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New comment by entropic in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

entropic — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:49:57 +0000

Yeah, I've always had two or three cats using them, they like to use them as an opportunity to hide and pounce on one another as one exits the litter robot globe, inside the globe they have a pretty limited field of view.

New comment by entropic in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

entropic — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:07:08 +0000

Not OP, but I have a litter robot 3 that is still going strong after 10 years, and a litter robot 4 that is around four years old. The only problem I've run into is occasionally the pinch sensor will get bits of litter stuck in it and I have to take the globe off and tap/push on the sensor housing, then it will allow cycling again.

Great machines!

https://www.litter-robot.com/

New comment by entropic in "Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com"

entropic — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:56:40 +0000

People store copyrighted code and trade secrets in their repositories with gitlab, if the third party tracker is compromised those secrets can also be compromised.

New comment by entropic in "PureScript 0.13 Release"

entropic — Fri, 31 May 2019 17:23:10 +0000

I can attest to that, elm-format is an excellent tool and it is great to have a standard code formatter, one less thing to worry or argue over when writing code!

New comment by entropic in "Facebook Fraud [video]"

entropic — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 03:53:46 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, I will have to try out some other layouts for the ads.

Right now the ad shows above the bottom split action bar, and you can pinch to zoom on the images. http://imgur.com/DfecJar

If an ad isn't showing the image will fill up the rest of the space to the action bar.

I didn't expect many people to keep ads enabled, I released it as RateWare, asking that users rate the app if they choose to disable ads.

New comment by entropic in "Facebook Fraud [video]"

entropic — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 01:06:15 +0000

I'm the developer of Reddit In Pictures and I'm sorry about that issue, please go into 'Settings' and disable ads!

I just wanted to give as much space for images as possible, so when the ad loads it puts itself between the text showing the number of images and the ActionBar, if the ad doesn't load it doesn't take up any space. Is the bounce you're talking about when the ad initially loads (like on orientation change)?

I haven't had a chance to work on that app in a while, but when I have time to re-visit it I will test out making the ad area static so that it never seems to bounce.

New comment by entropic in "How not to check the validity of an email address"

entropic — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 01:30:35 +0000

Also known as "The Speedup Loop" - http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-Speedup-Loop.aspx

New comment by entropic in "Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling"

entropic — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:39:19 +0000

"Perfection is like chasing the horizon." - Neil Gaiman

Great quote, applicable to nearly everything.

New comment by entropic in "Evernote hacked"

entropic — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:27:59 +0000

Some banks have IVR systems that allow users to log in to their account via telephone, so they only allow characters that can be entered via the touch-pad.

When you first create your password they translate the characters to the numerals on the phone and then hash it.

In my experience that is the most common reason why you'll see password for policies like: "Your password must be between 6 and 20 characters and only contain upper and lower case letters."