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quelsolaartoday at 3:11 PM8 repliesview on HN

Do not make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.


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bcantrilltoday at 3:43 PM

I do take a perverse kind of pride that this can now be said without any explicit reference -- and everyone knows you're talking about the lawnmower.

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bombcartoday at 3:25 PM

The lawnmower does not have feedback, it does not stop just because it encounters human flesh.

chrismorgantoday at 4:03 PM

I’m currently moving my personal VPS to Oracle Cloud (for a couple of reasons). The new machine’s host name is lawnmower. I have never been so decisive and satisfied in naming a computer.

ZeWakatoday at 6:18 PM

fresh spring grass erupting fast

the distant engine purr comes

ouch goes the lawnmower

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doublerabbittoday at 3:36 PM

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razingedentoday at 3:35 PM

lawnmower don’t give a fuuuuuck

keeganpoppentoday at 3:27 PM

oh my god… we thought anthropomorphizing “the computer”, was the problem, when it was anthropomorphizing the principals all along… (yes, i know that is the joke you made, but it was so incredibly appropos that i felt the need to comment to register my amusement / sadness / ¿)