vrek
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- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 3 days ago:
Fun… Well not really fun… Fact:
Giant tortoise didn’t get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.
- Comment on And my premature ejaculation is the shortcoming!? 3 days ago:
Well if that’s what you want it’s in the wrong hole
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 days ago:
That’s actually really cool…
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 days ago:
Yeah, my previous employer had shutdowns on the week of July 4th and Christmas so the production operators on contract(aka not paid for holidays) could volunteer to help in the counts.
I was curious if libraries have a similar system…
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 4 days ago:
One time I was sick. I was stuck in the bathroom rotating between sitting and kneeling. I called my team lead and said I couldn’t come in and I was taking a sick day.
He responded by claiming I was lying and was not really sick. I responded with a picture of the toilet bowl after several rounds(unflushed).
He responded with “get well soon”
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 days ago:
Out of curiosity do you have a routine to periodically (annually, quarterly, I don’t know) to re-arrange books put back in the wrong place?
- Comment on [PDF] HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation 4 days ago:
No, it says (or tries to say) the 1% pay the other 99% $9.4T and that just isn’t fair.
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 4 days ago:
Really? When I go to the bank they have a card machine there, insert card, enter pin, teller does order and if it’s over $1000 require a state issue id also…
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 4 days ago:
Except you also have to have your card/phone and know your pin. It’s actually one of the hardest places to steal from.
I have an uncle who used to do security for a major department store. This was over 40 years ago. They had an issue where entire racks of clothes were going missing. One time it was even two complete pallets, not even unpacked yet, they were received and then just missing. After the investigation they discovered a guy had clothes that looked similar to their uniform walked in confidently, released the locks on the wheels of the rack, rolled it into the back, another guy pulled up in a van, they put the whole rack in the back and drive off. He kinda looked like he belonged so no one questioned him.
The pallets, again same guy just walked into back room found a forklift, picked them up, loaded them into a rental truck and drove off.
Stealing is easy, it’s not getting greedy and being able to not get caught is the issue.
- Comment on Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank 4 days ago:
I agree with the trillionaire and billionaire comments, but I don’t understand why taking your money makes you feel like you’re stealing?
It’s like making a batch of cookies, putting them in a tin, later going back and taking some cookies out of the tin to eat.
- Comment on now kith 5 days ago:
You end up with a kid?
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 1 week ago:
I’m really trying to make a udp joke but you may not get it
- Comment on Ever go back to your old job just to visit friends and see THIS? 1 week ago:
I always thought about what it would be like to work at the unemployment office… Get fired… Next day you have to go back and be like “good morning Sheila, can I get a copy of form 2431-b please?”
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 1 week ago:
Damn accountants and health and safety destroying all our fun…
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 1 week ago:
Even more fun… Ask random unrelated questions until they break…
What was the horsepower of a 1971 horsepower?
Where did the “curiosity killed the cat” come from?
What is the square root of 144?
How many moons does the earth have? (this is fun because it’s anywhere from 0 to 1 to 2 to many depending on the definition of moon of which there is no formal definition)
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 1 week ago:
How to admit you are from the Midwest without directly admitting it…😉
- Comment on I got a sneak peek at the Epstein Ballroom before it opens!! 1 week ago:
I hate creating a association between these people but…there is a xkcd for everything… xkcd.com/150
- Comment on AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times 1 week ago:
Some of it was probably due to being in a low volume high profit market. We had close to a 10x cost to profit ratio, and the profit per unit was 10s of thousands. Although alot of that went into R&D and quality etc.
There are tons of ways to cut cost often. Another example is one time I bought a device to detect air/gas leaks. It was 1000 dollars. I walked through our production measured the leaks, fixed them(most were push on connectors so pull off, cut tip, reinsert, typically leak was done), took about an hour. Per the sensors software saved about 175k. Also prevented my company from having to buy a new compressor for about 750k as our current one was close to the limit of what it could support.
- Comment on Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers 1 week ago:
I was thinking more good omens
- Comment on Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. 1 week ago:
My favorite story similar to this was Estonia was the first country to use the internet to allow people to vote. To ensure people of the “security” they set up a Webcam pointed at the server accessible 24/7 on their web server.
This wouldn’t do anything as any one trying to modify the results would like be doing it remotely over the internet but that’s fine security theater is everywhere and atleast somewhat effective.
If you logged on and looked at the Webcam behind the server a whiteboard on the wall. Someone wrote the wifi password on the whiteboard…
- Comment on Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers 1 week ago:
Dr. Crowley reminds me of a certain Terry prachet book…
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 week ago:
True, maybe didn’t create the concept but definitely expanded it
- Comment on Stupid sexy raft 1 week ago:
Fun fact a lot of people, including myself, believe the invention of reality TV was actually the writer strike in early 2000s. Basically TV writers went to the producers and said “you make all these millions and only pay us this small amount when we are the reason people watch these shows”. The producers basically said “fuck you we will make TV shows without writers”
That created reality TV in America and panel shows in the UK.
- Comment on AI is not killing jobs, US study finds - Financial Times 1 week ago:
I used to be on the gross margin improvement team. Basically our job was to implement projects which reduced cost.
I don’t think a single person’s job was eliminated because of my work. I remember creating about 35 jobs. For example I had a project where I identified about $900k in potential savings per year. We had to spend $50k one time and hire an employee for about $60k per year but still saved about $900k.
Employees are cheap(even expensive ones). Simple things like hire an employee to check something at step 3 so you are not paying people to do steps 4-20 will easily pay for itself if that issue at step 3 happens enough. Like for example that’s the whole point of unit testing software. Pay someone to write tests all day everyday even at an high salary, say $150k reduces costs of tech support, reduces cost of later testing, improves value of product, increases sales etc. If you want to be negative this is value stolen from the worker. But if an employee doesn’t make you a profit, why are they a employee? Like if you pay $70k for an employee who causes $50k in revenue… Fire them and make yourself a 20k raise. Now if you pay someone $70k and they make you $700k that’s immoral…
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
Yeah my mother forced him to contact her when she was pregnant with my sister. My mother felt my grandmother deserved to know she was going to be a grandmother.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
Funny story, there were problems with his paycheck in the military and would get checks of like 10 cents. His mother got diagnosed with leukemia and he made a deal to forgive all the unpaid wages to get out a year early to care for her. He got out, came home, found out his mother had his horse…“fixed”. He didn’t talk to her again for 10 years.
She ended up living longer than he did.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
I will say he died in '99 and this occurred in the early seventies so I have no evidence. It was just what I was told and I know was definitely in the military in Vietnam so…
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 1 week ago:
My dad was almost court marshelled over that. He was in Vietnam, active war time, his lieutenant thought it was a good idea to wake him by shaking him and yelling. His first reaction was to wake up swinging and punched his liutenent. They tried to charge him with hitting a superior officer but was let off as technically under military law you are not responsible for the first 5 seconds of being awake.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines upheaval: Developer and publisher announce “mutual” breakup 2 weeks ago:
Wait… Who plays these games on console? I feel they need the mouse to have any sort ability to control.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
They did it with ps3 also although in research to make sure I was no mis-remembering I found out I was wrong. It was 33rd fastest super computer not #1.