Mechanismatic

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I coordinate an academic makerspace at a college.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

And now the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, the soundtrack was great, even as a standalone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Cleaning crews need time to clean all the rooms after morning checkout. Some hotels have early check-in available if you ask, if they have rooms already available.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Sounds like the Mechanical Turk which was run by chess players moving the "automaton."

So much of the wow factor of new technologies is just marketing hyperbole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

(Why did my autocorrect suggest Hadrian’s chicken?)

The history they taught you in school was wrong. The wall was built to keep out the chicken.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

"Sorry, guys, but I gotta bail."

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Technically, you could say we're the ones who set since it's the Earth's rotation causing the change.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

California also isn't an island, but it's named after a fictional island in a Spanish novel, and was once thought to be an island.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Taking someone's lead sounds like a British saying indicating the opposite of following someone's lead. It sounds like you're taking someone's leash in your hands and directing them where to go.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

EMP, MRI, or what about anti-nanobots? If you can program nanobots that kill people with particular DNA, couldn't you program nanobots that target other nanobots? I would assume they hadn't yet built in a self-defense protocol for the nanobots since they were cutting edge and not assumed to have any countermeasures yet. Anti-nanobots seem just as plausible as DNA targeting nanobots.

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