Ghostalmedia

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

This is about making an electric leaf blower even quieter. The students were not given a gas leaf blower to design around.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

For the people not reading the article. This is not about gas leaf blowers.

The challenge was to take an electric leaf blower and make it even quieter.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

Good engineering and industrial design programs find opportunities for students to work with real companies on real products.

Back in the day I used to be the student that published stuff like this to our product design department’s website. The point wasn’t to demo tech or sell a product, it was to make the program look like something worth applying to and donating to.

If a brand was name dropped, it wasn’t because we wanted to sell their thing. It was because we wanted to let applicants and alumni know that we were offering real world experience with recognizable companies. It’s basically like a reverse internship. Department faculty finds companies to bring to the students, as opposed to students applying to companies.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

IMHO, the thing that’s being promoted here isn’t the leaf blower. It’s the university’s engineering program and the opportunities it’s providing for students.

I kind of doubt someone has this University blog post in their deck of Spring 2024 leaf blower marketing initiatives.

This is the kind of stuff that the people managing internships handle in a company. Companies do this for talent acquisition. They don’t even do it for the cheap labor, because coaching students usually gobbles up a lot of your IC’s time.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

Reminds me of my high school buddy who was in a family with 8 kids. Every closet in that house became a bedroom.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

I did.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

Lauren Handy

Heh

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Dyslexics looking forward to seeing what makes Brian different from other humans.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Kids in my generation:

“Mom, can I have my GameBoy back?”

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

Kids asking for an entertainment device back basically exploded with the Atari 2600 and never died down.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

You might want to talk to your dentist if granola bars are hurting your teeth.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

I’m just here for the claymation hotdog man.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

The worst part is that he was saying this to a bunch of women who just graduated with degrees. He’s basically telling them all to give up after putting in 4+ years of work. This guy is a total shit bag.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

It’ll all be good after you marry a high performing NFL kicker and don’t need two incomes.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Lt. Lois Einhorn cares

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

This dude was moderately holding it together before, but he’s not stable now. He throws tantrums and makes completely impulsive decisions that are not grounded in data. The board needs to push him out.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

I feel like Howard Hughes might closer to the path Musk is on.

That guy is going to be collecting piss jars in a decade.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

In his commencement address he told a bunch of women that just got bachelors and masters degrees to give all that up and get in the kitchen.

What a fucking piece of shit.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Considers role reversal.

So a world where trans people are in the majority and all the trans governors in the southern US are obsessing about how my cis ass takes a shit at work after my morning coffee?

Ghostalmedia, 4 days ago

At the end of the day, slack simply has a larger feature set and more options for organizing and staying engaged with conversations. Almost everyone who has clocked in significant time and Teams and Slack will tell you that.

And, unfortunately, Microsoft moves so damn slow, and prioritizes such weird crap, that they can’t seem to get some of the basics implemented.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Agreed. If I have to pick, I’m going with the OG Slack + Zoom combo. Only problem is that recordings and meeting chat are not integrated. But, honestly, I’ll gladly give up that one feature if it means I get the mountains of other stuff. Also, when meeting chats aren’t saved, they become a lot more lively. People know the chats aren’t going to clutter up any important meeting notes.

Ghostalmedia, 4 days ago

The characters in Seinfeld are shameless, but like with IASIP, they usually get burned at the end of the episode. And that continued over Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry is petty and self-centered, he never learns, karma gets him in the last 30 seconds and then the Tuba drops - BUM BUM BUM.