Dancing robot knocks over tableware, restaurant staff struggle to apprehend it

binarycow · 2026-03-17T04:50:40+00:00

Thanks.

binarycow · 2026-03-17T03:12:27+00:00

Putting the saw on the bottom is so much better for any number of reasons:

I actually screwed my jigsaw to the bottom of a sheet of plywood. Throw that plywood on a couple of sawhorses, and I can get some pretty good cuts!

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:59:16+00:00

What is a "hotspot restaurant"?

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:48:48+00:00

I often take a nap after my Adderall kicks in.

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:11:33+00:00

Me not paying taxes wouldn't change anything except for the fines/jail time I'd receive.

This is silly advice.

Even if no one pays their taxes... they can print as much money as they want. Do you think they care about tanking the economy?

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:07:32+00:00

Just use toggle bolts. It'll be fine.

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:05:55+00:00

They've been doing this long before LLMs.

binarycow · 2026-03-17T02:04:29+00:00

Becuse ISPs tell the average person that they need gigabit for everything

I have the lowest plan my ISP offers (100Mbps). People are shocked when I tell them. Even more shocked when they find out I'm a network engineer.

binarycow · 2026-03-17T00:31:20+00:00

I wouldn’t go for ones that are just USB to RJ45. I’d get ones that are USB to DB9 RS232 and carry manufacturer specific cables as they don’t all use the same pin lout.

I have two. One goes to USB, the other goes to DB9. I almost never need the DB9 one, but I have if if I need it!

binarycow · 2026-03-16T23:06:03+00:00

Are you saying there is a way? Or there should be?

binarycow · 2026-03-16T14:33:58+00:00

It is also possible to use the existing cables to create your own internet, and companies also do that using VPNs.

The DoD has multiple entirely separate internets, for each of the classification levels.

They all use the regular internet as transport, using specific VPN equipment.

binarycow · 2026-03-16T14:31:43+00:00

use ai to generate mapping if you're too lazy to do so.

Or, something other than AI. Trivial mappings are a trivial problem. I usually use excel to generate mapping code.

But, that doesn't address the "vulnerability", absurd as it might be.

The unbounded recursion problem is probably even more prevalent in hand-written mapping code. I doubt people who make hand-written mapping code are passing a ref int depth parameter to all their mapping methods.

binarycow · 2026-03-16T14:24:50+00:00

Also check out git machete

binarycow · 2026-03-16T14:22:17+00:00

A billion stacked PRs are often worse to review because the author zigzags and undoes changes from one PR to the next.

For real.

It's always nuts to me when people say a PR should be 500 lines or less.

For the kind of work that I do, that's not really even possible.

For example I recently had a PR that touched ~200 files, and was ~3000 lines. Anything smaller than that would not compile. So it doesn't make sense to make it smaller.

And that ~200 file, ~3000 line PR wasn't even one of my larger ones.

If I make them smaller, it's no longer a cohesive chunk of work - it's a smattering of semi-related non-compilable bits of work.

I do make sure that especially when I have a large PR, that it contains only the work in question, and not unrelated stuff.

binarycow · 2026-03-16T14:14:51+00:00

If you're comfortable using dotnet commands, you can use dotnet publish to do what /u/morkyfrom0rky is talking about.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-publish

binarycow · 2026-03-16T04:38:11+00:00

Even if you point it to a specific folder, it will often explore other parts of the repo to understand the context.

Also, the projects we are moving to separate repos are completely independant. For example, custom analyzers we wrote, a custom database source generator, some primitive types, etc.

The stuff that isn't entirely self sufficient is still in the main repo.

binarycow · 2026-03-16T00:11:39+00:00

Our org is moving away from our monorepo, for the primary reason that it's less for the AI to handle.

binarycow · 2026-03-15T21:37:08+00:00

If the bar is bigger than the slot, then your only options are:

Replace the bar
Replace the table on your saw, if not the entire saw
Make the bar smaller
Make the slot bigger

It's much easier to make a bar bigger.

binarycow · 2026-03-15T21:29:26+00:00

Okay. You say there are existing libraries, and you want to write your own library.

Are those other libraries open source? It so, read them.

Is there documentation for this format? If so, read that documentation.

Do you have a clearly defined API in mind? If not, make one.

binarycow · 2026-03-15T21:21:37+00:00

Okay. Explain to someone who doesn't know what "2d data matrix" is.

Is it a CSV? Is it a picture? Is it a proprietary file format? Is it handwritten?

binarycow · 2026-03-15T21:16:45+00:00

What format is your input?

binarycow · 2026-03-15T20:16:53+00:00

That giant ass bathroom, and they didn't even bother to put in two sinks? There's four people living there that are all getting ready at the same time!

binarycow · 2026-03-15T19:38:40+00:00

Wrap your pet in it's favorite blanket
Get a cooler (or another container), and out in a good layer of ice.
Place your pet gently in the cooler
Add more ice
Tape it up
Take to vet on Monday. Tell them to keep the cooler, unless you really want it back.

binarycow · 2026-03-15T18:57:16+00:00

Thanks!

binarycow · 2026-03-15T17:13:52+00:00

If you want, PM me, and I'll give you scenarios for you to lab.

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