I see all the comments on this thread show as being only a few hours old at most, but they were posted several days ago. Not sure what's happening.
"Grip Car"
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#42Out of curiosity, can this geometry be used for building electric cargo bikes/trikes. I'm always on the lookout for geometry that gives the same tilting gravitational forces as a bicycle but with the ability to be stable when stopped, and this looks promising.
Are you not just describing a skateboard?
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#43Sadly, this in sort of on brand… but it is symptomatic of the infantilisation of society , which is all good except for the fact that it strips them of their agency and makes them ideal tools for the select few. Oh, and infantile parents also create terrible, unhappy, disturbed children, so there’s that. Welcome to the prestige fidget spinner society. Sigh.
Hey man, maybe just disconnect from the Internet for a while. I'm not trying to be snarky at all.
Legitimately when I feel like society is headed towards the end, I go do volunteer work at a soup kitchen or women's shelter or nursing home or something. It helps me understand that the mess I see online isn't necessarily real.
Not trying to be judgemental, but your comment sounds like you might need to just unplug for a couple weeks. A toy car shouldn't make you question some sinister plot to destroy us. Seriously.
Society has problems, but it's still pretty cool in the world.
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#44This discussion feels very familiar. Didn't we have basically exactly the same set of comments earlier this week?
Ha! I had this exact same moment happen to me before[0]. Apparently:
>This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.
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#45This discussion feels very familiar. Didn't we have basically exactly the same set of comments earlier this week?
You're not going crazy :)
Hover over the "minutes ago" string on any of those comments & you'll see the original timestamp. I guess this is a repost, comments got merged, and the "minutes ago" strings are cached/pre-generated from the old thread?
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#46I see all the comments on this thread show as being only a few hours old at most, but they were posted several days ago. Not sure what's happening.
>This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
>When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case.
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#47This discussion feels very familiar. Didn't we have basically exactly the same set of comments earlier this week?
Ha! I had this exact same moment happen to me before[0]. Apparently: >This post has been rescued by the second chance pool at https://news.ycombinator.com/pool >When this happens, the relative timestamps (X minutes ago etc.) are reset to the time at which the post is selected for the front page. The absolute timestamps in the tooltips, like you have discovered, show the actual time in this case. [0] https://news.ycom…
Ah, thanks. I didn't realize the timestamps got updated too!
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#48Out of curiosity, can this geometry be used for building electric cargo bikes/trikes. I'm always on the lookout for geometry that gives the same tilting gravitational forces as a bicycle but with the ability to be stable when stopped, and this looks promising.
The geometry, with the front and rear axles turning on opposedly-angled tilted axes, looks identical to that of (the old four-wheeled kind of) roller skates. Swiveling the axles into a turn makes the whole thing tilt -- and conversely, tilting it swivels the axles so it turns.
And of course, come to think of it, skateboards.
Were those originally invented by nailing rollerskate trucks under a plank, or what? I'm fairly sure skateboards use bigger -- certainly wider -- trucks nowadays, but rollerskates definitely predate at lest the "modern" (i.e. post-1970s) skateboard boom... Just a WAG.
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#49Detractors don't see the need for this. But they already put out two other toys to be used as race tracks for these: https://teenage.engineering/products/tp-7/ https://teenage.engineering/products/po-80
Say what you want about that company and its products, but everything they make is absolutely, absolutely gorgeous. They nail aesthetics. Good Lord.
It's actually highly disgusting for three reasons.
0: Were you the company, with that amount of money, you WOULD be able to do the same.
1: Drowning child argument plus social preface of wanting to be "good" & "altruistic" (applies to most humans; amplified by companies).
2: The fact that we need order, EG this. Perhaps most disgusting. By need, I mean that a superintelligent robot can go to a garbage dump & turn chaos into greatest instrumentation of the world, while humans "need" things to be beautiful & neat due to physical limitations.
Knowledge of this leads to celebration of OTHER things, at least in my case.