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He is dealing with access and crystal reports. I doubt your comment would be the most upsetting thing for him. Throw in some lotus notes and voila! we have a winner
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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lw@zi wrote: lotus notes
There was a lengthy period when the Lotus Notes team occupied the #1 spot on my "List of Dev Teams to Be Put Against The Wall When The Revolution Comes".
The sad thing is that even though we switched to Microsoft Office and Outlook over four years ago, we still have some IT processes that are Lotus Notes 'applications'. Fortunately I don't need to use them.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Very impressive
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Interesting but have they managed to get them to correctly pack the eggs under a large 10lb bag of potatoes yet. 
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The narrator did mention that the robots "know" not to put heavy things on top of light things, etc.
To err is robotic; to really screw things up, use a human.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Depends if you order potato salad :P
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Unsurprisingly, the spokeswoman referred to their software as "artificial intelligence". I doubt it but it's still impressive.
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They probably used some machine learning for the navigation / collision avoidance.
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That would be learning the hard way!
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I wonder how long it took to debug the collision prevention algorithms. 
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What they did not show was the pile of bent and battered boxes out the back.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Have look at the 46s mark in the top left background - it may need some more work
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awesome find! 
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Most all fast food should be fully automated by now as well. I'm not sure what's taking McDonald's so long to do it.
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Probably because minimum-wage people are still cheaper than the capital cost + maintenance of the robot.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I recently purchased a Pi-Zero kit that included a bare 16GB SanDisk microSD card. When I went to use it, it only reported 30MB. I've tried "refreshing" it by using dd to write over the disk from /dev/zero, and using a Windows based SD format tool from Tuxera. So far no joy. Does anyone have any suggestions what to try to revive the card, or is it just dead?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It has desiccated with age, so bathe it in water for 15 minutes.
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Your SD card is probably fine and this is more a formatting issue or getting the PI to read it properly.
Unfortunately, the only experience I have with a PI was setting up "Retro PI" and that was 4 years ago. That software has a specific feature you must do in order to get it to address the whole SD card. The setting was:
Raspi-Config > 7. Advances Options > A1 Expand File System
Obviously, that isn't going to be much help if you aren't using Retro PI. But I can only assume there must be a similar feature/step required in whatever OS you are using on it.
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No, not a problem with the filesystem. The SD itself reports that its only 30.61 MB:
[root@localhost ~]
Disk /dev/sdd: 30.61 MiB, 32096256 bytes, 62688 sectors
Disk model: Storage Device
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
[root@localhost ~] The drive is clearly marked as a 16GB drive.
I'm guessing its probably just a bad chip that managed to get through quality control --- assuming they test every unit. But maybe someone knows something that might get the card to find its missing capacity. But then, should one trust it? Probably not...
Keep Calm and Carry On
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It does sound like a production issue. Given the low cost of 16GB SD cards, I see two options:
- Write to SanDisk (now Western Digital) customer support, and see if they'll give you a replacement
- Bin it and buy new
Even if there is a way to recover the full capacity, I wouldn't trust it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Are you sure it's a genuine SanDisk card? Was the seller reputable and unlikely also to have been naive enough to buy from a dodgy supplier?
You can definitely still buy micro SDs in the megabyte range. I got some the other month for around a dollar each for a uController project.
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It was Canakit. I expect that they would be on the level. Though the card did come in a small antistatic bag, rather than on a SanDisk bubble-pack card. So maybe they purchased a bulk lot, with the odd one being bad, or mislabeled. Who knows? It doesn't really seem worth pursuing, its only a 16GB card, and I have several 32G cards available to me. For ~$7, its probably more than that in postage. At my hourly rate, I've probably spent more than that wingeing about it here ...
Keep Calm and Carry On
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