No clue if you have any idea what you're talking about but appreciate the Information dump. If I'm ever near death from hunger but surrounded by forest floor growths I'll try to remember this.
There is a lot of consumerism in the younger generations but I'm sure grandma and grandpa are still telling stories. I don't think there is any culture more anxious to pour cash into real assets like foreign properties.
The deadliest famine in human history (that's what Wikipedia calls it) happened between 1958 and 1962 in China.
I think all the current generations in mainland are still pretty aware that saving money for a rainy day when the clouds start to accumulate is a good plan.
Happy I'm not in IT anymore.
One of my first major outages was caused by the iloveyou.vbs virus that emailed itself to your contact list. It brought our exchange server to its knees in minutes and took quite a while to clean up.
Nobody really understood at the time that attachments could be dangerous.
Thanka for this comment, I wasn't aware there are so many other options
Civics, politics, and world history classes. Is nobody taking these anymore? Sheesh.
Thank you for being willing to stick your neck out there and say what you feel and see.
On social media, especially sites where voting seems to happen in packs, it's risky to have a counter opinion. Too many people just don't say how they feel if it's counter to the mainstream, and then their voices are completely drowned out.
Perhaps your idea is more mainstream than you know but those who share it don't have a willingness to jump into the fire, leaving those with more extreme positions thinking they have agreement with most when they don't.
Someday we'll read this story on carvings inside a cave
He gets a pass because we already know it will happen. No surprises at all. The bar is very very low. I guess his 'genius' is that he's got enough cash to both set the bar low and then manage to still function marginally.
The media reporting on that would be boring.
With everyone else, the bar is still slightly higher.
There was that moment it time when he was the underdog doing cool stuff. It seemed like he couldn't screw up, because his companies were hitting the ball out of the park one after the other.
Then the pedo guy debacle taught us who he really is.
I see this often. That tells me I've done enough scrolling and it's time to get back to work.
I usually browse /all and top 6 hours
A cool feature for the fediverse could be some kind of aggregated view and a way for the community to link common topic threads.
If a remote worker can actually do the job at a high enough level, then the writing is on the wall.
Globalization will eventually take over those roles and laws that try to prop up a local worker will end up like Oregon's old law that says you can't pump your own gas.
The only way to 'win' is to equip the local guy with skills that absolutely cannot be done remotely, or educate him to do things at a level unmatched by the remote worker coming from another culture.
And this, kids, is why nobody can say sorry for anything. It will be used against you in court.
An exceptionally well trained AI customer service has the potential to be amazing.
I only call or try to chat/email with customer service if something has gone way wrong - like outside the typical customer service capability of assistance.
If an AI can realize that my problem is human worthy and escalate it faster, that would save me time in the chat queue talking with someone who barely knows my native language.
Alas, AIs will be poorly trained, so the bad-english CS reps will still be right behind the AI interface waiting for me.
The amount of time I reset it myself and the problem went away is too damn high.
Usually the end user kinda smirks and says huh, weird, I tried that! You must be magic!
There are Udemy courses on cobol, I'm sure any developer can get up to speed pretty fast.
Or just use an LLM, like the rest of us now
It works well.
Better than toasting the thing in a 350 degree oven (becomes rock hard)
Way better than microwaving (becomes like soft but hot white bread)
Takes just a few minutes too.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented a car to his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media said Tuesday, in another sign of warming ties between the two countries that have raised concerns in the United States.
Have you ever seen this type of print failure?
Pretty sure I'm having heat creep up the Bowden tube, as it's getting jammed a few cm back from the hot end and then can't push the filament any more. When I get it out there's a little molten bulb at the filament.
In this fail, I think it jammed as usual and the extruder found a way to keep going.
I tried turning down the hot end from 215 to 200 and it's still failing. My cooling fan is running at 100%.
This is the third time I've had this print fail at about this layer, around 1 hour into what will be a 26 hour print.
Any ideas?
Mind blowing experience with ChatGPT - Upload my audio narrative and then ask me questions
I'm in the process of hiring for a position and I have two candidates. It's a tough call because both are very proficient but each has some unique attributes. I thought I might ask ChatGPT's assistance with thinking it through.
I recorded myself talking through my thoughts on each one as I read through their resume and the Q&As that I've done with each. Then uploaded the audio file to the whisper-1 api for transcription (for this I'm using the OpenAI API).
Then I pasted the transcribed text into GPT4 and then prompted it with: "Above is my transcribed notes comparing two candidates for a position together. Help me think through this decision by asking me questions, one at a time."
ChatGPT proceeded to ask me really good questions, one after the other. After a while I felt like it had got me to think about many new factors and ideas. After about 22 questions I'd had enough, so I asked it to wrap up and summarize our next steps, to which it spit out a bullet-point list of what we'd concluded and, what steps we should take next.
I don't know if everyone is using ChatGPT this way, but this is a really useful feedback system.
Washington state senator arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun through airport
An American politician has been arrested in Hong Kong for carrying a gun into the city, according to a charge sheet seen by CNN, in what he has called an “honest mistake.”
City bike that I tested today
This bike has a 10ah battery in the seat post and a 7 gear derailleur. Top speed is limited to 25km but I think it can be reprogrammed to remove the limit.
How to solve power supply whine with continuous dimming LED?
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My project is a "breathing" white 12v LED strip controlled by an esp32 on a dev board, and switched with an IFLZ44N mosfet.
In my video you can see it working but also hear the power supply complaining.
I'm using the LEDC Arduino library which allows me to select the frequency and resolution for PWM.
If I set the frequency too low the whine is extreme, but at this setting it's the best I've been able to achieve, which is about 9000Hz. Unfortunately you can still hear the sound from across the room!
It is a cheapo solid state power supply that claims it can output 12v up to 25A. I tried my desktop supply and it emits some whine too, so I don't think replacing the power will totally fix this.
Is there a technique for tuning the frequency or even just masking it somehow?
Why do you or why don't you use an ebike for your commute?
I live in a city where public transportation is overcrowded, there's constant vehicle traffic, and you can't depend on any commute time for a given day or hour. The average temperature is very high, so walking is a sweaty affair.
The only way I've found to make this city more usable is with an ebike and scooter. It's like the perfect vehicle for these conditions.
However, many people reject the technology and either choose their car or other forms of getting around.
Is it because it's not well understood, or seems too expensive?
I'm curious what sold you on the technology or what is the reason you're not making the leap.
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Saw this come through from Octoprint remotely. It was an 8 hour print and died about at about the 7:15 mark.
Are you doing anything to protect yourself or your home from the risk of a fire?
68mph E-Scooter - why?
The fastest electric scooter in the Zondoo lineup is the RoadHitter, which claims 68 mph with 70-80 miles of range.
This scooter features dual 4000 watt motors and can achieve 60+ mph speeds straight and level. But why?
This speed is surely deadly in the event of a crash and it's hard to image it would even be fun to ride at such a speed.
Report: Urban residents plan to use micromobility ‘substantially more in the future’
Has micromobility already changed your commuting habits? What about your selection of place to live?
I live in a huge city with gridlocked traffic, and an e-scooter enables selecting (much) cheaper condos further away from the public transportation.
Fort Collins adds on-street e-bike parking locations without reducing vehicle spots
Hopefully as micro-mobility takes hold, more and more cities will create spaces for parking and charging electric vehicles.
Guys, guys, guys. I was strolling through the never-ending booths full of micromobility companies at the Eurobike 2023 trade show...
A new generation of e-scooters with solar panels means never needing to plug in. Is the trade off in weight and size worth the added flexibility?
It doesn’t take long walking around the Eurobike show halls to realize that eBikes are already here in a big way. All of those eBikes…
Solid state ceramic batteries may greatly advance the future of micro-mobility. They promise higher energy density and less susceptibility to thermal runaway and can be used in a wider temperature range.
'I can't imagine a 13-year-old being able to drive something that can go 25 to 30 miles an hour in the middle of a road. It just doesn’t seem safe.'
>E-bikes are not bicycles
The article makes a strong assertion that e-bikes are something entirely different than regular bikes and should be regulated separately.
Do you think e-bikes should always be allowed to follow the same paths and rules as regular person-powered bicycles? Or should communities treat them as something different?
City of Boulder Offers E-Bike Vouchers to City Residents This Summer
This creative way to increase the adoption of micro-mobility is similar to the tax credits offered by the US federal government around electric cars.
Is it likely to draw more interest from the community? Would you be more encouraged to purchase an e-bike if you could get a voucher?
The problem is not hard to solve — but it’s impossible to solve any problem when City Hall has become a hand wringing talking shop.
The era of more regulation may be upon us - if New York enacts more rules, it's likely that other cities will follow and insurers may even begin to exclude liabilities from Lithium battery fires.
What can the industry do now to regulate itself? Is there some reasonable amount of safety regulation that can save lives without dramatically increasing costs?