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m0darn

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m0darn , to Technology in Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

I understand your anger and agree that anti-vaxxers are stupid. I believe public health education should be part of the school system.

I also agree that it's responsible for a society to impose reasonable restrictions on members that endanger it.

I think people do have an ethical obligation to take reasonable precautions avoid potentially exposing others to pathogens. Vaccination is an example of reasonable precaution. People have the right to bodily autonomy, do not vaccinate them against their wishes.

I do not support the firing of workers for refusing vaccinations if they can do their job remotely. People shouldn't have to decide between their religious beliefs and employment if their employment doesn't bring them into contact with others. (Imo anti-vaxx is essentially a religion, this may say more about my beliefs regarding religion than about anti-vaxx sentiment).

By all means exclude the unvaccinated from places where they can be reasonably understood to endanger the public, or others that have a similar right to be there.

m0darn , to Technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.

Oof.

In the defense of engineers, they are usually trying to optimize around a few more variables than ability to stand. Cost is a big one.

If a car has a warranty of 10 years, it will last 11 years.

...If it's well engineered.

m0darn , to Technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

I've had lots of led bulbs die. I think it's because I bought them at the dollar store.

m0darn , to solarpunk memes in **OBEY**

Totally.

m0darn , to solarpunk memes in **OBEY**

I'm not sure it's that simple. I think if you offered someone 150k to do the job, they'd do it for long enough to build some savings then quit and live off of that while they found something more fulfilling to do.

I think that really the only way to keep people in that job is for them to have terrible alternatives.

The job was to put a small piece of metal into a machine (brake press), push a button, and take the now slightly bent piece of metal out of the machine.

The metal is part of a hinge for something like a knee brace. The factory makes a bunch of metal components for different things but didn't make the whole knee brace.

I guess the company could try to get a higher price for the part, or just say they don't want that contract... but people need knee braces. So yeah, I don't feel bad about selling them a robot. Some jobs are just better done by machines. The issue is wealth concentration.

Maybe a worker's council could have found a way to make the job less bad.

m0darn , to solarpunk memes in **OBEY**

So I work in industrial automation, and live in a high cost of living part of Canada.

Back around 2017 or so, companies said we were in a labor shortage. I sold a few robots to factories that couldn't keep people in a few of their jobs (I'm thinking of two different small factories). These are tasks that are so boring that people lose their minds. The factories would hire someone and they'd quit after a week.

When the cost of continuously hiring new people became apparent, they bought robots.

m0darn , to Comic Strips in Live by verification, die by verification

I just said that evidence can be collected and interpreted to make reliable predictions. Isn't that what science is?

m0darn , to Lefty Memes in what do you even say

Ah I see thanks

m0darn , to Lefty Memes in what do you even say

Can you elaborate?

m0darn , to Comic Strips in Live by verification, die by verification

I'm not the person you're replying to, nor an expert but wouldn't they be things like:

  1. There is a reality which behaves according to certain principles within time.

  2. Humans experience reality through flawed faculties, but experiences can be aggregated in ways which reduce or eliminate the impact of those flaws.

  3. The more thoroughly those flaws are eliminated from the aggregate, the more reliably predictions can be made about the principles that govern reality.

m0darn , to Memes in You don't have to use gyroelongation

I love to be pedantic so I'll point out that it had to be 3 equal mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles

m0darn , to Memes in Dunes vs Star Wars

Does anyone have an analysis comparing the Fremen of Frank Herbert's Dune to the the Aiel of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time?

m0darn , to Technology in Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion.

(...) and would accomplish . . . what exactly?

It would move China's adversary further from its shores. Just like how America doesn't like Cuba being right there, with its rival politico- economic system, China doesn't like Taiwan being right there with its rival politico- economic system.

China wants TSMC

I agree that they want TSMC, but I think Taiwan's semi conductor disablement plan has more to do with guaranteeing international support for Taiwan than reducing the incentives for Chinese annexation of Taiwan.

What I mean is that Beijing can't say to the world "this is an internal disagreement that doesn't concern you" because if TSMC goes up in smoke the global economy is going to bottom out, it concerns everybody's economy. The fact that Beijing can't just seamlessly assume control of Taiwan means that the international community will not support that ambition. It's like Real Politik, but with semiconductors.

Ironically USA initiatives to protect itself from the vulnerability of Taiwan by (re?)patriating chip production will be bad for Taiwan's security... if they ever actually manage to rival TSMC's Taiwanese production. I say this because it will demote the conflict from one of global interest to just regional interest.

But that's all just my arm chair speculation, I don't actually have any idea what I'm talking about.

m0darn , to linuxmemes in 2nd hand ThinkPad go brrrrr

Lol, yeah they've just learned to pretend to be too avoid being everyone's tech support.

It's why I tell everyone to get a mac: I don't know anything about them.

m0darn , to Technology in The Verge shows how Google search is useless

I don't think Google can be blamed too much for presenting an article from a relevant, generally trustworthy site, that has the search query as the article title.

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