There was a city agency that did this in Columbus Ohio. SMART Columbus.

They used tax money to subsidize ebikes for low income folks.

Turns up low income people don’t need an expensive bike that they have nowhere to store securely and they can’t use to transport their families.

Those that got them, turned around and sold them as quickly as possible.

This was a very DUMB way for the city to take a lot of taxpayer money, hand it to a brain-dead organization, pay the employees to organize everything, waste a lot of time to give low-income folks less money than if they would have just handed it out.

SMART Columbus: turning a lot of money, into a little money.

Not to be a bummer, but the loudness of the horn will be limited by the max amperage of the relays. If the horn relay maxes out at 15 amps for 12 volts, you get about 180 watts of energy to the horn. Most horns are just a coil that vibrates at a set frequency to move the rubber or vinyl diaphragm inside the horn. That’s the noise.

Short version, you can put really any horn in there, but the total amount of watts will be the limiting factor. A more efficient horn (aka a new one) will make more sound for equal input wattage.

The other option is to make an array of junkyard horns and set them up with more relays to lift the limit. You’d need to have multiple fused connections unless you just want to be a hillbilly and run them right off the battery with a giant ass relay.

You might start a fire but it will be loud as shit for a few minutes before it burns down.

No, I’m the fucking chump that has to do the work while they’re out!!

Do any of you have jobs? You really think a big company is going to eat shit when this stuff happens?!

Here’s a fucking hint: they don’t. They just squeeze the remaining employees harder. Every company. You can go get a new job and it will happen there too.

When they do mass layoffs, did you think that the people who didn’t get cut just carry on like normal? The worst time to be at a company is after the cuts because there is the same amount of work and just fewer people to do it.

Wake the fuck up.

You really don’t think this will ever be a problem. Just can’t see that eh?

Well enjoy your particular version of the world. I’ve had shit like this happen at work MANY times. Someone is “sick” and takes FMLA. Abuses it. Comes back just long enough to reset the clock then gone again for another 12 weeks. There are a good number of people who do nothing but find ways to do shit like this. Now they have another round in the clip.

If you’ve never had to deal with this shit, consider yourself lucky.

Well now this whole thing is worse.

So now, employees can pick which software they have a religious exemption from? So I can say that I my religion does not permit me to use spreadsheets. Now I don’t have to use them?

I don’t care if people don’t want to use ai, but this precedent is not sustainable. One person on the team decides that their religion does not permit use of a computer. What the hell do you do? You can’t fire them for observing a religious practice (according to the ai thing) so what? They just sit there picking their nose while I have to cover all the work they aren’t doing? Work has to make accomodations? Give this person a typewriter and some carbon paper?

Maybe I have a religious exemption from thinking about anything but god.

All this does is makes work difficult for anyone else without an exemption. Now everyone gets one. Now companies just say, “fuck this, we will find new ways to fire people and bake them into law”.

None of this ends well.

This seems utterly silly. It’s like saying “I don’t believe we should use the internet it’s against my religion” and then trying to work a tech job without it.

Maybe I can go to work in a tech company and object to computers. I only use a typewriter. I also rode a horse to get here.

This only seems like it could backfire on the individual. Everyone else in the company is going to use it and come midyear review, they will have run laps around you and your pile of sticky notes and spreadsheets, using your inbox like a filing system.

My religion does not permit me to use Agile. I only track my work on a notepad I keep in my drawer. I won’t go to the daily stand, won’t participate in sprint planning nor PI planning. Hey, why is everyone getting more done than I am?

I mean, I haven’t worked at any company that doesn’t have a decade or more of tech debt all human-made.

Is this any worse such a regard?

I do not advocate for more bullshit, but I don’t really think that this will make a big difference either way.

Paul Reiser has always been an irritating twerp. Not funny, I’ve never like anything he’s done.

That is until the Kominski Method. I have no idea how he can go toe-to-toe with Michael Douglas, but he’s PERFECT as the irritating pal. I think he just needed to ripen into a crusty old man before he actually became funny.

I also love that Kathleen Turner was in it.

I liked Kubo and the Two Strings a lot.

However, Mathew McConaughey? He was a very strange choice for voice talent in that film. It did not fit the aesthetic at all, he stuck out like a sore thumb. That southern drawl thing he’s got in a movie that has primarily Asian characters? Well all right all right all right.

Your location likely is helping the cause. Any car that has live life in a big city where it might snow will eat shit every day on rough roads.

Also, I don’t know a single soul who thinks they need to replace their shocks or struts. They wear out and the car is mostly fine as long as you’re driving peacefully. However, if you ever need to brake quickly or dodge something, those worn suspension components will greet you by not responding well and you could end up having a bad day.

Remember folks, your shocks and struts are a wear item. They usually wear out around 70k. Lower for hard city life, higher for glassy roads. No matter what, they do wear out, even if you’re not aware of it.

It would be if so many companies hadn’t bought into the microsoft ecosystem so hard. My company did the usual BS of “well we have an e5 license so it’s free”. Now we are married to all their stupid shit and have no relationships with other providers. End of the month gonna be expensive. Now expect a scramble to cut master service agreements and contracts with others in a panic.

An old laptop from about 13 years ago barely breaks a sweat running proxmox and a handful of containers and two vms.

Waste not want not. Plus it comes with a keyboard, touchpad and monitor. Plus, built in ups. You might need to add a USB Ethernet dongle but you don’t have to.

I bet just about anyone you know has their old laptop in a drawer somewhere. They’d probably give it to you.

I thought it was popular in Scotland as well as Australia also.

They typically don’t just build 'em for AI. Data centers are general purpose buildings. They provide power, cooling, security, floorspace. What goes into 'em doesn’t change anything. You can stuff computers in there that are used for cancer research, cryptomining, AI, ecommerce, it doesn’t matter.

It is less about the output in lumens of the lamp, but more about the angle and color temperature.

In most cars, the difference between regular headlight operation and “brights” has nothing to do with the output, it’s about the angle of the beams. Of course, when you angle the headlights up so you can see farther down the road, now you also point them at oncoming drivers eyes.

The scourge of “blue” headlights amplifies the problem. They’re no brighter, but they are more uncomfortable to stare down.

In most cars, there are a variety of ways to fine-tune the angle of the beams with often little more than a screwdriver. The problem is that most people have no idea that they need to be adjusted. This is why regular inspections are important as well as some sort of standards that can be applied across a wide variety of cars.

The reality is that correcting poor angle on headlights is a trivial task, should only take a few moments. Additionally, most modern headlight systems are active and can adjust the angle by pointing the lamp down or using shutters or individual LEDs to change the angle or beam pattern. Eventually, this will just be an irritating thing of the past, but it will take a number of years before every GM truck and SUV is off the road as well as a lot of current Hyundai/Kia products (anecdotally observed by me to be the worst offenders).

Well a data center itself does not exclusively host the computing infrastructure used for ai.

The components that run Lemmy live in a data center. The EFF hosts their content from a data center. Telecommunications that make up the internet host equipment in data centers.

I know a person who hates ketchup with all of her soul. Same for mayo, mustard, bbq sauce, any condiment.

However, she’ll eat a sloppy joe drowning in that sauce from the can like it’s her job.

Y’all ketchup haters is weird.

I mean, on average is it any worse than modern politicians?

Also, we’re talking about the same software that seems to do pretty well at fixing errors in spreadsheet formulas and sometimes coding. Not a huge surprise that it is not awesome at tasks with a high level of complexity. Not sure that this is at all a surprise.

I am trying to fix an issue with my car where the mount for an exhaust shield broke off. Claude told me I should drill a hole in my gas tank to attach a mounting bolt.

Everyone need to untwist their undies about AI. It’s neat, but it’s not taking over for a bit.

I don’t think this is at all realistic.

Data centers have an entire staff of people who JUST design and operate the cooling systems. I can promise you, they monitor the condition of the water/coolant.

I spoke with an cooling engineer at great length tho worked in an AWS data center. They know when the water quality is below threshold, they cycle out the old water and replace with fresh on an ongoing basis.

If there were some type of contaminant in the water, it’d probably set off a bunch of alerts pretty fast. Even still, most of the cooling systems are made of copper or aluminum. Neither would be damaged by salt in any meaningful way.

Some acids would corrode copper and aluminum, but it’s not like it would happen fast at anything but extreme concentrations.

I would love to exit the Roku ecosystem. I don’t use any Apple products and I’m not interested in starting.

It’s amazing how there are really no open-source products in this category of devices.