No this is Patrick
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joined 2 years ago
2019:
Ukraine: We need some fucking Javelins
US: Here’s nothing
2021:
Ukraine: We need some fucking F-16s
US: Here’s some Javelins
2023:
Ukraine: We need some fucking artillery shells
US: Here’s more nothing
2024:
US: Hey we got you some F-16s
Maybe 20 years old. He was waving it around at the other guys on the job, too, joking around with it. He was lucky he didn't kill someone and have to live with it for the rest of his life.
My dad told me when I was a kid: If you're ever in that situation, just stand up and leave. Don't say hey don't do that. Don't wait around and hope everything is okay. Don't start joking around about it too. Just don't say a word, stand up, walk out of the building, go somewhere else, the end.
Ask any historian what are the lessons of the 1932 German elections, and they'll tell you: If you're upset about the establishment incumbent, and specifically the state of the economy, it's okay to overlook serious warnings about the other guy
- Put down a bottle of bleach a little too quickly, a little spurt splashed exactly straight up out of it when it hit the floor and somehow hit me right in the eye. Washed it out in the sink and finished my shift with my eye bright red, instead of, IDK, going to the fucking doctor like I probably should have, because I was young and exploitable.
- Not me but a coworker: Found a handgun in our customer's stuff, started messing around with it. You know the punchline. The bullet went through a few walls, cops got called, he made up some story about how it went off on its own while still in the cabinet which no one believed, somehow still didn't get in legal trouble. He got fired over the phone before he had even left the customer's premises.
- Got hired to a startup to fix the intranet slowness, started work as everyone was leaving, instantly fucked the router and broke the network completely for the whole floor, couldn't fix it for hours and stayed there in a panic until about 3-4 in the morning when I finally figured it out, and fixed the network and the slowness both. Never told them anything except the ending, and they liked my work and hired me full time.
- Fucked the partition table to the main production server and my boss who was sitting right next to me had a mini panic attack while I reconstructed it from my notes and all the filesystems came back. Keep a notebook, it'll save your ass.
And thankfully for Aldrin and Armstrong, the real Apollo lunar landing experience didn't suffer from the same issue.
How could you pass up the opportunity man
Let me help:
", and, in fact, was so well programmed that it was able to adapt and overcome some totally-not-its-fault hardware problems during the last few minutes of the landing sequence to keep the computer running, and land the spacecraft correctly."
Short summary: A radar system on the first moon lander had an undiscovered design flaw that meant it flooded the computer with interrupts it wasn't designed for, at the exact wrong time, all the way down from T minus 3 minutes to T minus 40 seconds before it actually had to touch down on the moon. That left the computer without enough processor time to keep up with all the real-time-sensitive duties it was tasked with -- notably including flying the fucking spacecraft so it landed on the surface, right side up, in the right place, instead of, say, just falling down and slamming into the moon at a tenth of a mile per second.
So when this flood of interrupts happened, the guidance computer was programmed such that it was able to detect that it wasn't keeping up with its stuff, for some reason unknown to it. When it realized, it had been programmed to save all its navigation data, reboot itself to a clean state, reload the nav data, and then signal to the astronauts hey I don't know what's going on but I got a problem guys I need some help. It happened a few times as those final 3 minutes clicked down, which gave enough time for the astronauts to talk to mission control and sort out some version of what was going on, and they were able to reduce the computational load on the computer by shutting down some stuff they didn't need it to be doing, i.e. stuff other than flying the fucking spacecraft as I mentioned. And then, happy again, it landed them on the moon, having kept up with everything well enough in the interim to keep the lander doing exactly what it was supposed to be doing.
Basically, its hardware failed it, three minutes before landing, but it was unbothered and kept going and landed successfully on the moon. It is for that reason a legendary piece of engineering. To me at least. I like this stuff.
Here's another article, also quite good, about another instance of the Apollo guidance computer being awesome beyond any type of reasonable expectation, a few missions later.
Honestly, it's perfect. I don't know if you've ever seen a heated debate where if someone is an asshole their mic gets muted, and you can still faintly hear them yelling in the background through other people's mics while conversation continues among the people whose mics are still active. Or, where they try to barge their way over and grab some other mic that's still active. I've observed both of these, and they are exactly what we need right now.
I don't for a second imagine that this debate will remain civil or with any level of decorum, if it does happen, whatever the rules are. But the optics that could ensue from mic muting are exactly what our political discourse needs right now. Like, completely. To a T.
You might be right. It used to be that without people to grow the food, anyone involved with capital would starve. Kind of sets a baseline underneath how small labor's power is ever able to shrink to.
Now automation has gone, not quite, but almost far enough that it's the exact opposite -- capital can simply say "lol okey dokey then, good luck" and stop cutting labor in on any of the products of automated factory farming.
Brings it back to the question, though, of what is the solution then?
I really don't get it. The only answer that question needs is just look the doctor in the eye and ask, "do I really need to explain?"
I don't know for sure, but I feel like the overwhelming majority of doctors would just nod and say "got it," and then get on with their work.
They forgot discontent about the economy. Also, the key factor of (sometimes, but not always) linking all three topics directly to Biden even though his actual record on all three could be summarized as "not Bernie Sanders but also several standard deviations better than most Democrats, like actually to the point that he's trying to help, and several miles or several hundred miles better than Trump"
"I care how migrants are treated, and that's why I can't vote for Biden over Trump" is, if you take a second to examine the reality involved, all you really need to see to know that the person you're talking to is motivated by something much darker and more dishonest than actually caring about what happens to migrants
I am constantly curious to maybe find some poster on Lemmy that's actually literally a bot, or whose answers are being generated by a bot. I haven't done it yet. I wish glitch tokens still worked.