Poayjay
@Poayjay@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why is the community for Honkai Star Rail and Genshin Impact like this? 2 months ago:
Not to disagree with anything you’re saying, but I hate the phrase “borderline pedophillia.” Either they’re sexualizing children or not. It’s like saying “non-consensual sex.” There’s no such thing. It’s rape or consensual sex.
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
As much as everyone loves to shit on Facebook, it was an incredible service. When I was in the military I was able to keep up with my old friends and their lives. When I got out I was able to simply keep in touch with my old military buddies. Now it’s just dead. I’m genuinely sad that this has happened :(
- Comment on Chamber of Commerce sues FTC in Texas, asks court to block ban on noncompetes 6 months ago:
Judge shopping in Texas. Followed by an outrageously unconstitutional ruling. Then a 2 year wait for the Supreme Court to look at it. Sigh
- Comment on Lemmy is growing and they are coming 7 months ago:
What about ThePicardManeuver?!
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook's total pay drops to $63 million for 2023. 10 months ago:
If you figure each engineer costs apple $250,000 a year, that’s the equivalent of 250 engineers. Could you imagine what apple could accomplish with 5 extra engineering departments? In what world is this one guy worth that much?
- Comment on With the creation and use of ChatGPT and Bard, I bet ELI5 community and subreddit have had less posts, because people can just ask them instead. 10 months ago:
I am a mechanical engineer. I was able to get special permission from my IT department to use LLMs as part of my workflow as a genie pig for the department. It is completely useless.
One the most valuable skill an engineer can have is being able to communicate technical information effectively to different audiences. GPT is on overly polite meat grinder, spitting out half chewed technical slop.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 10 months ago:
Don’t worry office creeps who make unwanted advances towards coworkers, LinkedIn has your back. A new harassment platform for a new age.
- Comment on GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’ 10 months ago:
But we do though. Maybe not exactly test every possible scenario. Typically when we make a design decision we plan for the worst theoretical condition the part will be exposed to. Then we plan for 5-10 times that. Think about the cost and effort added to everything with that level scrutiny. We design for fringe cases. That’s the point I’m trying to make. It’s insane to me that because it’s software, companies get a free pass on that level of scrutiny. As software takes over more car functions that becomes more concerning. It’s bullshit that I’m part of their beta test.
- Comment on GM stops selling the Chevy Blazer EV to deal with ‘software quality issues’ 10 months ago:
I understand this but still think it’s bullshit. A car isn’t like some shitty little app. They cost tens of thousands of dollars, weigh tons, move at insane speeds inches away from one another, and are expected to last decades with daily use and minimal maintenance. I’m a mechanical engineer in product development. Pushing broken shit to production will destroy a company. Just because software updates are easier and cheaper than mechanical recalls shouldn’t excuse releasing broken shit out into the world.
- Comment on GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 11 months ago:
The thing that kills me about this sort of thing is the complete lack of accountability. Working class people at assembly plants, dealers, suppliers will all feel the sting from the drop in sales. There’s some dipshit MBA at GM who made and pushed this decision. Any rational person could see that GM is not is a position to push their own infotainment system. Car play and android auto are beloved. Not having one or both is a deal breaker for new car purchasers. We will never know who this person is. Making such an outrageously bad business decision should result thing this person being blackballed from any kind of business role. But that will never happen.
- Comment on What happens now? 11 months ago:
Start getting your games repo’d
- Comment on EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming 11 months ago:
What? There was no polio vaccine patent. The inventor literally did exactly what I suggested. He made his work freely available so that it could not be patented. Volvo made a business decision to make their patent freely usable and we are still talking about it. Their brand has been permanently associated with safety because of it.
- Comment on EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming 11 months ago:
Once again, this is not true. They do what is called a prior art search as part of issuing a patent. They look worldwide for anything that could be considered your invention before your filing date before issuing a patent. Even after a patent is issued, if prior art is presented to the patent office they can rescind the patent. It’s a form and like $100. You don’t need a lawyer to bring prior art to the patent office’s attention. The legal battle will be between the patent office and the patent troll if they are trying to contest the prior art.
- Comment on EA opens up more patents for increasing Accessibility in gaming 11 months ago:
That’s literally not a thing. Once something is publicly disclosed it can’t be patented (unless it is by the discloser during the one year grace period). You can take someone else’s invention and patent it. If someone does you can invalidate their patent without even a lawyer. If you want something you invent to be free for everyone the best thing you can do is get it out into the world and not patent it.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Every dealership in my area has their markup at least the amount of the tax credit. More than a few have exactly the tax credit. Tax credits are supposed to help steer the market, they’re not a handout to pointless middleman.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's open world is inspired by The Witcher 3 and Horizon 1 year ago:
It was an open world with only one path through it
- Comment on Who didn't play with one? 1 year ago:
They only liked the one that was covered in sick kid germs.
- Comment on We look for things 1 year ago:
It makes me very pleased to see factorio content on a Star Trek shitposting page. I’ll make my next engineer yellow and call him Le Forge
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 1 year ago:
A patch is hard enough to hide without using a paint with a different finish. Yeah, it probably would have been fine. I’d probably be the only person to ever notice. It’s more the principal of them selling bulk paint at the end of its product life cycle with no legacy support. The guy at the counter offered to try and match it then floated just painting the entire room if I wasn’t ok with that. It just rubbed me the wrong way.
- Comment on Paint brand preferences? 1 year ago:
My new construction home was covered with super low quality Sherman Williams paint. Less than two years later I go to get a can to fix a patch. They discontinued my paint. Great. I had to repaint the whole room. I don’t think I’ll ever let that go.
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 1 year ago:
HIPAA basically only covers healthcare providers and workers. I ran into this when the VA mailed my entire medical history to some random person. Since it wasn’t the healthcare branch of the VA, I had exactly zero recourse.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s not. It started as a subreddit. There was a time when Reddit worshipped Musk. The investor-bros and technology pages would just spam articles all over Reddit about him. Anything critical about him would be buried. That’s when r/enoughmuskspam started. It was a counter community to all the musk bullshit. Then public opinion on musk changed. The name is a carry-over from Reddit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
All jokes aside, this is my favorite ST moment. I remember the first time I saw it and it resonated with me deeply. When data came to terms with the hackers and terrible Xfinity internet, I knew that I could too.