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There’s the magical term! God I fucking hate wage theft. OP, the company is trying to steal from you. Your time is money and if they’re not paying you for work then they’re, by definition, stealing from you.

I’ve had conversations like this before, and usually you only have to hint that it’s wage theft for dumbfuck managers to realize and back down, especially if you’re assertive but polite with them. If you’re not getting anywhere with the manager, then you should go to HR. HR’s job is to protect the company and the obviously correct move for an HR person is to keep the DoL out of the situation. If you go to HR and then get fired, then that may be even better evidence against the shitheads.

If you do go to HR, try to get your manager to admit to wage theft in a way that gives you evidence. If you can’t get the manager to admit to wage theft on paper or electronically (which you should immediately back up), you’re going to the DoL, and you live somewhere with one-party consent, then surreptitiously record your manager saying it. It may be against company policy to make this recording (and should be your last resort, don’t go to HR with audio recordings!), but it’s legal as long as your jurisdiction has one-party consent laws on the books.

Don’t let them steal from you, OP. The other magic words that have already been mentioned in this thread are “fuck you, pay me.”

My dryer broke like 6 years ago, and I just never cared enough to fix it. You can definitely still get permanent stains on line-dried clothes, but I’ll grant that it’s much harder without all the heat. I have one white cotton T-shirt that I’ve been going Ahab on for fucking months. It wasn’t even expensive, I just want to see if I can get the trifecta of mustard/ketchup/fucked up molybdenum disulfide grease stains out.

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

Ahhh, hell yeah time to dig for a SDS!

PDF warning: https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusWeb/Click_and_learn/SDS_ZIMMER_CEMENT_BONE_BIOMET_R_1X40_1_BX.pdf

looks like it’s the monomer of plexiglass with hydroquinone to prevent premature polymerization and N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine which is like, an adhesive or something? The latter is probably the issue.

Yeah, seems like people working in medicine have a rough time of it. My sister works in a cath lab and I worry about her exposure levels sometimes. I know she wears a dosimeter but like, man, it’s a lot of X-rays.

Huh, TIL about bone cement. I was curious so I looked it up, and for those who are also curious, it appears to typically be a mix of PMMA (i.e. plexiglass) and its monomer MMA (although some radically different materials have been developed). You mix the goo and it turns to dough and then eventually hardens into, well, plexiglass. The SDS for MMA doesn’t seem that bad, so there must be more to it than just that.

Thanks for sharing this! I never knew plexiglass was biocompatible-ish and was used in this way.

I think shit went down with h3h3 around that same time. I gave up on them after they started making irritating anti-feminist content. I’ve avoided them like the plague, but I think they had uh, a definite shift rightwards.

edit: all of the above is rampant speculation btw. Like I said, I’ve avoided them like the plague since then.

Same, I’m pretty bitter about him. Like, I figured we’d have different political views but he didn’t seem like a nutter beyond him being completely off his fucking rocker. He had interesting videos, he was quotable as hell, and some of his stuff was quite informative.

I’m quite sad that things turned out the way they did. I can’t watch his stuff anymore because I don’t want to get flashbanged by crazy.

Old Man’s War reference?

Honestly, I love it. English is such a twisted, fucked up language and it’s like we’re collectively acknowledging it and using it to our advantage.

The poster is saying that match-man isn’t cool. He then goes on to say that he does think match man is cool and that he’s just jealous that he can’t be cool.

He’s not really mocking the person, although I guess it could be considered a backhanded compliment.

Ideally? Now.

In reality? 5 days before the extension deadline ends.

Ahh, gotcha. Apologies, I haven’t had enough caffeine yet, so it went completely over my head.

That makes sense to me. I also prefer Briar on that basis, although I currently don’t use it at all. I’ve had a hard enough time getting folks to switch to Signal, so I don’t want to try to push them to move once again. If Signal starts enshittifying then I’ll probably start the Sisyphean push to switch again.

edit: ugh it’s Sisyphean not Sisyphusian

Claims require evidence in proportion to their extremity. There is no evidence of a backdoor in that issue. If a security researcher made a post saying “Signal is CIA backdoored, here is exactly how it works,” then I would read it and use my relevant domain knowledge as a software dev to make a decision. No explanation is provided, so I have nothing to use to decide. Therefore, my viewpoint is unchanged.

Signal has been audited, and I believe it’s been audited multiple times. If you’re worried about your 4th amendment rights in the US, don’t turn on backups. If you have something serious to hide and your threat model includes state actors, send messages that delete themselves after a certain time period and enforce that discipline amongst your peers. The poster’s concerns sound like a skill issue to me.

I think that the person you’re responding to is asking for the specifics of why Briar is ethically superior. Do the other options have ethical issues? Or does Briar have a specific characteristic that makes it ethically superior (e.g. its p2p nature)?

I’d also like to know. It’s never occurred to me to look at the technical nature of secure messaging systems through the lens ethics so I find the idea intriguing.

OKCupid was alright before the buyout. I won’t say it was great, but I went out with several people thanks to that site and met my current partner of 12 years there.

This already exists in theory, although not many companies or products are implementing it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiative

I think Leica cameras can sign their images, but I don’t know if any other cameras support it yet.

Cities probably have a higher density of towers, or the towers in cities have more capable antennas. Point-to-point microwave links can be pretty damn fast and reliable. They have their limitations, but even low-end systems like some of Ubiquiti’s 60ghz stuff can form full duplex 5Gbps links at 10+ kilometers. Fiber is still king, but I’m guessing the backhaul isn’t the issue.

I’m guessing that the issue is congestion on the client radios. 5g is supposed to be much better at dealing with this thanks to time sharing improvements, but it seems likely that there just aren’t enough towers. One scenario that seems reasonable is that your telco (incorrectly) assumed that they wouldn’t need as many towers when upgrading, so they only upgraded a subset of their towers and removed old ones once 4g was deprecated.

edit: you might be able to get better information about wtf is going on by using a community-sourced site like https://cellmapper.net/

I believe you can use that site to get info about how many towers there are and what the client-side congestion is like.

EDIT: ew, cellmapper is closed source. OpenCellid or beaconDB seem to be open source equivalents.

Abso-fucking-lutely, amen and hallelujah. I want 6G to focus on improving range and performance in marginal conditions. When shit is good, 5g is fast enough for now. I don’t know how you improve range and penetration without going to lower frequencies, so maybe we should try to do that? Lower frequencies mean less bandwidth, but RF is black magic fuckery and there’s all kinds of crazy shit that can be done with time division, so maybe we can improve throughout in the sub-ghz regime. I dunno about that, I’m just an idiot software developer who is thankful that shit works without me having to sacrifice a goat.

Maybe there’s a way to broadcast at higher power levels, and maybe there are ways for base stations to be more sensitive or do filtering to increase SNR. I have no idea, but I think that should be what the telecos focus on. Better service over a wider area with the same number of towers would be huge.

Python is my primary language. For the way I write code and solve problems, it’s the language where I need the least help from an LLM. Python lets you write code that is incredibly concise while still being easy to read. There’s more of a case to be made for something like Go, since it seems like every single god damned function call ends up being variable, err := someFuckingShit() and then a if err!=nil and manually handling it instead of having nice exception handling. Even there, my IDE does that for me without requiring a computationally expensive LLM to do the work.

Like, some people have a more conversational development style and I guess LLMs work well for them. I end up constantly context switching between code review mode and writing code mode which is incredibly disruptive.

As a senior dev, I have no use for it in my workflow. The only purpose it would serve for me is to reduce the amount of typing I do. I spend about 5-10% of my time actually writing code. The rest of my dev time is spent in architecting, debugging, testing, or documenting. LLMs aren’t really good at most of those things once you move past the most superficial levels of complexity. Besides, I don’t actually want something to reduce the amount I’m typing. If I’m typing too much and I’m getting annoyed then it’s a sure sign that I’ve done something bad. If I’m writing boilerplate then it’s time to write an abstraction to eliminate that. If I’m writing repetitive tests then it’s a sign I need to move to a property based testing framework like Hypothesis. If the LLM spits all of this out for me, I will end up writing code that is harder to understand and maintain.

LLMs are fine for learning and junior positions where you’ll have more experienced folks reviewing code, but it just is not that helpful past a certain point.

Also, this is probably a small thing, but I have yet to find an LLM that writes anything other than shitty, terrible shell scripts. Please for the love of God don’t use an LLM to write shell scripts. If you must, then please pass the results through shellcheck and fix all of the issues there.