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3y ago
I mean bin laden wasn't wrong that the US is responsible for much suffering in the middle east and elsewhere due to decades of meddling from funding extremists, to facilitating coups in the name of big business. But he was wrong on man
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Yea I laugh at everyone try to shove AI into hardware and software design of physical products as if there's a market of engineers out there and not just hobbyists keeping things alive in the states. We've long since offshored the
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3y ago
Good thing goose is eaten in Europe traditionally.
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3y ago
In FPGAs you are literally programming the enablement of individual logic gates. That's it. There is no DMA or command ring, you have to implement it yourself. The FPGA bit code itself is extremely propertiary to each vendor as the na
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3y ago
Only for securities related fraud and crime. Engineering work doesn't really get covered. I mean with a lot of indirection you can twist that it's lying to shareholders but the SEC wouldn't dare overextend that far without mo
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3y ago
Licensed engineers today don't really get that much benefit in increased pay these days. It's just considered part of the job and it's really your professional liability insurer carrying the most burden and hence your premium
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3y ago
But the public has no duty to the engineer. The SEC has a whistleblower program to ensure whistleblowers are financially well off after basically getting blacklisted when the industry when they report crimes There are no such protections fo
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3y ago
$5b fine paid by taxpayers through the next air force contract they get with no competition.
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3y ago
You have no idea the absolute shit show that semiconductor part naming is And it's because of egos of marketing departments that think they know better than engineers. I shit you not, Microchip has a over 400 page internal PowerPoint t
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3y ago
>. Right now there's barely any incentive for large consumers such as aluminium smelters to shut down or limit consumption during the night You cannot shut down smelters period. They must be kept running or the entire smelter has to
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3y ago
>I don't believe it would be legal for "enhanced background checks" on someone in the hiring process because they are Chinese American, It absolutely would be legal if AI was recategorized as ITAR. In 2022, dual citizenshi
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3y ago
Entry into the domain is hard because EE is incredibly mature in western countries. By that I mean most work is heavily regulated, either defense, aerospace or industrial goods that must meet safety certs. Schematic and PCB design flow are
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3y ago
The problem here is Google would have to agree to it and license the play store for it, which they might have wanted to.
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3y ago
That would fall under the non-discriminatory part of its training and whatever "modern takes" it was fed. If it was fed data from pre Musk twitter, lawd there is going to be some bad training data.
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3y ago
Idk if it's really conditioning you to their political beliefs with Gemini Images as much as "trying to follow all the modern takes on being non discriminatory AND advertiser AND good PR friendly in every way possible blindly"
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3y ago
Causing drivers to get road rage because they can't figure out the correct phrasing for voice controls probably also isn't a good idea. Google Assistant still regularly misinterprets what I say <.< Not to mention most voice
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3y ago
In NYC, NYU and Columbia University are increasingly owning larger parts of Manhattan because they as universities have massive property tax exemptions. There is a big push right now to terminate those exemptions which currently amount to o
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3y ago
To be fair, this is the time for NVIDIA to leverage their stock and buy up shit to diversify because their stock is going to correct eventually lol. So why not buy out a oil producer ahaha.
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3y ago
Non-profit status is a government granted status and the government is we the people. Abuse of non-profit status is damaging to all citizens.
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3y ago
WINE's name is an acronym for literally "Wine is not an emulator" Lolol
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3y ago
Given that the AMA cartel sets artificial quotas on med school admissions per school, it's not that simple lol
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3y ago
Brussel sprouts are a bad example. They are the bastard product of hundred of years of human fuckery to turn the same plant into kale, sprouts, broccoli and more.
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3y ago
Thank god NYS made it illegal for employers to query your existing payroll data from the databrokers awhile back. But unfortunately every single major payroll provider (like ADP) in the US now shares your payroll data with Equifax and more.
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3y ago
You know, as much as I dislike Temu for many reasons, including it's slot machine gamification of shopping. I can't help but think Amazon is beyond the lobbying of politicians here...the same as Facebook was ultimately revealed to
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3y ago
It's fine. At least they don't automatically lowercase and truncate your password behind the scenes like AMEX. Lol.
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3y ago
Hetzner's site looks fine to me. Highly readable and to the point unlike modern web shit where you have to scroll through 5 miles of marketing animatinos.
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3y ago
You can thank crypto for ruining the internet for us.
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Well, agricultural subsidies are also needed because agriculture has become too efficient. The dairy industry is prime example in both US and EU of agriculture that overproduces so much milk that the US has farmers demanding we sanction Can
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3y ago
Yea that archive service is very often infected by some sort of malware on their individual servers
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3y ago
Seattle allows single stair buildings. US building codes aren't national but local. The local may point to one of the national association standards like the IBC or NFPA standards and such. But they then add/remove from those stan
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