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Re:A look at the creative process behind Bluey and Cocomelon on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:36AM (#43340483)
The appeal is in the strong emotions which it induces. The crying is a side effect of this, not the appealing factor in itself.
Re:Bring Starlink on airplane in carry on, sell access? on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:13AM (#43287892)
Even if the signals could pass through the airplane's body, would it work when it's moving at high speed?
Would you want "Enjoyed blaming the victims" in yours?
For sports cars, internal combustion engines still provide a weight advantage over battery packs.
Re:Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:11PM (#40827609)
Would there be any obligation to pay out financial penalties if the company declares bankruptcy?
Re:Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? on Thursday February 29, 2024 @05:40PM (#39556196)
Are they using a third party watch face? My Galaxy Watch 4 has no issues.
Re:PHOLED Will Transform Displays on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:03PM (#38729545)
> (Sony TVs even have a pretty decent user accessible API)

Do you have a link where I can find out more about this? Google is failing me.

Re:Google's True Moonshot on Monday December 18, 2023 @10:54PM (#38691628)
I don't know enough about the AI space to comment on it specifically.

But this distinctly reminds me about articles around about the time of the first iPhone release which posited that Microsoft was in a unique position to ultimately win the smartphone market.

After all it was dominant on the desktop and Windows Mobile already had a decent (albeit not dominant) marketshare in smartphones at the time.

You can count to 12 on one hand pretty easily without any extra digits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZwv9oFbI8
> In fact, no citizen of any country can be denied entry to their country of citizenship

Not Australia. During the height of the pandemic, there was a period of time that the government made it illegal for Australian citizens to come here from India.

Re:A Search for Technosignatures Around 11,680 Nearby Stars on Thursday August 17, 2023 @01:01AM (#37157453)
IIRC, modulating light from a star is part of the plot from The Dark Forest.
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:29PM (#34047591)
In case you weren't aware, she was quoting Gandhi. Which I'm assuming the parent commenter was doing too.
Re:Managing People on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:43AM (#30241962)
> It's hard to get people to own a problem space fully

At least in my experience this is because a manager doesn't want to give their reports full ownership over something. That is, responsibility for the outcome and (much more importantly) decision making authority for how they deliver results.

Managers (almost) always want people to take responsibility, but don't want to give up authority.

Re:Amazon Pip Horror Story on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:05PM (#30215906)
> the org still has to ensure it has at least X% turnover per year

Can anyone explain the motivation for this?

I've never understood why a company would want to routinely fire X% of otherwise well preforming employees in a team, when they're going to need to hire that many again anyway.

Re:Please make a dumb car on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:46PM (#30153230)
Sadly, Subaru are also starting to slowly move controls onto a touchscreen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFbZ3nkhcRQ
Re:Orcas found to kill blue whales on Friday January 28, 2022 @06:40PM (#30122052)
> Twelve orcas swimming down their quarry until it grows tired

Looks like humans aren't the only predators who use persistence hunting.