spicy pancake

can’t wait for the absolutely bonkers technique arms race between corporate facial recognition tech devs and makeup artist cyberpunks

that is a high fantasy wizard ass sounding name for a plumbing part

Could be one batch or many. A “batch” means different things in different food industry contexts and has more to do with ingredient tracking than production timespan

They probably do. Though, food industry metal detectors have to regularly be calibrated with check wands: plastic bars with very small embedded metal fragments designed to mimic possible contaminants like brush wire, oven conveyor pieces, etc.

When I was QA at a food plant that used them, there were numerous problems with the metal detectors.

1. Line operators were haphazardly trained on calibration and how fucking important it is to do it correctly and on time. Lots of operators rushed or skipped calibration and falsified the logs. The fact they were rushed, overworked, and underpaid didn’t help.
2. The detectors had a high false-positive rate, leading to a “oh it’s probably nothing” attitude.
3. Management didn’t want to spend ANY money on maintenance and upgrades that would have prevented metal contamination or decreased detection errors.

To this day I still have a lot of anxiety eating factory food because of the nightmares I witnessed at that place…

I actually use a decade old version of this to control a very expensive machine at work which is simultaneously surreal and validating of all the time I wasted spent learning linux from my teens onward

that’s some high dynamic range eye assault a la late 00’s–early 10’s PC gaming, alright

I respect Bunsenlabs for lacking the chaotic instability that I loved to hate about Crunchbang in high school, and which I hate to wish I could love as a busy adult requiring a stable system…

CrunchBang was my jam in late high school. I couldn’t believe how much more lightweight it was compared to Lubuntu, which had been my main for years due to having a potato laptop

being a USA “nationalist” is so dumb because our whole deal is being a nation made up of people from all over the world lol

to be fair it’s a pretty flag and represents the entire nation of people, not just the shitty government and fucked up history

i think of all the good people i love in my country when i see my flag. it makes me sad to think it’s also a symbol of so much bad shit :( but i also understand. :(

full take: this is a complex topic involving sociology, agricultural science, economics, culture, ethics, and more and deserves serious discourse

meme take: THAT RICE IS PRETTY I WANT IT

that sounds like it would require paying people enough to afford more than just rice and we can’t be having that now can we

It’s not the high speed corridor we need, want, or deserve, but fuck at least it’s A high speed corridor. One that will presumably make a shit ton of money in both fares and casino revenues. So maybe it’ll convince Americans that it’s a good investment and maybe we oughtta, idk, BUILD MORE OF THEM

Silk is expensive. Almost all pyramidal tea bags are nylon and/or polyester (at least in the US). Only premium stuff is going to be made of silk and they’ll advertise it as such

I used SketchUp growing up and it ruined my brain

Now it’s a warped husk of what it used to be so all I can do is cry while staring at FreeCAD tutorials until I give up and smash together a barely usable STL in OpenSCAD or TinkerCAD

send help

that’s so much more in depth than the lemmy post I saw 😭

I read this as “tilting window manager” and was about to get so upset. That diagonal monitor meme has infected my brain

Anecdotally and perhaps of interest, my current workplace uses a regular Dell PC running lightly customised 10-year-old OpenSUSE. It’s a UI control interface for a large machine

Because the machine’s expensive and production-critical, the PC isn’t allowed to be connected to any networks (security airgap). It’s sort of the antithesis of most corporate Linux usage: constantly online servers that do very little direct user interface

I was bored enough to look up the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNXMAflbU8

Tokyo Machine!