The EU27 rate, btw, is 1/100k, twice as bad as the UK rate, or half as bad as Poland (2.2/100k)
The rate for "Europe as a whole" that I synthesized included non-EU states, which, predictably considerably raised the EU average, though I didn't include the UK, because it was late, I was tired, and for some reason I had decided that the British didn't consider themselves European anymore. That would have helped considerably with its 70 million at 0.55/100k

This wasn't meant as an attack on certain European norms (very pro-pedestrian vehicle safety standards- i.e., increased crumple zones on the front of vehicles), larger number of pedestrians in dangerous areas, forcing traffic to treat them as existential risks to the vehicles themselves.

It was to demonstrate that overbroad comparisons- the caloric content of soda pop to apples- wasn't painting a useful picture of anything.

The US doesn't have "murder roads", it has cities of a very different nature than cities that you're calling Europe, which is more specifically Western Europe.

Normal government statistics. I think you'll find the discrepancy exists in the overbroad claims you made, and me taking you to task for it.

I was tabulating for Europe-wide- I didn't see if I could, or should make the claim about the UK specifically.
And that's kind of the catch to my argument, anyway.
Europe's a big fucking place, just like the United States.
You don't want to compare Britain to the entire United States anymore than you want us to compare North Dakota (0.63/100k) to the whole of Europe.
The Netherlands, for example, pedestrians are seemingly invincible (0.22/100k), while in Romania, you're looking at a more alarming 3.4/100k

For shit's and giggles, I did look at the UK- pretty damn good- 0.55/100k.
Much better than the US rate of 1.5/100k.

So the UK's rate is twice as bad as the Dutch rate (murder roads, I tell you!), while the US rate is triple as bad as the UK rate, while Poland is twice as bad as the US rate (holocaust roads?).

Calling our roads "murder roads" is a bit absurd.

More like Oops, I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet.

You wouldn't think so but yes, it's still so common we have a medal for it: Fell for it Again Award

The race to surveil and market every human being on Earth. This only works at scale when we dedicate massive computing and energy resources to this bullshit. And governments and billionaires agree, this is what they want for us.

You as the target of this AI gets no choice. You don't get a say in the company board, as you don't hold voting shares. You don't get a say in your government because you didn't pay for a million dollar plates at a Mar-a-lago luncheon. And you don't get to refuse as a consumer because you're not buying AI or marketing services, you're the product.

Welcome to the new feudalism. Your just a peasant that is bought and sold with the land. It just happens to be virtual land now, and they call you a user instead of a peasant because it sounds nicer. But what rights do you have? In a way fewer because your peasantry status is not even generally recognized. Denial is a powerful tool for warping reality.

If a strong basic income is the right answer, we will try every other conceivable option first before getting to that one. The people in charge will wage a literal shooting war on the working class before agreeing to a slice of the profits, control, or property.

Say what you want about Biden, but he isn't the President anymore. So, at least my side didn't elect a senile old man for a second term.

We don't see a lot of blame placed on a 4-20mA, not because it's rare but because it's quite robust.

We're carefully refining our estimate of our level of ignorance.

If their IT security was this halfassed, then their physical security probably was too. They could have solved the IT security problem by hiring someone competent to do an audit, and then follow their recommendations. They obviously skipped at least one of those steps. That kind of sloppiness doesn't occur in just one area, it has to be systematic.

Google used to tell me to drive up someone's driveway and take a bridge that didn't exist in Kelseyville CA. What's frustrating about this is that one of their street view cars had passed by that driveway, so they had enough information to know that it wasn't a valid route, but they didn't bother to process it in that way and kept recommending a route that didn't exist and which would have saved maybe one minute if it had.

Google spent a lot of money gathering the data it needs to dramatically improve their routing information, but doesn't bother to do so.

OpenAI is musing about a "federal backstop" to secure their expansion financing and this the circle of clowning takes another loop.

You're probably right Jenson but this is partly your fault, you and your pals wanted to throw down with this admin and now you can learn they are wildly incompetent and dont care beyond what they can line their pockets with. Trump will never take the measures China does, that requires a functioning government and they just don't believe in that as a concept. Maybe you should have stuck with cringe and woke so keep reaping.

Lithium batteries are extremely recyclable.

Of what?

What about your missing words?

???

You need an editor even more than Slashdot.

I only use Steam (The software, as opposed to the store, which can be used through the web) because I'm forced to do so. I'd rather not. While it's possibly the least crap of the game store apps, it's still crap. It shouldn't even have a browser in it. It should be calling out to your browser. AFAICT the Steam updates still don't resume if the download is interrupted, which is weird AF to say the least. This isn't a problem on a healthy modern connection but if your connection is flaky then you can't even get Steam installed, or updated. Game downloads resume so once you get it installed you can do game updates over even a poor connection, but not a Steam update.

Nor did you, so I figured I'd match you claim for claim. Your one attempt at doing so was a misfire and a half.

LOL.
Bullshit.
Search engine attribution doesn't come from the training data (which would indeed be dangerously inaccurate). It comes from tool-based querying. You sent the wrong link after filtering ones that didn't fit your narrative. Don't worry about it- happens to the best bullshit artists.

But let's get back to the actual article you meant to reference:
FTA:

The 14% is across the entire workforce.

I don't see how the math doesn't jump out at you.
A 14% increase in productivity for service agents means you can afford to let go of 14% of your staff.
That number is fucking huge.
Microsoft's biggest layoff in history wasn't anywhere close to 14%.
Worse, for these guys- is that the low end folks are 34%. CSRs are buggy whip manufacturers- they're done for.
The cost to improve them by 14-34% is a tiny fraction of their cost as an employee. To replace them entirely is just a matter of figuring out logistics.

Developers are safe for a while. LLMs can assist there, but they really can't operate unsupervised. Everyone's tried it. It's just not there yet. Anyone who claims that is definitely drinking kool-aid. But they will continue to get better. I begin transitioning to a role of LLM-jockey about a year ago. I recommend anyone concerned about job security do the same.
Even when the AI bubble pops- like .coms and houses before it, corporations will continue to become more and more dependent on them. They'll just be a lot fucking cheaper.

There are a few ways to evaluate this claim.
1) You're full of shit.
2) You just haven't figured out how to interface with them yet.
3) You have no actual programming skills.

Entire projects are written by LLMs now.
We are seeing vibe-coded shit in production now.

The purest vibiest form of vibe coding- a programming illiterate person tries to make something out of it is usually pretty limited in scope, but even those- a coworker of mine that we sadly just laid off made an entire fucking front-end for our ticketing and accounting systems, with almost no programming experience (he had the skill level of "being able to sometimes successfully make small changes to scripts to suit him")

Your claim doesn't reflect reality, at all.
I want to understand why in good faith, but I'm finding it difficult without being insulting.