fatneckbeardz

one of the clearest examples of "privatize the profits, socialize the losses."

are you reading my mind?

The idea "this could all be easily automated so those who don't automate it will go out of business" presumes efficient market theory is true. Markets are not actually efficient. Markets are based on relationships between human beings. And a lot of human beings have a vested interest in things staying exactly the way they are.

that is why i automate some things but in general "keep my head down and my mouth shut". the people who get all angsty and revolutionary about this stuff tend to get fired / laid off / asked to leave / burned out. i know because i used to be one of them.

the people who survive are quiet and don't complain about "leadership failure" as you put it. we do not get paid to point out failures of our leadership. or to do things which would by their very existence imply a failure of leadership. we get paid to do what leadership tells us. our continued supply of health care, shelter, and food depend on it.

if i want to develop my talent / skill, well that is in my free time. i can build robots in my basement and play around with new algorithms and nobody will get mad at me or tell me to stop. now you'll have to excuse me, there is an STM32 board calling my name.

the cat food can thing is perfect here.

there are, in fact, TKP trucks on longboards, there are extensive discussions on r/longboarding about the differences, and what it boils down to is that a skateboard is an individualized piece of equipment, and it will work differently with every human being because of the geometry of their legs, feet, ankles, muscles, ligaments, shoes, the kind of riding they do, the type of pavement they ride in, the weather they ride in,whether they do vert skating or "transition" (ramps/bumps), rails, massive jumps, ground tricks, carving, downhill bombs, long distance push, pumping, etc etc, and even the way their mind works in relation to their body.

so the amorphous concept of "feel" is, basically, everything on a skateboard. the top end skateboarding engineers like Paul Schmitt ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18MRZq0bhpE ) will spend endless hours interacting with skateboarders to get continuous feedback about anything from wheel chemistry to changes in board shape. There is another interview there with rider Andy Anderson where he talks about how they shaved part of the sides of his board down in a slight taper so that it would be balanced evenly due to one side being slightly differently shaped than the other. To a casual watching him at the Olympics, you could not even tell which side of this board was front and back let alone if the sides had gotten tapered. That was just one many things he had put into the design of his board, all tailored around the style he wanted to skate (which is a lot of older freestyle like Primo and pogo hops combined with all the newer olympics stuff ).

im sure there is some room to innovate trucks but it takes a lot of back and forth with a rider, its not , like the cat food can thing, a single variable optimization.

don't you mean ++C23

this has become standard practice in corporate America. It's done a lot with environmental damage:

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/e...

their customers don't find this problem bad enough to stop doing business with them, (including your big company), so Hertz will continue doing what they have been doing.

adding any additional checklists , training, or quality control to their existing process would cost money, and so would reduce profits.

it is simple cost benefit analysis.

"hello, fellow podcasters!"

'arent you the guys that committed war crimes, tortured POWs, staged anti-democratic coups, created the Taliban, ..'

"no no no, that was some other CIA. We are the new CIA, CIA stands for Community, Inclusion, and Acceptance, check out our Tik-Tok!"

i think to change this, you have to start with a basic, fundamental respect for the liberal arts, the humanities, and for human beings in general. and that means you have to pay people in money for the emotional and mental labor of organizing information. and stop trying to replace them with algorithms to maximize clicks and watchtime.

the thing is that we all see this system as a failure,

but the people who make the decisions, and who run that system, see it as a success.

their primary goal is not to provide reliable power, their primary goal is profit and ideology. and they have successfully done both those things.

a bunch of people died, nothing will change, and they will face no consequences. texas will remain off the grid and the next winter storm the same thing will happen.

in their book, they are a success.

thats the whole thing about complex systems. at some point, human beings disagree on what the priorities are, so they disagree on what failure is, they disagree on what maintenance is, and they disagree on what "proper function" is.

complex systems are always connected to complex vested interests and flows of power and money.

so people say things like "the boeing 787 failed". . . did it though? It killed hundres of people , but the executives in charge of it made huge profits and faced zero consequences. Boeing stock price is fine, and it will not face any meaningful punishment or consequences from the government. nor will it face any meaningful consequences from the legal system, which is irrevocably twisted in favor of big corporations like them.

From these peoples perspective, the 787 killing hundreds of people is not a failure, its just something that happened that they can hire PR people to deal with. it wont interrupt cash flow (or, at least it wont interrupt their personal bonuses and personal wealth that much) so its basically irrelevant to them.

"it's likely that most employees in this kind of circumstance can tell their employers to stuff it without any adverse consequence."

wrong.

you can be fired for no reason

you can be put on a blacklist and become unhirable

you can have your unemployment denied

you can lose your healthcare

if you have some kind of court situation where you have to have a job to stay out of prison, you can lose your freedom

now put that up against being homeless , being sick, being in prison, then you do whatever the man says.

this is how bad things are, and how completely irrelevant the legal system is to the working class

and when people stopped telling stories around the fire, and instead people went to their rooms to read books... something was lost then too. and something gained.

you do not have an address line 2

you do not have an address line 3

the amount data type is not clear (is that an integer representing pennies, is it a floating point? shouldnt be using floating point for banking)

recipient name is not broken up into first name, middle name, last name. are you users going to be putting "last, first" as well as "first last"?

if you sent that from the command line, then your banking information would be in your bash history, saved on disk

etc etc etc etc

engineers in college: "i'm not taking any of those waste-of-time, woo-woo, liberal arts bullshit classes"

engineers in life: "OMG how do you draw like that, amazing" (guy draws a ball)

"OMG how do u explain things so well" (uses basic essay structure)

where i work, alot of this could be fixed by recording/watching what users are actually doing then improving the UI so its more obvious what is supposed to be done.

its like the old story about how on a college campus some administrator put up dozens of signs about not walking on the grass between buildings, put up mini fences around the grass, etc etc, eventually someone just built a sidewalk where the students were walking.

this comment is literally the definition of gaslighting.

what a nightmare.

Ops tech 1 - "hey... my database just dropped an entire table, i lost a week of work"

Ops tech 2 - " thats a serious bug, you should escalate"

Ops tech 1- "hey you wrote this thing, it dropped my db table, i lost a week of work... "

Great and Mighty Programmer - ' - not my job, i am a programmer for you see, and looking for bugs is beneath me, some peasant task. now begone, i must solve more problems! '

Ops tech 1 "so what do we do? this doesnt work, like, at all. completely broken, not even the most rudimentary testing was done by who ever created it"

Ops tech 2 "stop using the database, we will build an excel spreadsheet on a shared network drive"

it will do far less damage to society than facebook and tiktok

the ground is not paved , definitely not good for skating.

you could maybe do an offroad skateboard though

"drafting is a low-value activity " "low-value workers".

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i spent thousands of hours working on one of those open source CAD projects, and i made about 100 dollars.

eventually i had to get a "real job", a job where i can't really be doing domain specific open source stuff without a potential conflict of interest.

on the plus side, i just bought a couch without having to worry about whether i can eat dinner.

not at the bank i work for. they have some sites that only work in chrome, some that only work in edge, some that only work in internet explorer, and absolutely nobody cares except for some pedantic nerds like me. fixing the problems would cost more than any potential errors they might have.