echodot

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echodot ,

Neither of those two are healthy though.

echodot ,

Yeah well I had a Starfleet Captain, so I feel like I'm winning.

echodot ,

Yeah well at least you had a meeting. At my company they just start doing things, without even telling anyone.

Then yell at us when it doesn't work despite the fact we didn't even know it existed. Then we get to send a copy paste THIS IS NOT CURRENTLY UNDER SUPPORT email.

echodot ,

That, or sales staff that just say anything to get a sale but have no actual idea whether the thing they've promised is even possible under the laws of physics.

echodot ,

I'm sure that's how they think about it yes. However lying to the customer about the existence of a feature isn't really a good long-term strategy to maintain customer relations. I'm in engineering so I don't care, but the customer is not going to trust them if they keep doing that. In the long run it costs them sales.

Especially considering that a lot of the time they'll tell the customer a feature exists, and then engineering just doesn't have the capacity to develop it. So the customer actually finds out they were lying. Not good.

echodot ,

What's a deep and profound insight.

echodot ,

Isn't it better to have a train that runs when you want rather than having to wait potentially hours for the scheduled commuter train. Isn't this better?

echodot ,

I've seen one of those in Japan. Even they admit that the only reason they continue to run it is for the novelty factor, it's apparently quite expensive to keep going and not really that efficient.

It takes a good while to convert between the two modes since you have to be really careful you don't misalign the thing and result in a derail. So it's done, very, very, slowly.

echodot ,

They use one rail so they can pass each other on single line tracks. Which are quite common for rural lines.

If only there was some sort of article you could have read.

echodot ,

They explained that one in the article as well.

This is a prototype so it has the mechanism so it doesn't fall over if the prototype fails. The actual production version won't have that. It's also running at low speed for the same reason.

echodot ,

This almost certainly wouldn't work in the United States but it does in Europe because Europe has loads of these tiny abandoned rail lines (often single track) that were built in the 1800s and then abandoned. They don't go anywhere particularly densely populated, you know because of the industrial Revolution causing everyone to move to the cities, so there isn't the demand for a full rail service. Meaning they're not going to spend the money upgrading the infrastructure to modern standards.

This means they can be used at relatively cheap cost. As long as the tracks are still physically present all they need to do is cut some weeds down and put these things on the line and they're good to go. It's a cheap project that a local municipal authority can handle without having to involve wider government.

echodot ,

Technically of course The Black Death was not a pandemic, it was an epidemic. It's just people didn't really move around very much so they didn't notice.

It kept returning to Europe multiple times because the focal point of the disease would move somewhere else for a bit and then come back.

echodot ,

How are you decrementing it? Time Travel

echodot ,

Just review the list.

A good match up we can all enjoy.
The dangers of drinking.
Any port in a storm I guess.

echodot ,

I'm sorry sir, but you could be any random mental health patient.

echodot ,

It's never been a problem until now.

echodot ,

it's easy points for someone wanting to signal that they're doing something against the fictional illegal immigrants who are supposedly voting en masse whenever the right wing politicians don't get their way..

Yeah, that's basically it.

echodot ,

The web is just a fad. We'll go back to watching VHS tapes any day now

echodot ,

Well of course if you redefine words all of the time then nothing is anything right.

echodot ,

It's just a problem with the whole copyright laws not being fit for purpose.

After all, all art is theft.

echodot ,

In the UK, and I suspect in other countries as well, you have to use the right cups and glasses for the right drinks. So for beer you will have to use the beer glass that the brewery provide. I don't think you can just go out and get any old cup from a shop and use that. You have to use the calibrated ones.

echodot ,

They can't be bothered to do their job, and escalate tickets randomly to Tier 3 without any triage

Level 1 support teams are universally useless. I think I've ever worked with one that's actually effective.

Can you imagine that in a hospital? "Oh this guy came in with a broken finger, I'd better call the lead surgeon." Now of course the lead surgeon can fix it, of course they can, everyone can fix it, but you can't send the patient back down to accident and emergency because then you get complaints about why you're passing this poor guy around.

echodot ,

Most of the time they're either just googling a different skin or Bing in a different skin, which is why they are never any better.

19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles ( signpost.news )

The crying "History" button at the top right sends its regards. Yes, the World Jewish Congress has published a report that demands Wikipedia add a feature to view the history of articles, see what actions were performed by whom, and "host forums and discussions within the Wikipedia community to address concerns about neutrality...

echodot ,

I'm sure Wikipedia are very concerned about this official PDF and they're going to implement the recommended changes immediately.

echodot ,

Wikipedia do lock articles so that only editors with good standing can change them. But obviously that's not necessary for every article because 99% of articles are not political and are in fact about a type of moss that grows in the Canary Islands.

echodot ,

This'll have to do as I don't know how to post images on this client.
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Conservatism has always been a thin veil to disguise greed. It's only about "maintaining the status quo" if the status quo gets you a lot of money already, otherwise it's about reducing privileges for your own benefit and to everyone else's detriment. All the while screaming "think of the children", as some sort of justification.

echodot ,

Well it's not working

echodot ,

It's because they craft their entire identity around that particular thing. It does not matter what the belief or how illogical the belief, if you question it, or are simply not prepared to go along with it, they get really angry and incoherent.

echodot ,

GOG doesn't really have pirated games or any of that gray market nonsense. It is on the same level as steam in terms of it being a first party seller

Copilot misses the question, elaborates on topic I was speaking aloud instead. ( lemmy.world )

Was using my SO's laptop, I had been talking (not searching, or otherwise typing) about some VPN solutions for my homelab, and had the curiosity to use the new big copilot button and ask what it can do. The beginning of this context was actually me asking if it can turn off my computer for me (it cannot) and I ask this....

echodot ,

I doubt that it's sending audio data back to Microsoft although it probably does have access to your search history if you've used bing / the inbuilt search bar.

echodot ,

There is no such thing as space all the planets are just bunched up together you can walk to Mars. It's all the conspiracy by big NASA.

echodot ,

Autistic doesn't mean you don't know right from wrong and you're still accountable for your actions.

The GTA leakers problem was that he didn't take the olive branch when it was offered to him.

echodot ,

Yes a lot of people said he should have been hired by the CIA or something but that won't work if he couldn't have be trusted to follow basic orders.

echodot ,

The courts aren't stupid, it's just his lawyers that are. But that's rather self-selecting isn't it since any thinking lawyer wouldn't touch him with an electrified cattle prod, given the fact that he has a tendency to not pay people.

echodot ,

It's a dumb tactic because ADHD does not render you incapable of standing trial.

echodot ,

The common goal bit might be hard to achieve.

echodot ,

When I worked in customer service I think the largest i was ever able to issue was a 10% discount. Even with managerial approval I don't think I ever saw anyone get more than a 25% discount, and that was for legitimate complaints, not the Karen style made up whining.

echodot ,

The user might have angered someone with their website and it might well have been targeted to them instead of Netlify as a whole? I can imagine them using that point in a court if that was the case.

They wouldn't really get anywhere with that claim though, even if it were true and they could find evidence, because the company claims that they actively scan for and protect against this sort of thing, and even they admit that it was a DDoS attack.

echodot ,

Hell even AWS isn't this bad. You can go in and set the maximum data you're prepared to allow and then it'll simply just block any connection attempt after that point and send you an alert.

You just have to be aware that you might need to keep an eye on things and be ready to increase bandwidth occasionally in case of something like Black Friday, assuming that kind of thing is relevant to your site.

echodot ,

They are saying they would like you to buy the game either from them directly (I assume on their website or something) or via steam, or GoG or if all else fails for you then pirate it.

I assume they are stating in order of preference.

Presumably if you buy the game directly from them they get 100% of the cut.

echodot ,

Kind of weird that they would send the pictures when the result of the investigation was that the claim was legitimate.

Or do they have to legally provide that info I don't know how it works

echodot ,

Seriously, I've lived in the UK for 35 years and I've never heard that expression either.

echodot ,

Yeah because he is broke in relative terms. Everyone thought it was really rich but it turned out he just lied about it all.

echodot ,

Can we possibly have a better source for this "story". Because that one's not reliable.

Although in reality it's not really a story is it

echodot ,

It's very easy to attack people like that, usually been within about 50 miles of them is enough. Everything you do is offensive to them including breathing. People that sensitive need to be in therapy.

echodot ,

I'm glad you feel comfortable with agreeing with no information. That shows real courage that does.

echodot ,

If it totally melts the amount of trapped methane will release will be enough to kill everything on earth. So I don't think it'll be a major problem we'll have to deal with.

Also if the temperature rises by over 100° in a decade in the Antarctic presumably even the temprate zones will be hotter than the surface of mercury.

echodot ,

Around here they quite often like to drive their cars into obviously flooded roads, that's always a good laugh. But they tend not to drive them on to beaches.

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