Notices by Alex von Kitchen (dangerous_beans@aus.social)

Fucking Mr/Mrs titles are such bullshit, and more people need to stop using them
Expecting people to indicate as part of their name if they're a man, married woman, or unmarried woman is such self evident misogynistic garbage

(Dr is ok, because if you're foolish enough to get a PhD we should get some warning :blobcatblep: )

Also there's a suspicious correlation between people who buy into the cult of genius and being racist arsehats

Enjoying the hot weather

"We hired 10x engineers and now our product sucks"

Funny, it's almost like hiring egotistical dudes creates a terrible environment. It's almost like human groups are defined more by their ability to work together than their individual ability at the task

But hey, what would I know? I'm just a woman

@dalias it's the same problem, your just suggesting using a heat pipe to get around pumping requirements. With the available heat gradient you have to move too much working fluid for it to be practical
If you improve the heat gradient the cost goes up

@dalias yeah, water in a liquid phase. The numbers get worse for gas or other working fluids. Increasing the thermal gradient makes the fluid flow lower, but requires more digging and pumping work
The idea could work, it does in places like Iceland where they use geothermal power, but it's not practical cost wise

@dalias that's fine if you power the actual pump part externally, but to get it purely passive you'll need a sufficient energy gradient to cover pumping the fluid. via a thermosiphon or some sort of heat engine at the top
and the deeper you make it the larger the energy needed for pumping, since it's all against gravity

a KG of water at 17c, if your room is 15c, is only bringing up ~8KJ, if you assume the heat exchanger is 100% efficient. That's 30-60L/min to match a typical split system, which is quite a lot of water. That's without considering fans, pumps, however energy is recovered to drive the system

@dalias cost of drilling a hole deep enough to get a sufficiently large energy gradient for it to work is too high

@gazafamily hey
Tagging people in conversations on here tends not to be received well, and may get your account blocked. reach out to @aral, he's working with others from Gaza to understand how to raise money here

I get it's a tough problem with you all just trying to survive Israels actions here

@aral thank you
They did seem desperate and unaware of how things worked here (totally fair given their situation), i'm gald someone has finally gotten in touch with them to help

@xssfox 9.9999 is also five nines

"We deployed a complex black box system and gave it permissions to interact with everything, and now it's doing weird shit we don't know about"

:blobcatfacepalm:

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115057935147177115

@ai6yr What is salad dressing if not gravy?

Did you know it's dinner time?

@seachanger @dalias there's a Calvin and Hobbes version

@annika does a pneumatic nail gun that also does staples count?

Job ad: "Work with smart people"
Hmm, nope. That sort of attitude gets you the sort of people who THINK they're smart

Ad continues: "PE backed AI consultancy"
:bunneknife:

Different ad: "Pricing analyst... industry competitive wages"

Someone didn't think this through

The heated cat bed is on

Hey #FediHire
Anyone after a remote data nerd, around central Australian time? Ideally 4 days per week

Lots of experience with data analysis, liaising with stakeholders about what information they actually need. Can design and build ETL processes and databases, and do the documentation for them

Experience working with older, poorly documented systems and trying to understand them
Also a lot of experience with sensitive data about people, like medical records

Technical skills: SQL, SAS, some exposure to R. Happy to learn new languages
My preference is for building things that are simple and robust. Infrastructure should be boring