Not all surveilance is optical. It might just be listening for your BLE chirps or other 2.4ghz traffic from your devices

I can imagine a stick and just walking post to post touching each one while wearing a hi-viz with PG&E printed on it.

would it not be enabled by putting it on the end of a long stick?

So you’re surrounded by enemy US air bases… Does it not occur to you that some of those might be worth blowing up?

Maybe they should have spent money on R&D during covid, instead of doing fucking stock buy-backs.

Fuck them. Fuck them to death.

I’m conflicted about it too. But there is a useful software development tool in there. Its a beige mind good at regurgitating cookie-cutter work. Its pretty good at scaffold and cookie cutter unit tests.

I hate how it makes my colleages behave, but I can totally see the legitimate $500M/yr industry worth of software in there, under all the BS.

There’s a Jetbrains or Atlassian size companies worth of product here.

Fuck you fortune.

Of course the fucking brownshirts will share data with the techno-fascists.

The americans with all their technical might and their monumental war machine can’t win wars.

It got spanked by vietnamese farmers and the taliban.

Clearly, its a losing game to focus on that.

On top of that, that’s because the “free hand of the market” de-prioritises engineering. China doesn’t. It pushes R&D on the long term.

That’s why BMW is getting spanked by BYD. That and their pignose cars are fucking hideous now

There are higher-capacity versions of the plugs that are rotated, yes, but there are the standard 13A socket with the pins rotated to disallow usage of it to the general public.

Some systems have the earth pin shaped like a T instead

Never seen 380v in a residential setting. I know theres a circuit for it in my building for the elevator.

Doesn’t bring any jobs though, and further removes local jobs as the imported vehicles are more robotised than domestic. Doesn’t bring any design work home, thats all back in Japan.

All the high-value work is elsewhere, just the meat-robots that load the machines are left.

The only way the car industry could survive the onslaught of cheap, better-than-domestic chinese EVs would have been to invest in their production plants and R&D instead of stock buybacks.

The domestic manufacturers of Europe and the US deserve what they get.

You realise “you’ll figure it out” is just what people say when someone else is heading into a desperate situation, right?

What you mean is Geely, A chinese company that owns Volvo, might build Geely cars that don’t say Volvo on them in a belgian plant.

I could believe this in the 90s, but in 2026, its literally too expensive and why the fuck would you squirt out a kid into THIS situation?

It was a regrettable trend 10 years ago and when your team contracts from 60 to 6 its an unmaintainable shitfest. I’m trying to coax them into merging them into a monolith with multiple entrypoints/builds so I have one set of dependencies to deal with.

“Hot swapping” means doing it while the machine is running. You can’t hot swap an NVME SSD. You gotta turn the computer off.

It would appear that theres a standoff for 2230 and maybe 2280 on the right, so you can just reuse your Steamdecks SSD.

The normies have swapped a meritocracy for a kakistocracy.

I have contempt for anyone who needs the invisible sky parents paternal hand to guide you away from violence and cruelty. Being a decent person comes from within, not religious fear.

Shits weak, and its for weak-minded people.

10 year old me was right then and is still right now, religion itself is cancerous.

Mmhmm. After the first time I said it I got an instant 3 day ban. I knew it was the end.

I got unbanned and immediately said it again in a thread of people talking about censorship.

The third time was replying to someone who said “why is everyone suddenly getting banned?” in reply to someone who just got banned.

The third time, what I wrote was putting what happened in context. You’re not even allowed to talk about it.

I was mad at the time, big mad. Its fortunate they don’t have physical presence nearby or I’d have been a nuisance outside their office.