SlopppyEngineer
@SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Stunning Fusion Rocket Could Cut Interplanetary Travel in Half—and We'll Try It in Just 2 Years 3 days ago:
Yeah, this is a looong way off from a 1G burn all the way.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 days ago:
Almost two years of non stop video.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 5 days ago:
Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That’s their business.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 5 days ago:
Fast, cheap, good. They’re going for 1 out of 3.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Seems like they wanted the web and app version of outlook to work identically. Some things don’t work on the web though, so they decided to cut features on the app until they were the same as web. It’s just such a corporate move.
- Comment on Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been the hottest on record [Day 105] 1 week ago:
The very classic four stage program.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
Bernard Woolley: What’s that?
Sir Richard Wharton: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it.
Sir Richard Wharton: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.
Sir Humphrey Appleby: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
I can’t help but think “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” with this news
- Comment on this bad boy can fit..... 1 week ago:
Rapid unscheduled disassembly, now available on cars.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 week ago:
“Sorry but I only have video about the construction process. All the cameras I’ve set up got fried when I’ve set this thing off, including the memory cards. It even messed up the magnetic tape in the old school relic we had as a backup. With that out of the way, let’s get into the construction. This episode is sponsored by …”
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 week ago:
For cars, you’re gonna need something a bit bigger. Large coil, capacitor bank to generate a static field and some high explosives to disrupt that field to give the pulse. It fries the wires in a car. Single use only.
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 2 weeks ago:
The finance bros tried that one too. Mortgage-backed security was the magic word. Cut up all the little mortgages, repackage them, and sell for profit. Then it all crashed down in 2008.
- Comment on Global VR headset shipments fell 12% YoY in 2024, with Meta's market share rising to 84%; Vision Pro shipments fell 43% QoQ in Q4, but its enterprise sales grew. 2 weeks ago:
but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty
Always has been. I went to demonstrations of this tech in the nineties when I was in college. It was going to be the next big thing. That never happened. It seems to come back every few years and then fade out again.
- Comment on Good morning. What's wrong honey? 2 weeks ago:
And the other one:
“English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary”
- Comment on Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank 2 weeks ago:
15 MW power needed, while a single reactor gives 500 to 1000 MW. The usual nuclear plant and power lines seem more likely.
- Comment on Pineapple was never the problem 2 weeks ago:
There are also people putting grapes on pizza. Any feeling about that?
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 3 weeks ago:
And if the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 3 weeks ago:
I would, but some idiot decided that we need time zones issues of actual sun time. Then another idiot thought it was a good idea to take on the time from another time zone for cooperation and business. Then the biggest idiot of all figured daylight saving time was the best thing ever. So now we’re two hours or of sync with the sun and now everyone is constantly jet lagged except for some early risers.
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 3 weeks ago:
How “Les Misérables” of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.
- Comment on Poor guy 3 weeks ago:
That’s their core propaganda mechanic. Some bit of offensive trivia is found and shared by Elon. He’ll tweet it. Trump will share it. It’s on the evening show on fox they evening and in newspapers by morning. Repeat this the next day.
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 4 weeks ago:
It reads like the cyberpunk 2077 source material of the first corporate war, but with different names.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 4 weeks ago:
All hail the Unimog!
- Comment on If you want to learn how to work from home make sure you learn from an expert 4 weeks ago:
That’s only around my work space. I don’t come near the work spot in my personal time and during my work time I don’t have time to clean it up.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 4 weeks ago:
John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.
And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position
- Comment on The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office 5 weeks ago:
It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There’ll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.
- Comment on The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office 5 weeks ago:
Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 5 weeks ago:
And the things that are perfectly okay today might be the things you want to hide tomorrow. Abortions and pregnancies, thoughts about labor rights out climate, sexual orientation, …
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 weeks ago:
And preferably a bit harder to use to keep the script kiddies out.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 5 weeks ago:
If you do the calculation, the discount you get in the end is often just 1%. I don’t really care about that 1%. You can get more, but the time you have to invest to get a better deal makes less money than just work an extra hour.
And some of those loyalty programs have expiring points, that happen to expire just before you get to the tier when things get interesting. And when you do save up to the food stuff you find out the app is a lot better at collecting loyalty points and doesn’t work so great at exchanging them.
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 5 weeks ago:
It’s the country where the prime minister leaked the meeting ID of the unsecured cabinet meeting.. They really don’t get security.
