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New comment by jlv2 in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

jlv2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:20:48 +0000

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/brick-clog-5010203

Pricing is on-par for LEGO.

New comment by jlv2 in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

jlv2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:55:37 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.ph/GxEPr

New comment by jlv2 in "A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics"

jlv2 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:30:27 +0000

Earlier discussion of the original (https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympi...) article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609922

New comment by jlv2 in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

jlv2 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:11:47 +0000

Their one year trial ran out and now further use of nav requires a subscription. It was like this when they bought the truck.

New comment by jlv2 in "Timdle – Place historical events in chronological order"

jlv2 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:16:27 +0000

That was fun.

New comment by jlv2 in "Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]"

jlv2 — Wed, 28 May 2025 02:29:57 +0000

That's the flight of SN9 from 4 years ago, not the IFT9 flight.

New comment by jlv2 in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

jlv2 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:38:41 +0000

"I like to look at the list of macOS Bash commands."

Sigh. These are shell commands, not "Bash commands".

New comment by jlv2 in "Working Turing Machine"

jlv2 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:10:34 +0000

From the Register article:

"Fans of 3D printing will no doubt be pleased to note that some of the parts (notably one of the large gears) came from a printer, but only because buying missing bits online tends to take longer and cost more. A real-world version of the model was designed and built first to make sure it worked. Stud.io was then pressed into service to create rendered versions."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/05/lego_ideas_turing_mac...

New comment by jlv2 in "A Working Turing Machine Hits Lego Ideas"

jlv2 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 18:08:11 +0000

This is the better link!

New comment by jlv2 in "Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars"

jlv2 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:07:22 +0000

I owned cars with an AM radio for 30 years. I never used it.

I've now owned cars without an AM radio for 10 years. I don't miss it.

New comment by jlv2 in "Congress fights to keep AM radio in cars"

jlv2 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:03:57 +0000

I had a new car that also came with a Sirius radio and 3 months free. I tried it, but found it often dropped out while driving through forested roads in my area. That made it annoying to listen to. I stopped using it.

New comment by jlv2 in "Apple tries to rein in Hollywood spending after years of losses"

jlv2 — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:25:48 +0000

It is not available on my Pixel 8 Pro, arguably the newest current Android device.

New comment by jlv2 in "Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)"

jlv2 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:58:11 +0000

"Tens of thousands of people probably use it every day without thinking about it."

Probably tens of millions at this point.

New comment by jlv2 in "Watch SpaceX Starship FLIGHT 4 launch and reenter LIVE [video]"

jlv2 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:33:56 +0000

Not just someone, but rather Tim Dodd, aka Everyday Astronaut.

New comment by jlv2 in "How Amazon Became the Largest Private EV Charging Operator in the US"

jlv2 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:27:12 +0000

When making the comparison, don't forget to tally the effects and emmisions of drilling, pumping, refining, and delivering oil and gasoline to the point-of-sale.

New comment by jlv2 in "The dangers of single line regular expressions"

jlv2 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:32:33 +0000

More like "the danger of thinking you can trivially validate user-supplied input" before evaluating the string.

New comment by jlv2 in "Tiny World Map"

jlv2 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:00:54 +0000

I see this is improved in today's Nightly Demo link, but I still find the result too low fidelity.

New comment by jlv2 in "Tiny World Map"

jlv2 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:58:29 +0000

I noticed that all of the New York City metropolitan area was replaced with a single angled line, cutting off several large islands supporting a few million in population.

New comment by jlv2 in "An electric new era for Atlas"

jlv2 — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:57:11 +0000

That link is CGI.

New comment by jlv2 in "I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be geometric attack directions"

jlv2 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:00:58 +0000

Looks like the peices from the game Ploy. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1591/ploy