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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that by going fully onsite, they can probably avoid layoffs entirely. The majority of tech roles are hybrid or remote so the departures are going to be often and steady which will naturally select out anyone not interesting in making their life Amazon. They want employees that live and breath Amazon and this is how they get that (or just keep desperate people).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The massive U.S. port strike has begun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It sure sounds like the trade association needs to bring a better offer to the union if the impact is going to be so severe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon mows lawns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good price here in Seattle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the purpose of this plastic piece?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m of the opinion that it’s just to improve the perception of package quality. I don’t see those cheap plastic pieces as keeping the prongs from accidentally warping or bending but I guess they could keep moisture away. I’ve never received a corroded set of prongs before their use though so my theory stands as they are upping the packaging visual aesthetics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Union Wins 25% Raise in Tentative Contract, But Possible Strike Still Looms⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the workers want their pensions back. That is reason enough to strike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan is having a hard time convincing employees to take 4-day workweeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine working for a company and not having the thought of layoffs in the back of my head. Article states that companies are encouraged to provide life long employment which is pretty great. Here in the US, I hop to a new job every 2-4 years since I don’t think a single company is invested in the worker. So we get both the constant threat of layoffs as well as a five day work week. Sounds like Japan is heading in a better direction since at least the government is behind a four day work week. I can’t imagine a single Republikan being in favor of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite energy is easy. Point a flashlight at a solar charger that charges a flashlight pointed at a solar charger that charges the first flashlight.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use my neighbors hose to power a water wheel for infinite energy. No one knows where the water comes from but i assume it’s free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Russia takes out all the Internet cables like the news is saying. How much of that traffic can be re-routed to satellite?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to remember that the cloud is just a series of data centers owned by cloud providers. If you are Netflix, you’re not hosting Stranger Things for audiences in the US from the EU. You have a copy of it in both places and leverage AWS regions in each area to server geographically closer users (it’s typically called latency based routing). If the undersea cables are cut, the EU still watches Netflix because the content doesn’t need to travel undersea, it’s already in the EU, same thing in the US. The challenge comes in at the end of the month when people pay their Netflix bills and the banks needs to process international payments. End users are largely not impacted by direct service outages but big companies are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you like a receipt?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar but I scan mine for reimbursement as the majority of times I am buying stuff while outside the house it is a business expense. This statement makes me realize I need to leave the house more often for non work purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boeing Spacecraft: They'll never let you down!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NASA and Boeing disagree on the safety of the return trip. I think I’ll side with nasa on safety related questions here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Pasteurised⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole raw milk thing is truly breaking my remaining faith in humanity. Like I saw how we responded to COVID and everything we’ve done across the past hundred plus years in destroying environments, greed, and selfishness but for some reason this raw milk saga is kinda like the straw that broke the camels back. Just intentionally trying to work against the whole species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying that criminals are likely to support fellow criminals? This should be a sociological study. They are upset that a wealthy criminal may face repercussions which doesn’t fit in their world view. To them, only non-wealthy criminals should ever face justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨adapt. overcome. improvise.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatively, if she cracks cold fusion. Have to give her some options to make it more realistic. Solve two-of-three problems type of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked in healthcare tech for a long time and I would say that healthcare facilities should focus on delivering healthcare. We had so much administrative overhead from dealing with this insurance bullshit that it drove up costs to staff a ton of people to deal with insurance bullshit and thus increased costs. If we had single payer it would be a single process that couldn’t possibly be more convoluted than what we have now. Sending shit to insurance clearing houses with exact ordering of diagnosis matching procedures so that they don’t get kicked back. The hospital doesn’t want you dealing with this shit either they just want the money that the insurance provider said it would pay for your treatment. It’s 90% insurance bullshit all the way down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Craigslist to make a band [13 Min]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a fun watch. It’s nice to get a wholesome video in the depths of the internet recommendation list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Russian Defector’s Killing Raises Specter of Hit Squads⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time a Russian hit squad poisons or shoots someone in a foreign country the world acts surprised like it’s the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Garbage Lasagna’: Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says | Decades of buried trash is releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that there are some dumps that capture the methane for use. They put a layer of soil over the top to trap the gasses and collect them via pipes coming out for venting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when I had the original iPhone with jailbreak I was able to use it as a hotspot without the carrier restrictions. Guessing it’s the same way now that it is handled in the OS and phone makers have carrier agreements to separate the traffic so people don’t use as much of their service as they pay for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden Administration Restores Wildlife Protections Weakened Under Trump | The rules give federal officials more leeway to protect species in a changing climate. Industry groups are expected to sue.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more that the republicans have been breaking a lot more shit and breaking it more thoroughly than ever before so it takes more work and effort to fix things. It’s always easier to break something than to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Showrunner Drops Hints For Each Season 5 Episode⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going to be sad to see it go. I know the series wasn’t universally loved but I really did enjoy it. Looking forward to April 4th!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Radxa Penta SATA HAT adds up to five SATA drives to the Raspberry Pi 5⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone know what the throughout would look like on that? Would love to use it for SSDs if it’s fast or spinning disks if it could run at a reasonable rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man they really jumped the shark at number 4. I mean you had to suspend rational belief across all of them but that’s just movie magic. Number 4 took it too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese - Schneier on Security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How does one even recover from this. I guess the assumption stays the same that everything on a corp network is compromised. Can’t imagine this is going to win Azure new business for DoD workloads.