Posts by imanidiot 4422 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Mar 2012
That's already an automatic "no way" anyway. Who in their right mind is going to pay for multiple gift cards and just trust that the company is going to reimburse them?? All it takes is one beancounter saying no and you will never see your money again without permanently making an enemy out of your employer. Any properly managed company should already have rules against something like that anyway.
I'm of the firm opinion that mice and keyboards should be considered personal hygienic items and should not be shared between users. Companies could probably save multiple weeks of sick days/pay a year if they stopped forcing people to share peripherals (and instead forced them to use equipment dedicated per person). I'm already there on my mouse (Since I get RSI issues if I use the crappy cheapo optical HP mice provided by the boss and bought a Logitech MX Master 2 for my personal use myself) but I just can't get myself to also have to lug around a personal keyboard and have no place to store it at work.
"Big Tech has brazenly failed children and betrayed its trust, putting profits above safety"
Something most people here have probably seen coming since 1995?
Also, maybe parents should take some role in this? None of what this bill is proposing is impossible to implement by a well willing parent already.
Fabs there were built in a time when break even was achieved far earlier, outset investment was far lower and most fabs there probably produced for quite a while until they went obsolete. I'm not very familiar with Greenock specifically but from what I can see it basically ran it's economic course and finished getting IBM it's investments back. I wasn't saying fabs never get closed, I said they don't usually get closed before earning enough back for their investors. Keep in mind an average high end 300mm fab will nowadays set you back a cool 10 to 40 billion. (depending on how much litho/wafer-starts capacity you need) I think you'd be hard pressed to get it under 1 billion even for a very small scale fab.
3, Grants to a S.E. Asian chip maker = they build a plant in some poor region promising jobs, import all the skilled roles and close as soon as the subsidy runs out
Just closing a fab is not really an option. They cost billions to build and likely need to operate a minimum of 20 years before they've actually earned their investment back. And you can't just relocate the content of a fab somewhere else and expect it to work when it gets there.
While I will concede Twitter as a whole was left leaning, saying that only leftists had freedom of speech is utter twaddle. It was simply far more rare for leftists to be such egregious assholes that they needed to be banned, whereas those on the "right" have a tendency to be both arseholes and convinced of their own righteousness. Far too common for them to be completely incapable of even the slightest introspection.
" If he does it all fast enough, he might be able to add another zero to the right side of his bank account by getting the stock back before Tesla and SpaceX announce their quarterly numbers."
If he does it that fast (and without full disclosure to future Twitter stock buyers when going public again) he's going to get a very unfriendly visit from the FTC, a pair of shiny bracelets and a car ride to the nearest police station for processing. And given he's a massive flight risk he'd either not get bail at all or get bail with provisions like wearing an ankle bracelet and regular check-ins Because that's straight up fraud (Not the loading Twitter with debt, he's a allowed to do that afaik, but the getting rich off of not disclosing those actions and profiting of them before the market can do so)
If Musks behaviour crashes the value of his major companies, then he's probably nowhere near as rich as the world currently thinks he is either. His purchase of Twitter put a serious dent in his holdings, and if he crashes the value of for instance Tesla over these shenanigans he'll have to start selling even more assets.
It's usually those who cry "booh hooh cancel culture" the loudest who deserve an uncommented downvote to say "you're an idiot and I don't want to engage with you further". If you find all your posts only get downvoted with no engagement, you might want to start looking at the common denominator (Hint, it's you and the way you write your posts).
"The problem with downvotes where there is no attempt to engage with the seemingly offending post is that no reason is given for the downvote. "
Indeed there isn't any attempt to engage because often IF I place a downvote I find it is a post utterly unworthy of engaging in. Thus a downvote to me is an unequivocal: "I disagree with your statements and I think you're being an idiot". No further "engagement" is required beyond that. Engaging with posts worthy of downvoting is usually a pointless exercise anyway because pointing why or how someone is wrong to someone who won't bother trying to understand why or how they are wrong is pointless.
"It depends. There's a subtle distinction there. Make dinner and then eat it? That's preparing. Make the upcoming week's dinners on the weekend? That's pre-preparing (especially if you don't eat the first one the same night you make them)."
Unless you're preparing the preparations for the upcoming week's dinners (just putting out the required vegetables, meat etc) then you're still just preparing the upcoming weeks dinners. The first pre- in pre-preparing is nearly universally redundant and should just be left out. I cannot think of a single instance where adding it puts any different meaning on the sentence over just using "preparing".
Not really? Just requires some thought on where you put stuff. Put simply, if it's in sunlight it's hot, if it's in the shadows it's cold. If you need to keep your thing cold, put it behind something casting a shadow (can be as simple as a large mylar or other synthetic material whipple shield similar to the JWST sunshield, and reject heat into space using a radiator on the shadow side. Requires more thought than "a block of metal of fins with a fan" but still.
Not just MSFS, they also tried it on proper rated sims during the investigation, and could make it back to the airport if they turned around immediately (This was one of the points they initially tried to grill Sullenberger on saying "see, we could do it in the sim"). It wasn't until he finely asked them about leveling off, assessing the damage and following the emergency checklists that they implemented a short delay before the pilot was allowed to react. All those scenario's ended with either landing in the Hudson (as Sullenburger had done, but usually unsuccessful) or crashing well short of the airport.
The speed limit distance only matters if traffic is actually doing (close to) the speed limit. When there's lots of traffic and everything is crawling along, staying in the "lorry lane" is often a much smoother rid. Personally I don't like it as truckies tend to get distracted in traffic and my car makes for a feeble crumple zone between 2 trucks should the trucker behind me get distracted and decide to squish me into the space underneath the lorry in front.
As others have said, if these are not things/scales you regularly talk about then these prefixes simply aren't for you. There is nothing wrong with that. SI prefixes are NOTHING like the mess that is imperial units where nothing is a simple 10^x of something else. These prefixes are mostly intended for hard-core scientist discussions, likely to be used more conversationally where writing things down or saying 3.14 times 10 to the power of 27 is both confusing and time consuming. It's fine if you don't have a use for these prefixes, you can forget all about them, but other people do have a use and will use them. You probably don't ever use Hounsfield Units either, but you'll be glad your radiologist knows about it when you ever need an X-ray or CT scan.
It's quite common that once an old tree has grown big and tall, all the other trees around it have too. A young tree (or even a sapling) planted in it's place is unlikely to ever reach similar size and has a drastically reduced chance of survival to even get old in the first place. Some trees are simply irreplaceable.
No. Go away.
Very rarely is it something you'd want to sign or something that's going to turn out positive for you. And very often it's something the company can't actually do something about if you don't sign it. Hold out and force them to either forget about it or fire you, or keep the honor to yourself and quit. You're either going to have a bad time and quit, have a bad time and lose the job later anyway if you DO sign, or if enough people say no they're going to very quietly drop the issue.
I've never seen any indication that Musk has any sort of background or understanding of software development and it's clear when he's talking about the hardware side of things (like in spaceX about the Raptor for example) that he has a fairly good understanding of what is going on and the engineering that is happening, even if he's not actually doing any of it himself. I've never gotten that feeling when he's talking about for instance Tesla FSD features. He doesn't have the same in depth knowledge about what's going on, what underlying design and engineering choices were made, who is working on what. So no, I don't think Musk is a software guy. He's not actually an engineer on the hardware side either but it seems to "click" with him far far better.
Parking your vehicle on the street is a recipe for it getting stolen, destroyed, gutted or all of the before in very short order. If I was expected to live in LA I'd be demanding/expecting to rent a place with secure parking too. And to be getting paid enough to do that (plus a HELL of a lot more if I was to ever voluntarily live in the hellhole of any large US city.)
I think it's a classic case of someone who is used to hardware development not understanding software and software development timelines. The mechanical bits are hard, software must be easy right? It's just a bunch of ones and zeroes...
The reality is ofcourse that (good) software development takes as much, if not more, time than hardware development.
No, it's about margins/mass-fractions.Only a tiny fraction of a Launch ready Falcon 9 is empty mass of the rocket, which means that it needs a comparatively tiny amount of that fuel weight remaining to make a propulsive landing. This is helped by the fact it'll likely very rarely be carrying a payload close to it's max capacity as it's been over engineered in terms of thrust to weight. The fuel to empty weight mass fraction on Electron is far more marginal, so it needs every ounce/milliliter/Walnut of fuel in case one or more of it's engines is slightly under performing even a little bit (which is common). Electron doesn't have the margins to bring more than the bare minimum of fuel it might need to get the second stage to a trajectory where it can do it's thing in turn. SpaceX with the Falcon 9 has far more performance and margin on fuel relative to it's empty weight and throw weight. Especially when carrying lighter payloads it has that margin. Electron will always be loaded to basically it's max capacity because anything less just isn't useful.
Rocket Lab is in an entirely different market from SpaceX. They can carry less, but on a dedicated launcher, which makes getting your payload in a particular orbit might well be worth the added cost to a lot of customers over waiting for a spot on a rideshare going more or less the right direction. Paying for a full SpaceX Falcon 9 is overkill for any payload Rocket Labs is going to be carrying on the Electron (or even on their in development Neutron)
Third possible explanation, the younger generation is "standing on the shoulders of giants" and is working in an environment where things like locking everyone out has become much much harder to do accidentally because the grey-beards have long ago learned from the mistake and set up processes to prevent it happening again.
Not too surprised by the stalling Alibaba sales event. The deals were even more shit than last year. Had some stuff (mostly DIY electronics component tat and the likes) and it was literally cheaper a month ago without any special coupons than it was during the sale WITH the (very limited) amount of coupons applied. Not worth it, so they didn't get a sale from me.
Maybe Amazon wants to buy "american made" (or wants to avoid the PR created by buying "Mercedes" branded vans, so they made a marketing deal where Amazon buys Rivian branded eVito's or eSprinters and where the "american made bit is them screwing on the Rivian badge after shipping the vans to the US?
A lot of that solar radiation is of a form that either makes it into our atmosphere and all the way to the ground, before a lot of it gets either absorbed (and radiated away again into space) or reflected back into space. Those "few hundred kilowatts" are per sattelite. If we're going to be doing this at any scale we're talking atleast hundreds of Megawatts of power in a form that gets readily absorbed by atmospheric moisture. It's perfect for directly heating our atmosphere.
The US banking sector needs to get it's head out of it's ass, shape up, start operating in this century and take a clue from the rest of te world. From everything I've seen the entire US banking sector is living in the 1980s or there about (or maybe even earlier) with shit systems, lacks security, massive and opaque fees, everything relying on credit cards (going back to shit systems, lacks security, etc) and a "screw you" attitude. Most of the rest of the world has moved on to interoperable online banking systems that allow near real-time bank transfers, even with methods of verifying the other account or simply setting up the system so that fraudulent transfers are much harder to do. It's really not hard, the systems and expertise are out there. It just seems the US doesn't want to adopt any of it?
Tesla has been "dead man walking" for a long time now, it's just having some intermediate succes before it drives off a cliff. It's just a wait until they get a class action suit over selling "FSD" packages when they knew (or should have known) that they would never be able to deliver that for those cars, nor within the lifetime of the vehicle. It's very obvious now first and second gen Teslas will never get FSD, even IF it ever becomes available. They simply don't have the hardware. So people who paid for Autopilot/FSD just donated (tens of) thousands of dollars for a fart in the wind that Tesla knew or could have known it would never deliver. No manner of contract lawyerese is going to fix that if it becomes a pattern.
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