When I was in college I learned I liked the idea of coding a lot more than I liked coding. Now I know just enough C++ to be able to translate dev speak into corporates speak and back, can claim to be an engineer, and get to talk to stupid people, who think they are smart, who think that I'm really smart, and I spend more of my day on social media. I had one job that in the six months I was there I think I actually did MAYBE 40 hours of work. If it wasn't for "business conditions related to COVID-19" I'd probably still work there, though I'm making more, and working somewhat more, now.
developers SHOULD make more, but in my experience they don't. I suspect part of this is because the people that make the salary decisions frequently talk to the PM so they know he's valuable, but the devs even if he has talked to them he likley doesn't have a relationship with them, and sees them primarily as a number of spreadsheet that can be replaced with less expensive developing nation devlopers anytime the stock price goes down (or in my case went up but they thought it was going to go down, so they went ahead and laid off 1,000 devs in the States anyway, promising to hire 3,000 Indian devs in their place, and then not actually doing that even, which made the stock price go up again)
Surelly using the rotational energy of corpses turning in their graves at what’s done in their name/by their family/just done somewhere, would be easier.
For one, they’re way easier to procure than vampires plus the raw material requirements are lower (in some cases merelly saying certain things is enough to induce rotation).
There are some downsides, however, such as how they have to be in graves for it to actually work (so it’s probably a method best used for bulk generation using existing graveyards, plus there are some engineering challenges in connecting the actual corpses in situ to the turbines for energy generation, which are not present in a system made from the ground up for energy generation such as the vampire piston) and, of course, as the corpses age and decompose they become more brittle and it’s easier to get catastrophical failure if the turbine offers too much resistance, which means energy production decreases over time or, to avoid turbine replacement later, from the get go a less powerful turbine has to be connected to a pristine condition corpse.
As I mentioned, merelly saying certain things is enough.
For example, going to a Christian cemitery and shouting “God is dead!” is probably enough to get lots of them going. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if with the right setup merely reading pretty much anything by Nietzsche out loud could yield several gigawatts-hour worth of electrical energy production.
Unfortunately, in some cases, this would create negative feedback which would affect efficiency. As an example, Rudolf Diesel is currently rotating in his grave at approximately 2e6 RPM at the current implementation of the diesel engine, his invention. For context at his posthumous displeasure, the when tuned used properly, the diesel engine is the singular most efficient internal combustion engine. That proper use: steady, consistent operation at an invariant rotation running on a waste byproduct of the gasoline refinement process. What it is unquestioningly not designed for: operating devices which turn on and off frequently and require a variation in output power to operate, you know, like a motor vehicle.
So, with all that in mind, attaching a rotational corpse drive to him would generate immense amounts of power initially and push the vehicle and shipping markets towards EVs even faster, but as that happens, his ire will abate and he will begin to slow his rotation until it eventually comes to a peaceful rest, but the power deficit created by that would definitely cause economic and social problems.
Hah, why do you assume the worst of people? I am so conscious of my posture that I am constantly working on it even when resting. While I browse Lemmy I am laying down in a bridge position squeezing my glutes.
If you look at the silhouette of the bison vs it’s bones the muscle still doesn’t extend that far above the bones, but has more volume around the bones.
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