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    6 hours ago

    I’m just happy for the snake. They look like they’re having such a good time. I love their beady eyes as they look around and in the video I love watching it turn its head and stick its tongue out.

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        Oh, that makes me sad. I didn’t watch the full video, so I’m not sure how it works and I hope it didn’t hurt the snake.

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          I don’t think it hurt the snake exactly, not physically at least. The thing is basically a hardcoded pattern of “walking” played on servo motors (by comparing the current position to where it’s supposed to be then just turning in the general direction), with a switch that makes it freeze in place. When the motors were “frozen”, those would still wiggle around some set point. This made the snake not want to go in.

          What they did is cut power to the motors completely to let the snake slide in, then turned the contraption on with the snake inside.

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      Alan Pan, also William Osman, Mark Rober and basically every other tech creator on shittube ever, are all corporate marionettes. They make trivial things sound smart then shove sponsored products up every damn frame of their videos. Then they go through their email box and accept invites to every public event possible so that they get paid for being in cults. They are the reason some people call all single board computers “Raspberry Pi®s” and all microcontrollers “Arduino®s”.

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        Bro is hater of engineering YouTube, actually crazy.

        They make entretaining videos aboutdumb projects and get sponsored. Its no that bad.

        Mark Rober is by far the buggest and most sell out-y, other than him, most of these youtubers are really chill.

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          Cmon, look at this fucking circlejerk https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=0aMAHuLxg3s

          Half of them have nothing to even fucking do with a gamejam, the thing they are promoting, like William (well, except until he started getting paid by Anthropic to showcase bullshit code). He is there for the sake of being there and circling money around. Jabrils was supposed to be there but he was one of the few who seems to have caught on and left (although most of his videos are just saying “AI” 16 times in a row (although although the few ones where he doesn’t do that are fun)).

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            So they appeared in an ad, for a game jam happening in an event that they all take part in, and William literally created and operates at a loss? And the ad is for a non profit? How horrible!

            And yes, wills video with anthropic is weird, I skipped it.

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          The thing with Mark Rober is that he’s definitely by far the most informative and educational.

          Backyard scientist, Alan Pan, William Osman, and others are kinda like high effort engineering shitposts and I love their content as well.

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            Most informative and educational? Ok, let’s check one of Mark Rober’s recent videos. Shittube ID 9IiYOTzJ2uw.

            • 00:00:00 Fastest lie on the west. The kid is a paid actor, which is pretty obvious near the end.
            • 00:00:25 Corporate cocksucking of Disney. Continues occasionally throughout the entire video.
            • 00:01:29 - 00:03:05 “experiments” of stuff which will obviously not achieve anything. As if he didn’t learn a thing from the NASA internship he is flexing constantly, like the guy who worked at Blizzard for 7 years.
            • 00:03:06 - 00:03:12 Skipped a plausible solution actually in need of an experiment (angling the damn thrusters) and went to one which will obviously work but not be as close to the target. That’s because he doesn’t actually care.

            I don’t think I need to continue.

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      I- Want I- Want to be a machine- and I- want to- be shining chrome and clean!