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Speaking as an engineer, for the first 40 seconds of the video, this kid is every government contract engineer's fucking spirit animal:

The constant nagging of "users" to hurry up and create some bullshit, trivial app, feature or service and they want it to take precedence over high priority security fixes, engineering fixes, etc. His rant was beautiful. This kid is already mentally well equipped to write software or engineer stuff for the federal gov't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E

The point is not that a screaming Roomba is cool or funny, it's that this smart and smartass kid knows there are bigger priorities out there, but his community pestered him to do THIS stupid project.
Sometimes, young people give me hope.

That was pretty amusing on several levels.

Remember the Tetris game that would scream every time you placed a brick?

I have a Canadian friend who has builds and sells simply beautiful equipment that navigates around peoples' and inside animals' heads based on MRI scans. I begin can't tell you how lovely and innovative this stuff is, hardware and software. Whenever we talk he says if he wanted to be rich, he would have developed a fart app.

Benno von Humpback wrote:I have a Canadian friend who has builds and sells simply beautiful equipment that navigates around peoples' and inside animals' heads based on MRI scans. I begin can't tell you how lovely and innovative this stuff is, hardware and software. Whenever we talk he says if he wanted to be rich, he would have developed a fart app.

by "navigate inside" do you mean...physically inserted and then moving around inside human and animal brains...like a Roomba?

Ajax wrote:

Benno von Humpback wrote:I have a Canadian friend who has builds and sells simply beautiful equipment that navigates around peoples' and inside animals' heads based on MRI scans. I begin can't tell you how lovely and innovative this stuff is, hardware and software. Whenever we talk he says if he wanted to be rich, he would have developed a fart app.

by "navigate inside" do you mean...physically inserted and then moving around inside human and animal brains...like a Roomba?

No, stick stuff in from outside along a straight path to some x,y,z location. It would be cooler if it screamed though.

Benno von Humpback wrote:

Ajax wrote:

Benno von Humpback wrote:I have a Canadian friend who has builds and sells simply beautiful equipment that navigates around peoples' and inside animals' heads based on MRI scans. I begin can't tell you how lovely and innovative this stuff is, hardware and software. Whenever we talk he says if he wanted to be rich, he would have developed a fart app.

by "navigate inside" do you mean...physically inserted and then moving around inside human and animal brains...like a Roomba?

No, stick stuff in from outside along a straight path to some x,y,z location. It would be cooler if it screamed though.

I thought the patients screamed?

Ajax wrote:

Benno von Humpback wrote:

Ajax wrote:

Benno von Humpback wrote:I have a Canadian friend who has builds and sells simply beautiful equipment that navigates around peoples' and inside animals' heads based on MRI scans. I begin can't tell you how lovely and innovative this stuff is, hardware and software. Whenever we talk he says if he wanted to be rich, he would have developed a fart app.

by "navigate inside" do you mean...physically inserted and then moving around inside human and animal brains...like a Roomba?

No, stick stuff in from outside along a straight path to some x,y,z location. It would be cooler if it screamed though.

I thought the patients screamed?

We use his stuff for noninvasive stimulation in our lab and no one screams. It's actually quite similar to the gear they use in the neurosurgical OR, minus the skull screws and the lawyers.

https://www.rogue-research.com/

You and Roch have a certain amount in common personality and ability-wise. I'll probably end up consulting for him in a new venture he's starting, after I retire.

I assure you that I have nothing in common personality-wise with your friend although it's extremely flattering that you should think so.

My title with Northrop Grumman is "engineer" but I'm really just a digital janitor.

Ajax wrote:I assure you that I have nothing in common personality-wise with your friend although it's extremely flattering that you should think so.

My title with Northrop Grumman is "engineer" but I'm really just a digital janitor.

I’ll be the judge of of that, titles aside.

Ajax wrote: I'm really just a digital janitor.

I love ^^^^^ this.

Back when I wrote code, I stated categorically that I would never write new code for anything. I'd find the existing code (which we all know someone else wrote and stashed someplace), make it work the way it was supposed to, and document what I'd done. I wish I'd had Ajax's sense of phrasing: Digital Janitor would have looked great on my business card.

Benno von Humpback wrote:

Ajax wrote:I assure you that I have nothing in common personality-wise with your friend although it's extremely flattering that you should think so.

My title with Northrop Grumman is "engineer" but I'm really just a digital janitor.

I’ll be the judge of of that, titles aside.

Sorry, I meant ability not personality.

My daughter did some roomba mods a couple of years ago, the stuffed animals are Bambi and Thumper.



Her caption was: Got a second, pet-specific, Roomba for Christmas. Gonna settle some old scores once they've both finished charging.

Rob McAlpine wrote:My daughter did some roomba mods a couple of years ago, the stuffed animals are Bambi and Thumper.

bambi and thumper roomba.jpg

Her caption was: Got a second, pet-specific, Roomba for Christmas. Gonna settle some old scores once they've both finished charging.

It does not surprise me that she did that.

Ajax wrote:Speaking as an engineer, for the first 40 seconds of the video, this kid is every government contract engineer's fucking spirit animal:

The constant nagging of "users" to hurry up and create some bullshit, trivial app, feature or service and they want it to take precedence over high priority security fixes, engineering fixes, etc. His rant was beautiful. This kid is already mentally well equipped to write software or engineer stuff for the federal gov't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E

The point is not that a screaming Roomba is cool or funny, it's that this smart and smartass kid knows there are bigger priorities out there, but his community pestered him to do THIS stupid project.
Sometimes, young people give me hope.

Who do I talk to about getting 5 minutes of my life back? (Hey! At least I didn't watch the whole thing!)

You were only supposed to lose 40 seconds.

Ajax wrote:You were only supposed to lose 40 seconds.

Ba-da-BOOM!