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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 dif…

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 f…

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, …

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…

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 predictab…

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…

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…

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 …

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 t…

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.

"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 sc…

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…

Point taken. With that in mind, yes, you're left with Shrodinger's cat.

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 repuls…

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.

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.

https://www.techidence.com/kiwibots-are-not-fully-autonomous... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Campus

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…

yeah, the side mirrors

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 …

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 win…

Isn't this a thing on some university campus? I seem to recall robots being driven by Colombians delivering cafeteria food to res.

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), an…

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…