psoul

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[–] psoul@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ok so I used to work for iRobot, the OG robot vacuum maker. Robot vacuums used to vacuum randomly. To make them vacuum systematically, they need to map your house. One cheap way to do that is to use a camera roughly pointing at your ceiling and do Video SLAM. The camera identifies features on your ceiling and how they are changing to know where the robot is and map the room.

I guess ecovac thought they could add a camera feed feature for free since they already had a camera on the robot.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Honestly it would be funny to see Biden do some of this. He only has a few months left and can do whatever because of the supreme court. He could just go on TV an be like: “You know what? The conspiracies are true. We’re gonna turn off the doppler radars in southern states. No more flying. No more weather forecast. We’re going to ban farm laborers to come harvest your crops. The unpredicted weather is gonna ruin the crops anyways. We’re going to stop FEMA from giving aid in your republican states. Communism is unacceptable. We’re gonna ban fossil fuel in the south because that drives the weather crazy. No more cars. Enjoy the 1800s. Bye”

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Could it be a nice spot to grow mushrooms?

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Which iOS client are y’all using? The native Lemmy website was just way too slow in loading and refreshing posts. I’m using Memmy but it often crashes when searching for communities…

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn’t know I had an addictive personality until I played factorio. Crack for your brain, it’s crazy.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

From Four Seasons Total Landscaping to the side of the freeway. I hope they find Rudy to send with him.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It’s turtles all the way down

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (5 children)

This reminds be of the book Hyperion in which there was this paradise ocean world planet, Maui-Covenant. Maui-Covenant had motile isles, giant plant/animal moving islands. They were herded by dolphins. Humans made a device that could translate and talk to the dolphins. All the dolphins committed suicide when the hegemony of man (some sort of capitalistic state) arrived and ruined the planet to extract all the oil.