> the loneliest robot in the universe No. This was and will always be Marvin the Paranoid Android getting stuck on Sqornshellous Zeta for 1.5 million years.
I'll be very concerned if Curiosity finds any mattresses up there to converse with.
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#22> the loneliest robot in the universe No. This was and will always be Marvin the Paranoid Android getting stuck on Sqornshellous Zeta for 1.5 million years.
Also, Sojourner, Spirit, Opportunity and a few others may disagree.
(Would Viking 1 and 2 qualify as robots?)
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#25Fortunately this is opt-in. Imagine being that guy managing a fleet of these things mowing a giant golf course and three times a day just stop for no reason and start singing.
If they are automated, how would you know?
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#27There's absolutely no reason to do this, and yet it's awesome and I'm glad Husqvarna is doing it. Now I want to look at a new robomower!
> Now I want to look at a new robomower!
Me too. And then I saw the price (of the higher end Husqvarna at least). Ha! Nevermind.
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#28Was anyone else expecting a lawn-mower-based version of the Floppotron[0]?
(E.g. here's the Star Wars theme[1] played by the Floppotron, from the inventor's YouTube channel[2]).
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppotron
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Is it just me or is your comment completely off-topic? Is there some connection that I missed?
Is it just because there's "lawnmower" in some past offtopic comment quoting a video that you felt the need to try and derail conversation here?
That's 10 minutes I'm not going to get back.
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Is it just me or is your comment completely off-topic? Is there some connection that I missed? Is it just because there's "lawnmower" in some past offtopic comment quoting a video that you felt the need to try and derail conversation here? That's 10 minutes I'm not going to get back.
I'm not that commenter but I'm also prone to tangential dot connecting in situations like this. The only explicit connection in that comment to this post is the word lawnmower, yes. The implicit assumed connection is that we all know what Oracle is, and who Larry Ellison is, and the behavior of those two parties, and that further we may be amused by an anecdote about them containing the word lawnmower that the commenter remembered.
My understanding is that this type of tangential comment is in general tolerated, or even celebrated on HN in the spirit of being open to intellectual spontaneity, especially when the article is "light" in content and there's not much folks want to discuss about it. This is kind of a fluff-y marketing piece by Husqvarna so, might as well share general lawnmower related content of amusement.