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by failedengineer 4y ago
hey hey, this is exactly what happened to my engineering career right here. "This code will never be used." "Oh, ok." proceeds to write garbage to test out various features and different ways of doing the same thing &q
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by failedengineer 4y ago
and because it's almost trivial to run a subscriber supported site out of business 3 steps: 1 - fund high quality, totally free content, great UI, minimal ads 2 - poach customers from subscriber sites, wait them out. will take about a
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Every job I've applied for that required any level of physical work had "must be able to lift 50 lbs" as a requirement. It's a little heavier than a step ladder, bags of potatoes, flour, cement and gravel are typically i
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Extra fun fact about tinkering: The air gap in the transformer means that your GFCI won't detect a ground fault, and your circuit breaker won't detect a short because as far as the mains line is concerned, there is nothing wrong w
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Hammocks are great if you're sleeping on a ship and don't have something gyroscopically stabilized. They change the big and unpredictable swings caused by waves into more predictable swings like a pendulum.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
yeah, it's 90% hypothesizing. Don't take it as me saying what you should or shouldn't do. Obviously, I'm not in a position to do that. It's just... if your neighbour pulled up with a car that's powered by cooki
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by failedengineer 4y ago
I would disagree that the kind of data being talked about lends itself to misuse. Management in general, and especially in well run companies, tends to be responsible and judicious in their use of various metrics and getting a good, holisti
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Are you consuming entire animals? Just meat? No snark there, either. Skeletal muscle alone isn't a complete diet. It's lacking in a few areas. Eating nothing but meat does seem to improve body composition, insulin sensitivity, som
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by failedengineer 4y ago
thread poster could include a fourth alternative... the "hesitant adopter," left behind when they missed the bus early on and every goodname they wanted was taken while they took the tour of the service. not even the badnamers wan
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by failedengineer 4y ago
I got a 4.8... the model also told me I lied about my age by nearly 20 years, so that's nice. I'm a very young looking ugly.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
"Pardon, Officer, but we're firing several employees today and would you like you to assist. We're concerned they might say bad things to us." "ON OUR WAY!" This is a disgusting scenario. I hope they weren&#x27
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by failedengineer 4y ago
I'd be completely flabbergasted if they trained an AI to parse source code while playing a game. I think it's the "lack of addition" rather than the "expressly disallowed" training rules that are being referred
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Point taken. With that in mind, yes, you're left with Shrodinger's cat.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Gravity is not, in fact, the attraction of lesser mass to greater mass. Gravity is the repulsion of lesser mass by greater mass. In the case of the Earth, this means you are repulsed toward the Earth by the weight of the column of space &qu
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by failedengineer 4y ago
and there's no way of knowing if you have prions in your body, and when your brain will turn to mush. CJD is nightmare fuel.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
That's probably what made it hard to drive the Aspire. It had like a 13 inch steering wheel. I didn't measure it, but it was pretty small.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
https://www.techidence.com/kiwibots-are-not-fully-autonomous... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Campus
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by failedengineer 4y ago
yeah, Alaska and Sibera are pretty much the only places with worse winters than where I learned. I'll keep this in my pocket for times when I'm spinning a wheel and am out of other options. We only get a few inches a year here, bu
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by failedengineer 4y ago
yeah, the side mirrors
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by failedengineer 4y ago
I've never heard of this, and I learned how to drive in places with very rough winters. You just hold the brake (lightly) with one foot, and gas with the other? This doesn't sound as useful as putting the car in 2nd, or rocking ba
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by failedengineer 4y ago
There are loads of people on here who have never driven cable-controlled throttles, rack-and-pinion assisted steering... I'd even guess there are a few that haven't used manual windows or hand-adjusted rear view mirrors (the kind
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Isn't this a thing on some university campus? I seem to recall robots being driven by Colombians delivering cafeteria food to res.
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by failedengineer 4y ago
I find the smartphone app menu model vastly superior to the others. I can take 10 minutes to get an order sorted out (ordering with a family takes far longer than a solo order), and I don't slow down the line of people in onesies-and-t
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by failedengineer 4y ago
Right? What are the odds that GP would post "I don't know exactly what these brain regions do, but I know that these transgendered people who had fMRI showing their brains function much closer to their identified gender should sim
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by failedengineer 4y ago
It's not a conservative guess. It's objectively wrong. Inner join means "include only matching records," and if nulls are being dropped, it's because the developer doesn't know that in SQL, null != null, and th
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by failedengineer 4y ago
>Somebody that couldn’t get any sleep Sunday night because of their issue isn’t going to bring a valuable, interesting, and diverse perspective to the workplace on Monday. So... how do you react when a coworker has a baby? Basically expe
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by failedengineer 4y ago
With a lot of people, once they know (or just believe) you have some kind of mental illness, you no longer have a personality or character, you have a collection of symptoms. That's a big part of what the stigma is. Yeah, don't me
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by failedengineer 4y ago
This makes my head and heart hurt to see so many people agreeing with this. There's a right, and wrong, time for using left joins. "all the time" is the wrong time. If you need to join on all existing records, including null
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by failedengineer 5y ago
That changes things quite a bit, and definitely goes into the "none of our business, let the Ukrainians decide who is on their side" line of thinking for me, since all most of us are doing is putting blue and yellow on things and
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by failedengineer 5y ago
Controversial take. "Nazis who travel to Ukraine to fight Russians are less bad people doing morally and ethically ambiguous things. Once they leave Ukraine, the actions they performed involving Russians are both unethical (because the

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