despoticruin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly you can just remove the ambiguity and put the number right at 1 billion dollars of net worth. Up to that point is obscenely wealthy, but a billion is the line that guarantees the majority of your wealth came directly from the exploitation of the masses.

  You can’t ethically make a billion dollars as an individual when the working class sees 1/10,000th of that in a year as doing fairly well in most areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today."⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have long hair and just use bar soap. I have found that it’s the conditioner that makes any difference to how my hair feels when it dries out.

  Before anyone goes in with a “buhhh muhh products” just fucking don’t. My hair is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Patents and the fact that these chips are massively complex designs. We are talking architecture on the complexity level of the empire state building, most of which is a blend of proprietary designs developed over decades.

  Nobody is saying you can’t do it in your garage, in fact it’s easier than ever to start. Let me know how it goes, look into some of the recent tapeout challenges to get an idea of what you are proposing people just make in a garage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why they said revenue, not profit. You never go for the net. Always go for the gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about analog voltmeters and antique telephones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be how the voltmeter would have been wired back then, you can damage the needle or it’s spring by pegging it for too long. Even then though, the only real issue I would forsee would just be the voltmeter spiking all the way to the right while it’s ringing, the chance of any real damage is pretty minimal. You can also check the datasheet on the meter, it should tell you what it can safely handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about analog voltmeters and antique telephones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s looking like you are going to want to hook the volt meter up to your talk lines. I would test just probing the wires going to the handset, if I understand the schematic correctly the talk circuit is separate from the ringer. That being said, you can get a voltmeter that is tolerant of the voltage.

  As far as blinking on ringing, that one is super simple since the ringer is AC, just use an induction type detector to flash an LED on. Think along the lines of those screwdriver looking line voltage testers that light up when you put them next to a live outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I highlighted the VPN part so that everyone knows to not use them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, name and shame for that shit.

  Richard Burke at Casper College does this and doesn’t even use the book. Costa over $150.

  Garbage practice that should be criminal fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The burden of proof that the sensors cannot provide false positives falls on the hotel chain, not the person getting charged. There is also the question of whether the sensors can be triggered by someone else, or an adjacent room.

  You fight them by filing a lawsuit for fraudulently charging you.