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Re:The Robot I Didn't Expect to Build on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:22AM (#50194335)
a forklift?
A cruise missile being a robot is not far-fetched, I’d say. In Swedish both cruise and ballistic missiles (and other similar munitions) are called robots within the military.
Re:Allow Carriers on Planes on Friday September 25, 2026 @03:07PM (#49848629)
I work in child car seat development and I can second that the main issue for our mechanical engineers is preventing neck injuries. Rearward-facing car seats really are a lot better on that front.

ADAC is indeed the main test, but even more difficult than getting a good ADAC score is passing the plus test[1], which focuses on neck spinal forces.

[1]: https://www.vti.se/en/services/laboratory-and-testing/crash-...

Re:Jev: New frontier model 40-400x cheaper and 20-200x faster on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @09:14AM (#49726528)
You are correct, they state that on their website.
Re:iPhone Duo on Thursday September 10, 2026 @06:51AM (#49641547)
Anecdata of course, but my experience with Windows Hello is that it only works under perfect circumstances. Me just being positioned slightly differently in my chair is enough for it to not recognize me. As opposed to FaceID that has (for me) worked flawlessly for these past almost ten years.
Re:Live map of public transport in Belgium on Monday September 07, 2026 @08:55AM (#49597855)
This thread is full of people linking similar projects for different locations. The next step must be to combine it all to a global live map. Useful for... something, I'm sure.
Re:Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go? on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:40PM (#49424109)
Well, even if you don’t get your 50 cents back you usually have an incentive to leave the restroom when you’re done.
IANAL, but that's not quite true right? As per your own citation, återgivningsrätten gives the right to use any piece of art (not in digital form) in conjunction with a piece of critical text.
Re:Show HN: The Hanging Sculptures of the Xiaoxitian on Thursday May 21, 2026 @07:06AM (#48220673)
Broken in Firefox.
Re:Incident with multple GitHub services on Friday April 24, 2026 @01:48AM (#47886068)
Isn't the simplest homelab humanly possible just... no homelab?
Re:The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:11PM (#47682006)
Seeing Miyazaki’s Pippi makes me so sad that we never got to see that movie. I’ve been reading a ton of Astrid Lindgren with my kid lately, and for many of them I see them in my mind’s eye as Myazaki films, and especially Pippi. Myazaki and Lindgren have a lot in common, I think, in how they tell stories from children’s perspectives. What we’ve got for Pippi movie adaptations instead are very poor things.
Re:Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite on Thursday March 05, 2026 @07:35AM (#47260906)
Bu that's not really what danlitt said, right? They did not claim that it's impossible for an LLM to generate something different, merely that it's not a clean room implementation since the LLM, one must assume, is trained on the code it's re-implementing.
Re:Malm Whale in Gothenburg on Thursday March 05, 2026 @02:20AM (#47258623)
It's definitively not the source of the word, but it might very well be the reason the decided to have a "fest i val". Gothenburg is famous for their puns, and even today they open up the mouth of the whale for visitors on two occasions - valdagen (election day) and Valborgsmässoafton (Walpurgis eve).
Re:Bet on German Train Delays on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:52AM (#47249284)
It falls quite close to the "super ideal scenarios" you described, but Nordic did a real world test and got a range of 1300 m using coded phy.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/pos...

Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @07:57AM (#46243695)
Interesting concept with conceptual spaces, but how does that affect how you work with LLM:s in practice?

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