I toured a farm in the middle of nowhere in northern MN 7 years ago with this exact system.

Laser Guided Teat Seeking Milker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTERLJDKsIw

Automatic Crane feed loading system for the Roomba-like robots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDEIcZwQa-o

Reverse Roomba-like automatic feeding robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-QFB827U-M

If anyone is near eastern Tennessee, I'd recommend the Sweetwater Valley Farm tour (in Sweetwater, TN).

They have the same Lely automatic milking machines from the article, and you can watch them do their thing.

Honestly, the teat-cleaning is the neatest part -- you realize how much more hygienic a mindless automaton can be.

I grew up on a farm, and worked at two others many years ago. We washed the teats before putting the machine on, and dipped them after. But yeah a mindless automaton wont sneeze, or forget to do their job :)

Honestly, it was Matrix-woah watching the machine laser-target a teat, wash it, then suction on. All gently enough the cow didn't care.

Turns out cow biscuits are a good motivator. (And taste kind of like wheat bran without any sugar and with more hay)

I saw eastern TN and got excited, but you just mean east-ish TN. Johnson City matters too!

TN has a lot of more-directions :D

All the love to east-of-Knoxville

"Quite a seven years ago", sounds like a Strong Bad-ism. "That's got like, WAY four more cylinders than the standard Nathan."

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Good, I'm not the only one. Fully agree with the UX regression on 2 and 3.

I've actually been employing Emoji Separated Values (ESV), often , here and there when doing some of this kind of work. Granted, it's not standard, but it's been really useful when I've needed it.

*edit Apparently emojis don't fly here, but it was an index finger pointing right.

The benefit of this is that you can use different emojis to denote content type.

e.g. if it's a frowny face you know it's an invoice.

Funnily enough, I published a Python library two days ago that uses emojis to indicate where certain non-msgpackable builtin types have been forced into msgpackable objects: https://github.com/umarbutler/persist-cache/blob/main/src/pe...

is used for tuples, for sets, for frozen sets, for pickles, for bytes and for bytearrays.

I thought it was pretty ingenious but clearly I’m not the only one to think of it.

This is waaaaayy easier to read if you Print this to PDF.

It would certainly be nice if it could warn you when you are getting close to the beginning of the chat running off the end of it's capabilities.

God, I totally agree with this. Just have a running marker that shows where the context window actually is at any given moment.

The killer app for Firefox is it still allows some flexibility in tab management. Sidebery and TreeStyleTab have been my anchors in the FF ecosystem. The experience is so vastly superior for tab hoarders and tab-todo methodology that I really can't imagine using something else. I also use FF on android because it has ublock origin and dark reader addons. This make browsing the web on mobile far better. I actually hold little allegiance to FF as whole, I just haven't found any Chromium based browser that works as well for me.

> I just haven't found any Chromium based browser that works as well for me.

The native vertical tabs in Edge are also pretty good. Not nearly as feature-rich, basically just vertical tabs with automatic unloading and tab groups; but in return it's incredibly stable and bug-free.

Is there a reason Chrome hasn't adopted this? Tabtree is the only reason I'm using FF (not that I'm unhappy with FF I just use Chrome for work cuz the devtools is better).

As a tab hoarder, I also

a) need "Auto Tab Discard" which sends unused tabs in the background to sleep, not consuming resources.

b) enjoy I can still use CSS to hack the tab bar for e.g. three scrollable rows

In regards to treestyletab did you get rid of the top tabs or do you have both on your screen. I feel like i lost quite a lot of real estate on smaller screens with both.

You can remove the top tab bar with some CSS.

https://superuser.com/questions/1424478/can-i-hide-native-ta...

Thank you ! that makes things much nicer !

I got rid of the top row.

I tried both but ultimately preferred Safari tab groups which is seamlessly integrated into the browser experience.

I think this should be part of required reading for EE101 type classes in college. The hardcover for $25 shipped on amazon, it's really something everyone in electronics should own.

You mean like this? https://github.com/Digi-Key/KiCad-Push-to-DigiKey

I think the short answer to your question is yes.

You still have to be able to hook up few wires and you'll need to be able to power your LEDs and understand your power needs there, but the live compilation in web based development platform (that's served by the device, no cloud) makes it really ideal for rapid prototyping and getting up and running quickly. No fussing with Arduino IDE or compile times. It's one of those things that "just works".

If you want to see it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMKltz8ji0k

Anyone ever run across anything like this with a simple syntax that can do a timeline with split AND merges? I've always wanted something like the linux timeline [1] as an interactive timeline that can both split and merge.

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Di...