barnacul

@barnacul@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in big factories and this is a stupid fucking idea.

  Scenario 1: you have 6 trained maintenance guys on shift. One of them goes to check out the questionable valve and fixes it because they are trained to do so. The 5 other guys also work on stuff.

  Scenario 2: one of the maintenace guys sits in the office because someone needs to coordinate with the robot dogs. They call the person who controls the dogs to go check out the valve. It is broken. A couple hours later they call a maintenace tech to check it out for real. Unfortunately the company can only afford 3 maintenance techs now because of the dogs, and one of the techs is on tech duty to communicate with the dog team. The other two are busy so the incident is recorded in the logs for an engineer to hire a contractor to fix at a total of three times the price, in six months’ time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse Yale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am made of stronger stuff than the unpleasant wine my 10 gram plastic lighter makes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a whole website for what? Spam-noveau?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I on fucking facebook or something? Shitty boomer post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, that seems like an implausibly large gap of knowledge for someone who can talk at detail about truck suspension configurations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got burglarized and they left a significant amount of cash in foreign currency that was sitting out in the open from a recent trip, because they had no idea what it was. Nobody is stealing rackmount equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silicon Valley elites quietly became deeply entrenched in some wild god-complex groupthink over the last 5-10 years, and it aligns fairly well with fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a niche application that maybe 0.1% (optimistically) of computer users use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “don’t even know how to boot from USB” Are you serious with this post?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might be time to find another job⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very weird comment, probably super weird person behind it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Terminal MBA brain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need opinions on screw types from someone with experience⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re over thinking this. For only 600 pounds, you can just use a regular pallet. Just strap it down with steel strapping, you’ll be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  not bad with money 60k+ in checking account

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wild boars tear up large swaths of forest floor in search of food. They wipe out native tubers and disrupt the carbon cycle, ultimately degrading the land into scrub.

  They are also predators, they can weigh over half a ton, and they are violent when threatened.