“Where does this green wire go?”

I appreciate HW engineers and techs. I’m not afraid of datasheets, circuit diagrams, or a mso and they’re always patient enough to explain things to me so I can make the rocks behave. Or at least tell me how to go from diagram to board lol.

That’s crazy. You can’t do six. It’s seven! SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

“the serial output from my test unit turns into garbage and it happens at completely random times!”

“Did you make sure they were plugged in all the way?”

“WHAT?!?! ARE YOU SUGGESTING I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING?!?!”

Some time later

“Yeah, it turned out to be the serial connection was loose.”

I try to not buy any Wi-Fi smart home devices anymore. I try to stick to zwave or zigbee, zwave I have better luck with generally. I even left my nest thermostat at my old house and installed a 10+ year old zwave thermostat at the new one. Way happier. I’m not relying on googles API to be stable anymore for home assistant interaction.

Beer Hall Putsch

They’re they’re, it’ll be all right.

I have to eat 6 tablets if I eat ice cream. If I don’t, it’s three am vomiting for me. :/

“It’s not an ethnostate! Also, you’re racist if you criticize our ethnostate!”

There’s also this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automakers-sharing-driving-data-brokers-102200724.html

Tl;dr: All the connected car stuff is collecting data on you and the data brokers are more than willing to correlate your data and package it all up for insurers, or whoever else wants to buy it.

Welcome to late stage capitalism where the game’s made up and the points don’t matter.

Privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

I’ve tried to use “AI” to help me with minor programming tasks, or to start basic projects, it’s really bad. As in, it takes me more effort to fix the garbage it outputs than it would have to write it from scratch. In addition to that, it writes things badly in non-obvious ways. Junior engineers make similar mistakes to each other, because they’re working logically. “AI” makes weird mistakes because it’s not working in the same way a human mind does.

Haha! Jokes on you! It was mostly gnu makefile calls to ruby scripts!!! You’ve just broken the build a million different ways!

Last time somebody did this to me there were a lot of sit downs about how to properly chop up large scale code changes and why we don’t sit on our own branch for two months.

“How long will this take to get in?”

“Well, two weeks for me to initially review it, a week for you to address all the changes, then another week or so for me to re-review it… Then of course we have to merge in all the changes that have been happening in primary…”

Modern nuclear technology is much safer than older stuff, additionally when the older plants are well maintained they are much safer than they’re made out to be.

This is one of those cases where pop culture doesn’t match reality and as a result people who are half informed do more damage to their cause by rejecting the good in pursuit of the great.

Good ones don’t.

Correction: they make money

Gotta be able to boot Nazis. Otherwise it’ll be Nazi bar.

Is Missouri the new Florida?

This is a sad story, but as a former Missourian it’s not super surprising.

There’s anger and distrust that’s festering there. A societal anger, not a personal one. It’s a personification and personalization of national politics.

I can’t describe the relief it is to not live in that environment anymore.

I am incredibly lucky.

Hey, we’re working on making this way more fair. Places like Kentucky are trying to repeal child labor laws so that they can at least pay these poor for profit lunch serving companies.

Just a short jog north (from Iowa) and all the kids get lunch. Even though mine still insist on a home lunch… Ugh.

I’ve just rejected firmware updates and will continue to do so as long as possible. If it gets to where I can’t do that anymore for some reason I might leverage my professional expertise into remedying the situation more permanently.