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Takumidesh ,

This is mostly the same in the us. It's less common for drivers though, because you typically pay when you place the order and the driver just has you sign the paper as acknowledgement that you got the order.

This way the driver doesn't need to carry around a card machine everywhere they go, instead the slip can go right with the receipt on the hot bag, this also means the driver doesn't need to futz around with figuring out which order the tip goes to since they may have 3 or 4 orders on their run.

I delivered pizzas for a long time, there was about a six month period where we switched to square and it was horrible, people out in the country with no service meant I couldn't run their card, also since the order wasnt processed already, people would argue about the price when we got there, even though they accepted the price on the phone, trying to get a deal since we already drove all the way out.

Signing a slip of paper is the absolute fastest method for a delivery driver and there is no obligation to fill in the 'total' part, you can just put the tip value on the tip line and a line through the total, no math.

Write the number 5 on a piece of paper and that's it, faster than any machine, no hiccups with cell service, no batteries to keep charged, no greasy fingerprints on the screen. No worry about dropping it down 15 stories of stairs at a hotel, etc.

Takumidesh ,

If you will a steam account to someone, there is a chance that there are disputes/claims for the account that need to be settled in court.

Takumidesh ,

Also Linux's package ecosystem are not cross compatible.

Takumidesh ,

I didn't know about alien, that is pretty cool.

However this bit from the readme is hilariously on brand for Linux:

"To use alien, you will need several other programs. Alien is a perl
program, and requires perl version 5.004 or greater. If you use slackware,
make sure you get perl 5.004, the perl 5.003 in slackware does not work
with alien!

To convert packages to or from rpms, you need the Red Hat Package Manager;
get it from Red Hat's ftp site. If your distribution (eg, Red Hat)
provides a rpm-build package, you will need it as well to generate rpms.

If you want to convert packages into debian packages, you will need the
dpkg, dpkg-dev, and debhelper (version 3 or above) packages, which are
available on http://packages.debian.org"

Takumidesh ,

Let me just rake up all this sand and grass clippings.

Takumidesh ,

Autopilot also turns off on planes when things go wrong.

Takumidesh ,

Corporations can do all of those things while also operating as a non profit

Takumidesh ,

They influence the people watching them.

Takumidesh ,

Conservatives learn about set theory, transphobes in shambles.

Takumidesh ,

Well traditionally, cars only had one trunk, now it is common that they have two. The need arose to distinguish them, and 'front trunk' easily collapses into a nice single syllable portmanteau that makes communication simple and concise; the language evolves and a new word is born.

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    Takumidesh ,

    Generally green means go and red means no-go, regardless of which is the desired outcome.

    Takumidesh ,

    devs are such babies. I went to school and got licensed as an a&p (9 part proctored exam with written, practical, and oral components) and was working in the weather for $16 an hour, working my way up and dodging layoffs (which dont make it in the news because blue collar) to 25 an hour after years and years.

    This is working as an aircraft mechanic, at various levels. This is a high hazard environment filled with carcinogens (solvents like methyl ethyl ketone), fall hazards, operating heavy equipment.

    I got qualifications like engine run and taxi qualifications that result in $0.25 raises.

    Mandatory overtime, busting knuckles, freezing in the cold, boiling in the heat, standing on concrete all day.

    Oh and if I fuck up, planes crash, people die, and I go to jail.

    I got a job as a software developer in the same area working for a medium sized company no one has heard of (300 person engineering department) and I work 8 hours a week, with no deadlines, at home, and make 3 times the salary. The worst I have to do with is identity politics and stupid meetings, 🤷.

    These jobs are absolutely dream jobs for people who have perspective on what bad jobs actually are.

    Takumidesh ,

    I wasn't attacking you, or even referring to you as a dev, though it would have been a fair assumption regardless given the topic at hand.

    I also wasn't claiming 'hard labor' is better or anything, just that there is a large discrepancy between the quality of life and work of the jobs the article is referring to and the jobs that the majority of people actually work.

    Many software developers need perspective on the privilege they have, this is coming from someone who has worked a variety of jobs in different industries, attended trade school and university, and is currently a developer.

    Fwiw I was generally agreeing with you.

    Takumidesh ,

    The game explores the idea of choice and structure in modern video game narratives.

    It's presented to you in such a way that you feel like you can't break away from the established narrative, everything you do has actually been planned and accounted for, and even intended by the developer.

    Takumidesh ,

    What about it makes it look like a toy?

    Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

    Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

    Takumidesh ,

    Dark souls players in shambles.

    Takumidesh ,

    It's absolutely insanely horrible and probably some of the most invasive drm I have ever seen even proposed.

    This would require doing deep analysis on all of the content going through the stream. That analysis sure as hell isn't being done locally since smart TV's can barely run their own operating systems, so everything getting offloaded to Roku servers and then they get to put ads on whatever they determine to be an appropriate time.

    This technology enables censoring and blacking out signals that Roku decides you don't get to see, or preventing the release of the hijacked stream unless you perform certain actions, or just not releasing the stream at all unless you pay, effectively extorting you.

    These cheap smart TVs already give you the worst panels and the worst processors. And now get to be extorted out of your own data being delivered the ten feet from your computer or PlayStation to the TV.

    It's beyond ridiculous.

    Takumidesh ,

    Also when people in the trades work extra hard and extra fast, it's usually at the expense of their bodies, equipment, safety, and other factors. Just because one dude is sprinting back and forth between the parts window and the shop floor doesn't mean he should be.
    Management doesn't care though, and they say 'see how Jim finished 3 work orders today? You all need to do that'

    Jim gets mad because he is destroying his body to work faster, and others aren't, everyone else is mad because now the managers think Jim's behavior should be standard.

    All the 'fast' mechanics I worked with were always doing dumb shit, like standing too far up on ladders because a taller one wasn't available, loosening harnesses to get into tighter spots instead of working with a teammate, or carrying two way to heavy items instead of making two trips. Yes all this stuff gets jobs done quicker but at what cost.

    So the union tells Jim to slow down, because he isn't getting paid more for breaking his back, and his behavior will just shift to the new normal, meaning he will have to work even harder to be an 'overachiver'. Jim construes this as compensating for lazy employees, get propagandized by the xompany and dismantles the union.

    Six months later Jim falls off a ladder and can no longer work in that field. Meanwhile everyone else is still held to Jim's 'good work ethic' standard. More injuries, more injuries, more mistakes, employees start to see problems with the company, they form a union, the cycle continues.

    That was my experience in aviation at least.

    Takumidesh ,

    Because it's his title. Regardless of where you live.

    We still say King Charles or President Macron.

    Takumidesh ,

    The parents are likely retired with a good pension and little debt, and so can support the kid indefinitely

    Takumidesh ,

    What about something like groceries, oil changes, metro cards, hospital bills, mortgage payments, rent, gym memberships, cash only business, payroll, or anything else that is actually needed by people.

    Takumidesh ,

    So your solution is to buy back into banking infrastructure at a fee?

    Takumidesh ,

    I'm inclined to agree, but it's really just semantic differences. If they really wanted to, they could just release a new major version upgrade every year, tie the license to that version, and still get an effective annual subscription.

    Takumidesh ,

    When you have a fleet of 500 vehicles all over the place at various stages work. Calling each one isn't really practical.

    Managing fleets of vehicles is greatly helped by knowing where the vehicles are.

    Takumidesh ,

    Can you elaborate? Is it illegal to have security cameras in a business if that means that an employee may be on it?

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    Takumidesh ,

    It hasn't been determined by a court whether or not yuzu did anything wrong, they settled out of court.

    Takumidesh ,

    You are conflating these concepts.

    A business offering the donation at checkout doesn't get to use your donation as a tax write off. You actually get to do that (though it's unlikely you would get past the minimum deduction)

    Bill Gates doing philanthropic work is the same as you donating through the grocery store.

    Takumidesh ,

    Some very small percentage of people will switch to Linux, the majority of people will just continue to use windows 10.

    Takumidesh ,

    But that will only happen when the user base falls, so enough people will have had to move on organically, for popular tools like web browsers to give up.

    Firefox didn't end windows 7 support until July of last year. 3 years after eol for 7 and when 7's market share among windows was around 3 percent.

    And just eol'ing Firefox doesn't immediately break it, you will have at least a couple years before the browser becomes functionally useless.

    Takumidesh ,

    Also the story, while mostly being a christ allegory, has very very strong themes about self Identity, and being unaware of your true self.

    Takumidesh ,

    In the modern age, it's getting easier to hard-line your messaging platform though.

    If people are already used to having multiple messaging clients for multiple people, it's less of a jump to add one more.

    Takumidesh ,

    I think the most primary thing of all is that, most people don't have the means to run Ethernet cables to places that typical cameras are installed (doorbells and garage floodlights)

    It's a catch 22 though. Ok one hand, every single person in my neighborhood has multiple cameras on their property now and even when I lived in an apartment complex, everyone had a camera at their doorbell, but they all are usually ring or some other subscription based, phone home type.

    Do WiFi cameras present a new attack vector, yea for sure.
    Is having a WiFi camera that could be disabled better than not having a camera at all (what was the reality 5 years ago), hard to say.

    Takumidesh ,

    I don't love somewhere where people dress up as Scooby Doo villains to break into houses, I live in a place where people go house to house at 1 am and try door handles on cars and garages. A motion light and a camera does more to stop those people than anything else.

    If someone wants to stage an organized heist, then yea, my camera isn't doing shit, but neither are my door locks, or a bolted down safe. At that point it is just an insurance game.

    Takumidesh ,

    Most regular door locks are easy to pick.

    Takumidesh ,

    The cost of the cable maybe, not the cost of all the ancillary work.

    Most people have or want cameras in places where it won't be particularly easy to run wires, like door frames for door bells, and outside walls with insulation and various utilities in the way.

    Other people live where they can't do it at all (an apartment)

    Takumidesh ,

    Can you share some of the bugs you encounter? I actually find discord to be quite stable.

    Takumidesh ,

    It's pretty difficult, you need to get the rolling code from the fob, but you also need to jam it so it doesn't reach the car.

    Then you have one opportunity to replay the code before the holder of the fob hits the button in range and rolls the code over.

    So even if you manage to set that up that only gets you in the car, it doesn't get it started.

    Takumidesh ,

    I'm sorry, but do you just talk to strangers on the subway?

    We already have smartphones that everyone is looking at anyway.

    Before that we had newspapers.

    You are making up an imaginary dystopia to peddle fear for no reason.

    Takumidesh ,

    People on here are wired.

    Air pods just look like regular apple headphones just without wires.

    They sure as shit look less goofy than my huge pixel buds that stuck an inch out of my ear.

    Takumidesh ,

    How do you define novel? Because LLMs absolutely have produced novel data.

    Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue (www.cbsnews.com)

    Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.

    Takumidesh ,

    Yea, the government never, ever, ever has outdated definitions, and moves sluggishly in relation to changing technology.

    Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

    "Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

    Takumidesh ,

    A radio station is a small selection of music curated by an individual and meant for the masses.

    Modern music streaming has dynamically curated music from a nearly infinite source, it's really not the same.

    Takumidesh ,

    There has been a fud, fear mongering, excuse providing 'looming recession' every single time things are going kind of ok.

    Takumidesh ,

    You know, I ignored my interest in programming for many years, instead opting for a trade, specifically aviation maintenance. I went to school for 2 years for it, passed tests, got licensed, got otj, got taxi quals, engine run certified, and a whole host of stuff.

    I also broke my body doing it for $18, after years and years and years, I finally made $25 an hour, whoopie.

    I worked around hazardous chemicals, dangerous equipment, high voltage electricity. I stood on concrete floors all day busting my knuckles.

    I fell off a ladder and smashed my face on a keel beam, requiring I get stitches. I saw other people get much more hurt than that.

    I did all of this with the constant pressure that if I fuck my job up, people are going die, and I will go to jail.

    I went back to school, got a job as a software engineer at a midsize company that never is in the news and you have never heard of, and get to sit at home and make 3 times the salary. There are 10 other companies in the same block as mine that have 3-400 hundred person engineering teams, there are lots of jobs for developers outside of the silicon valley bubble, we mostly just hang out and do our thing.

    Until trades start paying more, it's just not worth it. I'm sure someone will come in and say that they are a plumber and make $1000 an hour or something, but I can say, there were 500 people in the facility I worked at with the same qualifications as me making the same $18.

    Takumidesh ,

    You are the reason casinos make money.

    Takumidesh ,

    I know more people that have died in car crashes (2, in separate instances, and one person that died in a motorcycle accident) than people who have died in plane crashes (0).

    But that doesn't actually matter, because a) anecdotal evidence means very little, if not nothing when considering the scale of transportation industries and b) the numbers don't lie. Since 1970, 85,555 people have died in fatal aviation incidents. Around 100,000 people die or are disabled in car accidents every single month.

    Your misunderstanding of statistics and probability and your idea that because the concept of a minor car accident exists, it nullifies the fact that they are dangerous, is just wrong.

    Takumidesh ,

    I am an airframe and powerplant certified mechanic, I worked on 737NGs for years as well as a320/1/neo, etc.

    I know more about aviation than you, I know more about plane crashes than you.

    Takumidesh ,

    No, but I do remember the advent of online ordering reducing the staff needed to answer phones and take orders at the counter at the pizza place I worked at.

    And now those same restaurants don't even staff drivers anymore, they outsource to door dash (who are now getting paid less, with less protections)

    Let's not pretend that technology improvements can't cause cascading changes in an industry.

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