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by TheCapn 3y ago
Blogs are parallel to research papers in a sense. They're useless without peer review unless you're already intimately familiar with the source material and able to critically evaluate the contents. So Blogs are more useful when t
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by TheCapn 3y ago
I don't think many people have much of an issue with it at the base level. Creating threads to drive engagement on hypothetical issues, made up humor/ragebait stories, etc. are pretty harmless in itself. But when the actions are d
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by TheCapn 3y ago
That goes for practically any low-barrier-to-entry common interest topic. Reddit lives and dies by the moderation. Communities with very strict moderation often get a lot of flack for not allowing the low effort drivel. Communities that &qu
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by TheCapn 3y ago
I have a friend who basically kickstarted his entire career by boosting posts on Reddit with bots he ran. I won't knock his talent, he's a brilliant engineer, but I 100% believe he's gotten where his is in life because he kno
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by TheCapn 3y ago
3:13! I had some good chuckles at finding "Unselect All" or "Select all Bows". Birthdates not matching on the one form got me too
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by TheCapn 3y ago
>Wouldn’t it be easier to regulate the quality of software used in critical products? Sure, but who is responsible/accountable? Often times I bring this topic up to have a bunch of people looking for gotchas in my overly broad wishf
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by TheCapn 3y ago
I agree, to an extent. I find that if I need to be "attentive" then having something going on helps. For me it is podcasts while driving. Having nothing noise my mind tends to wander which isn't always ideal because my focus
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by TheCapn 3y ago
So I don't work in automotive domain, but I work in Controls Engineering. Basically everything you just said relates to my work as well, and based on tidbits of anecdotal info I've picked up through various technical forums it sou
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by TheCapn 3y ago
I've only ever had to hire one person to work beneath me, but that sounds like how I ran the interview. We were hiring students for a temp position. We're a Controls Engineering company, but my department is dealing with more trad
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by TheCapn 3y ago
My friend who got me my current job once told me about how he got into the Games industry. Back in the university days of applying to Coop positions he had a day with 2 interviews back to back. While he bombed the first interview, he had so
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by TheCapn 3y ago
My company still maintains a VB6 program that we just keep that IDE alive in an XP VM. I can attest that the VB6 applications will work on Win10 & Win11 with only minimal effort to get the required libraries so I would not be shocked to
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by TheCapn 3y ago
The seals I refer to are wires. The screws securing the sensitive parts of the terminal have holes through them where you thread the seal through several of them. Basically it is impossible to loosen the screws without breaking the seal. Th
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Tamper proof seals? In my line of work we use Scale Indicators that are calibrated by Weights & Measures Canada. Once the audit is completed the unit is sealed with a destructible seal and record of inspection is recorded. If that seal
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by TheCapn 4y ago
I've always found the complaints about audio weird. It almost seems like something that plagues consoles or low end hardware? I only say this because I'm a day 1 player of Apex and can maybe think of a half dozen that audio has fa
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Depending on how the hospital operates and whether there is a reason to be concerned some pediatric units will allow you to do the introduction on-unit. I'm sure things can change day to day, but that's the case for the hospital m
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Both things you say are correct. And as far as I've seen on most recent studies it is indeed related to some sort of deficiency in the signaling from the brain to "wake up" when oxygen is low, with suggestion that there'
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Humoring your ridiculous theory. 1) Buttons themselves have on the order of hundreds of thousands to millions of presses expected before any form of failure could begin to be expected. OPs story of a new lift failing would not even come clo
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by TheCapn 4y ago
As far as I can recall, the last time I read a study on the subject the conclusion was that artificial sweeteners do have an affect on gut bacteria, but the study purposely did not state whether the change is of any actual harm/benef
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by TheCapn 4y ago
First time? Basically any not-directly-IT domain gets talked about this way. Hell, even times where topics like Health and Nutrition come up you find a lot of wildly inaccurate statements being made here. I think the problem is too many peo
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Ovens with a probe: is my roast at temperature yet? Of all appliances in my kitchen the oven makes the most sense to have network features. Fridge perhaps a distant second, and that's only because I really wish I knew my compressor h
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Well, to make the analogy work you'd be running circles around flashlight guy while they throw at him. Maybe you're in the crossfire, maybe not. But the other part that I think the original OP is sort of amazed at is that we'
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Industrial Controls / Instrumentation Tech Biggest downside is the field environments you can find yourself in. Depending on your industry you can be in some horribly smelly/disgusting facilities or dangling off catwalk way above
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Also 10/10 recommendation. I am assuming we have the same machine. It's been a stellar coffee machine for about 8 years now. My sister took our father's when he passed (same model) and it has been strong for 10+ years.
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Yep. I had an issue with Apex Legends and after the support channel failed me I attempted to engage with Respawn users on Reddit/Twitter when my post got 5 upvotes. Ignored on all accounts. It feels criminal to have some automated syst
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by TheCapn 4y ago
>Once you know the current code words for the gender, type of slave, and job, you can even use Google to search and find open sites. Well, don't hold back. Open a window for us into that realm. If it was that "open" would
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by TheCapn 4y ago
For me the first time we dabbled with SQL was in a 3rd year Software Engineering course where the focus of the class was a single group project that we managed among ourselves by splitting tasks, conducting code reviews and handling the bui
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by TheCapn 4y ago
I kinda get what he's saying and there isn't an easy answer. Things done bit by bit are often different than things done at large scale. Especially when automated by tech taking out the individual human element. The nuance between
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by TheCapn 4y ago
Or, it's a writer, who writes for a living, spinning a story to draw the reader in. He pitches his product at the end: he want's subscriptions to pay his rent and buy his socks. I have no ire towards the author. I thoroughly enjoy
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by TheCapn 4y ago
I think that mindset is incredibly flawed and toxic to a healthy society? Who is to say who is right here?
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by TheCapn 4y ago
I'm actually kind of shocked at the majority reaction here. I can relate in many ways to the author and can feel his struggle through the story. I empathize even though I can see where the mistakes were made. I figure we just have a lo

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