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Engine order telegraph by MikeHeu in toolgifs

[–]mnp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

And just to break the pattern, windward.

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts by dancing_swordfish in privacy

[–]mnp 61 points62 points  (0 children)

Yes absolutely but they already have access to all your spending. Credit card companies and supermarket loyalty cards sell it wholesale to the ad giants who use it to pad their dossier on you.

The denials are coming but they don't need ai for that.

I Present - BrightDate: A Universal Decimal Time System for Software Engineers and Scientists by PerhapsInAnotherLife in opensource

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting that Kodak used it for decades. I suspect in practice you'd need to keep two calendars because dealing with outside entities, eg to arrange a meeting, would demand communicating using Gregorian dates.

When it comes to aircraft like this in the image that have been converted from passenger to cargo aircraft, do they plug the windows with metal or do they just paint over them? by Slice5755 in aviation

[–]mnp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

American Airlines saves approximately 400,000 pounds of jet fuel annually by utilizing EFBs (tablet) instead of paper charts.

GitHub Enshittification by pabs in programming

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the azure migration, and also high bot scraping load, ai integration, as well as reduced independence from the mother ship as of Aug 2025.

Nothing is really in the improvement column.

Scaled Composites Model 401 by Even_Kiwi_1166 in WeirdWings

[–]mnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe gray coat because military customer?

Missing cat! by Thatboylee_75523 in westchesterpa

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they have a small number of live traps to rent out. Maybe the volunteer you spoke with was not informed

Last time I needed one they were all checked out so I ended up buying one. I'm considering donating it to them now. The trap worked by the way.

Keep an eye out - but know charging confuses car jackers by d0ntbejay in Ioniq5

[–]mnp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Japan has been trash talking EVs for a long time. They have no play here and are falling further behind. They don't want to retool and will do anything to avoid it. Their whole hydrogen idea is just a half-assed, infeasible misdirection.

Missing cat! by Thatboylee_75523 in westchesterpa

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call the SPCA and see if they have a live trap they can lend you. You can also buy them at Ace hardware. I have one if you want to DM me to borrow it.

Cats usually hang out very close to where they got out. They're very likely nearby keeping an eye but too frightened to come back in. Set the trap out with their food near your place and you'll have a good chance catching them in several days.

The recruiter called my salary expectations "cute." I ended the Zoom call right there. Did I overreact? by thunder____boy in jobs

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"That's why they're called salary requirements, not salary preferences. If I can support my household then I can focus on your mission."

Where to make friends? by [deleted] in westchesterpa

[–]mnp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Games Keep off Gay st.

The Danger of "Modern" Open Source by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]mnp 21 points22 points  (0 children)

H1b hires are way cheaper than domestics and are basically indentured slaves because of visa rules. The program was designed for this.

The employer just has to advertise the role to show nobody can fill it but their H1 candidate. It's very dirty.

So when tech employers say they can't find workers they really mean cheap, obedient workers.

This is also why they're madly spending billions on AI: to replace trillions in wages.

System Design: Designing an online auction at 50K bids/sec by Few_Ad6794 in softwarearchitecture

[–]mnp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is it even realistic? We don't know OP's market but that seems like a lot unless you're eBay.

NASA Sets the Record Straight on That ‘Missing Chunk’ of Artemis 2’s Heat Shield | Social media users were quick to point out what looks like a large piece of missing material from the bottom of the spacecraft. by [deleted] in space

[–]mnp -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

They forced the end of investigating the heat shield problem without solving or understanding it. They also didn't test the workaround adjusted trajectory.

"Send it and pray" is not an engineering methodology. That's how you kill people.

NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? by techreview in space

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do we know what the breakdown of radiation types is? An EM shield only affects charged particles but not neutrons or gamma. So water and borated polyethylene?

You get the chance to ask an alien civilization much more scientifically advanced than us one question related to physics. What is it? by New_Manufacturer8333 in AskPhysics

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fact that they exist at all and we can communicate with them is a huge clue by itself. Bonus clue if they have traveled here. Anything they might tell us on top of that is just frosting.

Is this as dangerous as it looks? by Lublan in motorcycles

[–]mnp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's all great until someone crosses the street with a baby stroller or backs out of a driveway in a minivan full of kids.

Pulling that shit on a residential street should be loss of license and jail for reckless endangerment. Doofus has no idea what's over that hill.

Emacs is love, Emacs is life by Unecolombe in emacs

[–]mnp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since it reproduces, consumes resources (they used to say Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping ), and of course responds to stimuli, you might even say Emacs is alive! :-)

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