CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 4 hours ago:
It’s not just industry. Now they’re killing the development of skills and knowledge in engineering (hardware, software) and design
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 11 hours ago:
USA could have spent money developing an electrified economy but the republicans are focusing on bringing back coal mining and reshoring shoe manufacturing instead.
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 1 week ago:
I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.
The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.
- Comment on How do some fragance reppel bugs 1 week ago:
They don’t work that effectively. They make you smell like poison to mosquitoes.
DEET scrambles their senses so you disappear.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 1 week ago:
Community gardens and Internet cooperative are the operating phrases you’re searching for
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
“If it wasn’t for my medical leave, HP and Apple would be competing for the mobile market!”
It takes a lot of arrogance to be a senior executive; the way he tells the story justifies his position, that’s for sure.
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
During this same period, he became laser-focused on acquiring Autonomy for $10.3 billion—a software company that fit his transformation vision perfectly. Everything else, including breakthrough mobile technology, felt like a distraction from this software-focused strategy. That Autonomy acquisition later required more than an $8 billion write-down,
Apotheker wrote down 9.2 billion in 11 months and that’s just the stuff the article mentions. I can’t achieve that level of failure in a lifetime.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 week ago:
You missed 2. Sell (IPO)company
I’m not sure what he actually did as far as divestiture, but evidently he wasn’t the current owner. I wonder to what degree unreasonable growth expectations flushed the company.
- Comment on Can shoes be made in the US without cheap labour? 1 week ago:
Automation, in low cost of living area, with red-state employee “benefits” is what it takes to possibly make something as basic as domestically-made shoes affordable. That, and it’s not a publicly traded company so it might still be relatively expensive.
Western reliance on cheap Asian labour is a problem, especially when the cheap labour starts to think they want more.
MAGA isolationism is certainly not helping.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 1 week ago:
They’re running generators to power the data centre.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
It’s also a job as you allude to where early retirement needs to be part of the plan. It’s a good job but hard on the body and it’s hard to create an efficient way to reduce the amount of weight that they need to lift in a day.
I know a few who were union and pensioned off, retired in their 50s but that doesn’t change the way their joints feel.
Not sure if it’s better or worse than turd herding.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 1 week ago:
Thanks for including the 2000 Corolla. I forget how big they’ve gotten.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 2 weeks ago:
Look at the 1950 American cars.
One reason for the perception that cars look fancy or not is that you become accustomed to a design when you see it all the time.
Supercars are wildly impractical, and slapping that body on a Corolla chassis would make a Corolla that only seats 2 and has no space for bags, but somehow takes up a lot more space than a Corolla. Also, downforce is bad for fuel efficiency.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 2 weeks ago:
They are so fucked up when they leave that they don’t have the capacity to do much.
And even so, the institutions are protected. The people who get out “have a track record”.
- Comment on Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me 2 weeks ago:
I made it to chapter 60 over the last 90 minutes.
I can’t even describe how angry I feel about that. Expletives don’t fit. I’m not big on death penalty, but I think these people deserve it - more than some who are sentenced to death.
I also am feeling incredibly grateful that my parents didn’t get caught up in the scam.
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never paid with a credit card to charge my car. At home, overnight, is all I’ve needed.
- Comment on Spruce tip beer ('tis the season) 2 weeks ago:
I’ve also heard of people just adding to the boil like hops, but I would think that the effect would be wildly unpredictable.
- Comment on Spruce tip beer ('tis the season) 2 weeks ago:
The “melting”in the sunny window must the water in the tips dissolving the sugar. Nothing to do with melting; that would burn the spruce and resulted in the dark color (Maillard reaction happens between 140 and 160°C).
- Comment on Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain 2 weeks ago:
Perhaps why we rub our eyes when tired? I wonder.
- Comment on Getting serious now 2 weeks ago:
I use a seedling starter mat. I tend to brew when it’s cold enough that I sort of don’t need the fridge (but it would help) and it keeps it about 3-4°C above ambient no problem, even after fermentation.
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I was hired on the recommendation of friends, and more lately had a manager who looked past it and saw my experience.
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 3 weeks ago:
HR screening dumps resumes without a school unfortunately.
- Comment on This fell off my car, can I just rip it off and not care? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not critical, but it keeps things clean, keeps salt/snow off in winter, and contributes to fuel economy and ride quality.
Stretching an oil change is a bigger concern, especially if the oil change interval is a long one. Learn to do it yourself, it’s really simple and depending on the car you may be able to do it without ramps or a jack if you’re creative in parking eg over a dip or one wheel (securely) on a curb. Ensure you don’t spill oil into a drain.
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 3 weeks ago:
Somehow I read it as your brother having schizophrenia and got really confused.
Continue to involve authorities, but u fortunately mental health funding keeps getting slashed. There may be a social worker centre you could reach out to for more information.
- Comment on IPv6 for self hosters 3 weeks ago:
I still haven’t figured out how to make a firewall rule with slaac on pfsense, with an ISP that hands out addresses at random. It’s my understanding’s slaac is the “right” way to do things, not dhcp and reservations.
Granted, it’s been a minute since I tried so I don’t remember the issues, but as I recall, when ipv6 prefix changes, device gets new IP (and it seems not just the prefix part. I can get the firewall to register IPs into DNS and use a dns based firewall rule, but unbound restarts and blows out its cache when a device joins the network. And there another part to it but it’s all gone fuzzy.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 3 weeks ago:
If it needs to be tight, Robertson or Torx is the only way. The benefit of Robertson over Torx is that it is pretty much immediately clear if the bit fits properly or not. I have stripped too many Torx that were in a place that required a human with an extra elbow and a second wrist to reach, that I thought were t20 but were t25, for example. I keep thinking I’ve learned my lesson.
I keep meaning to buy sets of Phillips, Pozi, and JIS, but never manage to time a stripped screw with a sale.
- Comment on Connect Mini Split to Air Circulator system? 4 weeks ago:
There are ducted mini split systems that may be useful to you.
Pushing (or pulling) air from an existing duct system is not a great path forward, as balancing the flow is challenging and critical. For example, if you could plumb the mini split into your circulator, what happens if they’re both on at the same time? The mini split could frost over. And if the circulator isn’t on, you could be back-flowing the air intake of the circulator.
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 4 weeks ago:
Is this like the Apple car?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Or slinky catsuits. I bet they’re comfy, if perhaps stinky with the polyester/elastane combo. I remember reading that the TNG outfits were not at all comfortable, but that was 1980s tech. We have lululemon now.