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What part of the patent in your opinion infringed by the youtube video?

Robot arms have existed long before 2015. And a lot of them use some combination of encoders. The term "secondary feedback" by itself without clarification doesn't really mean anything specific, and in terms used by the patent I would call this more of adding primary/primary feedback system.
The part that the patent seems to repeat is having secondary position sensor attached to the mechanical joint of robot (I assume as opposed to encoders already builtin into the servo drive), although patentability of even that seems somewhat questionable in 2015. I am not that good at reading patents, so maybe I am missing the actually relevant/novel part of that patent.

In the video both encoders are builtin the servo, instead of attached to the arm itself, even more the extra angle sensor introduced by author is attached directly to motor before the gearbox and it's slop which is complete opposite of what the patent tries to claim. The angle servo attached to output shaft after gearbox is what all hobby servos have.

If you go through the actual claims of patent most of them are not applicable to the video. 1) "system for large-scale assembly operations, ... secondary feedback mounted to joint ...". Not suitable for large scale asembly operations, no feedback attach to joint, both feedback systems are built in the hacked servos and can't measure any slop within the joint itself or servo to joint connection. 2) angular accuracy of 0.05 arcminutes - very unlikely 4) system of claim 1 wherein the manufacturing assembly is an aerospace assembly - no aerospace assembly making here, 5) 6rotary axis and 1 linear axis - no linear axis, 6) secondary feedback system is optical encoder -> questionable whether the optical angle sensor attached before gearbox matches the definition of "secondary encoder" as described by rest of the patent, also optical encoders is typically used for describing relative postion/angle sensor based on bunch of slits and counting pulses instead of analog amplitude measurement which gives absolute position. Typically I wouldn't bother with minute differences in classification of how the angle sensor is implemented, but since patent explicitly lists very specific sensor technologies I guess it matters. Otherwise they could just claim that there is an angle sensor/encoder. 7) secondary feedback system is inductive encoder - no inductive encoders here, 8) magnetic encoder - no magnetic encoders, 9) secondary feedback system is resolver - no resolver here (as in analog angle sensor based on ac coupling change depending on angle between two parts to directly generate the sin/cos of angle), 10) "system for acurate large scale-manufacturing assembly operations, ... >3 axis robot arm, with end tool, secondary feedback mounted on rotary joint" - this just more or less restates claim 1 only this time mentioning >=3 instead of >= 6 axis for some reason and mentions an end tool. Is ballpoint pen an end tool for large-scale manufacturing operations? Also the secondary feedback thing discussed before.
I agree about having AI write the text, it's usually easy to tell that something is off. I do wonder if there's some merit in having AI analyze and give feedback on comments prior to posting them. Something along the lines of: "How might this comment be interpreted by readers?" and iterating until the feedback is positive.
It's funny to get down in the weeds of the low standards of the American product when it's often sold next to a container labeled topping and mostly comprised of powdered whey.
The problem is that windows was developed before security was important. No one has made the necessary investments to create a truly secure computing platform.

Ideally a secure computing platform would have reproducible builds built on public inspectable infrastructure like fdroid. It would also virtualize all untrusted applications in a sandbox and implement the least privilege model.

Today we have the worst security. There is unknown, probably untested and insecure code running at every ring, from the CPU's ME, to the UEFI components, to the OS 3rd party drivers.

SeL4 has a fully verified kernel but it doesn't do virtualization yet.
Wikipedia doesn't currently have the technical ability to block a single article on a country basis. They had 36 hours to comply with this order and so took what action they could. The goal is to win the long-term appeal battle and avoid the entire site getting blocked permanently, but if they didn't comply with the short-term legal requirements, that path becomes much harder. Lose a battle but win the war.
> if the appeal is not successful and ANI wins, I think Wikipedia should just block India completely.

Let me see if I understand this correctly. It seems below is the sequence of events you are advocating for:

1. Wikipedia is allowed to legally represent themselves in the court of law.
2. Court looks at the case presented by ANI and Wikipedia, and decides that ANI is right and Wikipedia is wrong
3. Wikipedia should take this out on average Indian citizens, and make them pay because Wikipedia was found to be at fault in a court of law.

Makes sense
I think that statistic is a good indicator that we have significant broken incentives in the way liability can be shunted away from the people with decisionmaking power in businesses. The "corporate veil" for example is a deep loophole in the whole concept of rule of law, and I for one would prefer it not to exist
Got it. Thank you kindly. Wasn't thinking of it that way.
There is an error:

> Modus ponens is a proposition that is composed of two other propositions (which here we denote A and B) and it states that if proposition A is true and also if proposition (A --> B) is true (that is if A implies B), then B is true as well. For example, if we know that “Socrates is a human” and that “humans are mortal” (or “being human implies being mortal”), we also know that “Socrates is mortal.”

This example is not an instance of Modus ponens (a rule of propositional logic), it is rather a categorical syllogism, which require predicate logic.
Of course. But the right to practice medicine is not considered a innate human right, it's a privilege that has to be earned by completing specific training and demonstrating specific competencies.

Your profile mentions that you live in Singapore. You may not realize that Singapore is very picky about which foreign medical credentials it accepts [1]. This is a safeguard that they provide to you as a (potential) patient.

[1] https://www.healthprofessionals.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovide...
> by entirely too powerful entities

So, haunted then?
The U.S. federal government is investigating Bureau of Engraving and Printing's "US Dollar" notes for possible violations of sanctions and anti-money-laundering rules, according to people familiar with the matter.

The criminal investigation, run by prosecutors at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, is looking at whether notes "tethered" to the Federal Reserve's "dollar" have been used by third parties to fund illegal activities such as the drug trade, terrorism and hacking—or launder the proceeds generated by them.

The Treasury Department, meanwhile, has been considering sanctioning the Federal Reserve because of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's currency notes' widespread use by individuals and groups sanctioned by the U.S., including the terrorist group Hamas and Russian arms dealers. Sanctions against the Federal Reserve would generally prohibit Americans from doing business using the notes.
I thought this was a good idea too but then a scientist pointed out that those areas radiate heat into space at night and the last thing we want right now is less of that.

It's a little like a bald person putting on a wool hat: great if you're cold, but counter-productive if you're already too hot.

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In the next twenty years we will build as much city as we have so far. In other words in the next twenty years the amount of urban area will double. We've gotta design and build these new cities to be in harmony with the global ecosystem that maintains life support for everybody.

"Building cities with ecological harmony" | Dror Benshetrit | TEDxAmazônia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OrRCGY_lkk
Depends on what counts as a robot and how far you want to take them.

In the extreme case, we can do aeroponics in greenhouses anywhere on the planet. Or another planet. Or space stations.

But how much does it cost compared to open-air in soil?
Any primary party could stop it at any time. Russia can stop it tomorrow. Ukraine can stop it tomorrow. Nobody involved "needed" to start it. I do think that Russia saw itself facing an existential threat.
Very cool, I wonder how this compares to Panda3D?
The driver signing blacklist file DriverSiPolicy.p7b had not been updated for years. It took a CERT analyst (Will Dormann) to ask why in 2022. It's being updated regularly now, but WTF. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-fi...
Yeah same with onlyfans fans too.
I'd argue that other languages did this (or something similar) to great success, most notably Java.

That is, the Hotspot VM was such a phenomenal engine that lots of other languages sprung up to take advantage of that: Closure, Scala, Kotlin, etc.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages . Even with the Java language itself, syntactic changes happen much more frequently than VM-level bytecode changes.

With an interpreted language like JavaScript, the dividing line is a little grayer, because the shippable code isn't bytecode, it's still just text. But it still seems to make sense to me to target a a "core", directly interpretable language, and then let all the syntactic sugar be precompiled down to that (especially since most JS devs have a compilation step now anyway). Heck, we basically already did this with asm.js, the precursor to WebAssembly.
> It is the height of arrogance to assume that someone is so dumb that they don't even know what their interests are.

It’s also true. Call it arrogant all you want but it remains fact that people vote against their interests when persuaded to do so. If the retort is that it’s somehow rude to say this… so be it.
> The issue is with the issue: people/systems (big and small) blacklisting an ownable identifier pointing to some ownable content without any care for the lifecycle of either.

Does the lifecycle matter much, though?

Kind of like a carfax report. Tells you whether a vehicle you’re buying has been in an accident before (if it has, the value goes down because maybe there’s some latent issue that isn’t obvious at the time of purchase)

It would be nice if ICANN had some equivalent of a carfax for domains, perhaps even with a requirement that registrars expose at time of purchase whether a domain has been misused in the past (and who the prior owners were, or at the very minimum what the historical DNS records were).

Basically you want to avoid buying a “lemon” domain by accident.

I place zero fault/blame on “powerful entities” maintaining lists of domains used for spam/scams. How else will we protect grandma?
> What is the advantage of bluesky here?

Fewer Nazis.
Porn and FOSS have always been on the leading edge of tech.
So what’s interesting is MS say that UAC isn’t a security boundary. Which is some users to admin.

Then they say admin to kernel (in this case) isn’t a security boundary.

While also saying that driver signing enforcement is a security feature.

Which is what’s being bypassed here.

But they claim in this case it’s not crossing a security boundary.

Please make sense.
I am assuming a directional receiving antenna on the satellite. If a highly directional antenna is pointed at the location where the signal is expected to come from, a jammer on the other side of the frontline 100 km away should be attenuated a lot, if the antenna is directional enough.
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“Actually, I didn’t really care much for the degree, but I had no money for a lab and no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issues,” Musk wrote. “Then the internet came along, which seemed like a much surer bet.”

"Musk never enrolled at Stanford. In a May 2009 deposition, he said he called the department chair two days after the start of the semester to say he wasn’t going to attend...

...In the same deposition, he said he began working at Zip2 — originally called Global Link Information Network — in August or September 1995.

Upon not enrolling, Musk would have had to leave the country, according to legal experts and immigration laws at the time. He would not have been allowed to work.
While overstaying a student visa is somewhat common and officials have at times turned a blind eye to it, it remains illegal.

The revelation that Musk lacked the legal right to work in the United States stands at odds with his recent focus on undocumented immigrants and U.S. border security, among the issues that have led him to spend more than $100 million helping Trump return to the White House..."
blacklisted would be a good description as well.
Identifying factors contributing to "bad days" for software developers
It'd be a lot less easy if the OS didn't seem to require full privilege escalation for a lot of tasks you don't need that for in linux. One of the major problems that leads to escalation is poor separation of concerns
It's alowed to be both.

Though in this case, I'd point fingers at "American culture" rather than "tech bros":

As the Onion says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
This ruling seems as corrupt as they go. What kind of untruths did Wikipedia do to cause this to be «defamation»?

Step 3 would be to broadcast to all of India this corrupt ruling.
Wouldn't it make more sense for some of these features to be implemented as a desugaring step in the runtime itself? i.e. if implementing them directly as new language features doesn't make sense, then preprocess them away before executing the scripts. You could even do this for past features that made it into ECMAScript but haven't turned out to be useful, instead of ossifying a specific moment in time's tooling.
It seems to me that wasm should just support the web/browser API instead of the current trampoline business; this way, JS build tooling can emit wasm files, which is similar to the example you use.
We’ve run React for almost a decade now and the only major parts we’ve swapped have been react build with Vite. Angular has been even more stable since the switch to TS. As far as the frontend frameworks themselves changing massively, that’s a different story, but it’s not like C# didn’t go from Windows .Net to Core/Framework to cross platform .Net, and so on for different language frameworks.

On the Backend there are very few issues, outside of FFI only being in unstable for Deno I suppose, but you could frankly be running the same old Express API you did a decade ago and be perfectly fine.

If you’re burnt out on changes and keeping up with things I think the issue is mostly a “you” issue. You don’t have to chase down the latest hypes or fads. In fact I think you almost never should.
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For a while apple had better security. Now it's more even, if you go by the 0day prices. There's not a lot of truly secure options unless you wanted to develop your own phone from the ground up.
Defamation law in India is pretty bad and leans way more in favor of someone making an accusation of defamation than in favor of free and open speech. https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/rahul-gandhi-cr...
> In 1992, there was a proposal to fully integrate the AME school with the ACT Government school system. However the idea floundered after the ACT Teachers Union amongst other things, knocked the idea on the head, due to compatibility issues. It felt the idea of having a school principal having selection over teaching staff was outside the scope of the Unions control. It came out fighting against the proposal.

Now there’s a depressing thing to read. Teacher’s unions are the worst.
I commented this elsewhere, but the funny thing is that asm.js was the precursor to WebAssembly, and this proposal is essentially asking for asm.js back again.
I could see how they are blocked on your system, using GrapheneOS, but that doesn't tell us if Netguard blocks them on Android systems. One reason for GrapheneOS is to close that kind of hole.
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It's a shame that SIMD is still a dark art. I've looked at writing a few simple algorithms with it but have to do it in my own time as it'll be difficult to justify it with my employer. I do know that gcc is generally terrible at auto-vectorising code, clang is much better but far from perfect. Using intrinsics directly will just lead to code that's unmaintainable by others not versed in the dark art. Even wrappers over intrinsics don't help much here. I feel there's a lot of efficiency being left on the table because these instructions aren't being used more.
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The main difference is that UAC is automatically triggered by the OS and takes over the whole display making it harder to fake/intercept. It’s trivial to put a fake sudo in someones PATH and steal their password
At this point few besides the pedantic or motivated seem to want this, given that they've been massively diverged projects for at least half a decade
> With the right debugging tools, transpiled alternatives to JavaScript are easier to debug than vanilla ES5.

So if I agree with GP then I just haven't found the right tooling yet?
Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable?
Is the liquid MSG solution or is there something else in there?
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How would you deal with digital versions now?
Publishers will just leave all the PC versions on steam and call it a day. Those will never expire as long as the publisher remains in business.
Aside: Is it really ice cream?
Making obtuse, pedantic statements makes you seem like an insincere agitator.
If there’s still going to be a standard JSSugar, yes, seems like it should be desugared in the runtime. On the other hand, if we want to make it easier to fragment the high-level language into incompatible sugared versions, this seems like the way to go. (Hard to believe that would be the TC’s goal.)
WebAssembly enables that: https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
These incentives are incredibly misaligned. How big is this tax loop hole to Google? Truck sized or Battlestar sized?
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I’d say the media’s attitude towards Israel and Palestine is conveniently summarized in the Ta-Nehisi Coates interview with Tony Dokupil.
Didn't see the old way but I'm having no issues on Firefox Android as of now. I really like the checkpoint thing. It's something I've craved from other platforms. I will note though that the 4 with the like through it (maybe just my phone) is just a 4 (the line ends up being the crossbar of the 4). Maybe a diagonal line would be better?
This is a value system disagreement.

I have a theory that there's basically two types of disagreements, disagreements on definitions, and disagreements on value systems.

In this case Microsoft values downplaying this issue, so when that is at the top of their value system their decisions should make sense following that.

Since this is just a pet theory I'm very interested to hear critiques on it.

Disagreements on definition are a little bit easier, because then you can just talk about the definitions and resolve your differences there... For example let's say IDK You're trying to sort out how to design a software system, and everyone is speaking in terms of design patterns, but they haven't yet spelled out the details of what those designed patterns are, then that could probably lead to a lot of confusion if when you say A I think of A', and another person is thinking of A''.
I give IA money every month, and I encourage everyone to do the same.

I understand that the current state of copyright put them on thin- to no-ice. But that shouldn't be the case, IMHO. It's a net gain for the universe to let them loan these out-of-print materials. Publishers are working hard to make sure it's very expensive or impossible to do Internet lending. And Internet lending is exactly what the future of libraries should be unless we want to be stuck in a perpetually diminishing 1990.

IA is fighting the good fight against some seriously long odds.
> the lowest common denominator of operations?

Note that in recent years the chosen LCD for some distros has changed - they're starting to target the v2 feature set rather than the original.

See https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...

> Do dynamic languages (Javascript, Python, PHP...) get a speed boost because they can compile just in time and use all the features of the user's CPU?

Dynamically-typed languages can't benefit from this at all (they may include a C library that uses runtime dispatch though). Statically-typed JIT'ed languages like Java can (and you see occasional "look, Java is faster than C" benchmarks citing this), but only if you avoid classes and use only arrays. C# can do better than Java but still suffers from its Windows-centric history.
Of course, you’re correct.

But it’s still sad to see enshitification reach this far as well.
It should have been split into JS and Wasm. Instead they decided to make Wasm a second-class citizen without web API access.
The problem being that once that single authority becomes 'the standard' getting anyone to switch/use any alternative becomes almost impossible

There are many alternatives to (ICANN) DNS, but since none have support built into major browsers, they end up being a pain to use, which hampers adoption.

The most successful is probably the Onion network and that's far from mainstream.
It's also interesting how on both Windows and Linux normal-privilege local accounts are, practically, root equivalent. In Linux, we train people to type "sudo" in front of anything system relevant. On Windows, we train users to click through UAC prompts. When was the last time sudo said "no" to somebody for a reason other than a password typo?

(UAC is marginally better than sudo: UAC is system managed UI, while sudo is just a program. An attacker can plug in a malicious shell alias for sudo and steal your password.)

IMHO, it'd be more convenient for users and more reflective of actual security posture to get rid of both sudo and UAC (in the default setup of course) and stop pretending that there's a firm security boundary between root and the primary human local user account.
That's more of a question of weird tax law quirks related to corporate mergers, not copyright. It's not generally profitable to make stuff and then not sell it immediately.

And I certainly don't want to start a precedent where people are forced to publish things they don't want to. That's kind of the polar opposite of freedom and liberty.
What's old is new again :)

asm.js came about because it was a very optimizable subset of JavaScript, then it was superseded by WebAssembly, then the proposal in TFA is basically asking for asm.js back, but perhaps the better answer is to make WebAssembly fully support all of what JS could originally do.

This is perhaps why as I get older I sometimes feel like I want to get out of software development and become a goose farmer like that dude on LinkedIn - lots of times feels more like spiraling in circles than actually advancing.
This doesn't address your (valid) systemic concerns, but on efficiency the way I like to use links like this is by adding them to a queue for later, then, if I have an opportunity to play them while doing the dishes or commuting or just feeling like watching a television I play them back, usually at higher speed of playback than 1.0. If I'm just sitting on the couch actively watching I'll read ahead in the transcript and skip ahead if I feel like it.
I was responding to what OP wrote:

> Redhat and Gentoo are the only ones that officially support it afaik
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