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Without unnecessary brand name dropping, what current technology blows you away? (self.casualconversation)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by FourPacketsOfPeanuts to c/[email protected]

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I was listening to the New Year's Day concert by the Vienna philharmonic and wondered who one of the composers was so used a popular song recognition app. (I expected it would make some fuzzy match on the piece and give me the name + composer). To my amazement it did give the name and composer but as played by the Vienna philharmonic in 2005 in the same location. The orchestra does not have the same members as 19 years ago, nor was it the same conductor, so it seemed the piece was matched on the acoustics of the Musikverein where they were playing, which I found astonishing.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The evolution and utility of drones.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't think they meant "blows you away" as in "dropping a grenade on Russian infantry."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

blows them away tho

[–] LovableSidekick 1 points 3 days ago

works for me tho

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was unfortunate enough (or fortunate depending on your point of view) to see a video of Russian soldiers having a grenade go off right next to them. I used to think some of the effects at the start of Saving Private Ryan were a bit janky and obviously prop based. But apparently, no, that's exactly what a person being blown up by a grenade looks like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Why are they called drones instead of remote-controlled whatever? What's the difference between a drone plane and the remote-controlled planes flown by hobbyists at the park?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

The name being applied to aircraft supposedly comes from the engine noise from unpiloted target drones that used a jet engine. The term originally comes from the insect world, I bee-lieve.