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by black6 7d ago
The warehouse manager certainly isn't in the top 0.5%. Ask yourself why bathroom break policies exist in the first place.
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by black6 7d ago
It amuses me when adults need permission to perform basic human needs because a small group will always take advantage of common courtesy and ruin it for everyone else. When I was in grade school I pissed my pants in the library because the
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by black6 7d ago
This assumes that mothers in the workforce earning (taxable) income is a benefit in and of itself. It doesn't consider the familial impacts of outsourcing the raising of ones own offspring to another party.
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by black6 13d ago
I almost never use dedicated apps. I am able to access all my bank and other financial accounts through their websites on mobile, no problem. (Vanadium browser on GrapheneOS)
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by black6 15d ago
I use the cheapest toothbrush I can buy with homemade toothpaste and haven't had a cavity since middle school. The only dental problem I've had in my adult life was my tooth with the filling getting cracked in a car wreck. Technol
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by black6 20d ago
Scientism adherents love to try to disprove what is common sense for everyone else.
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by black6 23d ago
We are all at the mercy of the bottom quintile. The rules you follow (or are expected to follow) are based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and pro
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by black6 26d ago
Sorry... It's the corporation at the end of Marshall Brain's story Manna that runs a society where no ones actions are private. Everything is surveilled.
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by black6 26d ago
Software engineers have to understand that they aren't the only flavor of engineer, and even if "everyone is a [software] engineer" was the intended statement, it demonstrates excessive hubris. Many real engineers do work on
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by black6 29d ago
3GC
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by black6 1mo ago
We were on our way to Annual Training for the National Guard on a charter bus. I was seated close to the front and could see where we were heading, and knew that we were leaving the small town where the garrison was, getting on the intersta
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by black6 1mo ago
They shouldn't be connected is the point of the article. All PLC and DCS manufacturers are constantly working on threat mitigation and pushing out updates to address vulnerabilities. It's on the Process Controls team to decide wha
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by black6 1mo ago
Hertz had a "glitch" in their system which would wrongly flag cars as stolen and automatically report that to police. https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
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by black6 1mo ago
"I don't know." is a better answer than "Claude said..."
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by black6 2mo ago
They were getting inconsistent results, not just weird ones. However I agree that suicide probably wouldn't be where they would end up.
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Sit Down and Shut Up(market-ticker.org)
2 points by black6 2mo ago|1 comments
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by black6 2mo ago
That's almost all economic dogma, too.
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by black6 2mo ago
I got news for you about the DNC as well...
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How to Handle Data Center Construction(market-ticker.org)
2 points by black6 2mo ago|0 comments
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by black6 2mo ago
Heat rejection.
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by black6 2mo ago
The company for which I work seems to be run by engineers. When learning to be an engineer you're taught that doing nothing is always a valid option. In Army leadership courses we were taught that ANY decision is better than NO decisio
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by black6 2mo ago
The people who cheer the USAID cuts fail to grasp the moral necessity of sending their already inflated away tax dollars to other nations while there are still problems aplenty at home.
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by black6 2mo ago
Asian manufacturing will continue to undercut Western manufacturing on cost due to the absence of safety culture and the spending that comes with it. The value of human life is higher in the West, and the manufacturing costs reflect that.
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by black6 2mo ago
[2015], with a nice correction from 2017 about the differences between compressive and tensile strength.
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by black6 2mo ago
Turn on the sink before you flush so a sizeable drop in header pressure becomes obvious.
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by black6 3mo ago
Due to corporate IT working its fingers into everything vaguely computer related, I now have to annually change the passwords that operators use to log onto the HMIs on my OT network (which has no connection to the greater Internet.) That m
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by black6 3mo ago
Loading a tennis ball full of the heads of strike anywhere matches is a core childhood memory.
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by black6 3mo ago
Thanks. It was unclear reading the article and linked paper. I didn't follow the citation/link trail far enough.
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by black6 3mo ago
I'm struggling to figure out what they're trying to say here in the linked (and very anemic) paper: > 30% of Black applicants apply to at least one position that demonstrates adverse impact against Black applicants. The whole t
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by black6 3mo ago
You don't understand! I NEED to drive a one-ton pickup every day to and from work! I MIGHT stop by the feed store on the way home to pick up some fence posts and fertilizer for my hobby farm. I HAVE to have the flexibility of a daily d

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