If you're short of bandwidth or limited by a quota, uBlock Origin can be toggled easily between allowing or blocking all images. It's what I use to make my 750MiB per month GSM/4G connection last.
There is an option to block media elements larger than a set size[1]. When a media element is blocked through this setting, the element is replaced with a click-to-load widget, so the layout shouldn't change with this option.
Of course it isn't, but limiting installation instructions to the creation of a single well-defined Docker container makes a whole lot of sense in terms of avoiding reproducibility headaches.
And by extension, with regard to make development inside a container a pleasant experience, VS Code is currently the only game in town. And I say that as someone who spent two decades getting comfortable with vim.
Not having to screw with your system's dependecies and spend time making sure everything is aligned with the expected environment.
Ansible like tools could help you make the setup repeatable, but being containerized also avoids all the processor architecture and system libraries gotchas.
I don't want to install anything on my system, want to keep clean and as minimal as possible, containers full fill my OCD in this regard, I run most app's now in containers too, it is best linux setup I ever had in my life :)
ROS is verrrrrrry opinionated and a pain to set up in an orthogonal way to other ROS installs. It's also tied very heavily to ubuntu/debian. Putting it all into containers makes many things so much easier (it makes a few things harder, or at least it did on ros1, hopefully that's been ironed out in ros2)
For anyone else who was curious and did not want to download an Excel file to read the table, parts will set you back $1300. Plus, who knows how much printing time.
A real dog is way more responsibility - you gotta walk it, feed it, keep it clean and healthy. It's quite expensive even if you adopt and it is no small task. A robo dog at worse is a few hundred in parts - no worse than a single vet visit and charging the battery.
Suggesting random people to adopt a pet, is in my opinion wrong, unless you know the person well. Pets are not a thing, they need care, responsibility, time, additional budget and other factors you could include if you are gonna have a baby.
I replayed in another comment, seems like it is way better to buy minipupper that is also servos based, it does not make sense spending so much on servos based robot, arguably, it is better to spend 1300+ building bot with actual motors Lorcan[1] alike (there others with 6 motors, if recall correctly).
There is also minipupper2[1] (I have minipupper1, waiting for version2), v2 has servos feedback (I think this first of kind in cheapest robots space), furthermore all minipupper1 hardware is also open-sourced on github[2], it is expected to be same for v2 version.
A Dingo is a shy (with humans), wild dog in Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo. I saw once once, but it was about maybe 100-200 metres away.
And to the band in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Both of which reference the original case, which became a meme because the woman’s claim was seen as so unbelievable.
And then nearly a decade later it was found that she was telling the truth.
I am also curious about educated answers to this question, but I imagine taking a cue from millions of years of evolutionary pressure is a pretty solid bet.
8 legs are also well representated and going strong for millions of years, not to mention carcinisation being a meme at this point.
When it comes to robotics, my best guess would be cost and complexity. We also either need a better control interface or better self driving software to take advantage of the legs moving independently (I assume optimizing how the 8 legs should move to climb a rocky path for instance is just a computational nightmare to do realtime)
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Edit to Add: TBF, most users may not have the technical know-how to use it in this way.
(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36299315, but no comments there)
And by extension, with regard to make development inside a container a pleasant experience, VS Code is currently the only game in town. And I say that as someone who spent two decades getting comfortable with vim.
Ansible like tools could help you make the setup repeatable, but being containerized also avoids all the processor architecture and system libraries gotchas.
https://github.com/222464/Lorcan-Mini
It's not quite as bad as it seems at first blush.
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/336477435/mini-pupper-2...
[2]https://github.com/mangdangroboticsclub
$529 - Pupper with Ri
$129 - Lidar
$148 - 3D Camera
But actual navigation is software related.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo_ate_my_baby
And then nearly a decade later it was found that she was telling the truth.
Once the expense of four has been invested is there a better number, say six or eight, to have?
I can imagine all sorts of advantages and disadvantages. They choose four, is that because four is best? Or because a dog has four?
When it comes to robotics, my best guess would be cost and complexity. We also either need a better control interface or better self driving software to take advantage of the legs moving independently (I assume optimizing how the 8 legs should move to climb a rocky path for instance is just a computational nightmare to do realtime)
Two is way hard. Six or more is also hard if you want to do it properly over rough terrain. Four is a sweet spot for human-scale robots.
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Without reading the actual code, the structure of the system looks very clear, pleasant to understand. It's not a mess.