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New comment by bahmboo in "Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:08:34 +0000

Interesting. I researched what you referenced. This is a fantastic "hobby project" level of engineering but if one is truly tasked with this level of metrology there are still many aspects that need to be addressed and corrected for. Usually that means there is a lot of money on the line and one can't mess it up. Hence the high price tag of established industry accepted solutions. -whew- I wrote that myself.

New comment by bahmboo in "Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:29:04 +0000

I'm not an expert but the video is very comprehensive. There is closed loop control that is extremely precise in a relative way. In this domain it's all relative anyway because there's no GPS so to speak. It's all reference frames and 3-2-1 locality. [edit: ahhh at 21:47 in the video he says (paraphrasing) "there is offset due to thermal drift of the plastic parts as they get warmed by the motors". ]

New comment by bahmboo in "Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:50:41 +0000

I was surprised to see this here and was wondering if he updated anything from a year ago when I first watched it. Doesn't seem like it but I haven't dug into it. Really nice stuff and I'm hoping he got a job from it or got really busy doing stuff around it that pays the bills.

edit: direct link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQbPdiuUTw

New comment by bahmboo in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:26:21 +0000

And failing.

New comment by bahmboo in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:24:48 +0000

Fascinating. Read up on it, thanks for the info! I am wrong. I was tossing out a dismissive as one does and shouldn't do.

Reminds me of the Vaqueros in Hawaii for whatever reason.

New comment by bahmboo in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

bahmboo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:21:31 +0000

Yes, to me that is catering to your audience. It also seems to overlap with coming back from your London trip with a British accent.

For her voice register change, where's the line or the gray area? It's a very personal human thing. I find her to be oriented around how she presents herself and how she is perceived. Then she uses her impressive talents to guide and manipulate.

I find her unnerving but also a great example of how the eyes are really part of the brain.

[edit: a lot, same general idea but composed bester[

New comment by bahmboo in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"

bahmboo — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:46:57 +0000

Patrick B̵a̵t̵e̵m̵a̵n̵ Boyle has a good vid that touches on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnceIDVMZyQ

New comment by bahmboo in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

bahmboo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:30:48 +0000

There are no cowboys in Florida. Clownboys.

New comment by bahmboo in "Muse Spark Open"

bahmboo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:13:36 +0000

This is what stood out to me. They did the actual work of testing and documenting deployments on several platforms. It's a bit of upping the standard for open weights instead of just posting the blob and letting the community figure it out.

It makes sense from a provider standpoint. If you are going to give it away for free what is the end game? Helping build the world around your model such that it is a pathway that leads to greater adoption of your ecosystem is smart. Dev relations in a way.

Yes you need big compute to deploy this locally but $20-30K in hardware for specialty markets is nothing.

This isn't an accident. It is revealing a strategy.

New comment by bahmboo in "What I Self-Host"

bahmboo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:56:21 +0000

How do they do with staying on and then restarting everything after power off? Can they automatically repower?

I don't have my embedded macbook fully configured but gemini says I can get it to repower itself.

By repower I mean if the power goes out and then returns the machine needs to power on and boot.

I have a couple of older Chromebooks I use in rando locations (basement, shop, car, rv, boat etc). And they are great for that casual scene-specific use. Very much recommend and amazing what you can get for sub $50 easily.

One can create a gmail account like my-robots-73489@gmail.com to sync everything too without touching your main google account. Very handy.

[edit: one thing about the M1 is that it has native h.264 h.265 and prores hardware encoder decoders if you are doing video intake of multiple streams]

New comment by bahmboo in "What I self-host"

bahmboo — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:28:30 +0000

Just FYI you can get a M1 Macbook Air with a broken or cracked screen for about $250 on eBay. It's a headless device at that point but it has a keyboard and touchpad.

I use it for my Home Assistant setup and more. It still has headroom. No fan, very low power consumption. Not true Linux container stuff but pretty much everything works on it in this area.

New comment by bahmboo in "Submarine cable resilience"

bahmboo — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:23:17 +0000

This is about sub sea pressure where it reaches a thousand atmospheres. So a space telescope in zero atmosphere doesn't help.

New comment by bahmboo in "AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics"

bahmboo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:33:02 +0000

That's not what you said. You said the lab told it to "go rogue".

New comment by bahmboo in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

bahmboo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:30:44 +0000

Wrong. Please read the incident write ups before making such a misinformed statement

New comment by bahmboo in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"

bahmboo — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:54:44 +0000

I don't think they were prompted to make it a project, just a quick casual sketch. If a person doesn't use a stylus very often and doesn't draw or doodle ever then it could be surprisingly difficult for some.

New comment by bahmboo in "Gemini 4 Argon"

bahmboo — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:56:03 +0000

Interesting tidbit but TFA and discussion are about Gemini 4

New comment by bahmboo in "ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model"

bahmboo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:19:48 +0000

Let's teleport back 10 years and what you have is a magic box that could make you billions.

New comment by bahmboo in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

bahmboo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:17:24 +0000

That is over the top. HR on the whole protects the employees and the organization. The experience you reference is not my experience at all and sounds disingenuous. We don't get to do whatever we want in the workplace, there are social structures that need to be adhered to. Like with any power structure there are people who will maximize their control for its own sake which is unfortunate but not an excuse to dismiss the whole concept.

New comment by bahmboo in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

bahmboo — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:39:45 +0000

Thanks to both of you for the info. I'm longtime Seattle and I had no idea. I'm still disappointed that the living computer museum was closed. Jody Allen is a decent person so was surprised she let that tiny line item expire from the spreadsheet, I digress.

New comment by bahmboo in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

bahmboo — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:01:57 +0000

Wow, what a find! Thanks for posting this. It's funny that dial tones bring back the memories!

Yah a network where you could dial a number and get automatically connected to another phone anywhere in the US without any computers at all and not even a transistor being used! Crazy.