• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They lost dream job status for me when I realized I was facilitating some evil shit. Like “oh! great job in genomics! I can help cure cancer!” Then realize it’s “oh, help China build population scale genomic sequencing, wonder what they’re gonna do with that?”

    And “oh, edge computing, sounds cool”, then realizing “oh, edge computing is mostly useful for facial recognition, wonder what people will use that for?”

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      6 months ago

      I started out my career as a traffic engineer because I hate traffic, but then realized I was just helping build more sprawl…

      …now I’m a software engineer who refuses to work for FAANGs on principle.

      It is extremely hard to find companies that aren’t doing evil shit yet are still profitable enough to be able to hire people.

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        6 months ago

        Did you ever work with or cover parking areas in your job/studies?

        I have always wanted to know, when there are carparks (the open style rows of bays such as outside of grocery/big box stores) why do they never use angled bays? I figure it came down to the difference between something like 100 available parking spaces instead of 96 with losses in corners or something.
        It baffles me that with how much easier it is for everyone to both pull into and reverse out of an angled bay why they dont just sacrifice a couple bays in return for increased traffic flow and less dings.

        Also if they are in a herringbone pattern between adjacent rows it means that people cant just ‘pull through’ one bay into the next row and destroy any landscaping that may be between the two (i see strips of nicely mulched landscaping with small shrubs destroyed everywhere in my city from dickheads that dont give a fuck).

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          6 months ago

          That is a good question. I feel like I probably asked that during my site design class in college, but I don’t remember getting a clear/satisfactory answer. I think it might just come down to which design happens to work better on the particular site, or the preferences of the client (for example, it seems like Publix prefers their parking lots to have angled parking, while Kroger’s parking more often tends to be straight).

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            6 months ago

            Thanks for your response anyway!
            I cynically feel like it may come down to the red-pen signatories who say “why 47 bays when we can squeeze in 50?! make it 50”

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            6 months ago

            Just an observation: The “square/right-angle” parking spaces are harder to park in, but do make it easier to pull-out/exit in either direction. The angled spots are easier to enter/exit, but it’s harder to exit in one direction than the other.

            This might be desirable in order to influence cars to enter/exit in one direction.

            In the common US box store layout, the end of the parking lot nearest the store is often highest in pedestrians. I find it easier/faster/safer to avoid that end of the parking lot. So I try to enter/exit using the side of the parking lot opposite the store. Angled parking slots make this strategy harder.

            Undoubtably there are more factors than this involved in parking-lot design.

            Source: Not a pro. Just a parking-space user.

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      6 months ago

      Telle you don’t know a damned thing about computing at the edge without…