So one of the ways to pad your resume is to contribute to open source projects and this is been one of the drivers for open source.

So what we are seeing now is AI slop submissions flooding open source projects from people trying to get a credit without actually doing any work. It's no skin off their backs if you waste the reviewer's time and if your AI slop happens to be legit because you did three or four 500 submissions then that's just fine. Because all you were really after is getting your name on the project for when you apply for a job.

With how hyper competitive life is now because we're all Fighting for our lives out here I suppose I can't blame them but it's fucking things up. It's just another twisted distortion you get when you tie somebody's ability to access food and shelter to their job performance.

Even if the company has a crap product as long as they have a product they can keep taking money from investors and the CEOs can keep paying themselves out of that money. Maybe someday they will have a working product maybe they won't but either way the CEOs didn't have to have real jobs for quite some time.

They are also one of the few parts of the electronics hobby that isn't toxic. A very welcome change.

I misremembered. It's been some years since I did it.

We found that submersion to 10cm was often worse than submersion beyond 1m. I think it was the lack of compression on gaskets. Our pre-compliance test was a drainpipe blocked off at the bottom, and string.

Samsung used to make waterproof phones where you could replace the battery. I'd give up the ability to fully submerge if it meant the battery could be swapped out.

For me it's a big deal. I had a hell of a time replacing my Pixel XL battery. I'm keeping that thing alive forever, because it has unlimited full quality photo uploads to Google Photos.

What the article seems to be trying to say is that adafruit criticized flux ai's low quality product so flux AI is abusing a law to go after them.

So every website on the Internet ?

about $100B revenue by the top 5 companies. It's amazing, Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle have raked in billions since 2022. And all they had to do was spend about $1T to do it.

So if you want to get into an amazing investment opportunity, I can help you turn $10 into $1 without the use of AI. Without needing to build data centers or boil the oceans. Simply mail me any amount of money you wish to invest. And I will within 5 business days send you the profit back. Up to 10%!

Given the ambiguity in the rules, it’s possible many Apple laptops already comply in that an end use can open the device and swap the battery, although it is not easy. The commercially available tools could be interpreted as long as the manufacturer offers for sale to anyone tools need to do the repair, they are commercially available and meet the letter of the law. I suspect, for most end users, the cost and difficulty will mean they forgo the DIY repair. A 3rd party shop might be able to afford investing in tools since the cost would be amortized over multiple uses.

Methodology to determine causality varies (that is, did the person die from the jab or something else), but for the set of COVID-19 vaccines specifically and taking data back to 2020 the number is dozens to hundreds of deaths. Not millions.

Both death and life-time disability are possible outcomes both for infectious disease and for vaccines. It's an exercise in statistics to attempt to do the least harm. MMR vaccine deaths are very low for example, but infant mortality is high for measles, mumps, and rubella. With complications in children such as loss of hearing, loss of sight, and intellectual disability. And for adults a very high risk (70%+) of developing arthritis. Where as the MMR vaccine does not carry these same complications.

We've been applying this technique to other species on a large scale and world wide for 60+ years. Everything we do has some consequence. We should only do it when the benefits outweigh the consequences. And the models of what the consequences of SIT (sterile insect technique) might be are treated very pessimistically because we know that we don't know everything.

SIT is at least superior in many ways to how we currently control mosquitos in areas of the US that are getting a surge of West Nile virus (like my neighborhood). My local ecosystem doesn't need non-native mosquitos that spread disease, here we have Aedes aegypti (the yellow fever mosquito) and Aedes albopictus (the Asian tiger mosquito). Usually county spends out a truck spraying a larvicide such as Temefos. Of course spraying pesticides all over where your children play and bees work has risks too.

Which is why water resistant is term of choice, since it does not imply 100% impervious to water intrusion and damage.

A few were from 2020 - 24 or so from MIT and DOE. While they do state considerable progress has been made, they also point out a number of questions still remain about the long term effects and solution viability. For example, ultra pure salt seems to have very little corrosive effect, but then the challenge is obtaining and maintaining the purity at scale. Type of salt used also has an impact, and some have more data than others so more studies are needed to determine impacts. Having been in the industry, when someone claims a new tech will result in a nuclear renaissance and previous problems are solved, I am skeptical based on my experience. Been there, got the t-shirt.

This is the usual way the EU does this stuff. They don't get too specific, they let courts figure that out and update their rules if necessary.

It is disappointing that waterproof devices are not included, like IP68 phones. Then again I wonder if IP68 rating is enough to claim that, because typically if they say IP68 and you submerge the phone, they don't want to fix it under warranty. IP68 means a water jet, so I suppose it's not actually submersion, but I think a manufacturer might have a hard time arguing it with a court that is likely to side with the consumer's understanding of words like "waterproof".

Some people get them for free, but most people do have to pay if they want them. Or not if their employer offers them.

Same with COVID now, those were free but now only certain people get them for nowt and the rest have to pay.

I now, right? How many years directly interacting with unions and union workers do you have? I've got going on 40 now. Doesn't automatically make me right, but I would love to hear your personal experience.

I've had Union employees tell me they have two bosses. I've dealt with grievances, Strikes, lockouts, even received a pass when some were in over their heads. I've watch the chaos of "bumping", where people bump newer employees, not even in their field - think an electrician bumping a custodian, your job isn't very secure until you get a lot of time in.

And the point I'm making is not the one you are trying to have me make I think you having an argument in your head with me about this.

Point is that Yes, if you are paying union dues, and following Union rules as well as the employer rules, even if the Union doesn't issue you a W2 form, you work for them as well as your employer.

Point is, an employer can and will terminate more expensive employees first, unless that employee brings value worth their renumeration. The number of unionized employees where I retired from dropped by half over the last 30 years. That is not a coincidence.

What union do you belong to? And you seem to get excited if someone points out that Unions are not perfect. Like telling them they you claim I don't understanding Unions, and excusing utterly rude behavior, Go ahead, call me a moron - you know you want to, 8^)

Once again, your listing of the benefits union has brought simply shows that you are having that argument in your head with me.