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New comment by maxden in "Aerocart cargo gliders"

maxden — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 23:14:07 +0000

and what happens in the event of a disconnect?

It mentions it has a form of automated control in the tow with "Aerolane's patented Pilot Positioning Assist systems"

New comment by maxden in "The fish kick may be the fastest subsurface swim stroke yet (2015)"

maxden — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:55:21 +0000

In what sport does she compete for Germany? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_Klz5qncZQ

New comment by maxden in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

maxden — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:13:46 +0000

It may not be the monetary amount but the message it sends.

Mess with me and Ill shut you down.

New comment by maxden in "Advertising Is a Cancer on Society (2019)"

maxden — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 11:19:50 +0000

for interest, also posted in 2019 when it was published. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142

New comment by maxden in "An abandoned ship held a treasure for 30 years: 50 arcade machines"

maxden — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:07:30 +0000

previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22226442

New comment by maxden in "Helium Implicated in Weird iPhone Malfunctions"

maxden — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:15:16 +0000

Article is from 2018 and the effect has been discussed previously.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693

New comment by maxden in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

maxden — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:46:43 +0000

They will now need to change over to a new or backup communication system, with both the changeover and new platform bringing risks.

New comment by maxden in "New study suggests nose picking could increase risk for Alzheimer's and dementia (2022)"

maxden — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:23:29 +0000

posted 28 October 2022

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491437

New comment by maxden in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

maxden — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 04:20:16 +0000

That seems like an even worse place to move you to!

New comment by maxden in "Is This the First Nintendo Commercial?"

maxden — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:06:47 +0000

I guess it's living up to Betteridge's law. "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

edit: I see its already been mentioned by poochipie.

New comment by maxden in "YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads"

maxden — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 06:56:17 +0000

Or you do support those and they introduce ads later.

Unfortunately for users, advertisers will keep throwing money at the problem until the provider finds it attractive enough to add ads, or the provider builds up the user base to make it attractive for ad revenue. Same result.

New comment by maxden in "F-Zero courses from a dead Nintendo satellite service restored using VHS and AI"

maxden — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 06:49:35 +0000

there' s already a $500 bounty for an early roblox client.

https://robloxopolis.com/2006-roblox-bounty/

New comment by maxden in "The underground world of hobby tunneling"

maxden — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 06:30:27 +0000

thought your comment was going to become a quote from the Artilleryman from Jeff Waynes musical version of War of the Worlds!

"We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves. Look, they clap eyes on us and we're dead, right? So we gotta make a new life where they'll never find us. You know where? Underground. You should see it down there – hundreds of miles of drains – sweet and clean now after the rain, dark, quiet, safe. We can build houses and everything, start again from scratch. And what's so bad about living underground, eh? It's not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion."

New comment by maxden in "Toyota: Car location data and videos of 2M customers exposed for ten years"

maxden — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:46:45 +0000

Imagine it has the same functionality as Bait car.. and not allow the occupants to exit the car either.

New comment by maxden in "The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock"

maxden — Sun, 07 May 2023 23:23:05 +0000

Your post prompted me to look into it, as I'd not made that connection either.

However Wikipedia says that's not the case and "a wake for the dead harks back to the vigil, "watch" or "guard" of earlier times. "

New comment by maxden in "Lost something? Search through 91.7M files from the 80s, 90s, and 2000s"

maxden — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 01:24:15 +0000

Wow.. that soundtrack is distinctive!

Off to listen to Oxygène.

New comment by maxden in "Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool"

maxden — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:34:05 +0000

Yeah, its the "all sensor data at a glance page" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.g...

New comment by maxden in "Accused of cheating, marathon runner Frank Meza's life fell apart (2019)"

maxden — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:34:47 +0000

you could daisy chain them, swapping them in/out

New comment by maxden in "Plans to shift aviation from magnetic navigation to true navigation"

maxden — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 14:33:04 +0000

They've used that landing on Mars as well, Terrain Relative Navigation.

New comment by maxden in "The Mysterious Case of Mr. X"

maxden — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 02:05:42 +0000

Agreed, it's just a landing/feeder page for the actual article. I guess longreads has better ranking/reputation?