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Someone I worked with had a great rage quit. He worked his ass off for the whole year doing insane overtime and sacrificing way too much for a thankless corporation. When it came to raise time, my boss gave him a 0% raise, citing that he already made more than average/benchmark.

After that meeting he just left. He left all his work stuff on his desk, he didn't tell anyone he wasn't coming back from lunch time ish. It took a full month before they stopped paying him, and my boss would come around almost every day to ask if anyone knew where he was or how to contact him. I think they just assumed he was blowing off steam and would come back, meanwhile he moved to another city.

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I assume all those "vote third party both side same" people were bots or Russian trolls. Obviously trump was always gonna be way worse

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That's fair and a much better response than mine above. I'm just a bit disenfranchised from it all, especially the non action and non voting suggestions of many on the left.

But you are right, it's basically a center right and a far right party, and that super sucks and needs to be complained about a lot.

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    Sounds like a pimple to me

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    I'm guessing where it snows this would be hard to plow

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    I don't understand how this works. Like crosslegged and the tree is only between one of your legs, not the other? Like behind the knee?

    Edit: I've looked this up and found this weird video showing it

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c95iKhNmeSY

    I'm guessing you can just lift yourself if you have the upper body strength, but it's interesting and a bit counterintuitive

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    What! LLMs are extremely useful. They can already:

    -Funnel wealth to the richest people
    -Create fake money to trade around
    -Deplete the world of natural resources
    -Make sure consumers cannot buy computer hardware
    -Poison the wells of online spaces with garbage content that takes 2s to generate and 2 minutes to read

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    Now I want a fully ironic X-Cops/GWAR style band that is on the nose trying to do this and doing a terrible job

    What are tell-tale signs a series has jumped its shark?

    My personal sign is when you start seeing awkward collaborations start cropping up. One time when I was thrifting, I picked up a graphic novel that had the Justice League, team with the Power Rangers of all things. I glimpsed into what the plot was about out of morbid curiosity and it was just a plain generic time and dimension ...

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    What's a clip show?

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    Same and same (almost always, I mean 2 weeks ago there was a day or two where the bike lane was too full of slushy crap)

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    From the moment I understood the weakness of my Flesh

    @mapto@masto.bg avatar mapto , to science

    Mass migration of US scientists to Europe

    "According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to €2.5 million apiece over five years — rose by 120% in its most recent round of calls, compared with an overall rise in applications of 17% (see ‘Choosing Europe’)."
    https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00362-w
    science@lemmy.world icon science

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    BS in engineering here

    I left the US for the EU in 2024 and a lot of people in my field have done the same. Not uncommon in engineering even without a masters degree

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    I don't really understand how enshittification like this is better for the IPO. Is it because the company can secretly sell data better or something?

    @rimu@piefed.social avatar rimu , to FoodPorn
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    Looks like fastelavnsboller to me, at least that's what it's called in Danish

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    Yeah same, typically the closed (old school/gammeldags) type. I thought the cream was flavored flødeskum, but I have no idea

    I Live In Eastern Europe And I'm Making A Creepy Game About Authoritarianism (Demo Is Live)

    Hello guys, I wanted to announced that I finally released my demo for The Milgram Experiment. One of the inspirations of the game is the book Obedience to Authority by the same scientist. Other big inspirations are Papers, Please; Pools; Sublimnal and the show Severance. ...

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    Cool! I'll try it out. The trailer has some severance energy to it

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    Oh shit! You made Don't Press the Red Button or you'll delete the multiverse. I really enjoyed that! Hell yeah

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    Hamilton said: "If you look at Barcelona, for example, we're doing 600 metres lift and coast on a qualifying lap. That's not what racing is about. Here (in Bahrain), we're not having to do that because there's lots of braking zones."

    Wow that's kinda fucking lame imo

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    It's true, but not on qualifying laps

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    What in the fucking weird astroturf marketing hell is this account

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    Some of these don't feel like real alternatives to me?

    I want both the text chat parts of discord and the part where you can synchronously voice chat with screen share/camera share.

    It seems like matrix is the closest thing, I hope it's better than when I tried it in 2021 or 2022

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    Inception? I'm always surprised about it getting left alone as it should.

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    Live in denmark, can confirm.

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    I live in Denmark and that's at least how bathrooms are basically everywhere here. It's nice.

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    Only maybe! DEC works similarly to how we collect energy in photovoltaics, and seems to be pretty promising

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion?wprov=sfla1

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    I see a lot of people arguing online about this

    What I found (in the newest I could find, which is June 2024 surprisingly) in the 2026 regulations is this

    No cylinder of the engine may have a geometric compression ratio higher than 16.0. The
    procedure which will be used to determine this value may be found in the Appendix to the
    Technical and Sporting Regulations

    I didn't look that up because I don't care to have a flame war, but I imagine this plays out similar to DAS if it turns into anything. Something like "the rules weren't clear enough but we'll make them clear enough, by x date you have comply with it"

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    I did the same when I had surgery and was couch ridden for days. That was great. I then watched the "Tolkien cut" of the hobbit movies

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    I've played a fair bit of timberborn, and it's a great city builder! I get obsessed for the first dozen or so hours of a settlement but it's always fallen a little flat in the more later-game parts.

    I'm hopeful that their continually adding content keeps it fresh deeper into the game. The mechanics and aesthetics are great

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    Yeah, I really enjoy that kinda mid game, where a slightly longer drought or bad water would really mess you up, but it kinda falters shortly after that and becomes solved.

    I want them to do what Factorio did and make the end game stuff (rockets) feed you into what becomes the early-mid game. Like make water the whole map" or have "insanely deep water" or some resources that are hard to make the requirement to do the NEXT thing, which should be so big the whole map you were worried about becomes a little trivial

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    AEW is a LOT better than the old school wrestling organizations. I have a (former) AEW wrestler trans-rights shirt (CM Punk)

    Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News ( store.steampowered.com )

    When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must ...

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    Cool that they'll release specs and CAD for the faceplate so people can make their own

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    I think that it's true specifically because you don't understand correlation vs causation

    /s

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    A LOT less US products here in the last year or so, I think. But still a lot of stores still have plenty of Pepsi/Coke, Pringles, Oreos, Kellogg's and GM cereal, etc. and tons of clothing and such (Nike, Levis, etc).

    Since the introduction of the Black Star (https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/penge/vil-du-boykotte-amerikanske-varer-nu-saetter-dagligvarekaempe-sort-stjerne-ved) at many stores, and the general shift in sentiment from the US, I've noticed a lot fewer american products in stores. Still plenty, but it's a noticable shift here for sure.

    Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights ( www.theregister.com )

    At such a triumphal moment, it was striking that the company was forced on the defensive, not least for its involvement with the controversial US agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which began in 2011. ICE has drawn criticism for its activities in Minnesota over the last month after its agents shot and killed two ...

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    Fox news guarding the one house

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    Krobus and dwarf please

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    He died so we dye

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    Danish, but yup!

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    Lmao I looked at the wiki paged to see how unhinged it is and who joined/declined. The list of countries accepting is basically exactly who you'd expect.

    It took until now to learn that Denmark wasn't even invited.

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    But then how do you drain it after? Maybe the plastic liner can be lifted out and dumped?

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    It's about IO not compute. The controllers for plants like this aren't very complicated but they can have many thousands of signals going to/from them. For a ~500MW plant I'd expect somewhere between 2-5k IO, more if it's nicely automated.

    Automation engineer, have worked on power plants.

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    I mean nowadays yes but the pic has some old relays in it, I'm fairly sure the DCS/PLC is not ethernet if there even is one

    frank ,

    Um, I mean the boiler(s) itself are a small part of it. It's all the other stuff. I am not a coal expert by any stretch, but if you think of the signals required just to convey coal, probably dozens or more of drives with run/stop/various errors/temperature/current/voltage/perhaps VF, plus all the sensors you need to use motors like that with (presumably bucket conveyors?) like slip, like explosion disk detection from dust. Not like all of those have to be present, but every step has so many signals.

    Plus then you've got a steam turbine and a switchyard, plus all the plant utilities like process heating and cooling water, compressed air, steam turbine makeup water, etc

    Nowadays you do IO to remote racks that are close to devices (like valves/motors/etc) then use Ethernet to make it go further. Pre ethernet there were typically proprietary cables for the same, but thankfully that's a thing of the past

    But something like I mentioned with a motor drive having all those signals, yeah it's typically just an Ethernet cable + power + estop (usually hardwired still). So maybe 40-50 wires down to 5-8

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    Yeah, exactly. You definitely save some copper by running ethernet to remote racks but by raw wire count it's not reduced much. There's a LOT of modern plants (power and manufacturing plants) that have way more wiring than this in a photo

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    I can't imagine any other game where you can casually say "I only have 1000 hours in one part of my playtime" and the entire fanbase shrugs it off

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    I cannot imagine wanting that to be in a game you're playing

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    Sounds like an awesome president.

    I have the same story (with a huge failure at a metal factory) that I had a dozen times made a big scene about how terrible an idea it was. The corporate guy who suggested it decided to email god and country that if only (my team specifically of) engineering had supported us more it wouldn't have happened like that. I was fuming, spent half the night furiously detailing and outlining my proof of how we supported him, bad idea, etc.

    I ended up drunkenly scrapping the entire write up and just reply alling "fuck you (name)". Perhaps my proudest work moment, tbh.

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    Man the first time I beat Last Judge I was so relieved, on 1HP, and died to his explosion at the end.

    I took a little break after that

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    Super cool, it looks great!