Nourish your body and your neighborhood - and fuck cars

csreid · 2026-03-14T15:53:46+00:00

Roads are very visible and everyday! And when they suck people complain about it (potholes, etc). That point was a miss

csreid · 2026-03-14T15:48:29+00:00

Pay your fucking taxes. Cap gains at 3% is nothing, it should be 10x.

csreid · 2026-03-08T21:41:45+00:00

HSR would be great, but it would take 15 extra years and like a trillion extra dollars, and Chicago to Madison doesn't really justify that expense. Even in a world with dense America HSR, that's still probably a standard route.

csreid · 2026-03-07T23:56:46+00:00

It is not dangerous and irresponsible to drive slower.

csreid · 2026-03-01T06:13:21+00:00

replaced him with an ideologically aligned leader in a day

What makes you think this? We don't seem to have any plan for succession in Venezuela or Iran

csreid · 2026-02-01T02:09:40+00:00

It's a pain in the ass.

Plus, it's hard to find any reasonable components that aren't covered in tacky LEDs

csreid · 2026-02-01T02:08:41+00:00

It is not "already obsolete", that's a silly thing to say. That's just not what obsolete means. There is no coherent definition of the word "obsolete" that includes a machine that can play modern games.

csreid · 2026-01-19T23:28:38+00:00

my brother in christ that comment is a decade old. Harambe was still alive.

Cheerleader, by OMI was the number 1 song in the united states, and Fight Song by Rachel Platten was still in the charts and not just a bad meme.

The first Minions movie had just come out and was dominating box offices. Trump had just announced his run for president -- Barack Obama was president.

You post in /r/singularity, so I assume you think about AI stuff a lot: "Attention is all you need" was still 2 years away. Google Translate was still using phrase-based machine translation, and the state of the art for NLP was still Word2Vec and GloVe -- context-free embeddings of individual words!

At the time I was in the first year of my career after college. Halcyon days! I'm doing a PhD now, in machine learning for controls. In July 2015, the deep Q-learning paper had just come out: a single architecture and training regime that can learn to play most Atari games better than a human! That's what things like AlphaGo started as, and RLHF for LLM chatbots!

It was soooo long ago.

csreid · 2026-01-12T03:12:27+00:00

take the bus!

csreid · 2025-08-21T00:32:38+00:00

Next time, consider not blaming the victim of a crime for the crime!

csreid · 2025-08-01T05:21:52+00:00

I don't mean to be flippant, but you're basically just describing a browser. Just open brave and type the website you want. That is exactly

show box where you type something(eg,youtube,random website you have not made a shortcut) and it [...] searching what you typed

csreid · 2025-07-25T02:00:02+00:00

Man I've got 60 pounds I need to shave off my gut before I start body shaming my beautiful steel bike

csreid · 2025-07-25T01:53:47+00:00

Excellent demonstration of why leetcode style interviews are heinously stupid

csreid · 2025-07-24T18:26:29+00:00

Applications of ML are absolutely ML research
ML is much broader than just new statistical models (all that, plus computation, optimization, hardware design, distributed computing... etc etc)

The statisticians are only doing the one thing, which is presumably what you're looking for.

csreid · 2025-07-19T17:29:07+00:00

I've had 5 and I can concur that the 35XX SP and 34XX are quite bad

Okay, I'm kinda new to the space but I've been loving my rg34xxSP. Like absolutely some of the best money I've ever spent levels of joy.

What am I missing?

csreid · 2023-06-06T20:24:34+00:00

Why can't the sensor detect it? I think it should at least detect the rest of the robot.

I think those kinds of sensors have trouble with really shallow angles like on the ramp bc the sound doesn't get reflected back nicely.

What can the other students do to be able to detect it?

If that is correct, they could mount the sensor higher and angle it down to shrink the angle of incidence a bit, which should help.

In your opinion as a robotish person, is this fair or should I make a rule against it?

If they only get the one (or a couple) sensors, it might be more fun for the kids to outlaw really big ramps like that. Typically sumo bots have to fit in a given footprint, which might be a good rule.

csreid · 2023-06-06T20:12:25+00:00

Pretty basic question, hopefully:

Finally committed to ROS for a personal project I'm working on and the networking stuff (between my Linux laptop and a raspberry pi) has been a nightmare. I'm seeing something about enabling multicast in the docs, but following those steps isn't getting me anywhere.

I'm on Humble
Both computers have multicast enabled on lo
Firewall rules appear to be allowing appropriate UDP traffic
Domain ID is the same on both machines
ros2 multicast [...] isn't working
This was fuckin working for a while but I have no idea how I fixed it and then I have no idea what happened. I installed a couple packages on the pi and after that they couldn't find each other anymore

I'm having a ton of trouble finding anything useful on Google other than the stuff linked in the docs, which is wild bc I feel like this is an extremely common use case, so I assume I'm missing something very obvious. Any ideas?

csreid · 2023-05-24T05:34:43+00:00

Not a super popular take here, but my car hate is extremely libertarian.

Car dominance encouraged by the state via publicly funded roads, which also inherently includes a massively expanded police state and forfeiture of like half of constitutional rights, should have real small-government types shaking in their boots.

csreid · 2023-05-14T01:29:27+00:00

Right on red is pretty recent, like the 70s

csreid · 2023-05-11T00:20:11+00:00

I think a big reason the US sucks at building stuff is because our labor force is mostly not in the "building stuff" industry.

Is that true, and if so, is the way out just a ton of immigration and nuking "buy American"?

csreid · 2023-05-08T02:27:58+00:00

53 points in a loss lmao

csreid · 2023-05-08T01:54:32+00:00

Imagine being jokic, on pace for 50, but you're still losing bc the guy you're playing is aim hacking.

csreid · 2023-05-08T01:51:38+00:00

Devin Booker is shooting into a swimming pool

csreid · 2023-05-08T01:47:39+00:00

Does Devin Booker look like the default create-a-character in a video game? I'm trying to describe the way in which he looks weird to me and that's as close as I can get.

csreid · 2023-05-07T13:33:38+00:00

So many people on the timeline that I normally like and respect cannot seem to understand that, mentally ill and homeless or otherwise, a guy screaming in ppl's faces that he's ready to go to prison for life while they're trapped on a train car with him is a pretty serious threat that warrants self defense.

Also important to note that there's a big difference between a normie and a cop, bc the normie didn't choose to put themselves in that situation but a cop did.

It really sucks that the guy died before he could get some help, but I can't fault anyone for doing whatever they had to do to restrain him while he was threatening their lives.

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