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- Comment on he forgor 4 days ago:
The process for this is usually like that:
- Software dev team lead: "We need another senior frontender."
- HR person: "Ok, what are you looking for?"
- Software dev team lead: "Someone who knows how to use Angular."
- HR person: "Great, so which version of Angular are you using?"
- Software dev team lead: "Version x.y.z"
- HR person (thinking, not saying): "Ok, so senior means 5+ years, so 5+ years of version x.y.z it is!"
- Also HR person: “Why can’t I find anyone who’s qualified?”
- Comment on he forgor 5 days ago:
Friend of mine applied for a job where they asked for at least 5 years of experience with Angular version x.y.z (can’t remember the exact version). The friend responded that he had 10 years of experience with versions x-3 to x+1.
The HR person doing the hiring asked back “But do you have 5 years of experience with the exact version x.y.z?” to which he answered “Version x.y.z has only been out for 3 years so it’s impossible to have 5 years of experience with it.” HR wrote back saying that he was rejected because he didn’t have 5 years of experience of experience with that exact version.
- Comment on MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process 1 week ago:
The only mistake here is that the author switched the term “tools” for “extruders”. They did list four tools (FDM extruder, Pellet Extruder, Ink extruder, Heater).
This sounds to me much more like a human error than an LLM one, because the source material calls them “tools”.
In this work, three out of the four original filament extruders were swapped for a pellet extruder, an ink extruder, and a heater. The tools that make up the final configuration of the machine are:
Filament extruder (Figure 1a): one of the original E3D Hemera direct drive filament extruders of the E3D Motion System and ToolChanger was kept in place. It features an E3D 24 V 30 W heater cartridge, an E3D thermistor cartridge, and a 0.4 mm nozzle.
Pellet extruder (Figure 1b): a Mahor v4 70 W Pellet Extruder (Mahor.xyz, Spain) was incorporated to the system to enable 3D printing from pellets. A custom case was designed and 3D printed to adapt the pellet extruder to the E3D ToolChanger. The case wraps around the extruder and provides anchor points to the E3D toolhead plate and docking port, necessary to allow the pick-up and drop-off of the tool by the robotic arm.
Ink extruder (Figure 1c): a syringe pump was custom-built from scratch, combining an E3D Hemera XS stepper motor, a lead screw, a linear rail, and custom-designed, 3D-printed parts, to enable 3D printing with inks. The syringe pump is designed to be compatible with the docking system of the E3D ToolChanger and accommodates a three-milliliter syringe that can be easily swapped, enabling seamless material exchange.
Heater (Figure 1d): an E3D Hemera extruder with its nozzle and silicon insulation sock removed was installed to enable the curing of inks on the printer bed. During operation, the ink extruder and the heater can be used sequentially: first, the ink extruder prints a pattern; immediately afterward, the heater reproduces the printing trajectory of the syringe, drying the deposited ink as it hovers over it. This strategy enables the drying of ink while printing, facilitating the deposition of subsequent layers on top of the dried ink.
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 1 week ago:
I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.
I’m from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.
My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.
In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s not a job I’d be comfortable doing.
- Comment on Really tall people see others differently. For example, they see more of others' heads and less of others' bodies. They also see more of the background. 1 week ago:
Depends on the size of your fridge.
- Comment on Acciracy 2 weeks ago:
We wasn’t exactly as nice about it as I was lead to believe a Canadian would be.
- Comment on We live in the future! 2 weeks ago:
Break laws and move things.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
You are acting like you deliberately want to be offended.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Which makes my assertion correct.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning Welsh? Yes.
Can you grow up in Wales never learning English?
- Comment on Rayman 30th anniversary has save data bug and Ubisoft support says post launch support has ended 2 weeks ago:
There’s a ton of precedence for this.
We have accepted that our clothes don’t fit, that our non-fitting shoes ruin our feet, that our furniture all looks the same and doesn’t fit into the spaces we have, that consulting by knowledgeable sales people was replaced by product listings that can’t even reliably tell you if a printer is monochrome or color.
Enshittification is nothing new. It’s something that has been going on for at least the last 70 years.
I mean, just compare the fabric of clothes from 20-30 years ago to new stuff. I still got some clothing from the early 2000s that holds up just fine, while the newer stuff just falls to pieces after a year or so. You can even see that in the marketing. If you look at clothes ads even of cheap brands from the 80s, they all advertise with long-lasting quality. Pretty much no brand does that anymore.
So yes, AI will just make customer support, marketing and software quality way worse and we will just accept that like we have done for the last 70 years.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
I’m not argueing that it isn’t the national language. I just said that you could grow up in Wales never learning Welsh, because English is just as much (if not more) the language used in every-day dealings.
That said, the farthest north I have been was Merthyr Tydfil.
At least in the areas I have been in and the time that I lived there, Welsh was a language you had to actively seek out and not a language that was necessary to know if you lived there.
And that’s the point of the 3rd category: That’s the language you need to know to get around well in that country. If you go to the doctor’s, if you want to talk to your coworkers, if you want to make friends with the locals, which language do you need?
I’m from Vienna and it’s a similar thing with the Viennese dialect. While there is a limited revival happening, it’s mostly a cultural relic more than a necessity in every-day life. 70 years ago, if you didn’t speak Viennese you’d be an outcast. Now it’s rare that someone speaks it.
While I was in Wales I got myself Welsh language resources and actively sought out Welsh speakers to try to learn the language, but of all the people I met there, I only met two adults who could fluently speak Welsh. The kids learned it in school as a second language, but by and large the adults didn’t speak it.
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 2 weeks ago:
I think now is a good time to get into malware AI plugins.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
I lived in Wales for a year and I managed to learn some very basic Welsh myself. It’s been about 15 years now, but at least back then it was mainly old and very young people who spoke Welsh. Most people aged 20-60 didn’t speak Welsh at all, with the younger ones learning it at school.
But I guess with that generation being up to maybe 35 now, speaking Welsh is likely much more common than it was back then. So yeah, my chart above is likely outdated.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Not any more. It used to be, which is where the term comes from, but it hasn’t been for a long time.
- Comment on ESL homework 2 weeks ago:
Languages come in tiers. English is the global lingua franca. People use it to speak to anyone, no matter whether English native speaker or not. If someone from Norway wants to talk to someone from Japan, they’ll most likely use English since both of them likely speak it.
Then there’s regional lingua francas, languages like Spanish, Russian or Mandarin. These languages are popular in specific parts of the world and often used to get around there. Someone from Ukraine can speak to someone from Belarus using Russian.
Lastly, there’s local languages that are spoken only in a country (or even only a part of a country). People speak them because that’s what they were grown up with.
So in general, there’s 4 “language slots” of languages people speak:
- The global lingua franca
- The regional lingua franca
- The language of the country they live in
- The language they grew up with
One language can fill multiple slots.
So for example, if you grew up in Ukraine and moved to Germany, you might speak the following languages, according to the slots above:
- English
- Russian
- German
- Ukranian
If you are born in Wales and never moved away, it might look like this:
- English
- English
- English
- Welsh
If you spent your life in the US, it would be like this:
- English
- English
- English
- English
This is the reason why people living in countries with lower-tier languages frequently speak 3-4 languages, while English native speakers really struggle to even learn the basics of one additional language. Because the former group has an actual use for more than one language, while the latter one don’t.
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 2 weeks ago:
Infinite scroll amplifies the “I’m never going to find that again” problem. That’s the thing I hate most about it.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
There’s not really anything on that account, tbh. I only ever used it a few times to talk to friends when playing minecraft.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 2 weeks ago:
2D printers are way more difficult than 3D printers. The only reason we didn’t have 3D printers in the 90s is Stratasys and their stranglehold patents. Hobby-level 3D printers only became a thing because the Stratasys patents expired.
Before that they were just able to ask for €70k for what’s essentially a cheap ABS FDM printer.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Teamspeak is proprietary software, but it’s self-hosted and there’s an opensource TS3 client.
Since it’s self-hosted, enshittification is rather limited. If the new version sucks, anyone could just run an older version instead, so their are in constant competition with their own older versions.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, he fucks everyone. He fucks his employees, he fucks his customers, he fucks government and he fucks the victims of his software.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Teamspeak. It’s old and it’s still good. Uses no resources at all compared to Discord and there are thousands of free servers if you don’t want to host one yourself.
- Comment on Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
I uninstalled Discord yesterday.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they used oxygen-free bananas though.
- Comment on Why didn't the mother just use her private doctor on her yacht? 2 weeks ago:
My first child has a genetic disorder. We had to spend 4 months in hospital during the first year and just one medication the kid has to take costs ~€250k per year.
For the hospital stay we paid a total of €0.
The medication costs ~€7 per pack and is capped to 2% of my yearly income.
Apparently not letting kids die from treatable conditions is socialism though.
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 2 weeks ago:
The problem is with hardware requirements scaling exponentially with AI performance. Just look at RAM and computation consumption increasing compared to the performance of the models.
Anthropic recently announced that since the performance of one agent isn’t good enough it will just run teams of agents in parallel on single queries, thus just multiplying the hardware consumption.
Exponential growth can only continue for so long.
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 2 weeks ago:
Can it be necrophilia if it has never lived?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Holdovers from when “don’t be evil” was still a thing.
Both Android and Chromium are rapidly deteriorating in regards to FOSS. Yes, they are technically FOSS, but in the stranglehold of Google who keep carving away more and more freedoms.
Just consider Google Play Integrity and Manifest v3 (in regards to e.g. Adblocking) as two obvious examples.
If Google could, they’d instantly close the Android sources and remove the ability to adblock on Chromium.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
80 cents for how much initial value?
- Comment on Clever trick to Un tangle a spool 3 weeks ago:
The last uncleanly-wound spool I had was in 2018. I haven’t paid more than €25 per kg ever, usually €15-20.