[HN Gopher] I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
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I built four eight-foot-long handwriting robots
Author : slyall
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-09-18 09:42 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (twitter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
| pugworthy wrote:
| I hope nobody legitimately sends me mail with a carefully
| handwritten address, because as soon as I see nice handwriting in
| the address, it goes in the junk mail bin.
| teddyh wrote:
| These machines were built solely to send junk mail, and this is
| what they were used for. So you would be correct in your
| judgment.
| ryanwhitney wrote:
| Surprised to see overwhelmingly positive comments on this.
|
| It's a cool project, yes. But getting even poorly faked versions
| of this with a "handwriting" font is super annoying.
|
| The purpose of this is to deceive the recipient, plain and
| simple.
| anonu wrote:
| Why is this deception?
| Uhhrrr wrote:
| Because the only reason to do it is to fool the recipient
| into thinking a human wrote the letter. It's certainly not
| more readable or efficient than laser-printing Helvetica.
| notamy wrote:
| Previously discussed here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28587458
| _hilro wrote:
| Given that OP link is
| https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1438888219471491074 and
| the previously submitted link from yesterday(396 points, 156
| comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28587458) is
| https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis/status/1438888219471491074, how
| did this end up being reposted so soon?
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