Botzo
@Botzo@lemmy.world
- Comment on missing 4 days ago:
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 5 days ago:
Yeah, I can still smell the place in my memory. Proustian.
I mostly worked on the “highway” line. 12 inch diameter by 10ft lengths, with drilled holes, wrapped with a fiberglass filter and packed in a bag. It was a 2 person task that has probably been more automated now. Those Vantage cigarettes man, they were really gross (and cheap) and he never took a step without one in his mouth. Lit one from the other, burning 2 at once, etc. You know, I’m probably the same age he was now.
The fun part was watching the 4ft diameter double-wall line go at the same time. That shit failed about 50% of the time so we were always cutting it up on the giant bandsaw to feed into the industrial grinder.
Ah, and that reminds me of working the coil lines. Giant bails of 3, 4, 6in. When we’d get bad runs, we’d splice them out, then feed the sometimes 50+ foot length into the grinder and run the fuck away because the other end would whip around. Workplace safety and all.
Can’t believe my parents thought that was a good way to spend my summers. I’m sure they thought it would pay for college like their summer jobs did. All for about $3/hr over minimum wage. At least I got overtime too. Lifers like Dale (or was it Dan) had worked themselves up to a bit over triple minimum wage, or $16/hr. Lol, what benefits? This was a Christian Reformed (Calvinist) run business.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 5 days ago:
In highschool, I did 12/5 noon-midnight for 2 summers at a corrugated plastic pipe factory.
It was grueling and hot and soul-crushingly monotonous. Have you ever listened to commercial top 40 radio for 12 hours next to >200F(100C) equipment? If I never hear Sting’s Desert Rose again, it will still be too soon. Or smell Dale’s chain-smoked vantage cigarettes (3.5 packs a shift, we made sure the fan was always in his direction).
The output was steady, so it was also punishing to human events like hunger or toilet breaks.
I can’t imagine doing it 6 days. As it was, I never saw friends, barely held a relationship, etc.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 2 weeks ago:
Seems on brand. Like they want people deported so they can go on missionary trips to accost them in their home countries with the love of Jesus.
- Comment on wolf spiders 3 weeks ago:
Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.
- Comment on The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Casual wear 4 weeks ago:
Big parmesan cheese fan by chance?
- Comment on Shhhhh 5 weeks ago:
The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.
It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.
But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.
- Comment on Ask the crickets 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The B2 saw its shadow which means another 20 years of war in the middle east 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Neo 5 weeks ago:
Oh hey, I’ve seen this one before.
- Comment on bomba fantastic 1 month ago:
Dammit, that’s gonna be my earworm for days.
- Comment on They're low key addictive tbh 1 month ago:
Also here from the Voyager app. Both work for me.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 2 months ago:
For sure. You weren’t gonna hear the difference on your $2 headphones or the speakers connected to your monitor anyway.
Plus, file size was king. My first mp3 player (drink dmp 90) had 16MB of internal memory and used those original SD cards for more (up to 32MB, but who could afford that?).
So 128kbps offered a really great compromise because it was still better than FM.
- Comment on You won't believe no.1!! 2 months ago:
Another way to mitigate the force of inductive skepticism is to restrict its scope. Karl Popper, for instance, regarded the problem of induction as insurmountable, but he argued that science is not in fact based on inductive inferences at all (Popper 1935 [1959]). Rather he presented a deductivist view of science, according to which it proceeds by making bold conjectures, and then attempting to falsify those conjectures. In the simplest version of this account, when a hypothesis makes a prediction which is found to be false in an experiment, the hypothesis is rejected as falsified. The logic of this procedure is fully deductive. The hypothesis entails the prediction, and the falsity of the prediction refutes the hypothesis by modus tollens. Thus, Popper claimed that science was not based on the extrapolative inferences considered by Hume. The consequence then is that it is not so important, at least for science, if those inferences would lack a rational foundation.
plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/
I just knew my philosophy degree would come in handy one day.
- Comment on You won't believe no.1!! 2 months ago:
69420 views.
Nice.
- Comment on Should have? 2 months ago:
I’d love to know if there’s an easy way to set this up for mobile. Lemmy is one of the things still on my list.
- Comment on Should have? 2 months ago:
Hah, I’ve been looking at gruvbox in a terminal and theming everything else with it for 7 or 8 years.
- Comment on Should have? 2 months ago:
Randomly coming across gruvbox is one of my favorite things.
- Comment on Moar garlic 2 months ago:
Just enough for a batch of toum.
- Comment on We're on the wrong timeline! 3 months ago:
What a boring dystopia.
- Comment on When a bee arrives on the scene 3 months ago:
I had the Flintstones soundtrack on cassette and played the crap out of it on my walkman (and let’s be real, my boombox too).
- Comment on Driving Upside Down in McMurtry Spéirling Electric Hypercar 3 months ago:
Here’s the OG:
- Comment on Cheers lads 3 months ago:
Practice!
Gotta drink more so you can drink more. Then you’ll find your groove and see that a few beers is just the spice driving needed!
- Comment on Clean butt 3 months ago:
Auto lid, auto flush checking in.
Yes, I’m spoiled.
- Comment on Clean butt 3 months ago:
I started with a $30 cheapo 10 years ago and it was life changing. Last year I got a stupid expensive one. Like, has a night light, auto flush (because I got the matching toilet), auto lid, heated seat, heated water, deodorizer, wireless remote, etc. (Toto S7A)
Just so you’re prepared, the air dry doesn’t fully replace the pat dry entirely unless you’re gonna sit there for a good long time.
That said, I have no regrets.
- Comment on Fucking hell 4 months ago:
True. It does match the French pattern of 4x20+x.
- Comment on Fucking hell 4 months ago:
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 4 months ago:
- Comment on new tab new tab new tab 4 months ago:
Takes me back to the compiz fusion desktop cube days. This masterpiece would have the wobbly windows effect and everything.
