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posting on the first page of the new transit and housing chat.
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:How the gently caress isn't it most cost-effective to have a robot arm do that poo poo if you're planning on running a sensor array for every single bin Our trainers regaled us with tales of unruly robots. They told us how one robot had tried to drag a worker’s stepladder away. Occasionally, I was told, two Kivas—each carrying a tower of merchandise—collided like drunken European soccer fans bumping chests. And in April of that year, the Haslet fire department responded to an accident at the warehouse involving a can of “bear repellent” (basically industrial-grade pepper spray). According to fire department records, the can of repellent was run over by a Kiva and the warehouse had to be evacuated; eight workers were treated for injuries and one was taken to the hospital. Amazon, for its part, says it “can find no record of an employee being taken by ambulance right after the incident.” One CamperForce worker, a white-haired septuagenarian, told me that she was on the verge of quitting because she found the robots so maddening. The Kivas kept bringing her the same shelf to scan. After it happened to her three times, the shelf began going to her husband, who was working 25 feet away. He got it six times. She told me this outside the break room, as we walked past a cheerful-looking member of the cleaning crew. Trailing off from her story, she stared at the worker and demanded, “How’d she get that job? I’d rather do that! I’d rather clean toilets.” At the start of each of my own shifts, a ponytailed manager in her twenties said “Helloooo, campers!” while her assistant coached us through stretching exercises. Then I spent hours scanning barcodes on whatever the Kivas brought me: everything from gun accessories to dildos (Cloud Nine Delightful Dong). On one occasion, a Kiva carrying 18 boxes of patchouli incense rolled toward my workstation—and then returned twice more to be rescanned. When my shift was over, my coworkers could still smell the incense on me. “Saturday Night Fever!” exclaimed a retired minister. https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/
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Feb 2, 2018 03:30
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it was a bitcoin thing
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Feb 13, 2018 15:32
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the main problem with the stellarator was being able to accurately model the effects of the geometry on the plasma. decades of research and leaps in computer processing has made it a much more feasible design. tokamaks on the other hand have a natural flaw in their geometry. the donut shape creates a natural gradient between the outer and inner walls (the magnetic coil bunches up/is denser on the inner wall). it's hard to have a realistic outlook on fusion. maybe one day it will be great, i don't follow it closely enough to be able to predict whether it will be commonplace in my lifetime. i think it is as worthy as any other large scientific project, but the public really needs to stop talking about it as if it's an energy technology and instead treat it like a big scientific instrument similar to a telescope or particle accelerator. i think you can still sell the public on the coolness factor of it being a big vessel to store a piece of the sun.
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Feb 16, 2018 05:24
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ate all the Oreos posted:the thorium fuel cycle requires quite a lot of industrial retooling and infrastructure to actually become viable so i'd say more than a decade away everything is a decade away.
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Feb 16, 2018 05:53
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Sapozhnik posted:also while it's perfectly cool to want to have a crazy swinging bacchanalia as long as everybody involved is a consenting adult you might be surprised that there are some people who honestly don't find that kind of lifestyle appealing that's fine, but he isn't even doing the dumb nerd stuff that he would like to do.
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Feb 23, 2018 04:11
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lancemantis posted:there’s a union at my workplace but I have no idea what they do or what the impact of joining is; it may just be full of cranks or something — they send me email newsletters now and then you should probably join them
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Feb 24, 2018 16:31
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it'd be cool to get one of those as a cultural artefact... for maybe $10
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Mar 5, 2018 16:55
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Sagebrush posted:yeah p much that. when you're used to metric you look at those numbers and say .6 more than 5.2 is an increase of roughly 10%. it only looks like a rounding error because you don't use metric everyday.
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Mar 9, 2018 08:45
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Shaggar posted:Celsius... based on arbitrary constants. the deranged mind of an american
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Mar 9, 2018 17:00
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President Beep posted:I’ve got it! uber, only for plane mechanics! they have that, except the plane uber's itself to mechanics in asia.
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Mar 11, 2018 01:50
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bob dobbs is dead posted:I don't know why they don't give like 2 spicy options and a bland one to peeps in airplanes people say they like hot and spicy food, but 'hot' flavoured stuff just doesn't sell well.
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Mar 11, 2018 02:34
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ate all the Oreos posted:did anyone confirm it's the actual sensing camera? because that really does just look like a cheap dash cam mounted on the windshield, it's entirely possible it's just that i figured it had to be a lovely dashcam because it couldn't see more than two feet in front of the car. it would be criminally negligent to use that thing in a sensing capacity.
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Mar 22, 2018 16:16
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go play outside Skyler posted:they just need to make an espresso version with capsules, because american coffee is just loving gross by american coffee do you mean drip/filter coffee? because one of the methods you use to make fancy coffee is filter coffee. the issue is the god awful stale ground coffee most people use, not the way it is brewed.
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Mar 24, 2018 04:23
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:smdh if you deign to use a paper filter rather than a gold mesh one in brewing such an elixir i have to try this coffee. surprised that it's a sydney thing, and not a melbourne thing.
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Mar 24, 2018 04:37
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cinci zoo sniper posted:like, https://www.picariga.lv/ is considered to be a rather upmarket pizza affair over here and you cant just compare the prices. your pizza looks like a dishrag
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Mar 26, 2018 08:32
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Anal Del Raytheon posted:https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tesla-is-just-months-away-from-a-total-collapse-says-hedge-fund-manager-2018-03-27 yes, yes. haha.
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Mar 28, 2018 01:33
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:i don't understand how the model 3 factory is doign so badly. factories to mass produce cars and batteries have existed for a long time, what did tesla do to make these special factories that can't make any cars it is a former gm/toyota factory. it produced 6000 vehicles a week on average, and over 8000 a week at its peak. they closed it in 2010 because fremont california is an expensive and bad location to produce cars. so why is it producing about a thousand cars a week? the plant purchase was mainly the building, and not the equipment or knowledge. the production line and retooling was designed by tesla. their production goal is 500,000/year, or 70,000/year more cars than was ever produced at that site.
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Mar 28, 2018 12:20
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Bhodi posted:i'm the guy who continues to use autopilot after it tries to kill me multiple times the basilisk demands unwavering faith in tech
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Mar 29, 2018 05:31
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Lutha Mahtin posted:i've noticed that too but other stores seem to be doing it also, at least for the "install camera/display and put MONITORING IN PROGRESS on the screen" bit. i would not be surprised at all if target is doing facial recognition considering their (creepy imo) history of store recon and helping intelligence agencies it's almost certainly doing nothing. just the idea that they are being watched is enough to stop many people from stealing.
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Mar 29, 2018 05:34
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tesla moving to the star citizen model by taking reservations on concept cars that will never be produced. looking forward to the model 3 with a built in soda fountain.
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Apr 2, 2018 01:53
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gen z are killing akinator
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Apr 2, 2018 16:54
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immanentize yourself and face to eschaton
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Apr 15, 2018 01:30
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i remember the joke that every person in yospos has made about the zuck
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Apr 16, 2018 02:22
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i'm just not feeling it today, sorry.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:59
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bob dobbs is dead posted:Apparently if you sniff more than about 0.3 grams of pure lsd, you get serotonin syndrome you could probably cause serotonin syndrome with 300mg of certain anti-depressants as well
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May 2, 2018 12:18
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they charge you per mile ridden, like uber
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May 5, 2018 04:40
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western inventions with chinese characteristics
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May 5, 2018 06:12
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willy wonka for internet nerds seems like a good fit for his personality and aptitude for self-promotion. it might also make money if he keeps his candy ambitions modest.
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May 6, 2018 04:45
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ate all the Oreos posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...89f0_story.html it's the most undergrad smart guy idea too
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May 6, 2018 05:26
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elon's candy business has me pining for some blackpool rock
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May 6, 2018 06:07
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i'm the chart showing the woman was frustrated first in argument instigated by the man being frustrated.
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May 6, 2018 07:01
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rjmccall posted:not really. it’s blown up in a bunch of places, i was surprised to see it not get traction here before there is nothing new, absurd, or humorous about it. dude is just an arsehole, and i have to imagine that most people here are tired of it by now. i'm sure it's a bigger deal to the people in the open source community, but we're one step removed from it. it's just another arsehole getting mad at progressives.
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May 7, 2018 04:23
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we have lots of publicly available pictures of dogs that we can use to train the vision ai... *every object is recognised as a dog*
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May 8, 2018 03:26
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elon is a very normal person
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May 8, 2018 07:46
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fritz posted:(like the big fancy park that's only for palo alto residents, and they do have a guard checking) this is america as hell
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May 9, 2018 02:12
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Chris Knight posted:no idea what lacroix is i've spent enough time in this sub-forum that i'm Techbro Kobayashi
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May 9, 2018 03:03
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surprised that flavoured soda water isn't elon's new venture
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eschaton posted:you should grade your students on an early-90s style tired/wired scale complete with nigh-unreadable fonts and color schemes 
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rjmccall posted:also the helipads are dinner plates and are held up by sheer magic, and are vertically staggered for some reason? they're connected to the square blocks under the floor, adjacent to the pads.
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