circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to politics in Hush money isn't illegal, it's 'democracy,' Trump lawyer says in defiant trial opening statements

Just like corporate donations are "speech". Some Citizens United logic here.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to You Should Know in YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream

But at a certain point, it's still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can't expect it to all get called out -- but that doesn't mean it's not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Astronomy in Study: Dark matter does not exist and the universe is 27 billion years old

It's those damn inertial dampeners again

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to politics in Fox News buried Mike Pence’s refusal to endorse Donald Trump

This, and as far as I can tell, the only way to avoid being called a RINO is to completely eschew any kind of critical thinking and absolutely toe the party line regardless of how asinine or nonsensical.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

This is the way

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Space in Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

I've got an Apple II+ that was doing weird shit. Turns out after a lot of sleuthing that it was a single bad DRAM chip, which due to the way that system handles RAM would show up as single unpredictable bits in various locations.

NASA, seek me out if y'all get stuck.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone's throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Funny: Home of the Haha in I also have this false memory, apparently

I not only remember the cornucopia one, but I thought this was the reason I learned the word cornucopia when I was a kid. Most Mandela effect stuff is kind of silly to me, but this one just freaks me out.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Facepalm in How's that supposed to work?

The idea that younger people just need "work experience" is a vestige of a bygone world, when just having that little bit of experience would make you qualified for the job -- THE job -- that you would continue to do forever, because companies paid for loyalty with loyalty. That isn't how the world works now and every job, entry level, dead end, or otherwise, is the job that you might need to do forever. That's why a living wage is more important now than perhaps it was in previous years.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Work Reform in Amazon union president knocks Biden: ‘No cavalry coming’ for American workers

Also why in the hell is a giant corporation like Amazon, with pockets do deep they exceed the GDP of many countries, getting a loan from the federal government. Make it make sense.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Lemmy Support in Where are my "upvotes"?

Yeah some apps do, some don't. Connect for Lemmy had it until the latest update

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to AntiTrumpAlliance in Trump Wants Elon Musk To Speak at the Republican National Convention: Report

I hope he does it. Musk is not the poster child for innovation he wants to and claims to be. Might as well keep all the stupids together.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Space in Apollo 11 LM amd CM Metal Earth kit

I'm not OP, but I can share what I found myself doing these kits. Angles on manipulated pieces are extremely important. You really need good leverage with some pliers that also have very, very small ends.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Science Memes in STEM

Now hiring for an Engineer². Don't apply if you dont have 20+ years experience with LLMs

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to Free Software in Valve fans are like Apple fans

This reads like a crazy person manifesto