Wogi
@Wogi@lemmy.world
- Comment on NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon 2 days 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 2 weeks ago:
Where my FF8 homies at tho
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
My money is still on Paul Le Roux.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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
- Comment on The Conspiracy Unmasked 1 month ago:
Communism is when the government
- Comment on Suggestions 1 month ago:
Godwin always applies. Godwin himself said the comparison was sometimes appropriate, going as far as to say say the American Alt right should be compared to Nazis.
- Comment on Suggestions 1 month ago:
Wow we got to Godwin in 3 comments.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
There should be some consequences to the management who
didn’t allow them to leavedidn’t send them the fuck home immediately.I work in a factory that sits on a flood plane. It’s happened more than once that by the time a decision is made to cut people loose, it’s already difficult to leave the area. Often by the time a flash flood warning is issued there are only a few minutes of clear roadway left.
It’s entirely possible that a similar situation happened here, that the safest place for those people to be was in that building, that there was no way out and they would have been swept down stream regardless.even if that’s the case, this company should be held liable for sitting on their hands and keeping people at work through a storm where the risk of flooding was so great. That decision should have been made much sooner. If there was a job to come back to you can always post them for a Saturday and wouldn’t have to pay overtime until they actually hit 40 hours.
I’m so fucking fed up with the false urgency in these places. This company made high density plastic parts. Literally nothing they were making is life or death. Nothing they were making couldn’t wait another day. No customers were going to bail because the factory they needed their parts from got hit by a fucking hurricane.
But everyone, every fucking person in leadership, is constantly pressured to squeeze out more units, more production. Keep people working as long as possible, because every second they’re not making a product is a second the company is losing money. And because now every fucking company has jumped on to the lean manufacturing model, they are constantly, perpetually, chronicly behind. The second an order comes in it’s already too late and we need those units NOW. no lead time, no back orders. So stay at your machine because the boss man needs another Lexus.
Fucking burn it down
- Comment on Microsoft’s more secure Windows Recall feature can also be uninstalled by users 1 month ago:
It’s called SudoGetLinux’s law
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 1 month ago:
If internet companies want to make an argument like that, theninternet should be treated as a utility. - Comment on Average LinkedIn experience 1 month ago:
Gotta rework it so there’s no negative words. “Learned valuable lessons about selective acceptance.”
- Comment on Average LinkedIn experience 1 month ago:
Networked with Stanford educated professionals during a guided exploration experience with a team of like minded candidates. Experienced the rich tradition and prestigious climate during an in depth look at the Ivy League institutions inner workings and operations. Successfully submitted application for attendance. (Was not accepted)
- Comment on Instagram makes all teen accounts private - npr 1 month ago:
HI JUST JOSHIN I’M WOGI
- Comment on Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report 2 months ago:
You think it might be??
Bro say that shit with some confidence.
Venture capital does not contribute beneficially to society.
- Comment on A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne communications stations could change that 2 months ago:
That’s just it, they’re an easy target, and communications infrastructure is one of the first things you want to control or eliminate if you’re taking hostile territory.
- Comment on A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne communications stations could change that 2 months ago:
Many years ago my grandfather was involved in an air force test of aerial defense platforms that used balloons.
The idea was you could station these things all around the country and at the first sign of an attack you could have missiles launched from 10k feet to anywhere from anywhere.
The test encountered two problems that caused them to abandon the idea.
These balloons were incredibly easy to shoot down. Which would, presumably, rain volatile rocket fuel and munitions down on whatever was beneath them.
And if a missile launched, but failed to separate completely from it’s housing, it would carry that balloon on a wild, unpredictable trajectory, until it collided with something or it decided it had reached it’s detonation time.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Hoplite is good! I’m sorry I downbooped you