afraid_of_zombies @ afraid_of_zombies @lemmy.world

Hail the Omnissiah! Praise be to the machine-god.

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Article says the police estimate they had a total between 200-450 more in that city alone. And all of this comes from their Supreme Court issuing a ruling that local governments can't regulate the industry.

Pity they just refuse to follow the will of the people. If it is this common enforcement is impossible

I must admit my previous 37 hours were far less interesting.

Well assuming one with explosives can take out a single person, they get a 10% accuracy (number pulled out of my ass), and a VSL (value of statistical life) of 1.5 million you get 150,000 USD.

Really throws off the cost function when the false negative penalty is a million times bigger.

Setup solar panels with 99% of it then probably die in an orgy of hedonism with the remaining 6 million.

You might as well ask me what I believe the role of lizard or a bird to be. The measures of its success is how long it lives and how well it did at copying its uniqueness. The state doesn't exist for humans, it exists because we are capable of getting that particular meme-infection.

This isn't a value judgement. I could argue all the points of why having a government is better for us vs not having one but I won't bother because even if I am right it is a post hoc justification that would apply to modern governments not what we have typically had in history.

Now a very good strategy for a state to survive is to make its territory such a nice place it has productive humans and is able to attract more. Given that the pragmatic solution is the highly democratic welfare state.

I drove Uber on Saturday night for a bit over a year. Bouncers were the best. Very polite, sober, and tipped well. It was so predictable to get that hail 15 minutes or so after last call, they get in the front seat and have to pull the chair back.

The very worst: white girl 21 years old with two friends who were the same.

Weird thing about humanity. Large guys paid to be intimidating for a living being super nice, girls with a bodyweight so low I could easily carry them being rude as fuck. Or maybe it's not weird, maybe if you spend your life being naturally scary just by existing you learn to not set off flight-fight responses.

Dunno know. Got a theory big guy?

You know just because it is true doesn't mean you have to say it.

I started baking a few months ago and brought my creations into work. Eventually a guy working there brought me on to work very part time making bread for his family restaurant. Really haven't made much money, it's just for fun now (yes I do like making custom breads, its a challenge) but I plan to keep with it. I think I can approach the idea of starting a ghost-bakery in a year or two.

Business plan is basically come up with unique items for restaurants with their owners and agree that they are exclusive. I make them a special bread and I don't sell it to anyone else. They have it, no one else does. I can't go up against real bakeries and I have no plans to ever even try.

People who care about money don't become teachers.

You remember the Miracle Worker, right? Did any person finish High School without hearing the name Anne Sullivan?

I don't think it's a vast conspiracy, it is just a matter of values. You don't spend your teen years working at an aftercare program, then six years of higher ed, then at least 5 years hopping from district to district, and finally get a job that pays about half what you should get for a master's degree to teach kids to make a spreadsheet of their expenses. You do it to teach kids the joy of reading/music/art/math, to reach the kids that the system gave up on, and to nurture brilliance.

water/wastewater treatment careers,

I been saying this for almost as long as I have been in the all-things-waste sector. If you don't know what to do with your life consider this. It's a huge field from air scrubbers, to ground water remediation, to industrial scrap, to feces, to recycling, to solvent recovery, to chemical waste processing, to trash incinerators, to pulping equipment, and heck even regular HVAC falls under it sometimes.

Everyone shits and everyone makes garbage. As long as humans are still around someone is going to have to deal with that fact. And if there aren't humans around you won't have to worry about a job.

Every working day of my life I choose to make the world a slightly cleaner place, I am harder to fire than a normal civil servant, get paid well, and always have the most badass stories of my friend-group. Most people can't talk about the time they came up with the ideas to fight a frozen shitberg with a blowtorches for example.

There are a lot of ways to break in. If I was starting fresh I would probably apply for government jobs at a facility, start entry-level, and let them pay to train me. I came in as an engineer at a small contractor.

Tennis? I thought they were talking about the other sportsball, the one where old dudes hit a ball with sticks into a hole

Industrial but guess it counts.

Giant motor is supposed to kick on, run for a moment in reverse, wind down, and then go forward. What is happening instead is it kicks on then the whole system goes into stopped state. Two days on the phone and I can't figure it out, pouring over the code, trying everything.

Suddenly the guy in the field coughs and says "sorry it's really dusty here".

It clicks in my head. I tell him to manually push down on the contactor. He says he feels resistance I tell him that's good and push harder. It give in and I tell him to start again. Works perfectly.

The dust had combined with the internal oil of the contactor making a sludge. The contactor has two coils, a high torque high current one for starting and a low torque low current one to hold. Not much different than a starter in a car. The sludge has stopped the second coil from engaging keeping it locked in high current. Since it was DC the coil kept drawing more and more amps until the power supply couldn't keep the voltage high enough. Which made the PLC halt. When the PLC halted it erased all the temporary bits including the one that said it was running. The PLC stopped telling the contactor to engage and the power went back to normal.

The sequence was maybe a tenth of a second.

Hosted a game night with friends, now just drinking a beer on my porch

You have convinced me. There definitely is room for improvement in this sector. Sadly not much I can do as mechanical assemblies aren't real my knowledge base. If you start something and need a panel designed let me know. Sounds like an interesting project. Might want to start with something basic like a stamper/press.

Well I guess you are talking about PCB schematics, industrial if you don't have the CAD file a PDF converter works fine.

You are right a complex mechanical assembly is not trivial especially since most OEMs are not going, sadly, to put every part in solid works.

It feels like when I am having these discussions about open source hardware that I am speaking a different language. I can reverse engineer the electrical/software for any industrial machine except maybe some complex CNC. And the majority of the time if I need it I can just request it. I just really don't want to. The time and energy to build something from scratch is not trivial.

Just this week I was dealing with a conveyor system I want to rip out and build fresh but took the easy way and debugged it.

We’re about to learn how much they fucking hate us.

Get in line and take a number

I feel like you just asked me if a chopstick is a fork. My clients ask me for it and I email them the PDF, I ssk other companies sometimes and they email me the PDF. What license is that?

No you are pulling a libertarian. You defined a word that is used a particular way to mean what you want it to mean then declare victory.

You are not arguing step-by-step, you are bypassing.

Was he assaulted?

No it's more than that. When I rip apart s machine I know exactly where to buy each part in it, I usually have the schematic. Any given part breaks and I can fix it