I'll be impressed when it's a humanoid robot that has to contend with similar kinematic limitations as a human player.

I'm already impressed by their progress, but I wouldn't say it puts robots on par with humans when it comes to table tennis.

Another limitation is that most humans[0] cannot actually see the spin that's on a ball, but need to predict it based on relative racquet movement to the ball. In the video, they say that their system measures spin.

[0]: Table tennis legend Timo Boll has stated that he has excellent eyesight, and can actually see the rotation of the ball, which helped him during service receive.

Yeah, the dang thing can reach all the way to the net while standing three feet behind the table

That was my thought when watching the video. The robot is the size of a room if you count all the cameras.

It's like the pitch-o-matic 5000 from Futurama.

I get the feeling he was more so referring to the others, because the others besides S;G are pretty meh.

There needs to be consequences for shitty, procedure-ignoring police work. Period.

Minimum 1 year of jail time for grossly wrongful arrests that could be avoided with standard procedure or investigation tactics that were not applied.

I agree with this sentiment but when you start punishing this sort of thing you create more incentive to cover it up. It's a tricky problem and I'm not sure there's a perfect solution.

What we really need is a change in police culture.

Then the system should be redesigned such that transparency is a priority and cover ups are not feasible. And when cover ups eventually get found out, the punishments even more severe.

We already have administrative punishments for the police when they incorrectly assign blame and cause a public relations mess.

Is the termination of your career and/or potential retraining and social embarrassment not already an incentive to cover up?

If the punishment fails to correct the behaviour, it is insufficient punishment or the wrong punishment. In this case, I'd say that individual punishments are the wrong tool to correct systemic behaviour. It should be career-ending for brass and prosecutors to be effective.

> change in police culture

until then, there's a simple rule which works well: never talk to a cop. Or at least say the minimum number of words possible, give them nothing to use against you. Present ID if they ask for it, but never admit anything. If they persist, "lawyer". That has worked for me.

Add even more disincentives for coverups (i.e. hard prison time) and rewards for whistleblowers.

Medicine has a culture that adapts to this quite well. If you make an honest mistake and communicate it, you are often persecuted by your peers but not hung out to dry legally by your hospital and generally your actions are always defensible.

Similar practices are used in law enforcement, but the legal implications are seemingly more severe

These dialogs always prompt me to chime in with my solution: make the police be self-insured, backed by their pension fund.

The police today have zero incentive to serve the public, they have zero skin in the game and can literally get away with murder.

Any time you hear the call for "law and order", that is the audience that supports the current system, because they like it like this.

Great idea, Except that this will never happen because public sector unions are important voting blocks. Public sector unions should be abolished (don’t have a problem with unions) but the conflict of interest is just too great.

Great point. Obviously can't expect them to vote against their own interests, because higher standards, higher accountability, and higher transparency will always be against those interests.

> These dialogs always prompt me to chime in with my solution: make the police be self-insured, backed by their pension fund.

I'm curious, what exactly do you mean by "self-insured"?

(Is the idea to combine literal insurance underwriting for retirement planning with a monetary incentive system for ongoing work performance)?

They mean that penalties and restitutions for wrongful prosecutions and wrongful convictions should not come from taxpayer money but private insurance. Right now, police departments feel zero pain from judgements against them so they have no reason to structurally correct their behaviour.

Police in some states are actually self-insured, though not backed by a pension fund.

This is why I intensively avoid phrasing that invites affirmation. I present the scenario, the differing viewpoints and maybe a couple personal thoughts, and I try to make it compare and contrast to arrive at it's conclusion.

I'd like to know if my methods are effective. I'm certain they are at least to some extent.

I only ever see research being done about naive and "unskilled" prompting methods. Obviously that's the average user, but just because LLMs are doing poorly in a certain scenario doesn't mean the LLM couldn't excel in the scenario with better direction and prompting. So while it's useful research to be doing, it's a little annoying to only see focus on these examples of "look at how LLMs are bad or biased at this specific thing when prompted in the most straightforward naive way"

A whole suite of "k*" seems questionable considering the relative ubiquity of the KDE suite. Almost all their software starts with k

Yes, we should rename the kernel to cernel or qernel to avoid confusion. Snark aside I do not think that the letter k is too overloaded. There is room for KDE and the kernel.

You sound more like you like skills than MCP itself. Skills encapsulate the behavior to be reused.

MCP is a protocol that may have been useful once, but it seems obsolete already. Agents are really good at discovering capabilities and using them. If you give it a list of CLI tools with a one line description, it would probably call the tool's help page and find out everything it needs to know before using the tool. What benefit does MCP actually add?

Your answer is less useful and thought out than the Claude response. Claude actually answers the question in the context in which it's being asked.

The AI slop is still slop in any context.

I usually upgrade that to Micro$hit

I went from Manjaro to EndeavourOS. Great experience and I don't see it changing anytime soon. The community is healthy and the project well managed.

Unreadable webpage on mobile. Text goes off the screen, and if you zoom out, the overflown text is on a white background.

I use this bookmarklet on phone when I encounter a page like that and it usually make things better.

javascript:(function(){document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><style>body{word-break:break-word;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;text-size-adjust:none;}</style>');})();

It does three things, It adds a viewport meta tag for a proper mobile scaling. Prevents long words/URLs from breaking thr page layout and disables automatic font size adjustment on Safari in landscape mode