Which came first? Government or a human's ability to be productive enough to sell the fruits of their labor?
That works if you're a prostitute. Without a government, it doesn't scale much beyond that.
Never had an employee that was critical to business operations, eh? I was one 10 years ago. I said "fuck you" and quit.
Cool story, bro.
And what? Let government dictate how a business is run?
Why not? The whole concept of a "business" is nothing more than a fiat defined by the government.
There are all sorts of rules regarding businesses. One is that customers that owe you money have to eventually pay, and if they don't, you can run to the government for help. In this particular case, large employers have to treat their employees somewhat like human beings, and not just totally upend their families' lives with no warning.
Are employees required to continue working until I can find and train replacements?
Maybe if employees routinely quit en masse without warning, that would be an issue. But it's not an issue. How do we know? Because almost all businesses use an "at will" work policy if they are allowed. This means that being able to unceremoniously dump employees than is much more important to them than the risk of some employees suddenly quitting.
This is nothing new.
40 years ago, I had friends blowing big chunks of money they didn't have on things like new high-end stereo equipment, scuba gear and souping up their cars. They went through the same home economics classes and go the same parental advice as everyone else, but they just chose to ignore it. I'm sure the exact same thing is happening now to a similar subset of the population.
In this case, it sounds like it might be a good idea to invest a couple of bucks in using certified mail with a return receipt.
An 18-wheeler was overkill.
Everyone knows that they should have used a station wagon.
I don't think that the point of writing assignments is to produce documents as a product. It's to have the student go through the process of gathering, analyzing and understanding the material, in order for them to learn it. If they skip that work, they learn little or nothing.
In the real world, being effective in directing a computer to produce a bunch of text that you know nothing about is not a worthwhile skill. If someone comes back with issues related to the AI-generated content, how would you address the problems if you're mostly ignorant about the topic at hand?
It's still all for one purpose.
In the job market of the future, resumes are out, and videos of dorky dances are in. For your next career move, plan on getting out your selfie stick.
Taste is subjective.
Obviously, you personally ought to stick to drinking Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers. Meanwhile, you should let the hundreds of millions of people who think beer tastes just fine (hops and all) enjoy their beverage of choice.
Pro tip: Most beers balance the bitterness with an appropriate amount of malt sweetness to create a pleasing overall effect for the average taster. This is similar to the way many mixed drinks balance sourness (another evolutionary poison alarm bell, OMG!) with sweetness.
Well, perhaps start making some hardware people could like or get excited about besides the bland crap that keeps coming out. Even Alienware got boring after being bought by Dell.
Given that the one big "exciting" thing that all the PC makers are touting these days is adding some kind of AI chip, I'll stick with cheap and boring.
I've got a couple of cardboard boxes in my garage that are over 50 years old, and they're still storing things just fine.
However, if I threw one under some mulch in the back yard, it would probably biodegrade within a few months.
The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.
There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.
How long before they add AI-generated tooltips to Notepad that show sponsored links to products and services related to what you typed?
Looks like Brandon is now a coding expert, eh?
He might be, since in this case his advice is perfectly valid.
"But Derp! Derp! I can write perfect C++!!!!"
Just shut up.
#define PI 3.2
To be fair, it's been hard for them to keep up with the constant churn of the "move fast and break things" COBOL culture.
Real Users know your home telephone number.
