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New comment by RaSoJo in "Humanoid Robot Actuators"

RaSoJo — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:05:05 +0000

Yes. This distinction is important.

As a lay person, I have limited knowledge of this field, yet am extremely interested. Unfortunately AI gen content is being used widely to spread spurious information/fake news etc. So my knee jerk reaction to AI gen content is - "this is going to be fake".

If the information you are trying to convey is true, and is technical/objective in nature, then why shy away from associating your identify to it?

New comment by RaSoJo in "Humanoid Robot Actuators"

RaSoJo — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:15:28 +0000

How can we trust this article or the company if the writer/so-called chief engineer decides to hide himself behind an AI avatar?

From what I can understand this is the Robbie Dickson in question: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lessons-from-a-serial-ent_b_9...

Nobody has a problem with companies using AI to edit articles, create images. But when even the writer is an AI persona, the trust factor gets destroyed.

New comment by RaSoJo in "Spirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business"

RaSoJo — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:17:57 +0000

I think OP meant whether this might "lower the demand" for air travel...due to the expected spike in prices

New comment by RaSoJo in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

RaSoJo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:28:10 +0000

Greed is always the undoing of such criminals.

If he'd stuck to $500 - $1000 bets, he could have stayed under the radar. And, over the period of his career, earned well north of $400k.

New comment by RaSoJo in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

RaSoJo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:14:17 +0000

>The new rule, proposed by a government agency, would see men being registered automatically rather than being asked to do so themselves within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

Honest question: Why is there no such auto registration for women?

New comment by RaSoJo in "Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs"

RaSoJo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:41:38 +0000

The authorities need to make leveraged buyouts illegal. I see no benefit coming out of it apart from pain for society.

Is there any benefit that I am missing? (Apart from the money it generates for the investors and the related politicians whose pockets get lined)

New California bill to require license plates for electric bikes

RaSoJo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:12:14 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/02/19/new-california-bill-to-require-license-plates-for-electric-bikes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073357

Points: 10

# Comments: 8

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires

RaSoJo — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-01-14/london-pr-firm-rewrites-wikipedia-for-governments-and-billionaires

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719459

Points: 31

# Comments: 2

Hollywood-hungry Gulf states bankroll Paramount's Warner Bros bid

RaSoJo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:27:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/hollywood-hungry-gulf-states-bankroll-paramounts-warner-bros-bid-2025-12-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46215773

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by RaSoJo in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

RaSoJo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:03:56 +0000

Wow. The first Nancy Drew came out the same year as the first Miss Marple. I always thought of Nancy Drew as a much later phenomenon.

New comment by RaSoJo in "Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not"

RaSoJo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:45:29 +0000

I switched from Chrome to Brave six months ago.

Why can’t Alphabet just leave Chrome alone? They already have so many cash cows. Stuffing Chrome with AI gimmicks makes it clunky and unusable — and when that happens, people will just migrate to other browsers. Alphabet should revisit its own history and remember the great migration from Internet Explorer to Chrome.

New comment by RaSoJo in "Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks"

RaSoJo — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:14:01 +0000

> bsky.app | @greg.org on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/greg.org/post/3lvt3mjvskk2i Reported: 07 August, 2025 at 19:53 Shut down on: 07 August, 2025 Geoblocking due to OSA Statue of |david behind age verification filter

So, going forward, will similar pieces of art be blocked in the British Museum as well? Like physically?

New comment by RaSoJo in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

RaSoJo — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:29:54 +0000

YT-Premium is still ad-free, though they did bump up the prices recently.

Being a monopoly gives them that kind of power, but they haven’t gone overboard—probably because they know regulators would start poking around if they did.

New comment by RaSoJo in "YouTube No Translation"

RaSoJo — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:04:26 +0000

Everyone I've spoken to in my circle hates this feature. We're all fairly intelligent people — if we needed audio dubbing, we'd turn it on ourselves. But to have auto-dub enabled by default is, frankly, incredulous.

If someone from Google could explain the rationale behind forcing this on users, I’d genuinely love to understand it.

New comment by RaSoJo in "37signals Says Goodbye to AWS: Full S3 Migration and $10M in Projected Savings"

RaSoJo — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:57:53 +0000

>>all managed by the same technical team that previously handled the cloud.

Does this imply they haven’t hired any additional personnel? I would’ve thought moving everything in-house would need more hands on deck—for stuff like security, keeping things up and running, and all the behind-the-scenes stuff AWS usually takes care of.

If they managed with the same team, that’s darned impressive.

New comment by RaSoJo in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

RaSoJo — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:11:17 +0000

Ocado did run into multiple fire issues due to these robots colliding with each other. In 2019 and 2021 [1]

Wonder if the matter has been resolved.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57883332

New comment by RaSoJo in "LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego"

RaSoJo — Fri, 09 May 2025 09:26:58 +0000

I don’t need automation to build LEGO sets — that’s the fun part, and I want to do it myself. What I need is automation after the build: to clean up, sort the bricks by color and shape, and store them properly.

I just wish scientists would start by solving problems that actually exist in the real world. There’s real value — and real money — in that.

New comment by RaSoJo in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

RaSoJo — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:48:13 +0000

My searches have become site specific.

- What other people think of product XYZ: reddit - Subject specific/Historical: Wikipedia - News specific: My favored news sources - Coding related: I start with ChatGPT. To validate those answers I use Google

New comment by RaSoJo in "Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility"

RaSoJo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:28:36 +0000

Is it just me, or do these new "leaps" from Boston Dynamics feel tiresome?

People would surely appreciate automation that helps with household tasks like cleaning, chopping vegetables, and ironing clothes. But such delicate activities don’t seem to be part of BD’s vision....not even on the periphery.

What is the end goal that BD has in mind? Yet another Police/Military toy?

New comment by RaSoJo in "China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to invade Taiwan"

RaSoJo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:08:46 +0000

I feel this to be a balanced headline if we put on an editor’s hat: The subject of the sentence is "China." From China’s standpoint, Taiwan was always theirs. Hence, from this viewpoint, it is a "reclaim."