AnarchoSnowPlow

@AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe into a fatal crash by a car using its autonomous features; its stock is down 10%+ over the past week.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if an American car company’s fully automated driving were responsible for the death of three teenagers in a fiery crash in Nevada?

  I can only assume there’d be a full recall, the CEO would go on TV to apologize and resign.

  But not everyone can be a beacon of freedom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update : fixed stripy bands and quality issues in vase mode⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did print myself a herome mount and everything awhile back. Added dual fans and whatnot, I was having a terrible time with petg surface quality, the dual fans helped a lot. I also had to reassemble my hotend to reprint something I messed up lol.

  I’m at the point now where I’ve replaced so much on my ender that it doesn’t really look like the machine I bought, except that it’s still i3.

  I’ll check out the orbiter, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update : fixed stripy bands and quality issues in vase mode⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of banding and wobble is excellent, especially compared to where you came from. You’ve got me thinking about a new extruder. I’ve got some no name aluminum extruder setup right now, but I’ve put enough abrasive filament through that it’s made all my filament paths oblong.

  Nice work!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reserve your Cybersub now!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got one and they’re safe enough to visit any shipwreck.

  I took mine to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

  Only wusses don’t hop on and immediately go as deep as possible.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true. I’ve been replaced several times with a Thevenin Equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fruit Flies⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.