rmattes

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by rmattes 7y ago
It would be triangulation if the system was measuring the arrival angles of the incoming signals. If the system relying solely on arrival time differences, it's likely doing something based on trilateration.
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by rmattes 7y ago
If you're into this stuff and ever in the Seattle area I recommend visiting the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport. They have a good collection of torpedoes on display, including a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo. http://www.n
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by rmattes 7y ago
Why haven't I tried ROS on Windows? I never really had the need to, I primarily use Linux at home and work. I did briefly evaluate ROS 2 (ardent) on Windows at my previous job. It seemed to work fairly well, I built it natively, ran
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by rmattes 7y ago
I've never tried it, so I don't know how easy it is, but there has been a lot of work recently to improve ROS on Windows: https://microsoft.github.io/Win-RoS-Landing-Page/
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The Ins and Outs of R&D as a Government Contractor(paragbatavia.com)
1 points by rmattes 8y ago|0 comments
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Atlassian unveils completely rebuilt version of Jira(zdnet.com)
2 points by rmattes 8y ago|0 comments
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by rmattes 8y ago
If you're not looking for a full size rack, I like the Hammond Manufacturing RCH series. They come in several heights and depths, and you can add locking doors and casters.
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Introducing the ROS 2 Technical Steering Committee(discourse.ros.org)
1 points by rmattes 8y ago|0 comments
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by rmattes 8y ago
ROS runs on Mac, and ROS 2 adds Windows support.
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by rmattes 8y ago
The 'assertion-evidence' approach to creating slides focuses on for keeping text to a minimum and using pictures and other visual aids to support your message. They emphasized it in my engineering school, and I've been using
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Can Robotics Solve Its Diversity Problem?(scientificamerican.com)
2 points by rmattes 8y ago|0 comments
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by rmattes 9y ago
The 90s wasn't exactly the stone age, there was plenty of self-driving vehicle work taking place. For example: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-national-automate...
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by rmattes 10y ago
Sure, but even then, I think his point is still applicable. It's urllib2 and requests, not urllib2 and requests and 20 other libraries. The fact that an inferior library is being kept alive by being in the stdlib is maybe unfortunate
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by rmattes 10y ago
I don't think he's arguing that the language designers are the ones that need to be curating crates, he just brought up Python as an example of some sort of curation happening in a similar ecosystem. It's the community at la
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by rmattes 10y ago
If you can't definitively prove that a class of changes won't break things, then you probably have to treat that class of changes as breaking and version accordingly, no?
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by rmattes 10y ago
That's an interesting point. If you're using a language that adds more rules to the API compatibility than the language that a module is released in, it's probably not possible to rely on semver in the general case. Unless
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by rmattes 10y ago
So it sounds like you're trying to quantify the runtime stability of a library with the risk metric: e.g. if I update this package, what are the chances that the foobaz function I'm using in that package will start giving me the w
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by rmattes 10y ago
What do you mean by risk? How would you quantify it? As I understand it, all semver is trying to tell you is when backwards-compatible changes happen, and when backwards-incompatible changes happen. If the project developer wants to add so
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by rmattes 10y ago
I think another good example would be the craft beer industry. The brewers association directory[1] lists around 200 regional and large breweries in the US, and somewhere around 5000 microbreweries and brewpubs. Granted, some of these are
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by rmattes 10y ago
> If you do actually need to develop for Linux, I would suggest something with a rolling release model, otherwise it won't be long before you'll need to start compiling things from source because you need a more recent version
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by rmattes 10y ago
> Tesla is probably well ahead on that game and Uber will either need to partner or buy an existing car company. Tesla may have been working on it longer commercially, but Uber did poach a lot of expertise from Carnegie Mellon to get a h
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by rmattes 13y ago
For additional reference, the introductory computer vision course I recently took was based around these two freely downloadable books: http://szeliski.org/Book/ http://www.cse.usf.edu/~r1k/Machine