Anthony Cowley
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Anthony Cowley
@acowley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Functional roboticist. Robots, Haskell, Rust, nix, emacs, FPV… and the rest of life, too.

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@djspiewak This was actually with a reasoning model! (Spiraling is however a remarkably fun defect, imo.) The thing that really got me here was that the bug was quite subtle in that there were a couple loops with slightly different invariants. It would have been so easy to miss it as the result […]
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October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Related, Boston Dynamics released a nice video on their current gripper design. Great to see folks challenging the reign of vacuum grippers! https://youtu.be/gS4rOqNDTBk?si=t7U_0yPmBrtTAkTg
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@thibaultmol A common version of this is that you might have certain packages you pull from a stable release, and others you pull from unstable. The stable branch is less likely to have breakage, while it might not include every update to those packages.
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@thibaultmol The branch you’re tracking will advance based on successful completion of a hydra job set, but a package you care about might not be among the packages for which a build failure would result in the job set being marked a failure. This is definitely awkward!

What you need to do is […]
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August 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
@kccqzy That’s a good point about the scale of the malfeasance being a potential problem. But with labor strikes, the leverage is denying labor en masse, and that is not what’s happening here. If one person just stops showing up for work (not for principle, but specifically to avoid doing the […]
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July 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM