Comment Re: ISA (Score 1) 42
Indeed. QEMM was something of a hero in that department, but even memmaker was enormously helpful...
Indeed. QEMM was something of a hero in that department, but even memmaker was enormously helpful...
Every major shift WAS different from the one before.
What's DOUBLY different about this time is that this time we are not moving from skill to skill, we are moving from unskilled to something.
I truly despise the idea that there are no unskilled jobs because it is not just false, it's a counterproductive argument. All of us who have worked a variety of jobs know that some jobs require both talent and education, and others require mostly just a pulse and respiration. But people who work both kinds of jobs have essentially the same needs.
The public did not ask for BEVs, a few evangelists excepted and they already own at least one.
Ebike demand OTOH exploded as they're terrific urban vehicles.
They are new at it. You don't get great overnight.
Which word did you find unclear? I don't remember stuttering.
India is a mess because of its culture or its citizens would have
no reason to flee to the US and rest of world.
Emigration is flight, an act of desperation, and in this case undermines Western culture to no benefit to the recipient. Anyone imagining all cultures interchange should move there and test that belief.
Most of life is dreary, then most of the rest is pain.
Life could not but evolve to make more life, with zero benefit to the individual. Humans live out of instinctual fear of death, not of joy.
Making more is vain and cruel so why do that?
Hiding from the truth doesn't change it.
This is different in that the software will take the service jobs, and it's the same in that the people profiting from the switch don't give a fuck about you.
It's also true that those people have names and addresses, and we have lumber.
That was the joke alright, he doesn't think any of the action against Apple makes sense because he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.
For a lot of workloads it's apparently not all that bad and Apple's SoCs are already in the server-class in terms of power draw. It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.
That's fine if you have an embarrassingly parallel problem which doesn't require a lot of data transfer between processors. There are jobs like that, of course, but those mac minis have pretty poor connectivity and having that many nodes means doing a lot of extra work to set up and maintain them. The EPYC processor (and to a lesser extent the Xeon) also offers very good price:performance. The minis come with a lot of extra case material that you have to pay for (including making it pretty) but don't really want.
You won't need to tell yourself to get up and go, not ever again, not until they leave home.
Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)
Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.
Ahh the myth of eternal technological unemployment. You realize that people have been saying similar stuff about every single piece of technology in the history of humanity, right? This is no different. There's always more work to be done.
That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.
Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)
What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?
I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
