I see Castellucci. I upvote Castellucci.

The happiest song I know! Thanks for reminding me of it!

I think one of the keys is that they have to be able to be constructed relatively cheaply and with off-the-shelf components. If it costs $5000 and you need an engineering degree to build the final product it isn’t really a leveler, more of a toy for wealthy land owners.

Some relevant projects I found:

[1]: GitHub - AutoRoboCulture/Nindamani-the-weed-removal-robot: Nindamani …

[2]: GitHub - BrandonAllan/Weeding_robot: The Weeding Robot Project is a …

[3]: A Development Platform for Autonomous Weeding. - GitHub

[4]: anida16/Autonomous-InterRow-Weed-Removing-Robot - GitHub

[5]: GitHub - rahularepaka/Project-Cyclops: Weed Detection and Laser …

[6]: Agroecology-Lab/Open-Weeding-Delta: Open Weeding Delta - GitHub

[7]: GitHub - brycejohnston/awesome-agriculture: Open source technology for …

[8]: [2405.12596v1] A Weeding Robot for Seedling Removal

I also recommend their cover of, One Raga to a Disco Beat!

I was recently researching Shapley Values as a way to distribute profits fairly in a cooperative organization. The same calculation can also be used to determine the amount that an agent contributes to any group effort (think AI agents, solving a problem). I THINK this could be applied to reputational systems, provided you could define what you meant by reputation well enough that it could be calculated. Shapley won a Nobel Prize for the work because his method is provably the most fair way to allot responsibility for work.

This is not a general answer to your question, but many times if I go to the original manufacturers website they will tell me where I can find their products locally. Failing that you could bite the bullet and call the manufacturer. They should have a distribution database that can answer your question. I’m going to watch this thread to see if someone has a real answer eventually.

Ok… That is an interesting fact… If you move them away from the other objects can you loft it and then move it back?

You had a moment of clarity where your true Self was able to be present and witness the good in the world. This is huge and you should know that a random internet stranger is proud of you for noticing. It is the first step to starting to heal your own inner parts who are still carrying that trauma from decades ago. The next step is to try to bring that enlightenment and understanding inside yourself. Congratulations on your new wisdom!

I am not a FreeCad user, but in every other 3D package I have used the answer to this question is one of the following: self-intersecting profiles, non-closed profiles, or too great an angle on the loft path (which would create an invalid solid). Check for these issues and I’ll try to open this file in AutoCAD later this evening.

I’ve seen this done with a section of vinyl gutter before. If you do an image search for pictures there are lots of examples. The version I saw was a reddit link, which I will not utter here.

Is it federated and open source? If not, I’ll pass.

This isn’t a meme I can enjoy frequently…

I’m pretty sure preserves have actual chunks of fruit and jam is made from puree. Jelly is just made from fruit juice.

Huh… Ok. I subscribed and am going to try these later.

This is true, but on a personal level I have no idea how to do the calculus for, “My work is killing people, but it would have been worse if it hadn’t.” I think the show “The Good Place” got it right and it is just too interconnected and complicated to actually derive an answer as to whether an action is net negative or positive. That said, if I had to place money on a given action being negative, working for an arms manufacturer would be one I’d be fairly comfortable betting on.

I think this question boils down to this: Do your actions have a net positive or a net negative affect on the world? Does working at this company in some way offset the harm that the company is doing downstream? In this case I have a hard time coming up with a reasonable way in which this might be the case. Paying you and your family to have stuff doesn’t offset causing actual death and physical harm.

Astrill is the only consistent one and I have to server hop at times.

For commercial offerings this is probably true for at least some of them, but creating your own VPN isn’t terribly difficult if you are serious about your privacy. I typically just use them when I travel to countries like China where I can’t get to a bunch of necessary services, so I don’t mind if they route my YouTube traffic through CIA headquarters, but if I was doing anything more than that I would just set up my own.

Wow! Thanks for this! I really enjoyed it!