CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Revolution. 3 hours ago:
The British chose to tax the productive members of society instead of those who benefitted, in a nutshell. I’m not sure how much the landed gentry could afford, though; they seem to be constantly on the edge of bankruptcy due to a variety of factors not excluding their profligate spending.
- Comment on Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending 1 day ago:
Creating energy independence is defence spending.
- Comment on "How long is this supposed to TAKE!" ~King Julian 3 days ago:
I bought RAM just in the cusp of the jump. September I put it in the cart waiting for Black Friday and October came by and it was up 50% and I jumped on.
But I’m deleting stuff on my NAS. I neeeed some big drives.
- Comment on As it lays off developers and closes studios, Xbox gets into the movie business 6 days ago:
Notoriously simple industry. Anyone can do it really.
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 6 days ago:
- Comment on UHD Blu-ray player market sees new wave of brands 1 week ago:
Physical media is good.
- Comment on Anti-choice activist Seth Gruber calls for women who get abortions to face the death penalty 1 week ago:
Every life is sacred, until it leaves the womb and then I don’t give a shit.
- Comment on Fix the system.. 1 week ago:
It’s impossible to get through the ai screening, at least without overpromising. Companies want junior applicants with 20 years experience.
People got a taste of another way of life over Covid and understand their daily attendance just doesn’t move the needle.
Managers need to justify their existence by watching people in the office.
- Comment on So Close And Yet So Far 1 week ago:
In the worst case - Water doesn’t compress. Engine is a pump. Water gets sucked into the intake, into the engine, and the connecting rods bend. Catastrophic failure. The air intake usually is either high (level with the hood) or has a relief at that height to avoid this, but you obviously can’t fix this level of stupid.
It might be electrical, because it’s quite deep for those cars, but I’m not sure that’s the case.
- Comment on So Close And Yet So Far 1 week ago:
It’s a Jeep thing.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 weeks ago:
Working through the spaghetti of 50 conditional access policies. It’s better than compliance work, but not much.
- Comment on FireWire 2 weeks ago:
PC PSU output 3, 5, and 12V
- Comment on FireWire 2 weeks ago:
60 amps through those skinny wires? I’m no engineer but eve I can see that’s going to get hot.
- Comment on What even is my eXpEriEnCe here? 2 weeks ago:
A key difference is that engineering standards have grown to the point where we don’t hire a plumber to come multiple times to clear drains and patch leaks. The drains were built large enough and with proper materials to last for years without maintenance. We don’t have people constantly shoring up bridges either.
This is why some people don’t consider software engineering to be engineering.
Too many people justifying their existence by shipping unnecessary and poorly thought out features leads to unreliable, complex software that needs constant maintenance to keep it running.
- Comment on New UK homes in flood-risk areas could become uninsurable, says Aviva boss 2 weeks ago:
Building homes in known floodplains is a terrible use of land. Build commercial there, ok, but there’s a reason the village doesn’t have any 400 year old homes in that wide flat area next to the river.
- Comment on Hospitals in England hit by shortages of common drugs such as paracetamol 2 weeks ago:
Almost all (92%) of the trusts that responded said they had no contingency plan to tackle supply problems and 82% said they had not reported the scarcities they were facing to NHS England.
On one hand, shortage of basic nonprescription drugs like paracetamol and acetylsalicylic acid is huge cause for concern.
On the other hand, not talking about it makes it worse.
TFA talks about how there needs to be resilience in supply chains but doesn’t actually address how it’s possible to run out of two of the most commonly used drugs in the world, which is the real news item here. Is it underfunding leading to under-ordering? Is it a production problem? Is it a Trump problem? Who knows, we just need more bureaucrats to spend more time planning.
- Comment on Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras 2 weeks ago:
Article says it’s one of the largest networks in the world but it still needs to be larger.
Starting to sound like just one more camera and we’ll be able to end murder. One more camera.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a mistake 2 weeks ago:
Call me a prude but if you’re unable to wait until you’re not in a family group setting to look up pornography, you have a problematic relationship with pornography.
- Comment on Oil derrick camouflaged as Christmas tree, Huntington Beach, 1939. 2 weeks ago:
Seems less of a disguise and more of an attempt at being festive.
Oil production combined with wanton tree removal. Perfection.
- Comment on A community turned to grift 3 weeks ago:
A lot of knowledge is lost. The forums are shutting down, because people moved to Reddit - or discord. Then people deleted their Reddit posts, and discord isn’t public.
- Comment on What happened to dancesafe? Used to they would sit outside of raves and test drugs with the cops help. That way you knew what it was laced with. How come this did not catch on? 3 weeks ago:
We’re all tired of everything.
- Comment on What happened to dancesafe? Used to they would sit outside of raves and test drugs with the cops help. That way you knew what it was laced with. How come this did not catch on? 3 weeks ago:
EXACTLY
- Comment on What happened to dancesafe? Used to they would sit outside of raves and test drugs with the cops help. That way you knew what it was laced with. How come this did not catch on? 3 weeks ago:
All drugs are bad. Prohibition and incarceration is the only way to be safe.
- Comment on Does anyone have advice for brain zaps? 3 weeks ago:
I still get them (very) occasionally. It’s been about 15 years.
Just gotta plow through. I wish they hadn’t prescribed it as a first line.
- Comment on ‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like the job market as a whole.
There’s no job loyalty but the employers expect it for some reason and decide that someone with 5 years experience will stay around longer - though the reality isn’t that at all.
- Comment on Patriots owner Robert Kraft pledges $2 million donation after Macklemore outcry 3 weeks ago:
Robert Kraft intends to donate $2 million toward causes supporting people impacted by the war in Gaza
That describes most zionists in Israel.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Türkiye be like um, what about me?
- Comment on It's Only Game, Why You Heff To Be Mad 4 weeks ago:
If your hobby makes you upset and you take it out on spouse and kids, you need therapy and a new hobby.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I had a suspicion. Water coming out of pipes is just kinda black magic for many people (not to be negative, irs just not worth learning about). Because the cold and hot water don’t combine until inside the tap, it doesn’t matter for the dishwasher. But pulling hot water out of the tap gets hot water to wherever the dishwasher ties in - in most kitchens, but not always in fancy ones.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure why you’re being chastised for using water while the dishwasher is filling. That is a non sequitur. But for most people, the answer is probably yes, it moderately improves performance.
