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invertedspear

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  • With the Democratic Party struggling to find a new direction, former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden have offered to jump in and help with fundraising and rebuilding.

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  • I don’t think it’s that. I think he truly thinks he’s had a good career and fought the good fight. He’s so out of touch, but he wants to help because he heard there’s a problem. Probably don’t even understand how his help might not be a good thing.

  • Purely for educational purposes.

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  • Appreciate the article. I seriously doubt that sprinkling on top prevented a foot deep puddle of concrete from curing, but if it was still liquid it would have helped get the top layer and if they kept sprinkling while removing each layer it may have been helpful enough. Or they’re exaggerating about it being a foot deep, and we’re all know construction workers would never exaggerate a fuck up like this. Article is a bit light on detail of the cleanup process, but it still is clear that sugar was the start of the cleanup.

  • Purely for educational purposes.

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  • Either it’s bullshit, or the amount of concrete in question was less than an inch thick.

    Though sugar spread in front of the concrete would prevent it from adhering to surfaces, so maybe that was the goal. The wood forms they use to hold concrete in place are coated with a sugar and oil mixture so they come off easy. So that would make sense.

  • Purely for educational purposes.

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  • My dad told me stories of him chucking a bag of sugar into mixers when pouring slabs if the first truck was taking too long and the next truck got going too early. So a fully loaded mixer is going to need more than one bag to fuck up the whole batch. Fortunately there’s a nice cone at the top which makes it easier to chuck stuff into the mixer, I’m sure you and maybe 5 of your close friends could take one or two bags each.

  • Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is

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  • Fair enough. It’s not going to summarize results or anything. I’ll give chatGPT that one. But this is also where chatGPT can easily pull wrong information into the summary. If the “here’s something I found on the web” isn’t accurate, the topic is likely to have the AI summary screw it up too. In which case you’re better off manually searching and filtering results yourself.

  • Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is

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  • I’ve never used Apple intelligence and Siri alone has done a fine job for unit conversions, info lookups, and most any other things. No need to fire up chat GPT for those basic uses

  • He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

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  • I don’t think it ever did. It does qualify you for legal residency status, resident alien or “green card” as most people refer to it. I’m pretty sure that status can be voided if you did anything illegal along the way. For citizen status you still have to go through the process.

  • Democratic Senator Mark Kelly to let go of his Tesla over Musk’s federal cuts

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  • In 21 you could have gotten some of the first Ford Mustang MachEs to come off the line, if you were lucky. Chevy was doing ok with the bolt, but I’ve never personally liked the style of the bolt. Leafs were another OK model specifically for commuting, but IIRC Kelly lives in Tucson and if he was making regular trips to Phoenix a leaf wouldn’t have cut it. Polestar was available, but relatively unknown. And I think a few luxury brands had EVs at that point. So yes there were other EV players, but “strong” is a subjective term, unless you were doing a fair amount of research you likely wouldn’t have known about them.

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  • I believe this is one of those things where intent matters, and may vary by location. Willing to bet hitting F5 a few times is safe, even a few hundred times as long as it’s in the realm of just checking if it’s up yet. The moment you have something scripted, you’re at least in the realm of having to explain it to a judge who probably knows fuck all about tech.

  • What's the dumbest thing you've done to fix a tech issue?

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  • I’m a web applications developer…. So a lot. But here’s the king of dumb shit fixes I’ve done. Back in the days of VGA a few friends and I met up with some other dudes for a counter strike LAN party. Everyone’s hauling their towers in and if you were lucky, your heavy as fuck 17” CRT. So I set up and my monitor won’t work. Has power, no signal. Switch from the gpu vga port to the integrated one and it works. Switch back to gpu and it works as long as I hold it in a weird position. So it’s all fine, just the connection is wearing out. For some reason I figure a little moisture will help so I lick the vga plug, reattach it and it totally solved the problem.

    So yeah, I licked a gpu into working again.

  • Trump says the U.S. will take control of Greenland 'one way or the other'

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  • I must be OOTL, how is the ok symbol ruined?

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  • I know which side I’d be on, just not sure which side my government will be.

  • A new document undercuts Trump administration's denials about $400 million Tesla deal

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  • Would these be used for military purposes, or for VIP transportation?

    Either way I don’t think any current EV platform is suitable, but the Rivian R1S or delivery van might be the closest.

    GM actually might be in the best position. They need to electrify Suburbans anyway. They could easily adapt the Silverado platform to suburbans, or the hummer EV to more of an H1 type and then work on armoring them up. But their CEO isn’t pulling the president’s strings like Tesla’s is, so what we’ll end up with it’s a shit ton of government money spent on a product no one will actually want to use.

  • What do you believe that most people of your political creed don't?

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  • The person on my left whispers about equality, and the benefits of social safety nets. The person on my right yells lies that equality means I have to give up things, and that social safety nets will be abused by people who want to steal the fruits of my labor. The person behind me (financially) says nothing, they’re too busy just trying to live. The person ahead of me points to the person behind getting food stamps and screams “how dare they take your taxes” while they quietly steal the actual fruit of my labor.

    Any time leftism gets loud enough to get enough attention to appeal to anyone, rightism is already loudly complaining about the noise. If one doesn’t think about it too much, all they’ve heard is negativity about the left and positivity about the right. Call it brainwashing, gaslighting, or indoctrination, but rarely do the facts of both sides come to play. You have to work to find the truth of leftism while also working to ignore the bullshit being screamed from the right.

  • Why do most Americans use an iPhone?

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  • IMO Android is worse unless you really tinker with it. Most people don’t even know how to side load an app, much less root and degoogle. Many people don’t know to buy carrier unlocked phones or can’t afford to. The last android I used had several carrier apps forced onto it, unable to be removed, including apps I refuse to use like Facebook, which I’m sure the carrier got a kickback to force on us. Then the carrier decided no more updates despite the manufacturer releasing more major updates.

    Most people just don’t know or care enough to do what should be done with an android phone. They just want a device to call and text on that can also crush candy or whatever other distraction they prefer.

  • New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.

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  • Kind of wish we went with more tradesmen-like titles. Apprentice, journeyman, master. Master software developer sounds like we have honed our craft. Junior/senior just seems like a length of time.

  • New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.

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  • Exactly, the jr dev that could write anything useful is a rare gem. Boot camps cranking out jr dev by the dozens every couple of months didn’t help the issue. Talent needs cultivation, and since every tech company has been cutting back lately, they stopped cultivating and started sniping talent from each other. Not hard given the amount of layoffs lately. So now we have jr devs either unable to find a place to refine them, or getting hired by people who just want to save money and don’t know that you need a senior or two to wrangle them. Then chat gpt comes along and gives the illusion of sr dev advice, telling them how to write the wrong thing better, no one to teach them which tool is the right one for the job.

    Our industry is in kind of a fucked state and will be for a while. Get good at cleaning up the messes that will be left behind and that will keep you fed for the next decade.

  • What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?

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  • Protests don’t work if the people in power don’t care. One dude with a gun did more to shake up people in power than any recent protest has. Look how Elon wears his kids as human shields now. Protests are to bring awareness, the world is aware. We are now in need of people willing to take action.

  • What's the most obscure piece of knowledge you know about your hometown?

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  • This city is both huge and young, so not a breeding ground for archaic facts yet. But the one bit of trivia that catches most people off guard is that Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is mostly Phoenix, AZ. Even the mall scenes with the ice skating rink were filmed there.