Sure you can. Just like how some people get a pass on work from home. This is a way to deal with employees you need who credibly threaten to leave while using the process to fire anyone else without severance.

They aren't waiting for America anymore because they can't trust America anymore. They have green lit billions and billions of dollars in additional War funding for Ukraine. They have of course been dicks about it and turned it into loans but they will leverage later on but it means that Ukraine has the resources to keep fighting.

I would like to see the Democrats to get back in charge and deal with russia. I will never understand why Biden didn't do more. Then again the Republican party is pretty close with Russia and Biden was probably trading Ukraine for some domestic policy. He never gets enough votes in the Senate and House to really do much of anything because of the filibuster but it's always too risky to eliminate the filibuster because the Republicans have repeatedly said they will eliminate all voting rights if they didn't have the filibuster stopping them.

Graduates have massive debts in most cases, right?

Back when we weren't so hardcore capitalist, people used to have a job for life and would stick with a company even after they skilled up. The company would reward them with better salary as they became more senior.

Nowadays the only way to get a decent salary bump is to move company, and people do that a lot because the cost of living is so high.

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.

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.

The important thing is that all of the solar power remains in control of the same people who currently control our energy supply.

That's really what this is about. Power. Not electric power the power to tell you what to do by controlling whether you have electricity or not. Whether you can drive into work.

The cause is that we are in a deep deep recession that is being masked by ridiculous amounts of AI spending and a news media that is dedicated to propping up this administration at least through the midterms.

There isn't a single serious economist who will tell you that we aren't in a recession if you take out AI spending and AI spending doesn't create jobs. The work is almost entirely automated except for a handful of highly specialized construction jobs that don't last very long and the typically are done by people brought in from out of state because they require specific skills that your average electrician or Carpenter doesn't have. Companies could of course train but fuck that give me give me give me that cheap labor.

You have not been able to get ahead in a company by schmoozing in a very long time. The way you get ahead and the way you have gotten ahead for the last two decades is you go to another company that pays you more than you come back to your old company with a higher salary and you keep bouncing from company to company. That's because companies stopped promoting from within and stopped training ages ago. They will only train you and give you new skills for a brief period of time during your new hire period so to move up that's what you need to do. That's exactly what my kid had to do in order to move up and it's why their income kept going up.

Networking doesn't work when companies randomly bring the ax down or hell the motherfucking chainsaw every few years when there's a blip in the stock price. You don't know who did not work with because you never know who is going to survive the next round of layoffs.