Dumb things being crowdfunded.
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@boomzilla Indeed, doesn't sound dumb to me either, Idea's great - now for whether they can pull it off, that's another question ;)
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
When I first read "smart ball" I thought it was dumb, but after watching dogs chase it I've changed my mind.
And then you posted it in this thread
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@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
When I first read "smart ball" I thought it was dumb, but after watching dogs chase it I've changed my mind.
And then you posted it in this thread
I thought we had a not-dumb crowdfunding thread but couldn't quickly find it.
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@Rhywden said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
now for whether they can pull it off
At least, they have the funds needed
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
When I first read "smart ball" I thought it was dumb, but after watching dogs chase it I've changed my mind.
Can we crowdfund the dogs instead?
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@TimeBandit For a prototype, certainly. For ramping production up beyond that to mass production? That's the actual hard part.
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@Rhywden said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
That's the actual hard part.
with $166,067 left, they should be good
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@TimeBandit Don't underestimate how much proper tooling for machinery actually costs.
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@Rhywden They'll probably contract everything to China anyway
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@boomzilla "durable enough for hours of play". Yup, my dogs will have destroyed it in that time... Australian Shepherds do not know the meaning of indestructible!
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@dcon And my corgis will sniff at it just long enough to determine that it isn't food. "Ho, hum. Should have used that $167000 to buy us food, instead. Or at least a fabric squirrel to chew on."
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I would be happy to volunteer as an exhibit maintenance specialist for the living specimen pieces....
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@Rhywden said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@TimeBandit Don't underestimate how much proper tooling for machinery actually costs.
Depends on the run to a large extent, cheap aluminium injection moulds can be in the single figures (k), even for complex gating. But if you want durable (50k+ impressions) tool-steel moulds then that's when it starts to become eye-watering.
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@dcon said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla "durable enough for hours of play". Yup, my dogs will have destroyed it in that time... Australian Shepherds do not know the meaning of indestructible!
My grandparents used to have Rhodesian Ridgebacks, I have fond memories of riding Rosy round like a horse when I was very small. They lived right by Catterick Garrison and the tanks used to come by the house multiple times per day. To be allowed on the road the tanks had heavily-vulcanised rubber blocks fitted to the links, these would occasionally come off and that was Rosy's favourite toy...a dog that could eat tank treads :)
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@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I thought it was dumb, but after watching dogs chase it I've changed my mind.
Now I know how tempting it is to support something just because it features dogs, but sometimes you have to look past the marketing and to the actual product itself.
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@kazitor said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I thought it was dumb, but after watching dogs chase it I've changed my mind.
Now I know how tempting it is to support something just because it features dogs, but sometimes you have to look past the marketing and to the actual product itself.
So what you're saying is, if I introduce Pets (dogs) into Hypatia, we'll get more support?
Why didn't I think of that!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
if I introduce Pets (dogs) into Hypatia, we'll get more support?
Just Do It
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@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
if I introduce Pets (dogs) into Hypatia, we'll get more support?
Just Do It
I'll get right on it...
Edit: I mean, pets!
I mean....
Whatever....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
if I introduce Pets (dogs) into Hypatia, we'll get more support?
Just Do It
I'll get right on it...
Edit: I mean, pets!
I mean....
Whatever....
Some petting solves a lot of problems.
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@Carnage said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
if I introduce Pets (dogs) into Hypatia, we'll get more support?
Just Do It
I'll get right on it...
Edit: I mean, pets!
I mean....
Whatever....
Some petting solves a lot of problems.
And on occasion creates new and exciting ones!
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I think this is an actual product.
I'll link the Facebook video because it's
https://www.facebook.com/263471024542027/videos/996920077363959/?sfnsn=xmmo
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@admiral_p said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I think this is an actual product.
Hmm. Honestly, I'm not convinced it's entirely dumb idea. I've wondered if there isn't some sort of tecknology like this to help with laziness, carelessness and simply wrong technique.
However, they appear to have totally missed out by not having a smartphone app for me to store my plaque on the cloud and share it with advertisers, so I won't be buying it. Well, I wouldn't either way, but the concept as such seems somewhat interesting.
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@Applied-Mediocrity It may well be useful. But the video is still
I mean, the possibilities are endless.
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Ah yes. So turns out these things on AliExpress are going for about $20 a piece. "Your china? Made in China!". Nice 75% off those $349. Must be import tariffs on all that revolutionary technology.
And the original Kickfarter thing called Amabrush has 91% 1-star reviews and 0.8/10 trust rating on Trustpilot
It seems I forgot on which Earth I'm presently living. Eh...
Filed under: Oracle-B
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@HardwareGeek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
10,000+ MICRO-VIBRATIONS
0.01+ vibrations doesn't seem like it would do much cleaning.
It's for those used to taking other micro-things....
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Reposting into a more relevant thread
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microsafex/worlds-first-patented-unhackable-computer-ever
It looks like many of the backers (or at least the ones who commented) are just there to talk shit about it.
I don't care about your background and expertise claim. But the title of this project is really disturbing. And specifically your statement made my day: "I was repeatedly a victim of hackers.". How on earth one with "deep" tech background was repeatedly being victim of hackers? LOL. Good luck!
I read the patent described. It is almost identical to the design of Apple's T2 processor, along with the read-only system partition used in almost every smartphone and trusted platform module since the early 2010s. I wish you luck on your lawsuits, both received and filed.
Backing $1 so I can ask the obligatory "but where's the blockchain?" /s
And then there's this
"First rule: you always speak yes." (Robo Durden)
Naysayers never strive for a better world - but ONLY want to show their dick.
Decades ago when memory chips were expensive, computers were designed to put program code and runtime memory into the same place. And because of all the Naysayers a memory overflow-bug can STILL turn internet data into executable code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture#Self-modifying_code
INCREDIBLE !
So why not separate "internet computing" from "offline computing" in a similar way ? I have to watch Netflix on my 2015 Android smartphone because my 2011 Toughbook can no longer handle f**** up Windows. So why not put a "hackable" Android internet-computer and a "unhackable" offline computer into the same box..
Of course that is nothing new. You all have already heard of it: "two factor authentication" = my hackable Android phone becomes a secondary data channel.
And back to the memory separation paradigm: When the hackable Android computer would request Keyboard input, the "unhackable" computer would not receive the following keyboard data.
And when i copy a binary file on the Android sub-computer, i could paste it somewhere else in the Android file system. But when transmitting this data to the offline-computer, it would become ascii data and could no way be pasted as a binary into the unhackable computers file system. Again nothing new.
Yes, both sub-computers would need direct access to the display. Communication could be one-way DisplayPorts. But a hacked Android sub-computer could hack the Display and change it's one-way communication to bidirectional and stream the offline display back to the hacked Android sub-computer.
But such a campaign here might rise awareness, that there could be a better world.
Think of the HTML specification. There is the INPUT-tag with type PASSWORD and your keyboard input is displayed as ***. But when submitting the form, your password is transmitted together with everything else. And these stupid Naysayers will never change that. But why not a 3-factor transmission: The offline-computer will not send sensible data via the hackable Android sub-computer but through a completely separate hardware which does not receive any data from the internet and therefore is prone to internet attacks.
So even if you would visit a compromised website and your Android-sub-computer would get hacked, your private data would still be safe because it uses the 3-factor architecture/authentication. @creator, let us put a patent on this :-)
Of course there is not 100% security.
And as all you brain-degenerated consumers no longer have any private life anyway but have already dissolved into the cloud, an "unhackable computer" already comes to late as YOU would need an unhackable internet.
But there still are a very few creative people who need computer for offline work. And they would definitely profit from a separate internet-computer with better link to their offline computer then copy and paste with a piece of paper.
Roland,
the little physicist :-)
Second rule: you ALWAYS - SPEAK - YES
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@hungrier I kind of like:
C'mon, he's setting aside THREE WHOLE MONTHS to write an operating system while the hardware is being built. What could go wrong? Bug-free OS, right?
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Another entry in the scam/overconfident category:
A programming language that promises to solve every single problem you could possibly solve in a programming language and more! In various places (homepage, Patreon, Hacker News comments), its creator made the following claims: It's compiled, but it also supports hot code reloading, it doesn't have a runtime or any dependencies, it's as fast as C but compiles much faster, you can automatically translate C++ code into it, it has the same safety guarantees as Rust plus deadlock safety, needs neither reference counting nor garbage collection and that he has transformed the Doom source code into his language and can now compile it much faster.
Here's what he actually published now:
The only truth he told is that he has written a self-hosting compiler that transpiles to C. Everything else is "WIP" or literally impossible to achieve. If you look at the source code, it's immediately clear that the compiler is basically as good as the average undergraduate university project. Its lexer cannot even handle Windows line endings and despite comparing itself to Rust, the "language" has no memory management.
Representative reactions:
- http://web.archive.org/web/20190623042334/https://github.com/vlang/v/issues/319
- https://christine.website/blog/v-vaporware-2019-06-23
- https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-project.html
The sad part is that gullible people are still giving him almost $1000 a month for crappy vaporware, even after he was exposed as a fraud.
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Great Internet, as usual...
hi yes i'm a rust bot daddy mozilla giv cum
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@Tsaukpaetra
Yeah, I thought you guys might like the troll thread on Github. And this is one of the few times when stupid memes and troll post might have actually been the appropriate reaction. For people who actually followed the project and didn't smell the BS early, it must have been hard to stay serious after that revelation.does this work on TempleOS?
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@dfdub said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
And this is one of the few times when stupid memes and troll post might have actually been the appropriate reaction.
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I kind of like the idea, actually, but I'd be too worried that it's adding too much stress on the joint between the monitor and the bottom section of the laptop.
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@boomzilla also, USB 3 monitors already exist. I used one for years. And they don't stress the keyboard hinge, or look retarded.
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This is literally just Go crossed with Rust, with the most important limitations of each. Like, I can't think of a single design element, whether syntactic, semantic, or cromulaic, which isn't lifted straight from either Rust or Go.
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@pie_flavor said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Like, I can't think of a single design element, whether syntactic, semantic, or cromulaic, which isn't lifted straight from either Rust or Go.
To be fair, "crashes upon encountering CRLF" is a brand new feature.
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@hungrier said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@dfdub said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
And this is one of the few times when stupid memes and troll post might have actually been the appropriate* reaction.
*) As in: appropriate for normal people, outside this forum.
FTFY
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@Polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@boomzilla also, USB 3 monitors already exist. I used one for years. And they don't stress the keyboard hinge, or look retarded.
I parsed that as "USB 3 monitors" rather than "USB 3 monitors" momentarily.
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@pie_flavor said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
This is literally just Go crossed with Rust, with the most important limitations of each.
The art of programming language design is understanding what you compromise on to get other desirable things. You simply cannot have it all in one language because some features are antithetical to others (for example, making the type system more expressive makes the language harder to learn initially). About all you can do is pick a set of non-goals and make sure you don't achieve any of them (in among all the other things you miss out on). The incompetent can manage to fail to do a lot more than that too!
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@dkf said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
You simply cannot have it all in one language because some features are antithetical to others
"First rule: you always speak yes." (Robo Durden)
Naysayers never strive for a better world - but ONLY want to show their dick.
(etc. etc.)
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@remi said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
ONLY want to show their dick.
It goes without saying, but mine is available upon request only.
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:womp_wah:
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninmlab/its-ok-the-worlds-first-bluetooth-50-cassette-player
No.
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It is the world’s first cassette player with Bluetooth 5.0 capability that not only supports traditional 3.5mm headphones but is also compatible with Bluetooth 5.0 headphones or speakers.
At least here it's better than most flagship phones
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@DogsB said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninmlab/its-ok-the-worlds-first-bluetooth-50-cassette-player
No.
It should come with a free emergency tape rewind tool!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@remi said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
ONLY want to show their dick.
It goes without saying, but mine is available upon request only.
Nope thread is .
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What in tarnation
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/satoshi-studio/satoshi-one-high-end-sneakers-for-tech-lovers
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@blek there are people on this planet that care if their shoes are "block chain certified"? The next Nazi-esque regime will rise because of nonsense like this. We are so far down the rabbit hole that eugenics is the only reasonable answer at this point.
The heat death of the universe cannot come quickly enough.
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@blek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
What in tarnation
Meh.
Doesn't score too high on the "wtf"-scale for me, maybe a 5 out of 10. It's a shoe. The shoe itself doesn't contain any electronics, IoT or batteries. It is a good shoe? Who knows. But it doesn't phone home, doesn't track your vitals, doesn't sell your location to marketing, doesn't catch fire (more than normal shoes), and you don't need an app to take it on or off. Seems like a win these days.
Then, there's some added blockchain PR. But that particular dumbness is rather on par these days. Maybe a bit late, since blockchain isn't that hip any more.