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@darfplatypus@infosec.exchange with no unions or basic awareness that tech is a trade, it's not surprising that people don't mentor young people and students: your career prospects and financial stability depend on not helping them.
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mastodon 4.7.3Some sort of engineer.
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@atax1a@infosec.exchange yeh benefit of the doubt is for after people have attempted to make amends for their behavior not before and also not even after if you don't want to. fuck chuds and if people don't like it they need to blame chuds not you
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@ana@starlite.rodeo i wish there was a way to block bots universally. i'm not interested in anything not posted by an actual person
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@benjamingeer@piaille.fr
it's disappointing how much of our education systems can be reduced to memorizing shit and even more disheartening to know that line of thinking infects technical workplaces 😥
@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
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@annika i'd even settle for "stop deliberately making the mobile browser based version worse". browsing pages in desktop mode resolves a conspicuous amount of issues with sites that push a dedicated app
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@redsad@ohai.social impressive given that roger waters isn't that far off from being a maga dip shit himself
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
there are a wide variety of stylus profiles, cantilever lengths and materials, stylus to cantilever bonding methods, cantilever suspension characteristics, then a variety of transducer designs. and that's before getting into tonearm properties and kinematics.
its quite the acoustic system! 🤓
@North@chaos.social
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@Possiblydrew indoctrinating engineers and engineering types with goofy shit is like shooting fish in a barrel. on average they think they're smarter than they are, at least in part because so much education and work culture rewards rationalizing and sounding confident over anything else
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@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
with value of three very deserving of coddle
@doctormo@floss.social
wow #tucson really went nuts with the #flock #surveillance cameras. a year ago they were at shopping centers with a home depot and just about nowhere else. especially disappointing to see them all over midtown
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@mullvadnet@mastodon.online your fascist execs would be ecstatic if there was something like this for immigrants and brown people. why should we care what you think or say about this?
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@kkarhan@c.im
what should they be doing instead?
@jrdepriest@infosec.exchange @mcc@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
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@2legged@mastodon.ie
nice, yeah i was just wondering if there were alert services of actual value you might miss out on with a blanket block.
@outonashout@mas.to @ana@starlite.rodeo
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@splitbrain@fedi.splitbrain.org i pretty much never ask questions that i actually want the real answer to when men are around because of this unless i know they aren't the type to just wing it with bullshit rather than admit they don't know something
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@evacide i mean with all the downturns in our lifetime and how rough the career doldrums can be it is really tough to know when enough is enough or when an opportunity is truly off piste.
someone older than me with a more normal career once called me a "career survivalist" and i bet plenty of us are this way for similar reasons 🤔
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@GrimmReality@beige.party there was something distasteful about people in the seattle area to me when i was a lot younger that i couldn't quite figure out at the time. having moved back here recently the number of teslas really helped me put a finger on it: while there is plenty of cool progressive stuff here, it's probably one of the biggest shitlib populations in the US.
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@MFDOOMALLCAPS@metalhead.club great rec and thanks for reminding me it's new music day 🎶
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@DazRunner @molly0xfff i was just thinking something along these lines last night. i need a constant stream of problems to patiently chip away at, but having unsolved problems makes me low key anxious about not knowing how exactly i'll solve them or how much time and effort it will take or if my solution is even valid
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@MeaningfulBits did the same after adding instagram messenger to a beeper account for people that mostly message that way. i open the website in browser a couple times a week now.
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@AmenZwa brilliant dude for sure. shaq is a brilliant baller but still can't free throw. this has "big aristotle" vibes to this engineer, but just one data point.
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@sarahjamielewis dont be so quick to dismiss the saw! it's one of the best kinds of labor out there 🪵 💕
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social our fun during breaks convos included "people are terrible at drawing even basic conclusions from the most basic data" and "they're even worse at even the most fundamental curiosity and analysis of methodology."
most folks seem to think their pets speak and understand as much English as 6 year old. of course they can be convinced "the computer" is gonna find their cat
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@MLE_online
little gold wires connecting pads on microelectronics. kinda looks like you could do that with larger wires 🤔
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social they've been bad since at least the Bush II era and that's just when I started paying attention. I'm not really sure what anyone is losing here
edit: just adding this for the tiniest bit of humor and context
https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/wolf-blitzer/wolf-blitzer-jeopardy
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@AmenZwa look guy just because you gave us Hamming codes doesn't mean you get carte blanche on wasting our time with semantic nonsense 😠
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@CppGuy@infosec.space
i hear you but it only sorta worked out okay with that eliza chatbot. plus people loved that emma stone movie about putting a baby's mind in an adult woman's body. i think this will run its course eventually but what's going on with people might be a little too complex and also gross for practical solutions like that 🤔
@evacide@hachyderm.io
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@gknauss I feel like i got tricked into licking a switch cartridge by similar claims. idk what all the hubbub is they tasted fine to me 🤷
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@SuperSelena64@vmst.io what sort of issues are consoles of this era having? i was not that young when these came out so it's kinda fascinating that they need maintenance 🤓
memories in orbit for #switch2 is super chill. it's beautiful, the music is great, and the difficulty / overall complexity feels just right to keep everything engaging. the furnace boss was very cool; hopefully there's a couple more like that in store.
also gg to the #mio developers for having a sense of authorship and not giving in to the whining about having to back track too far to repeat lost fights. it's a nonsense complaint that would negatively alter the atmosphere of the game
learning #ptc #creo since that's what we have a license for at work. it's less slick than #fusion360 but has been pretty easy to adapt to. the only thing i find myself missing is the cleaner user parameters menu and the parameter suggestion / tab completion when dimensioning things
big up to the #spacemouse for helping with navigation. it's really nice just focusing on modeling and not having to relearn all the part / camera orientation controls
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange @emilymbender@dair-community.social tell us more about luddism you clearly know a lot about it
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@CppGuy@infosec.space @evacide@hachyderm.io yes if the last 60 years has taught us anything it's that if you just give people the information and explain it right they'll make rational inferences and judgements about the topic from then on