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where were the wireframe mesh rocks sourced from?


The excavator creates a mesh of each stone by scanning it "in hand", and updates the settled positions of them as it builds. The left side of the image is the 3D digital twin model that is maintained by the system, captured from the same perspective to show how it matches the real wall.


The reason is for safety (so people don't get out of their car while it's halted in L without the parking brake), this did cause me to (slowly) crash once, I am sure people have been nearly injured by the safety feature.

I later replaced my Bolt with a Tesla Model 3 (yeah, I have a lot of complaints here too, but overall it's less annoying) purely for fast-charging reasons, but driving a Bolt again afterwards drove me absolutely insane with their L mode:

  - have to enable it each drive
  - doesn't work in reverse
  - creeps when seatbelt comes unbuckled and sometimes RANDOMLY
  - randomly decides it's not going to regen as much even when low on charge
I know it's not the top of anybody else's demands from a car, but what the fuck Chevrolet. There should always be a button for "I didn't buy an EV by accident, now let me fucking drive it normally".

The truth is Chevrolet never intended to allow you to use L mode to drive at all. They only added it in, so you can put on the parking brake, and tap down the gear selector repeatedly to switch between L and D, making your car bounce up and down. I don't know of any other car with an electric twerking lever, and for that reason, it still holds a special place in my heart.


Tox in specific lets libsodium/nacl do all the cryptography and provides little above the core methods, the more complex parts were the networking


libsodium is great! We're considering supporting it in conjunction with WebCrypto. Yeah, networking is hard, but is the main thing we've worked on over the years.

We're using WebRTC and fallback to decentralized WebSocket relays (you can use multiple / nothing exclusive, run your own, etc.). What are you guys using?


it wasn't much of a team split, just the dev team's resident pakistani computer salesman (stqism) embezzled a bunch of money and ran off, as much as I think Tox is untrustworthy and stupid I can say I'm pretty sure nobody else in Tox was involved with this


Thanks for that bit of insight, it is a confusing story especially when I ran into it. I like the UI of Tox, I wish it were truly solid, but I much rather recommend Pidgin with OTR and IRC / Jabber (although Jitsi is decent in this regard too), or Wire / Signal.


it has core bootstrap nodeshttps://wiki.tox.chat/users/nodes , and a pretty bad DHT formation, so by distributing a few nasty clients with bad bootstrap URLs you could easily cause multiple splits in the network


Thx for the link.

Do you know if there is some sort of routing taking place ? Or all client are trying to consolidate a full Hash Table ?


right now it's absolutely awful in terms of everything it has set out to do, the internal dev team even knows of a few more security issues that they haven't publicly disclosed yet and have made little effort to resolve

t. made the linked website, used to be in dev team


side note, I was involved with development of tox for quite some time, and made the website that is being linked to here

avoid tox its full of bugs


Sorry that was my fault, while I was making the website and asked some people with working phones to take screenshots I got bullied out of the devs channel and wasn't around to tell them not to screw it up


no problem, I'm always in the mood for shrek memes


It's still being put together, we have an order form now if you want to give it a shot


Well while trying to get our vape-shop startup off the ground we considered the idea of having a page where you can mine a vape, and this evolved into the more achievable "mine a pizza"


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