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Weird quote of the week, from the article:

"As another note, dog hearing can cover the 20-35 KHz range, so the ultrasound engine may be able to detect static dogs by making them non-static, after which they will cause a Doppler shift."

So what's a static dog? Rust me wants a &'static dog, Java me wants a static final dog. And I also want a real dog named Doppler, or maybe just Shift?



It’s a goofy joke. The human detection uses ultrasonic audio outside of human auditory range. However, dogs can hear those frequencies, so the computer chirping is going to make a resting (static) dog jump or run away, making it non-static.


This is going to backfire.




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