It’s usually for the kid’s safety. Little kids especially run off sometimes; and while it’d be nice to be able to be a continuously attentive parent, sometimes you need to get shit done out and about while they’re with you. Sometimes they’re fine with just being carried or sitting in a shopping cart, but if not, a leash & harness (usually just integrated into a backpack) lets them wander safely while you take care of what you’re there to do.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a kid older than 4 or so in one.

Nice, thanks!

It sounds utopian…

It’s not that we don’t want robots doing it - honestly that’d be pretty cool. It’s that we want to be sure the people that are being replaced are being taken care of.

There will always be some jobs. That’s no guarantee that there will be enough jobs for everyone to live modest lives on.

Why is that the comparison, though? Sears developed mail-order catalogues in the 1800s. That’s what Amazon replaced.

…okay, I really want to know the story behind that picture!

Reading through the article, it seems like one scenario is that a vehicle stopped at an intersection might be about to pull out, endangering another vehicle about to cross? It seems like the thinking is, if you notice a front/side brake light stops being lit as you approach the intersection, it might indicate they’re about to accelerate - be cautious!

I’m not fully convinced either, it seems like a lot of the benefit they’re projecting is based on analysis of historical collisions, rather than any kind of experimental results. It sounds like the study is to justify expanding research to that sort of simulated experimentation, though - I’m curious what that kind of testing would find.

Sounds like it can help oncoming traffic as well as traffic to either side of the vehicle

Pretty confident that’s the intention of that name

I think it was mostly the fact that if he did go at that point, the other warehouse guys would decide he had indeed sat down to pee, regardless of what actually happened.

Used to do IT for a small meat packing plant; would shoot the shit with the warehouse guys whenever they came in for a break. Bunch of 20-something guys slinging 20-60 pound boxes of meat all day.

Power went out one time, and we’re all sitting around waiting to see if the power is going to come back quickly enough that we don’t need to start unloading all the inventory; and one of them expressed a need to use the facilities. I told him the bathroom was right there; it didn’t need power to flush.

There were no windows, and he didn’t want to end up peeing all over the floor.

I pointed out that if he sat down, he wouldn’t need to aim.

“I’m not gonna sit to pee!”

“Dude, it’s not like it’s gonna fall off.”

“It might!”

I’ve lost track of the number of Report Builder files I’ve had to update via Notepad++ - the intended editor has so many weird kinks and corner cases it’s often easier to just edit the file directly!

Why do they even make them with the clips? If someone trips on a cable or something, and there’s no clip, it’s a mild inconvenience to plug it back in. If it’s clipped, you can bring the whole computer crashing down!

My last few laptops haven’t had one either. And I’ve been seeing fewer options for DVD players when I build a new PC, I suspect they’re going absent there as well.

Given the state of the US justice system, that’s not much of a gotcha.

For example, my grandad was a killer. Fought Nazis in WW2.

Ukrainians have generally expressed a preference for the nation to be called Ukraine, rather than the Ukraine.

Might consider how you’re storing it, too - I used to keep my phone upside-down in my pocket (so the charging port was pointing up), because that angled it so it would be upright when I pulled it out. That also let all the gunk fall in and stay in - seems like it takes a lot longer before this happens now that I pocket it with the port facing down!

“The AirCar fulfills a lifelong dream to bring the freedom of flight into the hands of everyday people.”

The price? Between $800,000 and $1 million, depending on specs.