piecat

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[–] piecat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And "drug abuse" is also language that is used by politicians or police to dehumanize homeless people.

Yes there's a technical term obviously, but like "retard" or "cripple", there's negative connotations that get in the way.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
[–] piecat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Macroscopic creatures are made of different types of cells and stuff... what constitutes a living thing?

People didn't lose half of their cells, it was all or none.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Great, they're going to make browser exclusive content. Locked down even worse than it is. Intentional, not just lazy incompatibilities.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I bet money Russia starts getting absurdly good. And they'll have really good info. And it will be because of starlink.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Their first try?

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The LRAD is a loudspeaker. This technology is more like rf electronics.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] piecat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

If the car uses 5g, ang 5g is no longer available, how do you connect to a server

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

The other big factor in cost is supply chain. Everything has to be tracable. So the supply chains have to do a lot of paperwork, inspection audits, since a defective part can kill someone.

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very uninformed take, its almost laughable.

GE isn't the only one who makes MRIs. The other big players are Siemens, Philips, United, and to some extent Canon, Fujifoto, and Hitachi.

No, that's really how much it costs. The margin on MRI machines is terrible. I'd like to see you do it cheaper... "Just" build then supercool magnet for superconduction for 3T of homogenius magnetic field, build coils that handle KW of RF/gradients that can fit a human comfortably without artifacts, build the high power and precision circuitry to transmit and receive said RF, then control that equipment accurately and safely.

Super easy, off-the-shelf stuff.

Oh, and you can't use any ferrous parts, nor can your power supplies generate any noise.

That's like, senior design level stuff amirite

[–] piecat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Even if they didn't, what does it matter? If you're at that point you have much bigger problems...

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I hate my job... (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by piecat@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
 

My job is so fucking unbelievable.

I'll try to sum it up by first telling you about the folks I work with:

First, there is this supermodel wanna-be chick. Yeah, okay, she is pretty hot, but damn is she completely useless. The girl is constantly fixing her hair or putting on makeup. She is extremely self-centered and has never once considered the needs or wants of anyone but herself. She is as dumb as a box of rocks, and I still find it surprising that she has enough brain power to continue to breathe.

The next chick is completely the opposite. She might even be one of the smartest people on the planet. Her career opportunities are endless, and yet she is here with us. She is a zero on a scale of 1 to 10. I'm not sure she even showers, much less shaves her "womanly" parts. I think she might be a lesbian, because every time we drive by the hardware store, she moans like a cat in heat.

But the jewel of the crowd has got to be the fucking stoner. And this guy is more than just your average pothead. In fact, he is baked before he comes to work, during work, and I'm sure after work. He probably hasn't been sober anytime in the last ten years, and he's only 22. He dresses like a beatnik throwback from the 1960's, and to make things worse, he brings his big fucking dog to work. Every fucking day I have to look at this huge Great Dane walk around half-stoned from the second-hand smoke. Hell, sometimes I even think it's trying to talk with its constant bellowing. Also, both of them are constantly hungry, requiring multiple stops to McDonalds and Burger King, every single fucking day.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

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