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I’ve been on an apple slices and peanut butter kick lately. My grocery store has been selling big bags of granny smiths for $5 and I’m going through them so quickly

This is actually a thing, but specifically for blocking people from printing currency IIRC.

That’s cool as fuck

I can’t believe I forgot Clippy…

My impression is that scout is specifically going to be an agentic ai. Agentic ai platforms are supposedly a little more competent than chatbots, but still subject to the same llm chicanery and enormous energy usage.

It’s hard to compare against copilot because MS has called a ton of distinct things copilot (see the diagram below).

Nothing fancy- Corned beef hash, eggs over easy, with swiss cheese melted on top and a nice cup of black coffee.

Ah yes, Cortana and Copilot both suck, but surely third time’s the charm. And when Scout is, inevitably, unpopular as well? We’ll see what they call number four.

When light encounters a surface, a certain amount of it is absorbed, some may pass through the material, and the rest reflects. All of those functions are variable with wavelength- a material that is opaque to visible light may be transparent to other forms of radiation, like radio waves. This is actually where our perception of color comes from- it is the wavelengths of light that weren’t absorbed by and didn’t pass through the surface we’re looking at. (Sorry, I’m a nerd about this sort of stuff)

A laser is extremely concentrated light. Most materials can only absorb a certain amount of that energy. As such, a lot more of it reflects back off the opaque surfaces it encounters, even if they aren’t mirrors. For a strong enough laser, even that weakend reflection can do damage.

Per a quick search, 500mW is the threshold where a laser can start doing damage faster than your blink reflex and reflections are also dangerous (IIRC this is the bottom end of class 4 lasers). Most of the projects I’m finding online that are similar to this one are around 1W, so double the threshold.

That’s not necessarily the “instantly blinding” territory I suggested, but even a short exposure will cause damage.

Depending only on a second vision system as a safety interlock seems… foolhardy, to say the least. A laser strong enough to instantly fry a mosquito is likely also strong enough to instantly make you blind.

So “cunt” is bad because it demeans women, but you used “whore” as an insult in the title of your previous post. Performative hypocrisy at its finest.

This isn’t someone’s personal vehicle, waymos are self-driving taxis with nobody in the driver’s seat. You are no more responsible for the behavior of the vehicle than you would be as a passenger in an ordinary taxi.

How is one supposed to reach the pedals from the back seat, where you’re supposed to be sitting in a waymo?

I’m no fan of all this half-baked self-driving bullshit, but there’s no need to mischaracterize the problem, especially when waymo is doing plenty on its own to discredit its abilities.

Take a look at cyberdeck projects, a lot of them are basically what you’re talking about with holding everything together and batteries for portability. There are lots of guides to build them that cover all the parts you need and how to connect them, which should be a decent jumping-off point for you.

Why do you keep asking this question? You’re not going to get a different answer.

It was funny watching them desperately try to swoop and acquire markforged and desktop metal before stratasys could finish the deal. Nano dimension was already struggling at that point and was pretty obviously (imo) not well-positioned to make any acquisitions but I guess they thought one of these companies would be a lifeline back to profitability. So much for that lol.

Edit: fixed a typo

Lol that’s certainly one way to do it. I have actually seen a few mice with three buttons and a wheel but that’s obviously not whatever’s going on here

Edit: I’m an idiot, there’s 4 buttons on top apparently

Check out Ploopy. Their main focus is trackballs, but they have a mouse too.

That’s true of all printers even today

Who ever could have seen this coming?

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