AnarchoSnowPlow
@AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 weeks ago:
I feel you, but the reality is probably more like “Project Manager said I need to save 13 more cents on materials or he’ll murder my children, so if I move the oil filter from this nice easy to access location and remove the lip that catches any drippage it’ll get us there.”
90% of the time it’s the bosses.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2 weeks ago:
You can absolutely push changes to a system that you don’t actually understand.
You might be right, but consider the alternative: “someone thinks that they’re so much smarter than the people who originally designed, implemented, and maintained a system integral to the functioning of modern society that they dismiss out of hand the idea of caution when dealing with it in situ.”
If someone of that description were in this situation, what do you suppose their behavior would be?
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit lol
I’m more than a decade into my engineering career. Nobody pushes directly to prod on my team, not even me. Everyone gets reviewed and tested.
I read this and cackled in public. Because my god, however bad you think this is, it’s way fucking worse. Idk what a reasonable reaction to this is but wow. Just wow. Fucking. Cooked.
Like member how everyone talked about graft in Russia resulting in funds meant for military maintenance being siphoned off the top instead of being used for what it was supposed to be used for? This is like that, except you don’t even have to have any excuses or anything, the money just… Disappears.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 weeks ago:
Is your upright the one with all the little compartments? That one looked to me like the most efficient upright design I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on What is the limiting factor than prevents software discovery of undocumented hardware registers and instructions? 1 month ago:
Even for debugging jtag is quite active. It can essentially (depending on the soc or micro you’re working with) override the device and force it into specific conditions or change register values.
Very useful.
- Comment on circuits 2 months ago:
This is how we end up in software my friend.
All the senior HW engineers I’ve interacted with almost cried when I told them I’d read the data sheets and schematics before asking them about some register values that needed to be set on boot.
Love those guys.
- Comment on circuits 2 months ago:
This is true. I’ve been replaced several times with a Thevenin Equivalent.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 months ago:
Doesn’t even have to be actual booze. Apple cider vinegar + a drop of dawn dish soap works a treat.
- Comment on Your smart fridge can now warn you when you’ve spent too long in the shower 4 months ago:
Ah yes a Wi-Fi shower that requires a connection to a cloud server that will likely be shut down in 3 years when everyone bails because they increased the subscription fee to 25 dollars a month.
Just what the world needs.
- Comment on AI coding assistants do not boost productivity or prevent burnout, study finds 4 months ago:
I’ve tried it for even some boiler plate code a few times. I’ve had to end up rewriting it every time.
It makes mistakes like Junior engineers, but it doesn’t make them in the same way that junior engineers do, which means that as a senior engineer it takes me significantly more effort to review. It also makes mistakes that humans don’t, which is even weirder to catch in review.
- Comment on Software fixes now account for over 20% of car recalls 4 months ago:
When you have separate teams that design everything and never talk to anyone else because “our design is modular and can be used anywhere that fits these x basic requirements” you never have a conversation about the overall product design and usability in context.
It is the result of shitty engineering processes that are optimizing on a small scale. It sacrifices the end product in the name of savings on a single component.
Same brainworms that will cut R&D to post a profit this quarter but completely wiped out long term competitiveness. Pretty much everything terrible about modern life is explained by rampant unregulated capitalism.
- Comment on PhD vs Marriage 4 months ago:
There’s always something at least a little off about anybody who earns a PhD.
I’ve met a lot of them, and some of them are good at hiding it, but it’s always something…
- Comment on Empires fall 4 months ago:
Might be. I remember them being marketed as “no return rentals”
- Comment on Empires fall 4 months ago:
TigerDirect eventually acquired the rights for the Circuit City name, years after the stores closed. They were great for awhile, it was just weird that they tried to revive the brand.
I bought my first PC parts at CompUSA, which… I don’t think I’ve seen for a very long time lol. Definitely used TigerDirect when I was in college though.
- Comment on Empires fall 4 months ago:
Unregulated capitalism destroys everything it touches, including itself.
- Comment on Empires fall 4 months ago:
Oh that was wild too, those color changing DVDs.
- Comment on Empires fall 4 months ago:
TigerDirect
- Comment on Software fixes now account for over 20% of car recalls 4 months ago:
Maybe if they cut out the shit like serial (or vin in this case) locked components, spyware, adware, software that does things only hardware should do, and touchscreen “buttons” complexity would be reduced enough that they could actually coherently review and verify their embedded systems.
Fuck any car built after 2014.
- Comment on Schematic problem - It gets hot and smells like burning 5 months ago:
I could be wrong, but I did finish a degree in EE even if I just do software now. But here’s my quick take on it.
Probably because you’re driving voltage on STAT from REGN.
STAT should have a current limiting resistor on it, go through your led, then ground.
REGN should have a 2.2uf cap between the pin and ground according to the datasheet.
- Comment on What are they hiding? 5 months ago:
Clearly witchcraft. Spells to make the kids gay. Definitely not a decorative method of adding texture.
- Comment on Wood Temp Tower 5 months ago:
Yeah that immediately looks way under-extruded to me.
Also that wood stuff (from what I read) clogs terribly.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 5 months ago:
Is it not safe to expose externally with ssl yet?
- Comment on I Hear You Like Vans, Well Here's Van Morrison 6 months ago:
That’s nice, but it’s no Econoline.
- Comment on don't embarrass us in front of the cephalopods 6 months ago:
I’ve seen one flying around Lemmy since I’ve been here at least.
- Comment on With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents 6 months ago:
“Predatory Cabal”
“Price Fixing”
Landlords are literally rent-seeking, they provide no real economic value to society.
At best they are opportunistic parasites.
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 6 months ago:
Fuck that, we should be measuring everything in Stone.
I’ll take a seventh stone of chicken please.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 6 months ago:
Analogue doesn’t have firmware that can reject a device based on id.
- Comment on Dog-like robot jams home networks and disables devices during police raids — DHS develops NEO robot for walking denial of service attacks 6 months ago:
Wire your devices. Shielded is best.
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 7 months ago:
Last week, used a package over a cake. Poke Cake.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 7 months ago:
That’s crazy. You can’t do six. It’s seven! SEVEN MINUTE ABS!