TheRealKuni

I’m not sure I follow. This doesn’t seem “obviously botted” to me. Is it not possible that different people find different things funny and we don’t all share one common sense of humor?

(Or, I suppose, that comic strips can have value beyond humor.)

Noooo I though I escaped this shit.

…which shit? You’re in a community called comicstrips and it’s a comic strip.

Qi2 standard really helps with that. It incorporates the magnetic alignment and higher speeds from Apple’s MagSafe. Magnetic alignment makes wireless charging much better. Still less efficient than wired charging, but much more efficient than Qi without magnetic alignment.

If your phone doesn’t have the magnetic ring baked in you can often find cases that provide it, or magnets you can add to the outside of a case. Though my phone does have the magnets baked in, I also have a Snap 4 Luxe and I 3D printed a case that fits around it, to minimize the distance between charger and phone. Works really well!

Until your trackpad is acting up a bit and you become so frustrated you smack it and now it hardly ever works.

Ugh…

Those bastards.

Having a sensor means you can also trust your popcorn button. Technology Connections did a great video about this, if your microwave uses the sensor properly, the popcorn button starts by clearing the chamber of moisture by running the fan and the sensor. Then it turns on the microwave element, and when the bag inflates enough to open there’s a sudden puff of moisture into the chamber. The oven detects this, and uses a lookup to determine how much longer to run the microwave element based on how long it ran the element before sensing moisture, which accounts for different sizes and weights. You’ll hear a beep and see a few seconds left on the display.

This is nearly perfect in my experience. Every now and then the popcorn is very slightly burnt, but being able to just press a button and walk away is awesome.

Definitely watch the video, I didn’t realize mine had this feature until an earlier video of his about popcorn buttons (this one, specifically).

Bravo. Well done.

LIDAR certainly has enough distance (airplanes use it too)

As I understand it, this is uncommon and mostly used for topological mapping.

Most commercial aircraft use a radar, augmented with a GPS-based terrain map, for their ground proximity warning (EGPWS, “Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System”).

I could be wrong though, I’m not a pilot.

More accurately at conception everyone is sexless. No one has reproductive organs at conception.

The wisdom that man managed to pack into so many hilarious novels is astounding. We did not deserve him.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Crematoriums don’t use the body as fuel. They burn way hotter. Otherwise you wouldn’t have everything becoming ash.

Good call.

Excuse me, you misspelled Margarine Trailer Queen.

Huhyulk! Goarsh!

I genuinely can’t tell if they’re arrogant or if they’re knowledgeable and don’t bother to hide their expertise behind false modesty. But damn do German engineers write the best Jira tickets. So much detail, precise test steps, clarity about what changes they want made. Most engineers I get frustrated with because they don’t give us enough to work with, but German engineers almost give us too much.

How would a modern bot beat the blendo?

Full-body spinners do exist in Battlebots. But the competition in Battlebots far exceeds what existed in Robot Wars. The sport has evolved a lot. Also the power and weight limits are higher. Teams can afford to run heavier armor, and full-body spinners need to push lots of power to deal with that armor, but all of that power makes them just as likely to damage themselves by running into a wall.

A few examples of full-body spinners being their own worst enemies:

Captain Shrederator vs Riptide

Gigabyte vs Copperhead

Captain Shrederator vs Rotator

Captain Shrederator vs Huge (This one shows well how an unbalanced spinner is really hard to control. It manages to get air all by itself at one point.)

If a full-body spinner becomes unbalanced (like when part of its weapon breaks off) it becomes very difficult to control. And even when they’re controllable, they’re carrying an enormous amount of kinetic energy that isn’t contained very well, so often the best strategy against a full-body spinner is just to point your armor at them and let them destroy themselves.

It’s kind of sad, because they have a neat history in the sport, but these days everyone has a solid strategy to handle them, and you can’t change much on them to deal with different styles of bots.

I don’t think we’ll see many full-body spinners going forward.

In modern Battlebots, it would be practically useless. Full-body spinners have so many drawbacks, and even when they do manage to land good hits they’re just as likely to hurt themselves.

Blendo was amazing at the time, but the meta has evolved so much since then.