On 1/1/25 13:48, Joe wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 14:58:25 +0100
poc...@homemail.com wrote:
[...]
In fact I'm sure you've noticed that help is often offered to users of
other systems, but tentatively and with warnings that it may not work.
"Gene is a special case in that he uses non-standard hardware to do
things that the rest of us don't do, working in ways that we don't work.
We do our best, but that's often not good enough".
The hardware I use has nothing non-std in the field I work in. But 99%
of you folks haven't the foggiest idea of what we get the dirt under our
fingernails from, or how we "get it done". To many, the Boston Dynamics
dog is magic, but I can visualize the gcode that makes it dance. I write
that stuff from scratch myself.
"Being a pioneer is a lonely thing."
I cannot emphasize that chance phrase enough. Its lonesome enough when I
have no one to talk to as I work out how to do something useful with all
this tech. My long term partner succumbed to COPD 4 years ago, so yes,
this is a lonely house. I'd try to get me another, but at my age (90)
theres way too much baggage to deal with both for me, and any potential
partners. There are no blank slates out there.
Here's hoping for a better 2025 for all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis
