pahlimur

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Not really. My house is from the 1960s and we were able to update it to handle 40C+ days consecutively.

The brick vs balloon frame argument isnt really bait. Stick frame is easy to update and make energy efficient. I think there is a real discussion to had about modernizing older homes in Europe to handle the future.

So strange to me to see temperatures that are like a normal summer 30 years ago being seen as some end all scenario.

Do your homes not handle 40C+ weather? We run a single window AC that cools the whole house in the weather you describe.

on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 3 pts · 1d

Its more how unbelievably wasteful "AI" is to give dumbshits access to very basic tools. If and when it gets more efficient it will be viewed as we see search engines.

There was literally the dark version of Google to save energy on CRTs, and now it's energy consumption is low and normalized.

on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 4 pts · 2d

The intellectual divide will be deepened significantly by "AI".

Ive never heard dumber conversations than people thinking "AI" is solving some hard problem. Here are a few examples:

  1. It pulls text out of a pdf
  2. It can read data out of a dwg
  3. It can overlay data into a 3d model
  4. It can update configuration data across lots of code

All of these could easily be done before, people were just too stupid to know how to do it without typing a stupid prompt and wasting resources to do it.

I wonder if this whole phenomenon could be explained by a Dunning-Kruger type effect. Where dumb people see "AI" as a great solution, and those on the smarter side see straight through it as a loud over juiced parrot.

on Welp · c/programmer_humor · 24 pts · 2d

A stupid person would believe this.

"AI" in its current iteration is a distillation of human knowledge. It lowers the barrier to access to long standing programming libraries that make people think it is some sort of smart. It seems intelligent because it's imitating the things we have already created.

I may seem full of myself but requiring a login drastically reduces educated people existing in reddits ecosystem. I'm completely done with it and have moved back to forums for most things. This shift is the final nail in reddits decade old coffin imo.

This is gonna piss some people off, but the worst one is Toyota by a mile. I rent a lot of cars and they are the only one that I can see inside of other vehicles. They either dont adjust them or are purposely pointing them up for some sort of sales reason.

The auto dimming stuff isnt allowed the US yet. Other issue is most cars default to auto highbeams, which suck dick at turning off when needed.

This is completely wrong. Higher mounting means they can be pointed more down, which gives a bigger buffer to them blinding people when the back of vehicle squats. Bus and truck headlights arent an issue because their suspension doesn't squat under normal loads.

Vehicle manufacturers in the US have to meet the new headlight requirements. Which require headlights to be bright as fuck and basically parallel to the ground. Then rear suspension is left soft to improve ride quality in all suvs. Put some weight in it and the front of the vehicle points up. Pickups are usually bad because the suspension is modified or it's overloaded.

A quarter of drivers i swear leave their highbeams on. I have stopped caring and just installed blind people highbeams. 10x brighter than a high output halogen usually gets them to turn off their highbeams.

I grew up in a sort of non religious republican household. The answer your looking for is republican voters in the US are just stupid as fuck when it comes to reality. They live in a bubble of hatred that keeps them confused about how anything really works. Its why it's impossible to explain anything to them. Tribalism cranked up to 11.

Took me 6 years of college to stop being a republican dumb shit. I was raised so racist and sexist and I'm so glad I grew some empathy in school.

Philips shape is the next step up from a flat head. Its just a double flat head sort of. It self centers and only requires 2 tooling motions if they are being ground.

The dont overtighten thing has always seemed like a weird misunderstanding that all bit types could be designed to do that.

The recipe is different for the store brand. I did this stuff in the dairy industry for a while. Its not production cycles in dairy, it's vats. So store brand orders a few vats of product, with way lay less actual milk or doesnt specify as high a minimum quality milk products. More dyes and filler during finishing and no aging. All store brands are essentially flavored and colored mozzarella. They are lower quality.

I still buy them though. Mozzarella is good enough for most recipes.

For other products it's similar. Lower tolerances on inputs and outputs to reduce cost. Still probably 80% as good as name brand.

Half of our contractors flew in from Mexico for my current project. Its like 70/30 with them for good/bad. Which is better than basically any installers I've worked with previously.

China in my experience is slavery painted over with the word automation. Any work I've done over there has an insane amount of obscurity to hide the slavery.

You are so wrong I dont have simple words to describe it.

I'm a controls engineer who literally installs automation systems. AI is mostly useless in our industry, Claude barely scratches the surface of what we do. The coding is somewhat simple. The problem is how difficult the physical interaction is.

Having worked with Chinese controls people, they arent any better than the US engineers often they are significantly worse. No idea why. The guys from Mexico are way better from my experience.

This one goes way farther than people realize. My father built a great career as an engineer with a large network of people who would hire him in an instant. He's just nice, polite, and helps the people around him.

I'm very similar to him and it's worked very well for me too. I might be stupid as fuck sometimes, but I own it and I'm nice. I'm somewhat early in my career but I can already see what my behavior gets me.