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  • I’m a chemical engineer at a plastics company. When I’m in the office I’m looking at data and making decisions based on that, like whether to stop or increase production rates, whether to shut something down for maintenance, or finding what piece of equipment is broken and causing a problem. I also design improvements to the process like finding better ways to run the machinery, new equipment that gets us more capacity, or new ways to control the equipment. I would say about 80% of my time is in the office and 20% is in the manufacturing area.


  • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon studies Buddhism
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    13 hours ago

    Bible stories are the same way, we’ve just heard them a million times so they don’t seem weird

    “Hey Jesus what toppings do you want for pizza?”

    “Plain with cheese”

    Later the disciples are eating pizza with Jesus

    "“Hey Jesus why did you say you like cheese pizza when you normally order pepperoni?”

    “You dumb fucks how dare you not understand my hidden meaning, I am the true pizza and you are the pepperoni, the grease is my blood”

    “Oh of course, sorry boss”






  • Bear in mind this is almost entirely caused by the stupidity of the American consumer. You can also lease cars like you’re describing, and you can also buy a used Honda Civic for under $20k that will last you forever and you can get loans on more reasonable terms. People just don’t do those because they see they can get a really nice car for an “affordable” monthly price and get stars in their eyes.





  • Mining engineers calculate how the walls and paths need to be sloped, shored up, and shaped to prevent collapse. This channel on YouTube has a lot of good content about stuff like this, but this video is about hole collapses and how they’re prevented. Reminds me of the old engineering adage- “anyone can build a bridge, but it takes an engineer to just barely build a bridge.” Same goes for anything we do. You can do a lot by over-building and just accepting inefficiencies, but in a case like this you want to excavate as much of the ground as possible so you want the slopes to be as steep as possible. Anyone can dig a stable hole that’s like a pyramid where the slopes are very shallow, but engineers find exactly how steep you can safely get away with.



  • At least in the US people routinely get predatory loans for cars with super long terms to make the monthly payment lower. A base model cybertruck is “only” like $70k so at 7.3% APR and a 7 year loan you can get that down to $900 a month, which is still a lot of money but some people make bad financial decisions of this level all the time, and I would imagine the people who would buy a cubertruck are more likely to be in this group than not.








  • markovs_gun@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldThanks, chatGPT
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    3 days ago

    Just another viewpoint on this- millions of dollars in electrical bills is also carbon in the air for every kWh wasted. Perhaps this should be a condemnation of LLMs and their insane power usage but if we’re stuck with that at least for now there’s no reason to pump more carbon in the air out of spite.