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Aeronwen··on Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation
It's slow enough to avoid by walking around it, and you can make it small and light enough to not harm someone it might bump into.
Aeronwen··on Voltswagen of America
Reo as Ransom Eli Olds' second car company, the first one is what became the Oldsmobile divison of GM. But GM never owned Reo.

Supposedly Volvo owns the name now.

Aeronwen··on Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons
Also, sending wave after wave of your own men at them until the killbots reached their pre-programmed kill limit and shut down.
Aeronwen··on Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons
When people aren't dying in the front lines because it's just robots, there's no reason for a ceasefire. There won't be a human cost to fighting, only for running out of money and losing.
Aeronwen··on I Like That the Boat Is Stuck
bottomed out -> beached

that blocks -> blocking

Aeronwen··on GPT-3 tries pickup lines
A tringle is a slim rod, like a curtain rod.

Presumably, it's one of those things that you still manage to find in an empty building even though everything else has been taken.

Aeronwen··on Tesla on autopilot crashes into stopped Michigan police car
Those lights are blinding as hell at night. The only reason a person wouldn't have hit the car is because it's the only thing you can see when trying to pass one.
Aeronwen··on Grabby Aliens
The gardener merely holds the weeds at bay for a while. Without constant upkeep, the weeds take over again.
Aeronwen··on If Tesla Is the Apple of Electric Vehicles, Volkswagen Bets It Can Be Samsung
If GM had built the exact same cars Tesla makes instead of Tesla, they'd have been laughed out of business.
Aeronwen··on Please support Web Monetization if you want less ads on the web
Since you're backed by ad money, you can undercut the subscription price of your competitors. Maybe it makes up the difference, maybe it works better and you force the competition to switch to ads or go out of business.

Maybe it fails, but it's certainly not guaranteed.

Aeronwen··on Microsoft's list of banned C functions
It's a remnant of the Buenos Aires convention. Where if you didn't expressly reserve copyright, the work defaulted to public domain.

Because all the countries who signed that treaty didn't move to the Berne Convention right away, you had to still reserve your copyright or else lose it in those countries.

The last holdout signed the Berne Convention in 2000, so it's no longer an issue.

Aeronwen··on A reminder that you should double-check the licenses for software you use
Someone should tell Github they're illegally hosting this.
Aeronwen··on Ask HN: Why aren't we building a database of formally verified software?
The people who can't be bothered to play now, will demand R* do something about the cheaters and people who bought their way to the top already. The people they gained won't stay, because R* won't ditch the people who actually make them money.

So all this will really do is put more load on their servers, now that the bottleneck moved off of your hardware and back onto thiers.

Aeronwen··on The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its own stealth bomber
It's because the designs weren't made for mass production. The given tolerances were nominal and you were supposed to hand-fit parts together.

For mass production, they had to be re-tooled with larger tolerances which also allowed for interchangeable parts.

Aeronwen··on Avoiding the Clothes Dryer Is Expensive
>Anecdotally, combo washer/dryers are less reliable than separate machines. Maybe because there are more components that could break?

Simply combining the two machines into one unit increases it's chance of failure even without changing the reliability of the washer or dryer. You don't consider your dryer broken if your washing machine breaks, but you consider your washer/dryer broken if either the washer or dryer function breaks.

Aeronwen··on Toyota Announces the Plural of Prius (2011)
You could get three different answers depending on where in Canada you ask.
Aeronwen··on Ask HN: Click on screen efficiently with keyboard shortcuts?
https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/ for X11

https://github.com/lesderid/keynavish for Windows

Aeronwen··on Bill Gates: Nuclear power will ‘absolutely’ be politically acceptable again
They're tied with the invention of kerosene.
Aeronwen··on If Aliens Exist, Here’s How We’ll Find Them
We might try to meet them someday. Oh, you mean a disadvantage for us.

Half the people will want to meet them, the other half will prepare for an invasion, and we'll end up killing each other over it.

Aeronwen··on USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual
https://haynes.com/en-gb/us-super-carrier-operations-manual

Closest they have.

Aeronwen··on Try to guess if code is real or GPT2-generated
Got 40/50 just smashing the GPT2 button.
Aeronwen··on Why is America getting a new $100B nuclear weapon?
They provide something for other countries to aim at besides major cities.
Aeronwen··on Photos of the Surface of Venus (1975)
The only real threat to them is the acidity. Over four decades or so they might have dissolved. They should have withstood everything else except maybe a lighting strike.
Aeronwen··on Is Spacetime Real?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." --PKD
Aeronwen··on Making glasses that hide your face from cameras
Usually, the camera simply has no IR filter so it picks up IR all the time. You can test your own cameras out by pointing a TV remote at them and pressing a button. The blinking should show up in the video.
Aeronwen··on Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming
They don't get anything out of it except complaints when it doesn't work right.
Aeronwen··on Vehicle choice, crash differences help explain greater injury risks for women
>It doesn't seem to make sense that women are more likely to be driving the struck vehicle (compared with men)?

in side-impact and front-into-rear crashes

You're far more likely to survive hitting someone in the side of their car than you are getting hit.

Aeronwen··on Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’
AMF, not AMC.
Aeronwen··on Tesla Recalls Cars with EMMC Failures, Calls Part a ‘Wear Item’
The foam padding breaks down and even though the glue holds, there's nothing for it to hold the cloth to but dust.
Aeronwen··on The largest study to date on the genetic basis of sexuality (2019)
Narrowing things down is easier when you control for one aspect instead of multiple ones.

If, hypothetically, being trans inverted the expression of the gene for being gay, you'd have a harder time finding the gene until you accounted for it. By eliminating the possibility, you make it easier to find the gene you're looking for.

If you can't find the gene in the smaller pool of subjects, you weren't going to find it in the larger one. But if you did find it, you can learn how it affects everyone in a different study.

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