kiwifoxtrot
@kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 4 days ago:
In many general aviation planes, they have a wig-wam setting that alternatively flashes the landing lights during the day.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 2 months ago:
That doesn’t apply to all engineering. In ChE, it’ll literally blow up later…
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 2 months ago:
The issue with engineering is that if you don’t solve it efficiently and correctly enough, it’ll blow up later.
- Comment on I wonder how many US babies have been named Donald in the last few years and may live to regret it. 5 months ago:
Yankee is a nickname for all Americans in the rest of the world.
- Comment on Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems 9 months ago:
Smart. I’ve seen it on manufacturing lines for operators logging into SAP. They put the barcode on the back of their badge.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Didn’t they also live through all of what you just mentioned? What makes their experience of those events different than yours? It is all perspective. How do you know what it was like to be alive during the civil right’s movement, the Cuban missile crisis, the oil crisis, the assassinations of JFK and MLK Jr, the Vietnam war and the draft, the real estate crash in the 1980’s, etc.
It turns out that people are rubbish at understanding others perspective and life experiences. There is no hand book on how to be an adult and how to live. Giving advice is difficult. Give your parents a break and realize that they are people too.
- Comment on Should you Stay Technical as an Engineering Manager? 10 months ago:
That’s a really great point. I like to reserve my Friday afternoons for side projects or learning. This gives me something fun to look forward to and keeps me in touch with engineering.
- Comment on Leaving the bidet on "feminine" mode is the female equivalent of leaving the toilet seat up. 11 months ago:
It is most efficient to leave the toilet seat in the position it is used. The same argument applies for the bidet settings.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 11 months ago:
Steam users voted for those titles.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 1 year ago:
The problem is that you’ll start trusting it based on a few examples that it was correct, and you’ll be burned by a seemingly correct answer that is really wrong. I tried testing it with simple science and engineering questions and it was garbage.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 1 year ago:
The same tool made up references to seemingly real legal cases that never existed.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 1 year ago:
*makes up the info for you.
- Comment on GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1 1 year ago:
A 3.75% of the cars total value as a “document fee” is the same as a 3.75% sales tax. The only difference is that you also pay it when you bring in a car from out of state.
- Comment on GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1 1 year ago:
Cars are taxed in Delaware.
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 1 year ago:
Bezos isn’t even involved in Amazon anymore.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 1 year ago:
The stainless in the cyber truck is 301, which is less corrosion resistant than 304 or 316. You can read all about stainless corrosion in Appendix A.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 1 year ago:
Stainless steel still rusts when exposed to salt and water.
- Comment on Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant 1 year ago:
There are only a few manufacturers of robotic arms, and have this feature as it is required by law in many countries. This was a new installation and I’ll be happy to bet all sorts of money that it had it installed and wasn’t used.
- Comment on Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant 1 year ago:
There are many ways to do this safely. All robotic arms come with a disable key that powers off the axis motors, latches all the brakes, but leaves the sensors and end of arm tooling powered up to troubleshoot. Troubleshooting can also be done via PC and watching inputs/ outputs on the program.
- Comment on Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre 1 year ago:
You are likely very correct. These robots are dumb. They do the same repetitive task over and over to a high degree of precision. Flag a photo eye and it’ll start the sequence to pick up a box.
This is either a lock out issue or a design issue and it is irrelevant that it was a robot.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Baldur’s Gate 3 Witcher 3 Kerbal Space Program
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
He isn’t responsible for PayPal. His company, X.com, merged with PayPal and he was ousted after a short period of time. PayPal already existed before he was involved.
- Comment on Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica 1 year ago:
The exploit works on sny browser on an iPhone or iPad…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I suppose it has nothing to do with alienating your core demographic.
- Comment on Citing slow Starship reviews, SpaceX urges FAA to double licensing staff 1 year ago:
Space X was also very slow in getting the required report to the agency to review. Perhaps Space X should have done a better job there instead of rushing ahead to the next launch.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I have to mark emails I’m sending to others about pay as confidential to protect the company and myself. What you do with it after that point is up to you.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
Poms indeed.
- Comment on Unity to introduce runtime fee based on installs 1 year ago:
It’s retroactive and it’s not based on sales, it’s based on installs. So for example, I purchase a game on steam and I own a PC, a steam deck, and I have a kid with a PC. That’s 3x the fees for one sale even though I can only play it on one device at a time. Maybe I get bored of the game and uninstall it. A year later I want to play it again, there’s a new fee for the same sale and PC that unity gets.
- Comment on College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT 1 year ago:
Covid forced the transition to electronic exams in many areas.
- Comment on Can we call it Ex? 1 year ago:
Does this mean someone else can register Twitter and use tweets?