Wogi
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- Comment on SEIS!? 2 months ago:
I umm… I don’t think I wanna go to the library anymore
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
When it’s actual news, I’ll hear about it regardless.
I’m not going to perseverate over every headline, I have a life to live. The media is actively trying to piss us off, they’ll skew and distort and all but fabricate to keep us angry and engaged.
I’m not doing it. I can’t recall a single time in my life that keeping up to date up to the hour has actually improved anything for me. Sitting around just knowing stuff is happening isn’t going to change my life for the better.
I live in a safe republican state and a leans Republican district. I could send a letter to my senator, call my representative, spend hours of my time just worried about something, and still, they’ll vote how the party wants them to. Being informed and doing the things I’m supposed to do won’t change anything.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
Im starting to understand John Coffey.
- Comment on SEIS!? 2 months ago:
¿Donde esta la biblioteca?
- Comment on xkcd #3047: Rotary Tool 2 months ago:
I occasionally run a lathe at work. The big CNC one says it will do 10,000 rpm
If you ever run it that fast, the jaws will start to separate and the part will come flying out at Mach 4, bounce around the inside of the machine for several minutes, destroying the chuck, all the tooling, and the chip conveyor in the process.
Another fun fact, these machines go from 5000 rpm (the fastest you’re assuredly safe to run it) to 10 at the snap of a finger and back up again. All of that energy has to go somewhere. So there’s a heat coil, pretty much identical to the one in your oven, that takes all that extra energy. It doesn’t normally get all that hot, but if you’re running a lot of parts with a lot of diameter changes, it can get hot enough to glow.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 2 months ago:
I found this in my app list, it hadn’t asked for any permissions. If it’s looking at every image I get, it’s doing so extremely discreetly.
Sus. Very sus.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
We also didn’t make the model T suggest replacing the engine when the oil light comes on. Cars, as it happens, aren’t that great at self diagnosis, despite that technology being far simpler and further along than generative models are. I don’t trust the model to tell me what temperature to bake a cake at, I’m sure at hell not going to trust it with medical information. Googling symptoms was risky at best before. It’s a horror show now.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 months ago:
So can web MD. We didn’t need AI for that. Googling symptoms is a great way to just be dehydrated and suddenly think you’re in kidney failure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why is your entire comment history deleted?
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 months ago:
He’s afraid of the masses.
I wonder why
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 3 months ago:
I would give this pill to a million Chinese and Russian dissidents.
Xi and Putin would just be constantly shitting. There would be no moment in any day for as long as they lived that they weren’t shitting.
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- Comment on rip frend 5 months ago:
GODAYUM IT SADDAM I AIN’T GIVING YOU NO TREE FIDDY!!
- Comment on NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon 5 months ago:
I mean you only have to shoot to where it will be half way, moon will take care of the rest
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 5 months ago:
Where my FF8 homies at tho
- Comment on The grand prize 5 months ago:
Drill bits are coated in tungsten carbide. Sometimes. There are a variety of coatings.
The drill bits you’re buying at the big box store are high speed still with some kind of coating to help them last a little longer. The specialty drill bits you’re buying for working on metal are also HSS with a different coating and probably different tip geometry.
End mills are milling/lathe inserts can be HSS or carbide, also with some tungsten coating. Importantly, these are sintered, and made out of dust.
Tungsten carbide is waaaay too brittle to work as a drill bit.
- Comment on The grand prize 5 months ago:
You ain’t putting it anywhere. It’s getting delivered and staying where they put it.
A single 5 foot cube of tungsten would weigh about as much as an above average sized single family home.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 5 months ago:
This is great and advisable.
But what about online only games that can be nuked whenever the publisher feels like it?
- Comment on Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator 5 months ago:
My money is still on Paul Le Roux.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
So we’ve been down that road. There are company computers available for that purpose, and training has been provided. It’s a joke we tell each other around here that the only training we get is on the app.
For the handful of folks who are legally prohibited from having a smart phone, the state has requirements in place that they be notified of any schedule changes in advance, they’re often the first to know.
The CEO frequently holds little meetings and fields questions, that’s the next route.
I don’t know what they were sold or why they’re so insistent that we download the app, but their feverish insistence that we download it sure makes me suspicious.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
Almost certainly. If the guy who was making yandere simulator was tasked with a sprinkler app, it wouldn’t be much worse than it currently is.
I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to programming, but I know bad programming when I see it.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I’m sure it can’t actually do any of those things, but it would be nice if it would stop suggesting that it could when I try to open up certain things
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I did mention that when I connected to it via a VPN I could see my outgoing traffic spike suspiciously, that particular member of HR is no longer with the company and few of those remaining have the technical background to understand why I find that problematic.
Sadly around here, you’re either on board with the direction the ship is sailing, or you’re not on board. Those is us in bargained positions have been fine, and voice our frustrations freely. But management does not have the same freedom to do so.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I did mention at one of these meetings that we wouldn’t give them space on our personal devices for free, it did not change their tune. The union has been hammering them on it during negotiations but I doubt they’ll budge on that and we have bigger issues to deal with so they won’t let it be a sticking point.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
If I could rip that thing off the wall and replace it with a spigot I would.
My wife wants it, and she cares more about the grass than I do.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I have never actually tried, it’s just suggesting it as an app that can do those things.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I work in a manufacturing environment. A few years ago they decided they needed a company social media app. They hired, or more likely were sold the idea by Salesforce and built this stupid ass website, then went on a fucking War campaign to get people to install the app on their phone.
They demanded. They begged. They removed functions of HR to the app exclusively. When we protested they simply said no, no room to negotiate, no give. You will use the app or you will not have access to certain information required to do your job. When they closed the plant one day and posted it on the app, they threatened to write up an entire shift that showed up to work anyway without knowing any better.
Because apparently, when you get up at 4 am the first thing you’re supposed to do every day is check an app on your phone to see if you have work that day.
They used to just push out a robo call.
When we have committee meetings with HR they go something like this.
HR: how can we get you guys on the app Committee: how can we retrieve these functions from the app HR: you can’t Committee: that’s your answer.
There have been at least 6 versions of this meeting that I have been a part of.
Most of my coworkers are older than me. Few of them have fancy phones, generally the most basic phone you can get. A number of my coworkers are on parole or work release and have limited access to smart phones for one reason or another and literally have no access to the app.
I was chatting with one of the IT gals recently and apparently resistance to the app is pretty widespread. When I said “venture capital IT firm” she gave me a high five.
They want everyone using this thing and maybe 15% of the company has it. Then they switched to Workday.
It hasn’t gone well.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I have an app for my sprinkler system and it’s a fucking nightmare. Not only is it basically just a web API, it’s so transparently just a glorified browser with access to exactly one site that frequently my phone thinks that app will work for whatever else I’m trying to open.
Document? Sprinkler app. Web Page? Sprinkler app. Installing from a source other than Google? Oh you better believe the sprinkler app can do that.
Doing anything takes longer to load than it would take me to walk from anywhere on my property to the fucking box and hit whatever button I need to hit.
It frequently forgets what I entered for preferences. I can tell it a week ahead what days I want it to skip but if I do that more than 24 hours on advance I might as well not have done it at all.
Oh you want to make a payment online? Let your sprinklers do that for you. YouTube video? Sprinkler app. YouTube video about fixing your fucking sprinkler system? Sprinkler app.
Apparently the one thing it can’t do is effectively manage my water usage. It’s ONE job
- Comment on You have been banned from /c/Lemmyshitpost 6 months ago:
I’m just now noticing how sloppy his robot arm sleeve is.
Likely a production issue where the prosthetic just wouldn’t fit in the sleeve so they said fuck it and cut it, which is what civilians would do.
But that man is a citizen, and active duty. A) since so many of the military members are missing limbs it stands to reason there would be a standard protocol, even a special shirt issued for members who’s limbs no longer fit. And B, presumably, regardless of limb status, torn sleeves have got to be a few lashings.
- Comment on No further questions your honour 6 months ago:
No way man tell you what my brother skeet done seen that dang ol sasquatch when he went to to Calistoga to seent his two brothers Jim and Jed. See they was out huntin one day though I think Jed was out evadin the police on accounta he’s got warrants and unpaid could support, an he an Jim are wanted by the bondsman see, so they was out huntin deep in them woods up there up by the squirtin hole and them old rock woods you know? Anyway they was out there and they seent him. Big ole samskatch. Tain’t no yeti in no bear suit man maybe a Stanley though it were pretty big
