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And they managed to do that with those lazy US workers? Wow.

E: folks, pls look up TSMC bosses’ statements on American workers’ ethic

Shit.

That’s an odd request. I’m not a huge fan of video content but there’s legitimately good content in video format.

I hope OpenAI is going to serve as a radicalizing example to all the engineers, who fell for the “ethical guy/company” rhetoric, that the minority-controlled corporate structures they’re used to cannot withstand the push for profit. I hope this will make more of them choose majority-controlled structures for their startups and demand unions in existing corpos.

Exactly. The moment you hit Enter, the computer becomes part of a botnet on every login.

Deploy a user-level payload that is auto started on login. The computer is now part of the botnet and can already be used for useful ops. Deploy a privilege escalation payload later if needed.

Oh I’m not questioning their motivation. I’m wondering if it’s a good deal for prospective buyers, given the price, compared to known good tools.

It’s too close to expiration for a transfer. 😔 givemoney.gif

The Weller WESD51 sets the temp at the tip and mine has done that since I bought it in 2016. A look at a datasheet dates it back to 2006 but it could be older. By definition that means it has to know what the tip temp is. As it heats up the digital display tracks the temp going up.

Why this instead of an industry-standard station like an entry level Weller? The Wellers got replacement parts, especially tips which are consumables. I have the pervious 50W model and it has worked well in any job that can be done with that power level.

In my experience with soldering, the quality of the tip is the most important part. Then the quality of the solder and flux. Then having a set of soldering tools like wick, pump, stripper, and most of all - a third hand. Then temp adjustability. I had a digital solder station before I had those tools and I did almost as shitty solder jobs as I did with the basic Weller soldering iron I had before it. Once I got the ability to keep the parts stable so I can hold the solder in one hand and the iron in the other, introduce the solder at the joint and melt it in-place with the iron, like the manuals say, the quality went way up. I could even do some functional SMD work using my phone’s macro cam as a microscope.

Plot twist:

Private equity buys your registrar and jacks up the renewal price 5x.

They must be proxying the traffic off of a cached copy. I doubt they’d be sending traffic straight to IA.

Of course it does. Why wouldn’t it? If I were an unscrupulous major shareholder of Intel looking for profit maximization above all else, I’d assume a bailout in the cards. Stop squeaking and give me another stock buyback. We gotta pump this bitch as far as it’ll go before it hits the wall.

While that may be just some paperwork and a small expense, the next requirement is more insidious: “a phone number and email address for Google Play users to contact you”. I’m fine showing an email address, but I absolutely do not want my phone number to be available to anyone on the internet. (Even for phone calls. But remember that a phone number is used for much more than phone calls these days.) And that’s just me, a privileged hetero white cis dude who is unlikely to be the target of harassment or doxxing.

Yup. For small developers (FOSS or not) that don’t make money which can insulate them from this kind of stuff, it’s a no-no.

Amen. You’re like a capitalist, but without the capital.

The one thing scrum has succeeded in is creating an industry of people that get paid to do little work, which is fine as long as they don’t take themselves seriously enough to get in the way. Bullshit jobs are a needed feature of a well run economy.

Perhaps. Or perhaps not in the way they do today. Perhaps if you profit from placing ads among results people actually want, you should share revenue with those results. Cause you know, people came to you for those results and they’re the reason you were able to show the ads to people.

If not, The Pirate Bay would like a word.

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So far one of the best use cases for AI in software engineering has been identifying idiots and sociopaths.