For your V2: a Can-Bus connector would be great. Should really be standard for toolheads nowadays. Makes cable management so much easyer. And the board does not need the driver for the extruder, the heater contoll and sensors anymore.
So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?
And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.
Actually if you're standing next to people the air you breathe in also has some of their exhaust gases in it, in this case slightly elevated CO2. If there's a dozen people in a small meeting room with the windows closed and no AC the air quality is significantly worse in that room than it would be say, stood on the roof... unless you're in the middle of a major city where maybe the air on the roof is full of exhaust from motor vehicles, hence legislation to restrict vehicle exhaust.
This is the downward spiral for a lot of brands. They sell out to an investor, who uses their brand reputation inertia, reduces cost and quality, etc. There's barely any brands left. IIRC Miele is still one of the few good brands for home appliances, but they're also significantly more expensive. At least for the initial purchase, I'm sure it evens out long term.
Also, TrackIR is just an IR webcam, IR leds, and a hat with reflectors. You can DIY the exact same setup easily with OpenTrack, but OpenTrack also has a neural net webcam-only tracker which is, AFAIK, pretty much state of the art. At any rate it works incredibly robustly.
Actually I have already used it to implement the same idea as the post, with the added feature of anaglyph (red/blue) glasses 3D. The way I did it, I put an entire lightfield into a texture and rendered it with a shader. Then I just piped the output of OpenTrack directly into the shader and Robert, c'est votre proverbial oncle. The latency isn't quite up to VR standard (the old term for this is "fishtank VR"), but it's still quite convincing if you don't move your head too fast.
There's already a wide variety of Opentrack plugins that use everything from off the shelf webcams to DIY infrared trackers to an iPhone app and FaceID/AirPods.
I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.
Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.
And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.
It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or
"the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".
It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.
FiDA is a planned initiative that forces first party financial services like banks to provide other services like insurances or investment companies and maybe third parties with their customers data.
From what i understand it is required that this works via a unified API across all of Europe.
Data transfer explicitly requires the customers consent.
My guess is that this would be useful if you change the bank or some insurance to allow easy switchovers and of course tax avoidance and money laundering might be harder.
IMHO insurance companies should not have access to any of their customers banking data (they want to of course, to do price gauging and price discrimination).
And obviously there is no reason why any of those vile datahogs like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, should have even the slightest access to this.
Its not too hard to detect ads in video streams, even old school analog VCR's could do that.
Watching TV shows without adds was one of the selling points of those back in the day.
Some more modern digital ones had near real time features where they would play with a delay of a lets say half an hour and used that time to remove the ads.
If you have stream from Youtube containing ads you can trivially skip ahead.
And Youtube could do nothing about it because random skipping is one of the base features of every video player ever.
I can totally understand that bikers like to hear the engine and exhaust of their bike but physics and the design of motorcycles is not very accommodating to that.
My bike has the manufacturers default 94db idle exhaust.
It is 94db because anything louder than that is not allowed on certain nice Austrian roads, so the manufacturer set it to 94.
While driving i hear the wind noise on the helmet, the airbox, the drive train and a bit of the engine. I usually wear ear protection.
To be clear 94db is a lot and it is way more if you pull on the gas and i don't have one of those stupid valve controlled exhausts.
I am always astonished how freaking loud that thing is, when i hear it's exhaust echoing over open fields or while going through a tunnel at full tilt.
It just comes down to physics, the exhaust points not at the biker, so the noise is directed into the environment.
There is no engine bay covering the engine and gearbox so that is comparatively loud, also chaindrives are rather noisy as well.
For the exhaust to compete it must be incredibly loud, which of course is obnoxious.
Some modern (sports) cars play engine sounds via the stereo system, maybe someone can build something similar for bikers.
In Europe new motorcycles must have ABS on both wheels since 2017.
Its a good thing.
While it is possible to stop in less distance without ABS, in real live emergency situations ABS usually is of great help due to the no skill required, additional control.
For example if you take the sudden car running in front of you from a side road.
You will instinctively pull the brakes hard on a road with unknown slipperiness.
Maybe the car then stops in the last second or is really fast so there is space, then you need control to ride around the car.
You really don't want your rear wheel locking up and the bike going sideways or doing a stoppie on your front wheel which completely removes any way of obstacle avoidance.
The same is true if over breaking in a curve, if you can handle the bike standing up you can brake astonishingly hard in curves.
I would not recommend it though it feels really weird being slippery in a curve.
On rainy days i do even like traction control. It saved my ass a few times where i accelerated out of a curve a bit to enthusiastically on wet foliage.
Setting this up used to be a pita, but due to docker its super easy.
This has a couple of benefits.
Like fixed, predicable costs.
You can whatever you want without thinking about weird API points which costs a random amount of money.
You can serve whatever traffic you want and a cheap v-server gets you an astonishingly long way.
There are no 3rd-party privacy issues you can just embed your maps without annoying cookie banners.
Before you do this, triple check that that the buildings and addresses for the area you are interested in are actually there (and correct). I've tried to use this approach several times, and at least for Sweden, the results are basically unusable. Hugh amount of missing buildings and missing or incorrect data. Last I tried I think it got something like 20% of my queries correct.
But it doesn't mention why you need this amount of RAM or how you could opt out of that requirement? i.e., if the queries run directly against the DB w/o indexes, etc. why the high RAM requirement?
AFAIK, a lot of the RAM requirements come from importing and processing the data. It already takes quite a long time and would be even slower without heavily utilizing RAM.
Nominatim also doesn't support any sort of typeahead queries. There's Photon(https://github.com/komoot/photon), which works in concert with Nominatim and is similarly tied to OSM as a data source.
There's also Pelias(https://pelias.io/), an open-source geocoder that handles all types of geocoding in one and supports OSM, OpenAddresses and many other sources (including custom data) out of the box. Admittedly it can have more moving parts as a result, but it can be set up with relatively little RAM if you're careful (I bet a planet install could be done somewhat slowly with 32GB RAM). Full disclosure, I have been a core-maintiner of the project since 2015.
I tried going that route and it unfortunately didn’t work well. At least in Europe OSM is missing a lot of house numbers and even has some larger flaws of missing data / invalid attributed streetnames.
Unfortunately I don't have any examples at hand right now. What I remember is that in some smaller villages in germany it was missing house numbers and some streets weren't "cut" correctly. So when you had an intersection of Street A and Street B and after the intersection it becomes Street A, sometimes OSM would still name it Street B and therefore all numbers are wrong. This was around 2 years ago so maybe the map data is better now.
So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?
And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.
Vorons need 4 drivers for the gantry alone.
reply