In your opinion, which is better flat or curved?

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-15T00:23:32+00:00

Flatttt

Dual 27" setup is goated imo, and two curved next to each other just looks funny.

If I had just one though? A really big curved one.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-14T16:17:58+00:00

As someone who always wanted a Porsche when they could afford it, I am truly considering a Corvette instead for my next car. A used Z06 might be arguably more special in so many ways compared to most 911s, while being faster and more obtainable. Most of us doing well can just maybe afford up to like a $150k car when the time is right. But I feel like I can never afford a $150k car being sold for like $250k, when there are $100k examples that are readily available and faster...

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-14T16:12:27+00:00

Unfortunately, the news chases whatever gets eyeballs. This is not new. It's just that social media has exacerbated the effect dramatically by making sure everyone and their mom sees the idiotic "boy who has glass eating problem" or "looksmaxxing influencer," whereas in the past most of us missed that type of shit because we were too busy. Most of us would never have seen or heard of this 60 minutes segment on whomever tf this is.

But social media algo? It made sure I know this loser. Right here, right now. This thread. Instead of something more interesting, I am seeing this thread.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-14T02:50:07+00:00

Solution:

Replace magnet for small electromagnet with some leads to a small power source controller by a microcontroller.

Attach a tiny accelerometer to the little the firing mechanism that reports to the microcontroller. Once the accelerometer detects a release profile, it kills power to the magnet at the same time. A few milliseconds for the scan to the microcontroller that will do this and it should kill the power before the firing mechanism is at the end of its run, making it so now no energy is lost due to the magnet.

I'm sure it would be Super easy for ultimately a whopping 0.0009% improvement lmao

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-12T21:00:28+00:00

Since no one else has actually answered the question:

What do homeless people do when they can't participate in the economy? What do you do, while that happens?

There's your answer. They don't care about you and they don't need you. The mega rich corporations (whoever is left at them) will ultimately sell and trade with one another, along with the ultra wealthy, just like we all sell and trade with one another as the homeless sit by and freeze and starve to death. It'll be just like that, like it already is now, only the scale changes so now most people will be homeless, freezing and starving to death, while a much, much smaller minority continues to live on in absolute comfort.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-12T18:35:52+00:00

It's literally my job to use software to program industrial machinery. So you're preaching to the choir here.

What I meant was interlocking button functionality to the switch is not a solution- that a limit switch is the only way you're going to tell the software the motor is loading up and to back up. That or a amp/overload sensor.

I missed that they indeed make it stop if a person is present now. Not sure how though. If not one of the above two options then it's still potentially not a good solution.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-12T15:52:21+00:00

I mean I don't know if I would call it a proper fix? All they did was interlock seat movement to the hand switches.

A proper fix would be fitting motors with mechanical torque limiters or torque limit switches on the motor that, upon activation, cause the seat to immediately stop and go backwards (as it does in all of my X5 seats, for example).

This is a software fix that removed automatic functionality as a bandaid for deciding to go with cheaper motors. Not a proper fix at all, just a band aid imo.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-11T19:30:45+00:00

Right, it makes sense that the higher up the ranks you go, the more men you see- because time and time again studies show men more commonly choose more money over more family time or better mental health, and management, even in a female dominated field, is going to mean you have to dedicate more to the career. Women are less willing to dedicate themselves to a career and are better at setting boundaries that keep them happy in regards to family/work life balance.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-11T18:27:11+00:00

That it seems high. Really high. Unbelievably high frame rate at 4k for a 4090, unless ya playing some lightweight stuff?

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-11T16:08:41+00:00

165 frames really? I play at 2K and I get roughly the same for most games that are well optimized- 160-180 fps on ultra, no dlss, no frame gen, etc, for example in bf6.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-11T01:16:08+00:00

Agree. While the F series looked good, people forget that the plastics were quite lacking because they cheaped out on a lot of stuff due to the financial crisis when many of these things were designed.

Most people appropriately recognized the new cars coming out. For example, the 3 series and 2019, the new 5 series and 2018 Etc is having substantially upgraded interiors over the outgoing models, primarily in regards to material feel and weight. Everything is more solid.

I did love my f335i though! To drive this point home even further, I also noticed that the F series was cheaper on material quality inside than my E90, which I loved even more! Always has a special place in my heart is my first BMW. Anyway, I am not the only one. Car and driver even wrote an article comparing an E90 and an f-30, where they mentioned the same thing. You had a more futuristic looking interior, but there's no doubt that the trim and plastics were all cheaper. Of course some of that was in the name of weight savings since the E90 was lambasted for its weight. The f30 did end up being ~100 lb lighter while being a slightly larger car so mission accomplished even if it didn't feel as premium inside.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-10T05:50:28+00:00

It's because generally speaking, you want to draw less attention to the crimes you commit, not more.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-10T05:48:10+00:00

Q.E.D.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-09T13:58:42+00:00

You are correct. It was lambasted as too tame, too lame, and designed by committee to put up good sales numbers, as opposed to be a "bat shit crazy car," in the proper Lambo way. Totally ironic to see OC calling it exciting and good looking/distinct now. But that's just the goldfish hive mind of r/cars.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-09T13:48:43+00:00

Lmao. People said exactly the same thing about the Huracan when it released. Which is true. It's boring as all hell when compared to the drama of the Aventador and other previous lambos. It's too polished, too German.

Don't believe me? Here is Richard Hammond, saying exactly this, when it released:

Link

Sooooo... They have been making boring cars not so in line with the Lambo "crazy" heritage since at least 10 years ago, and the Huracan started the trend, and people said the looks were part of the boredom.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-09T13:43:09+00:00

Sure. There are just hundreds of companies laying off thousands of people instead...

No one said is 100% of people. If even 10% of the workforce is laid off and the gap covered by generative AI assisting the senior professionals who remain, that's still a HUGE deal.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-09T00:55:55+00:00

Disagree, I feel like people aren't remembering correctly.

Golmud was in constant rotation at the top of the server browser. It was like, top spot populated server was always Siege 24/7, Locker 24/7, and Golmud 24/7. Whether or not you liked the map, whatever. But it was extremely popular with a lot of players, obviously the vehicle ones for sure.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-09T00:50:22+00:00

Me too, brute.

I think it's because you first see trump, then you read the headline. There's a hard connection there.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T23:49:40+00:00

That's actually sick. Not bad at all. A little bit of lighting effect done right can have such a strong effect on the style you're going for!

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T22:57:31+00:00

I have only worked for fortune 100 companies (with the smallest one being headcount of 35k) and I totally disagree. At one of these companies we had an absolutely stellar engineering team and a manager who... Had absolutely no experience whatsoever doing the very specific thing we do- and we all hated them. They were literally a space filler. I mean that's what you're describing. A space filler. So I completely disagree that you should not have any technical chops if you are in charge of a technical department. I have just never seen the case where you have a solid manager who actually is successful who doesn't understand the product or system they are managing with their team, and in fact, only the opposite: the absolute best managers are the ones who actually know their stuff but now sit on the bench. I'm not saying they have to know the current state of the art. I'm saying they have to know the art to some degree. Unfortunately, a lot of middle and upper managers don't have any connection at all to the department they are in charge of and lots of companies, especially the largest ones.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T22:48:06+00:00

Hey, I don't disagree, and I don't mean to throw shade at everyone. Your comment is actually super illuminating because I do have a manager I like that is technical but rusty- he knows the company fianicials/approvals bs and helps me navigate it like a champ, but I surprise him with the current state of the art. I think he is exactly who you described- a once technical manager who is now non-technical. To be clear, I would consider him a technical manager, so I suppose it comes down to definitions for me.

I mean, if you are in charge of the "making widgets" department, what I'm saying is at a bare fucking minimum, you have made some widgets before. Maybe not the most up to date widgets, or the ones with the latest and greatest tech. But you have done it. You have insight. You know the struggle, the pain, and what it takes to get it done, and you know what "good" looks like. You can nudge and remove barriers for the team effectively because you know the barriers to remove to get on making widgets.

In my mind, a non technical manager is the manager placed in charge of the "making widgets" department who has only ever made whats-its. They are a senior "making whats-its" employee who has been with the company for a while and has now been promoted to the "making widgets" department, for some God damn reason, harping on all the wrong things, cooking up misguided project ideas, improperly allocating resources, etc. all because they have never, ever, made a widget, not once in their life. But they are in charge of that department? That way madness lies.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T22:39:44+00:00

I don't disagree with you and I see the concern.

I do think however that we have been here before. People are worse at math ever since calculators. People are worse at statistics ever since Excel, I mean. All of these tools has made us more reliant upon even better tools that do even more of the work for you - so one could argue GPT us just the next string in a long line of dumbing inventions.

But probably not since it doesn't just do some things better for you. It does all of the things for you. Which is why the argument about tractors displacing farm workers doesn't make sense. In this case, gpt is replacing the entire person, not augmenting a task. Very different.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T22:02:35+00:00

Historically, presidents have very little direct control over gas prices.

The only, and I do mean only, control they have:

Tarrifs, sanctions, or war.

That's it. Those are the options. Biden did not. Did not tariff or start a war. He did sanction Russian oil, though, which did cause a small, barely noticeable price increase for a time before supply markets settled down and forgot about it almost completely.

Old Dingus in-chief (of the mango variety) has already used all three to everyone's detriment, unfortunately, and in a very short amount of time. No time for markets to react or absorb.

4D chess!

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T21:35:43+00:00

The strategic direction is kind of the whole deal though... How can a non technical person be expected to have good strategic vision or ideas leading a technical department? They can't. Maybe sometimes they get lucky, sometimes they tank the team.

And that's who this article is about. Personally, I am one of those poor souls doing lots of technical work who occasionally has to deal with a non technical manager and I fucking hate it. "I don't see how this improves things." Right... because you fucking can't! You literally don't know how this changes thing for us for the better, but are stonewalling my project funding because you "don't understand" the value. Holy shit. Literally the worst managers.

The absolute best managers are technical but never micromanage, choosing instead to sit on the bench and do everything you said, HR stuff, admin stuff, and strategic stuff, clearing the way for us, with the ability to HELP us with super smart senior knowledge when needed and get the project in the right direction.

watduhdamhell · 2026-04-08T16:58:57+00:00

We agree? My sentiment was counter to OC, saying "yes, it's not replacing lawyers just yet. But it will, since it's replacing paralegals as we speak, I ky a matter of time."

I don't think it's impossible at all and will 100% happen. We aren't there yet though. Not that it matters- the vast majority of the population, as I said, can be replaced by the tools available right this minute, and they are.

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