Jump to content

Captainant

Certifiably Surly
  • Posts

    16956
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    6

Everything posted by Captainant

  1. Definitely more heat than the sun devils are used to. Hook em, great stop
  2. Usually doing a film review or some team meetings or some shit - not sheltered in place lol. Hell just when I was in LHB a gameday, much less a bowl game, was an all day affair with nearly every minute filled. I would imagine a football team has shit to do besides sheltering in place to get fully ready to play in a quarterfinal playoff game
  3. Huh, the teams are sheltered in place in their hotels. Seems less than ideal for the whole gameday routine
  4. The situation seems fluid with the game The explosives found in the truck likely ratchet up the level of checks and caution being taken
  5. Ftfy. And if you aren't blocking JavaScript and running adblockers, you're already tagged and tracked and logged internet traffic. They make their money selling that user data, it's why the extension is free
  6. Bro do you want shareholder returns or not??! Starting to sound like a goddamn pinko
  7. Captainant

    3D Printing

    When hobbies collide.... This 3D printed duck call works surprisingly well! It used a whopping 35 grams of PETG for all 4 pieces - even the reed!
  8. Genuinely, a big part of why I love surly is that it's not part of the "dead internet". For all of its warts and assholes, this place is full of PEOPLE. Plus a few prong and GRU horns
  9. "Hapsburg AI" is a preferred term of art for when you feed an ML model it's own shit
  10. The query itself doesn't, but they're basically amortizing the energy/water usage for creating the LLM that powers chatGPT/Gemini/etc/etc
  11. I've posted these MilSim'ers before in the Ukraine war thread, they did a pretty solid recreation of the friendly fire incedent - including a reading of an honest to god primary account of the event from the pilot in the seat. The video shouldbe timestamped to the reading of the pilot's statements. "for reasons we don't understand, both pilots posted on twitter their view of what happened. .... It's gone now but we've got screenshots" Pretty cool that they fully recreated the antidrone mission the FA-18's were tasked with, all the way to AAR on the way home and friendly fire incedent
  12. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/elon-musk-wants-weak-europe-says-germanys-vice-chancellor-2024-12-30/ The calls by Musk are not made out of ignorance, said Habeck, who is the chancellor candidate for the Greens party in German national elections due in February. "It is logical and systematic. Musk is strengthening those who are weakening Europe. A weak Europe is in the interest of those for whom regulation is an inappropriate limitation of their power," added Habeck. The German government on Monday accused Musk, who owns social media platform X and is CEO of Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab and SpaceX, of trying to influence the upcoming election with a guest opinion piece for the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. Musk, the world's richest person, spent more than $250 million to help Trump get elected and has been tasked by Trump to prune the federal budget as a special adviser. Musk endorsed the AfD as Germany's last hope in the piece that prompted the commentary editor to resign in protest, praising the anti-establishment, anti-immigrant party's approach to regulation, taxes and market deregulation.
  13. Ding ding ding ding ding! H1B's and contractor staff are regularly treated like a number on a spreadsheet and don't care if they have to wake up at 3 AM on a Friday for a poorly planned deployment - they'll go with whatever management says and keep their heads down. Plus, college grads expect all sort of bullshit like mentoring and training. That costs money! The contractors are just happy to have their green card and will eat a mountain of shit to retain it. It's horribly exploitative in my experience with Fortune 50 to 500 businesses
  14. Huh, I could have sworn there was a major computer input component added with the NG airframes. Maybe I'm misremembering the hydraulic boost "power steering" on the NG's and the spoilers on the MAX.
  15. Older aircraft had hydraulic controls where the stick and pedals were mechanically linked to the control surfaces. In the newer planes it's all fly by wire where the computer is adding additional inputs to control surfaces to achieve the outcome the pilot indicates with their controls
  16. Not really, because wages are so low these businesses use the federal government to subsidize their wage slaves. Fuck yeah we should be taxing those entities more - they're drawing on more subsidy and pork for their otherwise failing business Lol you aggys have a very narrow capacity to see complex systems
  17. H1-B's do serve to suppress wages by distorting the employment market, though. Were it not for H1-B's, most of my customers wouldn't have an engineering staff because they've chased that cost reduction technique for literal decades. I'm not saying H1-B's are bad, but they are absolutely used and abused by the management class to attack and destroy whatever bargaining power tech workers had left.
  18. It's probably a good bet that the chosen winner companies owned by friendly oligarchs are gonna do just fine through all the turmoil. You're harvesting the losses from the unprotected businesses in your hedge
  19. Or we could just wait for a patent case to hit the supreme court and bribe alito and thomas into nullifying the law and triggering an ad-hoc reform
  20. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/elon-musk-influence-german-elections-afd-far-right-rcna185722 Elmo is gonna get his pee pee whacked by Germany. They do not tolerate nazi love like we do in the US. Pretty crazy how fast we've done the russia speed run and allowed our oligarchs to seize control of the government and work to directly steer foreign sovereign allies
×
×
  • Create New...