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Trabant posted:You load 16 blocks I dunno, but you want to get this guy to sing it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI9KBLb_8ro
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UCS Hellmaker posted:Spacex is built on the backs of real rocket engineers and people that know how to work on them and deal with the government regulations. It's also largely one time use limited run parts not mass produced cars. It's two widely different beasts compared to Tesla and largely not due to musk but instead the head engineer who gasp is a rocket scientist. Elon thinks he knows things about cars, that's why he's bike shedding Tesla into ruin - that's where he spends his 120 hour weeks. He know he isn't an actual rocket scientist, so he just hires smart people to actually do the stuff SpaceX does. Case in point, SpaceX routinely misses dates he announces, but they deliver crazy poo poo out of a science fiction movie (tail-landing rockets). For Tesla he produces production estimates that are so wrong the SEC is involved and produces only some of the promised produced; what product is produced might trap you in a lithium-fueled inferno. If he was spending 120 hour weeks, month after month, at SpaceX they'd have dropped a booster on a city by now.
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luxury handset posted:yeah, the necessary material properties of solar panels and road beds are highly divergent and i feel in my bones that the big idea behind solar roads is "we already have all of this black stuff all over the place... solar panels are black... what if the roads could convert the thermal/solar energy they absorb into electricity?" as if noticing two things have a similar property means they can be linked based on that property Sounds like a thermoelectric generator plus regular, gets hot in the sun, asphalt is the way to go. It'd be less efficient per unit area than a traditional solar panel, but cheaper and more reliable.
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Platystemon posted:A subscription service would appeal to me if it sent me ingredients and recipes I wouldn’t have sought out on my own, something weird. "Here's some turmeric, five spice, and some ginger. We're making curries this month !"
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Story based climate adventures are without equals 😉 Okay, name two good ones. Preferably on Steam
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Extradition. Note that they'll be praying that an NZ court will block the extradition, not that NZ doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US.
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Platystemon posted:The only thing I see wrong with the Doritos thing is that it’s an opportunity to take the interview to a more interesting subject and they didn’t take it. Well, that's huge. My best resume/interview advice is to write your resume to set up opportunities about how (plausibly) awesome you were when you did $THING. Telling good stories in interviews is crucial on getting the jobs you want. Story time gives you control of the discussion and offers a chance to make yourself look good while giving the interviewer(s) a picture of what you're like as an employee/teammate. e. Zachack posted:....but if you respond to "why do you want this job" with "to get paid so I can veg out" then you probably should either be super qualified or applying for a low-skill job. Or obviously joking. If you've built the kind of camaraderie with the interviewer that you can tell that kind of joke, then go ahead, it'll land. And if it doesn't, either way both parties have learned something about the potential culture fit. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 08:00 on May 24, 2020 |
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enki42 posted:"food wiki" Did someone say "food wiki" ? http://goonswithspoons.com/Welcome_to_Goons_With_Spoons
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Sodomy Hussein posted:- In the new forced working from home model in tech, I've talked to multiple people who realize how little it is they're actually responsible to do. This certainly doesn't hold true across everything, but if you've only got 2-4 hours of actual work to do a day you'll become very cognizant of that via drastically reduced meetings, no time spent at the cafeteria, and so on. I'm in a senior technical role. I work a few tickets but mainly do project work. Meetings go 2-3 hours most days, usually useful information sharing or "we're planning the project that will consume the next two years of your life, you should be there" stuff. I also take escalations from the lab support team, so I'm basically on-call 8-5. I don't get naps. Sometimes I have to ignore chat just to cook lunch. I'm going to quote our CEO from yesterday's executive committee call. "That's not working from home, that's living at work." This is more stressful during the workday, but I am more productive. And I'm only on-campus once or twice a week so that cuts out a lot of Covid concerns and saves me 6-8 hours a week on the commute. On the whole, I'm busier and getting more done. I can cope, I'll keep it up when "normal" resumes, whatever that looks like.
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nonathlon posted:Right on. I had a pre-iPod MP3 player and the change was night and day. While techbros shrieked that it didn't run ogg vorbus and couldn't be loaded with their own special directory structure, the vast majority of people found the hardware and software combination easy and did what they wanted. Apple excels at that, making things just work. Slashdot posted:No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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KozmoNaut posted:How then do you propose that apartment dwellers without assigned parking charge their electric cars? We've got two charging stations per 12-story tower now. You charge up when one of them is available and then lol, try and find parking an hour after you (and everyone else) get home from work.
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PopZeus posted:feeling a little crazy - was there a video that was very close-up of Elizabeth Holmes where she is creepily talking right into camera? google is failing me, or maybe i'm thinking of another tech person making a similar video? I'm very late, but I made this as soon as I could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJUA_12FNdQ
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:I don't know anyone that saw avatar in 3d I saw it too. The implementation was so good I was brushing things away from my face in the jungle scenes. Later, some moron decided to release Dredd in 3D only. It tanked. That not only killed blockbuster 3D as a thing, it cost us the sequels we might have gotten if Dredd had earned out. Even in 2D it's a gorgeous film and it's highly recommended as a top-notch SF action movie.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:YouTube premium is worth every penny. I put my family on my plan and they were so happy when their ads went away. I'm an Apple TV user and too lazy to set up a Pi-Hole, Premium is the only thing making YouTube watchable.
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Pinky Artichoke posted:What are you using for flight sim? I have a Quest 2 at my disposal but I feel like whenever I look into apps I just run up against people who are convinced nothing on earth could ever be half as good as Microsoft Flight Simulator. IL-2 Sturmovik and DCS both do VR. The one is WW2 and the other is WW2 and modern. IL-2's Stalingrad pack is cheap on Steam and cheaper on Steam sales. DCS has a demo with a recon (unarmed) P-51 and the SU-25 which is in the news a lot these days. They're both pretty good for VR. Thing is, MSFS2020 actually is really good. Being able to drop a pin anywhere on Earth and air spawn there is amazing, there's lots of planes, and they actually built things to do into the sim.
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Tuxedo Gin posted:7% funding difference (about $1000, they say,per student) is significant. In a school of 500 students that is half a million dollars. That is the salary for 5~8 teachers. That could have a huge impact on student-teacher ratios. It's also going to put huge pressure on maintenance budgets. Rooms don't get cleaned as often, burned out lightbulbs aren't replaced promptly, the place never gets new paint, and that's just the little stuff. The poor students are learning in squalor, the rich students get brightly lit, clean, and attractive classrooms. If you're trying to keep at-risk students in the educational system, soft factors like that make a real difference in outcomes.
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Firing a bunch of people the day before they were due equity grants is a lawsuit waiting to be filed. Unlike one gently caress you from management I was subject to. The first company I worked full time for was hosed up in a few ways, but it had open book management and good bonuses based on EBITDA. Then one year, the incoming IT Manager and my first rear end in a top hat boss finalized the Tech Plan. It was a major overhaul of every system we had and would be very expensive. But good news ! We'd had a great year and bonuses were going to be huge ! Then management put the Tech Plan on the books as an expense and our bonuses were wiped out. By some amazing coincidence this paid for the Tech Plan. I was personally out of pocket $11,000 as a result. In January 1998 dollars. It will come as no surprise that the commitment to open book management quietly ended in December 1997. It will also come as no surprise that they ended up suing their CRM vendor chosen under the Tech Plan. Our (the IT department) preferred vendor (Siebel) dropped out after one demand for a discount too many. The other party was only promising maybe 65% of our wish list but would try for the peanuts we were willing to pay. Naturally, they got clowned on in the breach of contract lawsuit and paid attorney's fees. At one point in 1997 the owner/CEO told me he'd never pay me more than $27k a year. My next job was double that, and my current job is 4x that before bonus and equity, let alone benefits. gently caress you Barry, I hope you cried when your business finally failed.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:80% too low. Seriously. If a job calls you back after a stupid layoff, tell them to make it rain.
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Motronic posted:Google and others tried this already (the AR thing for business/training particularly with google glasses) and it's not gone well. Which sucks for them because we're in the market for AR devices for training and letting workers working on validated system access SOPs while doing the work. We have multiple trials going on and
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Perestroika posted:you quickly slap together a barely working prototype to see if you're on the right track, and then iterate on that based on feedback. Done right it's not "barely working" but "working just enough". A big part of (healthy) Agile is the concept of the Minimum Viable Product. At the start you pick out the most essential User Stories and get that into production. Say you've been tasked with developing an in-house employee database. The MVP would have all the fields you'll want in the database, the most essential reports a button click away, but if anyone wants a report that won't get used often or you can live without, they get to write some SQL. Once you have the MVP going, you work on the project backlog and implement new features in each sprint. If you did a thorough job of creating User Stories, you'll have fields in the database that won't get used for months or even years after the MVP launches, but they're part of the database from day one, just waiting to be used.
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Vegetable posted:The yahoo market share is just Japan where it’s still a thing, I’m guessing And me, I have a Yahoo account that I use to sign up for stuff with. It gets surprisingly little spam, but a surprising amount of stuff from addresses I do interact with gets flagged as spam.
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Cheesus posted:Thanks for reminding me that at some point I should temper my expectations with Terminal. WIn10 has actual ssh/ssh-keygen installed by default. by which I mean to say, gently caress PuTTY.
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Celexi posted:Amazon nowadays unless it's a $50< item your refund will take months normally lol Nahh, it takes AMEX longer to process the refund than it takes to convince Amazon to issue it. I've done it for quality issues and returned the items, and they take me at my word when I say something never showed up.
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My system for minimizing spam is to have two email addresses. One I use to sign up for stuff online, and the other is the one I give to people; job searches, friends, and so on. The second account has one message in its spam folder, and that's from the 21st.
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Most of my mentions in our Research group's Jira are requests for status updates on SNOW tickets. I intend to have people afraid to do that by February at the latest as my NY resolution.
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That's such a huge GDPR violation that it actually is funny. Fun fact: if you put it all in the ML training pool, you'd have to delete it all if even one person asks to have their data deleted. Or eat a fine of 4% or your annual turnover. I love working for a Swiss-based company. Management actually gives a drat about this, and not just because of the fine.
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Tayter Swift posted:The AI Seinfeld channel just had a sketch where a new Chinese restaurant opened and they were worried about the chef dropping chicken liver and feet in the soup. Is all AI doomed to racist tropes? That's not racist, that's a completely plausible recipe and could be totally delicious. Try it, might be good.
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Baronash posted:I didn’t even realize this was possible. Making a mental note to only use my own wall warts from now on. Ever seen a teardown of a copycat Apple charger? Shockingly bad construction with far, far fewer components than the real thing. An obvious fire hazard waiting to happen.
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Mega Comrade posted:So Google put together an advert for bard, but didn't think to fact check what it says in the advert before putting it out. I think this is well above the level where the board of directors just has your legs broken.
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shoeberto posted:My company calls it "people ops" which I kinda like as an alternative. Most HR that I've experienced otherwise has been pretty dehumanizing. We do "People and Culture" and also have a Chief Diversity Officer. She rocks and gets us a great speaker every month. Last month we had Vanessa Williams talking about being an angel investor for POC. Idris Elba spoke about his production house that focuses on minority creatives; our CEO broke the ice by asking the James Bond question. We also had Major General Charles Bolden, a USMC aviator during Vietnam, an astronaut, and the first black head of NASA. We try.
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Main Paineframe posted:You probably could have just searched StackOverflow directly and gotten those same results, since that's where ChatGPT is pulling them from anyway - but with the extra advantage that you'd been able to see the votes and comments so you'd know if everyone's saying "this solution is poo poo that doesn't work" or "this solution is for an old incompatible version from eight years ago". That's why I'm sticking to doing my own searches for a good long time. The context of the answer, and its discussion, is often at least as useful as the lines of code or whatever.
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Freakazoid_ posted:It didn't help that it took the industry a number of years before they adopted good password practices. Many didn't allow you to use symbols or capital letters. Some websites had a character limit of like 8. My work used to have an 8-character requirement. Exactly eight. That was the maximum for HP Unix and the minimum for Active Directory. For the record, we were right to retire HP UX, but I hate AD so very, very much.
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Former astronaut Scott Kelley did a set of NFTs to support Ukraine. https://www.space.com/astronaut-scott-kelly-nft-space-artwork-ukraine $500k worth of charitable donations right there.
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BiggerBoat posted:I did not know that. I kept an iPhone 4s for almost 6 years. By the time it had its fateful encounter with a glass of water at 2am it was getting a little slow on most modern web pages, but I really miss the Leica-inspired form factor. I miss having the eyesight to use a phone that small even more.
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This isn't just on the Quest, but here's a VR app my employers are putting a lot into. We have a compute cluster running as the back end for molecular analysis. The collaborative tools are fantastic. This is the VR killer app for us. Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-V5EQ-FBMc Longer video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG2UIJ4KrAw For non-work stuff, flight sims are the VR killer app for me.
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Electric Phantasm posted:Let's get Bard to talk about weapon durability Be sure to specify which edition you're playing.
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Neo Rasa posted:That reminds me of this short film we watched in school, first time I've thought of it in forever. The only things I remembered were that she came in a stylized coffin like the robeasts in Voltron and the uh interestingly positioned beverage dispensing scene at 20m10s. Or in musical form, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLv4t7HWJ28
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starkebn posted:you can just turn it off, the options page shouldn't scare you Oh hey, Ninite has RealVNC. We use that at work, the Viewer app is extremely high performance compared to the open source VNC clients I've used, they did a bang-up job with the code..
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OctaMurk posted:Same, 30 and I don't think I've ever encountered that That's just people not wanting to deal with voice communications at all, which I support. I do check voicemail, but only to read the transcript.
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PhazonLink posted:(also I think one of the best jokes was the animal ball test with having to orient a tortoise right side up which is just has to be on purpose) That's a deep cut if it was deliberate.
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