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  • you need a highly accurate model of what broke. Do you just take a bunch of measurements, then do your best to guess and check? Is there a process to this, or what does this look like?

    There's a couple different strategies. Taking measurements is often the most straightforward. And it's generally not too bad because often times the thing you measure will be in round units, so you can confidently guess the true measurement intended.

    For example, if I measure the diameter of a shaft that broke off, and it's 10.1mm, then I can pretty confidently say I should make the CAD model 10mm.

    An alternative method is to take a picture of the object from multiple directions, zoomed in and far away to make the view as orthographic as possible. Include a known distance like a ruler, and then you can past the image in the background of your CAD software and model off of that. Generally I find this more helpful for organic shapes that wouldn't make much sense to measure.

  • I think the vast majority of dudes are just skimming the surface and never get into communities about it.

    I've come across them. But only on 4chan, which there is fuckall anyone can do about, short of breaking into their site.

    Most of the guys i know would think doing so was weird.

    I would hope the same of my friend group. I've tossed a lot of friendships in the trash because of their behavior. So those that remain are hopefully those that are actually good.

  • However, it’s mainly boys/men with this problem and they’re having issues dating or with school and everything and blame it all on their Chinese parent.

    Yeah that touches on a related problem, the fact that we've designed society to be anti-social.

    • You can't easily hang out with friends, because they're half way across the city/state/etc.
    • Nobody has consistent free time due to the enormous energy and time requirements for a financially stable life if you can even have one.
    • There are no third places to meet people
    • Cars divide everything with highways, busy roads, and slow traffic.

    It's incredibly hard to have a social life, and as a result people lash out. And they tend not to care about if the thing they lash out against is the correct thing to lash out against.

    And it's a self feeding cycle. Because men tend to lash out in the form of right wing populism, and any woman who knows anything will steer clear of that nonsense. So it feeds into itself.

    In your case it's self hatred racism, but it's driven by the same forces.

  • These are forums with millions of members on mainstream sites such as Reddit, Discord and 4chan. These are men writing about their wives, their mums, their mate’s daughter, exchanging images, sharing women’s names, socials and contact details, and no one – not one man – is calling them out. They’re patting each other on the back.

    I suspect there is some amount of survivorship bias type thing going on here. The type of men to hang out in such places are the type that enjoy it, and as such would never call out such behavior. The men that don't enjoy such will tend not to come across such content in the first place.

    So the first group just doesn't care, the second doesn’t see it in the first place.

    There is also probably some degree of the second group of men acknowledging that trying to call out such behavior won't go very far. If you said "hey don't share this woman's pics" on 4chan, you're going to immediately get laughed at, ignored, and probably called a bunch of slurs. And then they'll keep on doing it because you told them not to. And that's in no small part because these places are puedo anonymous.

    Men can't get away with such behavior as easily outside of the internet. Calling them out in real life is far more likely to go somewhere. However ther are caveats. Again comes the survivorship bias thing I mentioned. But worse, if done in real life and calling out that behavior backfires, it becomes a teaching moment. "Don't tell other men to behave decent or they'll ostracize and harass you".

    It's a fucked up situation all around.

  • The current PM where I work:

    • cannot figure out audio settings for teams
    • cannot understand microphone feedback loops
    • cannot ask you your status on a task without giving just enough time for you to think it's your turn to speak only to then start speaking again the moment you start explaining your status
    • cannot understand that an explanation for the status of a task can apply to multiple similar tasks
    • always second guesses decisions

    Their only actual job as far as I can tell is to tell the suits what they want to hear in their fucked up little business language. But I haven't seen that, so maybe they're terrible at that as well.

    It feels like they memorized and religiously practice the CIA's handbook for field sabotage.