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- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 4 hours ago:
Get a standalone voice dictation device list this $20 one:
- Walk in at 12:30 and set this while recording in front of the co-worker that starts their report at 12:30.
- Walk away and get changed into scrubs.
- Be ready for your shift at 12:35
- Sit down and press “play” and listen to the report
Everyone wins!
- Comment on 'Traditional unions struggle to understand tech sector' 19 hours ago:
For example, in Italy, the workforce is highly fragmented due to numerous small and medium-sized consultancy firms working for the same client. Each company might assign only a few workers to a project, scattering employees across different locations. Since workers serving the same client have different legal employers, it’s unclear whom to address with demands, making organizing particularly challenging. This dynamic doesn’t exist in the same way in the US.
Ouch. This absolutely exists in the US too. It is concerning that organizers that claim to be experts in tech organizations don’t have this awareness.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 day ago:
Vivaldi still supports V2 Manifest (including ublock Origin) until July, I believe. Brave too, I think.
- Comment on MapQuest Lets You Name The Gulf of Mexico Whatever You Want 3 days ago:
Gulfy McGulfface? Are we still doing that meme?
- Comment on Tesla's market cap sinks below $1 trillion as stock slumps more than 8% 3 days ago:
I saw that headline, but then I saw this one:
GSA to shut down federal EV chargers nationwide
Isn’t it going to be difficult to operate EV armored cars without chargers access to government chargers, as in, at government locations? Are these new armored EVs supposed to charge at a Tesla Supercharger in a Walmart parking lot?
- Comment on I don't have my shit together 5 days ago:
Do one thing that goes toward getting your shit together today. Thats it, just one. You will sleep soundly. Tomorrow, do one more thing.
- Comment on Why do people care about empathy so much when it’s not needed? 5 days ago:
There’s a goal to follow and we must all do everything in our power to achieve it, even if we must use others as tools to achieve it. In some instances, empathy does NOT matter
…and…
I’m a damn good leader who keeps everyone in check.
Those are things that someone that doesn’t know good leadership thinks good leadership looks like.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 1 week ago:
how the market isn’t down 75% - 90% by this point.
I keep asking myself this same question as I stare at my retirement savings in what seems like trump’s crosshairs. I only have a few possible answers, and none of them are enough to explain the continued high valuations.
The only things i know are: “the market is irrational” and “time in the market beats timing the market”. How long before the crash occurs? How much gains are lost if I pull it out too early? Days? Years? Even if I were to pull everything out now, when would I know its safe to put it back in? Would I accurately be able to determine the bottom of the market and magically put it all back in to reap the spoils? If the damage trump does to our country destroys the value of the dollar, then even having pulled everything to cash would mean it would be in (at that time) worthless US Dollars.
I’m simply not that smart to execute that successfully and I don’t pretend to be.
- Comment on "Reality" is often thought as a paragon of neutrality, being neither good nor bad. So why is a "reality check" ALWAYS felt negatively? 1 week ago:
So why is a “reality check” ALWAYS felt negatively?
When someone is being told they need a “reality check” its usually in response to that person proposing some overly ambitious or aspirational idea as being practical. So the “reality check” means that expectations need to be lowered to match reality.
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 1 week ago:
That said, as a Canadian, it’s always fun to look back at Blackberry’s history and remember a time when a home-grown gadget was the star of the tech world.
Others that fit description were ATI Techologies (now the AMD graphics card division that makes Radeon) and Nortel networks, a maker of corporate and commercial telecom gear (including hardware routers and firewalls).
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
why the fuck didn’t Congress make them laws
Why do you think that would make any difference? Are you not seeing the trump administration straight up ignoring laws that are in place blocking a lot of their current behavior?
- Comment on Where is the line between being yourself and trying to change? 1 week ago:
So, what should I do? What does it mean to be yourself, while trying to change?
Do you normally wear giant purple fluffy hats with large feathers protruding out of them? Probably not. If you knew that the girl you were interested in specifically liked seeing giant purple fluffy hats with large feathers protruding out of them, would you acquire such a hat at approach her claiming the hat is honestly part of your normal wardrobe? Your answer should also be no.
Being yourself means not try to act like someone you aren’t to try to appeal to someone else. The main reason is that its not really a reflection of who you are, and if the girl is successfully attracted to you when you something fake, its not you they are attracted to, its the fake thing. So thats the “be yourself” part.
Now the “while trying to change” part. You don’t have to have a laundry list of your faults ready to rattle off to the girl you’re talking to for the very first time. However, as the relationship progresses, you can start to be honest about some shortcomings you have of yourself, and your actions to try to improve. Something like “By this age I should be able to pay all my bills on time, but just this last month I paid the electric bill two days late even though I had the money already. Its something I’m working on. A year ago every single one of my bills was late and my water was almost shut off from non-payment. I’m happy with my progress, but I’m not at the finish line yet”.
A note for the “trying to change”: That part should never end in your life. You should constantly try to be better version of yourself (as you define it). It doesn’t mean you should require yourself to have massive successes in life year after year, that’s just not realistic. The path should always be toward “better” though. Again, “better” is however you define it (this is part of “being yourself”). While an obvious goal might be graduating from college, another equally valid goal could be to commit and follow through practicing the guitar for 30 minutes a week, or possibly even never leaving your socks on the floor. Life will come at you and knock you down sometimes, and that may affect the short term results of your “no left out socks” goal, but its important to stand up again and get back on track.
You’ll get older and what is important will change for you too. You get to constantly re-adjust what your goals are. This is the fun part of life! Your goals are your own. What you choose has a feedback loop of defining and reinforcing the “being yourself” part.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
What I hate is that way that people see videogames, like, if you play something old you are stuck in the past
I must not operate in those circles. I’ve never heard that before, but I’m also old and playing old games and fewer newer ones.
- Comment on I'm tired boss 1 week ago:
You’re right. I corrected my post.
- Comment on I'm tired boss 1 week ago:
“excel in my work” would be using a spreadsheet. “accel in my work” would be improving your skills/effort.
- Comment on How to repair unresponsive Mega Drive/Genesis d-pad? 1 week ago:
4 rubber buttons.
The coating of those buttons that contact the PCB isn’t really rubber.
I’ve cleaned it well in the hopes that sticky plastic was the cause, but it wasn’t.
Between cleaning and years of wear, the conductive coating is likely gone. To replace that conductive coating you might have success with at Electric Paint Pen. Probably carbon based for those pads. Something like this.
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 1 week ago:
I’m not defending the grammar. It is/was horrible. I was saying it was possible to understand what the headline was trying to communicate if you had knowledge of the industry.
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 1 week ago:
In defense of OP, OP didn’t add that by themselves. I saw the article when it was first linked and it had the apostrophe “s” in there just like OP’s headline. So the headline was corrected at the source after OP posted it here.
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 2 weeks ago:
The turbo does indeed increase exhaust pressure, and therefore extracts some work from the crank but it’s extracting significantly more from the high pressure of the expanded hot gas.
I’ll admit I’m at the edge of my knowledge here, but are you saying that if we were increasing the pressure in the cylinder from, say pure nitrogen (or another inert), instead of atmosphere (which contains oxygen), and we kept the same amount of fuel from natural aspiration, we’re still get the majority of the benefit of turbocharging even overcoming the parasitic portion of extra energy needed during the compression cycle and the exhaust cycle against the turbocharger impeller?
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t say it wasn’t cumbersome, but your first post said you didn’t understand what it was communicating. Do you now understand what the headline was communicating?
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 2 weeks ago:
Your explanation about where the energy comes from with turbochargers sounds wrong to me.
When exhaust gas passes through a turbocharger,
You’re skipping a crucial step here. The exhaust gases get pushed through input of the exhaust gas impeller on the turbocharger by the movement of a piston in the engine during the exhaust cycle. This “work” isn’t free. Its energy that comes from the other pistons on their combustion cycle. If there is more resistance on the exhaust coming out of the engine (which there is to drive the turbocharger impeller), that energy must be added (robbed) by the energy at the crankshaft that ultimately powers the wheels.
The extra boost of power we experience in an engine from using a turbocharger is that the turbocharger allows more oxygen to be put into the combustion chambers (and the engine puts more fuel in at the same time). The extra energy is from burning - - more fuel in the same period of time than without turbocharging. The fuel is the source of the energy, the turbocharger isn’t recovering any energy.
The article is covering technology is actually recovering energy turning heat (thermal energy) back into electricity (electrical energy).
- Comment on Arm's to launch first self-made processors, poaching employees from clients: Reports 2 weeks ago:
Understanding the headline requires prior knowledge of the industry and ARM specifically.
Even without reading the article, I know that ARM is one of the only CPU companies I know of that designs CPUs but doesn’t actually manufacture any of them for sale themselves. They license their CPU designs to other companies that use them in their own products which is why Apple can make their M silicon ARM CPUS for iOS devices and Qualcomm can their Snapdragon CPUs smartphone CPUs.
What this article headline is saying that ARM, for the first time, is manufacturing its own CPUs and not just licensing their tech to others to do so. Further, ARM is apparently poaching employees from their licensees that have ARM CPU knowledge to do it.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully the other two haven’t fallen as hard as Seagate has.
If you want keep thinking that don’t look too hard at Western Digital’s scandals and catastrophic drive failures of the past. In my early working days I made good money swapping out hundreds of failing Western Digital hard drives.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I agree with that. Part of the cost of a product is how much bother the consumer will have to put forth to get their desired use out of it. That’s part of what a brand is supposed to communicate to a buyer.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to have to pay a registrar, I would like to submit my domains to registers directly. There is a business layer of middle-men who do not need to exist.
You’re in luck! You can do this! You can become your own registrar. Cut out the middle man! You only have to pay $4000/year to talk directly to ICANN.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I agree with you that you’re not wrong to be upset at Seagate customer service. Its also perfectly within your rights to stop using Seagate. I just want to point out that if you continue to follow your policy of “one and done”, and the continued deteriorating customer service experience all companies are providing these days, you’ll soon be left with very few places to do business with.
There are only 6 or 7 airlines that fly out of my local international airport. I’ve had disappointing customer service experiences of one degree or another from every single one of them. If I was following a “one and done” approach, I’d have no one to fly commercially with.
Specifically with magnetic hard drive manufacturers, there are only 3 left in existence: Seagate, Western Digital, and Toshiba
If you’ve sworn off Seagate, that means all of your future purchase have to be accommodated by the remaining two. I hope that is enough.
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
What was Seagate’s excuse for not honoring the warranty when you filed a claim?
- Comment on Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms 2 weeks ago:
My logic was that in 2008 when I bought a brand new seagate hard drive, and it was dead before I plugged it in, they refused to honor their warrenty.
If it was a new drive bought from a retailer, why didn’t you return it to the retailer?
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 2 weeks ago:
