Comment Re: Why is this the responsibility of nerds to fix (Score 1) 266
This is Slashdot
I don't get the relevance as far as "news for nerds"
Damn right we were incel before it became fashionable!
This is Slashdot
I don't get the relevance as far as "news for nerds"
Damn right we were incel before it became fashionable!
So I am pretty naÃve perhaps on unions.
But I thought the way it worked is a bunch of workers agree to strike if their demands are not met.
There are many possibilities before workers withdraw their labour.
The union should advise their members about what they can aim to achieve and what legal ramifications exist.
They should be easier to deal with compared to 5000 ignorant people, although not as easy as 5000 people who sign any contract without asking questions.
While the employers can pay a retainer to HR experts, 5000 people need to pool their resources to get similar quality of legal advice. This should be the basic understanding, rather than "unions = strikes".
Are you just upset I used the word "woke"
Sort of. It's a diverse crew yes, but the engineering resources, time and consumption of fuel to achieve ?What?????? is not my kind of woke.
Put them in anti truck
They can remove the infinite scrolling feature, replace it with pages.
The recommendations could be turned off by default until someone goes to the settings menu and opts in.
but my understanding is that OnlyFans was about reducing corporate exploitation of streaming models.
Mine was that OF upheld standards of moderation and censorship that were acceptable enough that mainstream payment providers did not rush to refuse service to OF, their consumers and their creators.
As a consequence they became the legal venue for adult content even if they wanted to be an alternative to YT, Vimeo, etc.
I wonder if the newspaper website has a switch for people to choose between "Basic maths" vs "weird analogies".
If the value of my house goes down I would never even know it because I don't borrow against it and I'm not looking to sell it.
You don't borrow but plenty of other people are mortgaged.
In your country it might be different but here in the UK when there were serious market crashes, some people were contacted by their mortgage provider demanding a top up of guarantee.
Ie: if your loan is against a property evaluated at 300k and right now it's worth 270k, the bank can demand you do something about it.
So odd that the product page on the Apple website doesn't say whether it runs OS X or IOS.
If people don't care, they might as well try shipping it running Linux...
The ribbon in MS applications is fine by me. What irks me is the new style of windows that have search boxes, icons and notifications in the title bar.
Sometimes I don't know where to click to drag a window without finding some icon that someone thought needed to be prominently shown where maximise, minimise and close should be.
The loss of the top left corner menu is a smaller issue, but I often miss the Windows 3.x consistency in window controls.
I'm guessing they meant to say 1.9GW total power composed of 1.4GW from wind, 200MW from solar, and 300MW from the battery
What if the battery is not there to add to those two other sources, but only to allow them to buy more of what they use at off-peak prices?
They would still be grid tied, but some times they'd sell more of their own generation, and some times they'd be consumers.
The buyer will just not have attention span for your explanation of how bad eating dirt is and by the time they figure it out, you're out of a job and they are still tempted to double down on AI so that they don't lose face
I get wanting to move to another country but how do you have the security to do so? How do you make sure you have opportunities and secure jobs for multiple family members?
Well if you look for those interviews of Americans moving to Europe, you'll find some cases of people who are freelancing after building a portfolio of clients in the good markets all over the USA.
The one time I heard someone mention $ figures, it was someone from Kansas who made a career in web advertising there and in California. Now she works for the same sort of customers and was happy to find that for the same sort of rent she paid in Kansas she was living in Lisbon, a capital city with access to the beach and many other points of interest. She said on a good month she made $12K and a bad month $2K. Plenty of people in Portugal would love to have bad months like that!
Luckily, those of us who actually use AI, know that it will not be "ready" to replace humans for a long, long time. Yes, I do believe it will boost productivity. But AI does stupid stuff, *all* the time.
IMHO the issue here is similar to eating junk food. It's really difficult to justify paying a lot more for meals, or spending time cooking if fast food operations are optimised for selling £5 meals.
The buyer will just not have attention span for our explanation of how bad fast food is and then all profitable operations need to become fast food.
This is huge!
For whom, exactly?
For the product managers in charge of marketing and selling a new version of the Apple Pencil that will cost £10 to make and will sell for £100...
You mean you didn't *know* she was off making lots of little phone companies?