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Having recently picked up woodworking after building my own office desk, this hit rather close to home.

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I feel like there was a missed opportunity to use some of the spare computing power on the desk to add some helpful navigational autonomy. Like using a backward facing web camera for lane assist, obstacle avoidance, route following, etc. Could leverage something open source like Autoware.org to get most of the way there.

Source video by Joel Creates:
https://youtu.be/mDndd_EzkgA

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Have you ever wondered how NASA updates Voyager's software from 15 billion miles away? Or how Voyager's memories are stored? In this video, we dive deeper into the incredible story of how a small team of engineers managed to keep Voyager alive, as well as how NASA could perform a software update on a computer that's been cruising through space for almost half a century.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Private Eye - essential for staying online 24/7

What was that device, an early cellular modem or 802.11 wireless bridge? The thing ontop of the briefcase looks like a head visor with an antenna. Google search keywords are just noise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I'll note that when using multiple windows, I recall that switching the user in one window would switch the user for all other windows as well, so support for simultaneous user sessions would probably have to be added as well.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do we have a community for computer architectures or computer science on this instance or anywhere else?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Call it WebOS or something.

Kind of off topic, but webOS was in fact a thing, but more of mobile OS alternative to android and iOS, first developed by palm, the bought by HP, then sold to LG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

It had a small but active homebrew community, with the HP touchpad being one of the early tablets on the market with an unlocked bootloader and Linux support.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I don't know of many recorded audio books, but you could also use a Text to Speech engine to listen to any technical blogs or articles. I use Android apps like Pocket or T2S to queue up a backlog of TODO read items, then when I'm out for a long walk, I can just press play and let the TTS do it's thing. Of course, I curate this list for longer pure text reads, devoid of code snippets, equations, or visual graphics that TTS would have a tough time conveying over audio.

Looks like I may need to find a successor to pocket. They do a great job scraping connect via readable mode, but I'd like to find a shelf hosted or mobile+offline app equivalent for queuing up web articles, just in case pocket gets cut from further development by Mozilla management.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Guess the author's click bait'y title was too much. I'll withdraw their video then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is already [email protected] , so would ios_dev better match the pattern from android_dev? Guess it could depend if the old mods wanted to migrate with the same naming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Scrum 's a thing that can't get no love from me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This is a cross post from an older post, so the comments here may provide more hints for later levels:

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