The BLS jobs data is from the CES (Current Employment Survey). This is a survey of firms, not of the public. That's what Trump was complaining about. Whatever is wrong with that survey seems to be very new -- it used to be revisions were fairly evenly distributed, but since 2023 the revisions have been very biased downward. It seems unlikely this has anything to do with public survey fatigure.

The unemployment numbers come from a public survey (Current Population Survey), but those are different from the jobs numbers.

HUD glasses may be a useful tech product, but I don't get why they would pay a fashion company to use a fashionable name
If they were useful, they wouldn't need a trendy, fashionable name

"Chat" is generic. So is "AI". The logos are deceptive, but OpenAI has no claim on "chat", "chatbot"or "AI chatbot", and no one should expect that those terms mean "ChatGPT"

I start to answer an online survey
The first few questions are applicable and I answer them
Then, in following pages, questions are presented that are irrelevant or not applicable
There is no option to pick N/A
I leave it blank
The site demands that all questions be answered
I quit the survey

To expect anything else is to prove oneself both ignorant of how the economy actually works, and how AI is creating that so-called value

AI delivers value by cutting headcount, and transferring those salaries from the displaced employees to their corporate overlords. Margins go up, as does the stock price. However, Those former employees spent almost every penny they earned to survive (generating demand for goods, and this GDP), whereas the new recipients of those dollars hoard them in stock portfolios (growing Wall Street, but NOT GDP). Fewer dollars being spent on goods is going to shrink GDP by definition. Throw in the tariff fight hurting demand for the few things Americans actually make, and the downward pressure on GDP will only increase.

have we learned nothing from the repeated failure of trickle-down economics to help anyone but the billionaire class and their purchased political operatives? The best way to increase GDP is to put dollars in the hands of those who are going to spend every penny they get, almost as soon as they get it. Putting those dollars anywhere else will result in hoarding of cash/investments that delay spending at best.

This article is about India - now do the needful.

I lug my laptop to work 3 days a week, and use 2 of its ports (dock, portable display).

I don't know what type of laptop you use, or how heavy it is, but I have a piece of advice for you that fits no matter what your laptop is like: if your laptop came with a case, don't ever use it. That's because the type of case you get when you buy one looks exactly like what it is, and they're all thief magnets. Get something that looks like a brief case, or even better, a backpack. Nobody's going to consider a backpack worth stealing, even if it's hanging from your hand and if you live or work in an area with lots of thieves, this simple trick can save you lots of time and money replacing things you need to do your job.

Wind is free. If the multi part blade is less efficient, then make it a little bigger if you really care.

Man, don't confuse everyone with facts. Also, the blade does not need to be continuous - it just looks pretty. Only the spar needs to be joined.

The school administrators, unlike the people who actually make the schools work, such as it is, tend to be paid pretty well.

I get so tired of hearing the school systems stress technology so much, because they are inevitably 20-30 years behind in their understanding of how to best utilize it, leave alone secure their systems. I always fantasized about teaching a computer class that didn't even touch a keyboard for the first half year...

I recall Windows 3.51 was quite secure for the time. But once they merged the DOS branch of the OS with the NT branch, things got a lot worse for several years.

It's good to hear AWS has never been hacked because just about every other company with data has been. A lot of people rely on AWS, and what you are saying is accurate and if they are running their systems correctly, there can be a reasonable expectation that they will be secure. That's nice to know.

> What I learned is that teachers have literally no time for anything.

The school system in the U.S. is notorious for this. Teachers get so much stuff dumped on them, much of which has little to do with actual teaching. It's a truly thankless job that cannot be fixed by dumping more money into the system. It's fundamentally broken. There are plenty of good teachers, but their effectiveness becomes more and more fettered every year.

Source: father of 4, and husband to a school teacher

In my experience the two worst things to combine are "education system" and "technology".

If the script kiddies are hacking your system, you've got bigger problems.

Is "script kiddies" still a thing?

I'm so old.

Modern tech has a short useful life and is designed to be disposable.
Standards change, backward compatibility is becoming less of a priority, and repairability is eroding, both by technology and law.
Even worse are expensive machines like CNC or lab equipment that was built with old tech. The machines themselves were built to last, but their controllers are becoming increasingly obsolete. Some very expensive and perfectly good machines run on 286 motherboards, DOS and floppys.
I love progress, but we need to fight for backward compatibility and repairability.
A hammer from the 1800s is still usable

It seems like this is just some research group noodling on advanced rocket concepts, not whether they are practical or not. Any increase in SPEED to destination results in an EQUAL need to decelerate at the destination. Deceleration can occur through gravity assisted capture or aerobraking, but none of the more complex strategies for getting rid of velocity at the destination is really used because they're very inaccurate compared to a capture burn.

That's why I'll always be skeptical of these sort of promises of extreme performance being beneficial. There are very few cases where a doubling of velocity in space travel is important. You can always exchange speed for time.