Random Thought Thread

tokerblue said:
If you're driving alone and wear a mask, what are you protecting yourself from? Unless it's some secret hack for bypassing an Immobilizer?
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In my opinion, it is best not to judge people because you don't know their circumstances.

Perhaps they have COVID and they're driving their mom's car and they want to reduce potential for contamination inside of the vehicle through contaminated spittle spray etc.

Maybe they have COVID and they're going to go pick their kids up and they want to reduce the amount of aerosol suspended in the air.

Maybe they have a legit N95 mask, which significantly reduces risk of contracting COVID, and they just left one area with confirmed COVID and they're going to another area with confirmed COVID and they don't want to touch their face or mask.

Maybe they just like wearing a mask.

The culture wars are out of whack
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Maybe they just like wearing a mask.
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I work in nursing homes. I have to wear a mask while I’m in the facility. Sometimes I don’t realize I’m still wearing the mask as I drive off to get parts/materials. So it’s helpful when people pull up next to me at the traffic light, honk, point at my mask and flip me off.
 
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Cap’n Smudge said:
I work in nursing homes. I have to wear a mask while I’m in the facility. Sometimes I don’t realize I’m still wearing the mask as I drive off to get parts/materials. So it’s helpful when people pull up next me at the traffic light, honk, point at my mask and flip me off.
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First time quoting myself here… I think.
In the post I’ve quoted above, the first three sentences are true.
The last sentence was said in jest.
Nobody ever honks at me and flips me off.
Not because I’m some big badass but because I look like a homeless person who likely killed the owner of the car I’m driving.
No need for sad or wow reactions.
 
Cap’n Smudge said:
I work in nursing homes.
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I worked in a 160 resident nursing home kitchen during college. The food trays that came back on the carts is the stuff of nightmares. 🤮

Nothing like coming into work in the summer (hung over) and scrubbing pots that the cook burned at 7 am in the morning. Some good life lessons learned about drinking too much when you have to go to work the next day. Too bad I didn't learn that lesson for good until about a decade later.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
In my opinion, it is best not to judge people because you don't know their circumstances.

Perhaps they have COVID and they're driving their mom's car and they want to reduce potential for contamination inside of the vehicle through contaminated spittle spray etc.

Maybe they have COVID and they're going to go pick their kids up and they want to reduce the amount of aerosol suspended in the air.

Maybe they have a legit N95 mask, which significantly reduces risk of contracting COVID, and they just left one area with confirmed COVID and they're going to another area with confirmed COVID and they don't want to touch their face or mask.

Maybe they just like wearing a mask.

The culture wars are out of whack
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100%
I think that we often think too much about where other people are at, and not enough about where we're at. That's why I think social media has been so effective at both dividing people and bringing them together, (into silos). When really, most people want the same basic things for their lives. Almost everything beyond those basic things is essentially bullshit, yet things seem backward- the basic things are unimportant and the bullshit is all-consuming.
Ah well 🤷‍♂️
 
I remember, when I started doing what I‘m doing, 180nm (transistor gate width) was advanced technology.

A month ago, the wife and I upgraded to the latest iPhone that has 4nm chips in it.

Yesterday, I signed the first customer NDA to access 2nm technology.

I will retire when 1nm comes along. We still have a roughly 1.4x transistor size reduction every 18 months or so.

Amazing.
 
ferider said:
I remember, when I started doing what I‘m doing, 180nm (transistor gate width) was advanced technology.

A month ago, the wife and I upgraded to the latest iPhone that has 4nm chips in it.

Yesterday, I signed the first customer NDA to access 2nm technology.

I will retire when 1nm comes along. We still have a roughly 1.4x transistor size reduction every 18 months or so.

Amazing.
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Technological advancements are pretty amazing.

I recall when the Cray XMP was THE fastest supercomputer in the world (just looked it up. Held that title for 2 years from 1983 - 1985, when the newer Cray-2 took the title). A whopping 800 Megaflops (800 million Floating Point Operations Per Second), and 11,300lbs.

The top current smartphones (eg. iPhone and Galaxy) have performance measured in Teraflops (1 Teraflop = 1 TRILLION flops, or 1 million X million floating point operations per second) 😲

Interesting article comparing the Cray-2 (which ONLY weighed 5,500 lbs vs the XMP's 11,300 lbs) to an iPhone 12.
https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...ring-1980s-supercomputer-to-modern-smartphone

*** In a nutshell, building a Cray-2, which pushed the new record to 1.9 billion flops, to match the performance of an iPhone 12, would take 80,000 square feet of space and weigh almost 14,000 tons.
 
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