[HN Gopher] Aug 5 - 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Bi...
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Aug 5 - 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthday to
Curiosity
Author : viblo
Score : 78 points
Date : 2022-08-05 18:13 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.husqvarna.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.husqvarna.com)
| stuff4ben wrote:
| Relevant xkcd... https://xkcd.com/695/
| Dinux wrote:
| That is so sad :(
| tfehring wrote:
| There's a fan-made version (I think from xkcdsw) with a
| happier ending https://i.imgur.com/VbKV9DF.jpeg
| Archelaos wrote:
| > the loneliest robot in the universe
|
| No. This was and will always be Marvin the Paranoid Android
| getting stuck on Sqornshellous Zeta for 1.5 million years.
| squarefoot wrote:
| Also, Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and a few others may
| disagree. (Would Viking 1 and 2 qualify as robots?)
| drewzero1 wrote:
| I'll be very concerned if Curiosity finds any mattresses up
| there to converse with.
| qohen wrote:
| Was anyone else expecting a lawn-mower-based version of the
| Floppotron[0]?
|
| (E.g. here's the Star Wars theme[1] played by the Floppotron,
| from the inventor's YouTube channel[2]).
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppotron
|
| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KS02q0BUnY
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| [2] https://www.youtube.com/user/sh4dowww90/videos
| ck2 wrote:
| Ha feels worthy of a minor plot-line out of (future) Futurama
| numbers wrote:
| this is the sorta thing that makes you realize we're all human
| and maybe we like all these cool toys b/c they're fun
| happyopossum wrote:
| There's absolutely no reason to do this, and yet it's awesome and
| I'm glad Husqvarna is doing it.
|
| Now I want to look at a new robomower!
| rootusrootus wrote:
| > Now I want to look at a new robomower!
|
| Me too. And then I saw the price (of the higher end Husqvarna
| at least). Ha! Nevermind.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| The reason is marketing
| netsharc wrote:
| Haha, yeah, just look at the second line of the grandparent
| comment...
| munk-a wrote:
| There is indeed absolutely no reason to do this - and I'm
| personally anti-lawn (I prefer a nice naturally overgrown green
| space outside my home). But even I can get on the "this is
| awesome" train.
| divbzero wrote:
| Can Curiosity really claim the title of "loneliest robot in the
| universe"?
| Banana699 wrote:
| No, because a robot cannot feel loneliness yet.
| sandworm101 wrote:
| I'd put the voyager probes as more lonely. Not to mention any
| number of defunct spacecraft that are still operating out
| there. They don't have off switches. Somewhere out there is a
| space probe periodically trying to phone home only to discover
| we are no longer listening.
|
| https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843493304/long-lost-u-s-milit...
|
| ""The oldest one I've seen is Transit 5B-5. And it launched in
| 1965," he says, referring to a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy
| navigation satellite that still circles the Earth in a polar
| orbit, long forgotten by all but a few amateurs interested in
| _hearing it "sing" as it passes overhead_."
| samschooler wrote:
| This reminds me of the article "What football will look like
| in 17776?" a short story about football from the perspective
| of space probes. https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
| athenot wrote:
| At least as lonely as WALL-E...
| machinerychorus wrote:
| Yeah, mars is getting pretty crowded at this point! I guess the
| voyager probes might be lonelier, if you count them as robots.
| butz wrote:
| Sounds fun and all, but mark my words - after a year or two we
| will see some bug reports about lawn mowers randomly singing
| "Happy Birthday", and no one will know why.
| valleyer wrote:
| See also: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-
| does-man...
| zachruss92 wrote:
| I absolutely love this.
| DonHopkins wrote:
| Is Larry Ellson going to sing too?
|
| "Don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison."
| -Bryan Cantrill
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=1980s
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
|
| >"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that
| these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization,
| false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think
| of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no
| entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than
| Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity
| for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's
| like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this
| is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its
| defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what
| he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship
| mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our
| customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk
| to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen --
| we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you
| think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower,
| the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there
| and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the
| lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you,
| lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower.
| Don't fall into that trap about Oracle." -- Bryan Cantrill
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
| _Adam wrote:
| Fortunately this is opt-in. Imagine being that guy managing a
| fleet of these things mowing a giant golf course and three times
| a day just stop for no reason and start singing.
| sandworm101 wrote:
| If they are automated, how would you know?
| james_in_the_uk wrote:
| If a tree falls in a forest ...
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