[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Tesla Model Y owner here (never again, either). I hate the touchscreen, and also hate the way they’ve shoehorned functionality into the button/scroller controls on the steering wheel to try to address complaints.

When I first got the MY, the only way to control things like the wipers was through menus in the touchscreen. A software update introduced the ability to control them from the steering wheel controls, but even that “solution” sucks. You have to press & hold the control down while simultaneously scrolling it with your thumb. And most times you can’t scroll it from all the way off to all the way on in a single motion, so you press, scroll as much as you can, release & press again then scroll the rest of the way. A real PITA.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Any idea where I can get som extra strength Hibernol?

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wouldn’t surprise me at all, but even that would be a limited & unreliable resource. It would also require getting inmates to the farms, warehouses, etc. and keeping tabs on them while they work. That would be a logistical nightmare…

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

If slaughter houses, chicken/egg farming, fruit picking, packaging, etc. comes screeching to a halt due to these raids then those employers stand to lose a ton of money as the food goes bad while they scramble to try to convince Joe MAGA to come work for them for a fraction of minimum wage.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We’ll know when future claims are true when Russia acts on highly classified US intelligence, like that time Trump gave them the names of US spies.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 102 points 3 weeks ago

Trump was in the Oval Office? I seem to recall mostly seeing photos of him at his various golf courses when he was president….

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[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 88 points 3 months ago

It would be weird if he changed course this late in the game.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 93 points 5 months ago

That’s an optional software upgrade. It’ll cost you $12.95 a month.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 109 points 8 months ago

Put them both in soundproof booths and only turn on their microphones when it’s their turn to actually respond to a question.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 80 points 11 months ago

RIP Grant…

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This just popped into my head after a similar question came up with a coworker…

Back a few decades ago I worked in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA. My office window looked out towards another building about 15 feet away, and for some reason our floors were about 8 feet higher than the other building. So we could look down into the offices across the way.

The person in the office I could see into had his desk set up so that his back was to the window and he faced his office door. This gave me and my coworkers a clear view of his computer screen over his shoulder. He played Microsoft solitaire constantly, except when somebody walked in. He would very quickly close it so he wouldn’t get caught.

My coworkers and I actually tried to figure out his phone number, but never did. We wanted to call him up and tell him he should have played the red 9 on the black 10…

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 151 points 1 year ago

I’m shocked that the data center required retinal scans but that the employee with access could then just hold the door and let him and others in.

I used to work at a data center with lots of security. To get into the area with the servers you had to go through a man trap. It was a room a little larger than a telephone booth with automatic doors on both sides. To open the first door you needed a physical card key. Once inside the door closed, then to open the inner door you needed to both enter a PIN and have your hand scanned in a biometric scanner. Only after all that could you get inside. The booth also weighed you, and if your weight was off by a certain amount after your last pass through then it wouldn’t let you in. That was to prevent somebody from piggybacking with you.

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 335 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Many years ago I had to try to debug a memory manager written by a really talented software engineer, with an interesting take on naming things…

  • He referred to blocks of memory as “cookies”.

  • He had a temporary variable named “handy” because it was handy to have around.

  • He had a second temporary variable that referenced the first one that he called “son_of_handy”.

  • If corruption was detected in a block of memory then it would set the flag “shit_cookie_corrupt”.

  • If too many cookies were corrupt then the system would halt by calling the function “oh_shit_oh_shit_oh_shit”.

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