the drones, we did base things off ground truth captured in a mocap lab, and this helped the models significantly. There always will be a jump from simulation to real world, but the smaller you make that jump the quicker you’ll ha
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by bodangly 3y ago
Yes getting timestamped and synchronized ground truth to build/verify your model will be quite challenging for something like this. For the drones we just took them to a mocap lab, and races are inside so we had the luxury of assuming
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by bodangly 3y ago
It was a software competition, whoever developed the best AI was the whole point. And we did NOT give them full course data ahead of time - they had to do this based off VIO only (visual inertial odometry).
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by bodangly 3y ago
Models for drones are actually pretty simple. The races are indoors, so we can assume 0 wind. It’s really basic physics and aerodynamics. We had some sessions in a mocap lab where contestants were able to perform some flights and get some g
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by bodangly 3y ago
It is, yes, but also this was done purely by VIO - courses were not mapped ahead of time. Contestants had very limited time on the actual drone, almost all their work had to be done via HITL simulation. The entire stack was done in maybe 6-
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by bodangly 3y ago
I am a consultant who developed the companion computer/autopilot and software environment for DRL drones used at the AIRR race sponsored by Lockheed in 2019. UZH was the team to beat and I met Davide and Elia there. They almost pulled
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by bodangly 3y ago
Ha. I lived in Oxford for a year and the first day I arrived at my flat, there was a giant house spider. To this day it’s the biggest spider I’ve ever seen.
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by bodangly 4y ago
I’m with you. I drive a 24 year old 740iL. It’s a car, it functions well as one. If I want nav or whatever I have a cell phone after all. I even left the sound system original and listen to CDs. Its nice to just go back to basics for a chan
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by bodangly 4y ago
You see this a lot though. It’s because it becomes harder and harder to do something new and different when it’s all sort of been done before. Innovating something that’s been done to death is a lot harder than innovating when things are st
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by bodangly 4y ago
The actual rich are buying $1000 Gucci shoes that wear out just as fast as a $100 fashion sneaker these days. They put in a $100k kitchen and then do another full remodel in 10 years because it’s not the current style anymore. Cars? They le
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by bodangly 4y ago
Sort of but less high tech than most think of w that word, it’s a “touchscreen” - red LEDs tell you the level.
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by bodangly 4y ago
I really can’t understand this perspective. Perhaps cheap gas is better than cheap electric cooktops. But my Miele which is radiant, not even induction, heats up VERY fast and provides a very predictable amount of heat via the digital inter
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by bodangly 4y ago
I launched my own matrix server for my company two years ago and I’ve never had to do a thing with it. It gets frequent use by ~10 people, so not huge, but it’s been quite easy to deploy and maintain.
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by bodangly 4y ago
I guess you guys have some firmer land up there. Here if it isn't pure swamp, its limestone which water has no problem passing through, hence no basements in most locations.
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by bodangly 4y ago
Not sure about the rest of the state but definitely no basements here in South Florida. I haven’t even seen any houses w a crawl space when I was moving here. Pretty much just concrete block construction on slab. Can’t really dig far on a s
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by bodangly 4y ago
What happens when the company decides to migrate from JIRA to something else? It wouldn’t take any special effort to migrate the TODO but in my experience the old JIRA is going to be stale and abandoned entirely in a year. No one will even
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by bodangly 4y ago
The later posts show binwalk output and there are certs at the top of the binary. He’s never getting his own firmware to run. Fun hobby project for him I’m sure though.
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by bodangly 4y ago
Near 100%. If you look at the binwalk output in his later posts you can clearly see certificates as one of the first things in the binary. I’ll be shocked if this guy ever actually gets his own firmware to run here.
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by bodangly 4y ago
These arguments seem logical, but are they backed up by anything other than gut feeling? If anything, harmful adulterants in drugs have only increased since dark net markets became a thing. There are lots of reasons for that, but it’s hard
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by bodangly 4y ago
It’s awkward when used to text pipelines, but the object oriented output is just so much nicer to parse and interact with for me that after spending some serious time with Powershell I am a huge fan. Being able to use the CLR directly and a
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by bodangly 4y ago
I’ve had a different experience. I have been mysteriously appearing in surbl periodically ever since I switched to ProtonMail. Never had that problem in like 10 years of owning my domain, but within a month of ProtonMail sure enough, I star
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by bodangly 4y ago
I’ll be moving to Broward County in a month and definitely would be interested in an HN meetup.
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by bodangly 4y ago
I made something like this for a local client, but w much cheaper components, and it’s in a specially designed pelican case for shipping equipment out to customers and then back. I am of the understanding it is not legal to ship batteries
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by bodangly 4y ago
Been a contractor for about a decade now. A few tips: You need at least 1.5x ideally 2x your normal rate to make it worth it. You need to always be selling, probably should make sure you are consistently overbooked if you want to keep contr

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