And we all know that although it's true that babies born to smoking mothers are on average smaller some women might prefer smaller babies.

Seriously it doesn't take five phds to figure out that having your body full of microplastics isn't a good thing. The only reason the research is preliminary is because they keep cutting funding to science research for exactly this reason.

It's not that we don't know it's bad to have your balls stuffed with microplastics. It's that we don't know exactly how bad. And it's in that little Gap that they're going to keep you for several decades maybe forever of our democracy collapses.

In the ever collapsing economy brought on by monopolies and the Epstein class that's the only way to do it. Nobody's going to spend the money to do it right.

You have to just force people to use shit software for a while. Microsoft did the same thing. Anyone who remembers how bad word was compared to word perfect should remember being forced to use crap software for no good reason.

The problem is that again our economy is perpetually collapsing because we are fighting among ourselves to see who can make the second trillionaire, and because of that the slightest reduction in productivity can't be allowed. So you can't have people fighting with software hours every day when they could be shuffling money up to the top to see who's going to be that second trillionaire

I don't know about multiplan but word was terrible up through around 97 when it became just barely usable. It wasn't anything I would actually want to use until sometime around 2004 or 2006...

America is in a deep deep recession and we drag the rest of the world down with us. I mentioned it on another comment but Microsoft CEO admitted that they are only expecting 3 to 5% to take the buy out which is about 2 to 3,000 employees. This is cover for firing those 3,000 employees who will be exclusively older employees. In other words it's run of the middle age discrimination. There might be some H1B swaps in there too.

We put in Orange pedophile in charge of the country. Bad things are going to happen and we've got at least two more years of it. After that we need 12 to 16 years of blue rule to clean up this mess and we aren't going to get it...

Then I guess it is good that my ego isn't so weak that I feel the need to impress anyone. Clearly your mileage does vary.

I literally said a discussion can contain counter-arguments. When someone isn't listening to counter-arguments it is no longer a discussion but rather a one-sided argument for arguments sake. I'm sorry this is too complicated for you to grasp.

I should have said it isn't just a search tool. The AI Mode of google search works great, but you can recognize someone who has never used it for any other purpose than as a search pretty quickly. I don't really have a problem with someone making the mistake. My issue is that many (most) Slashdotters who comment on AI these days don't even know what the questions are, because they already know the answer. The fact that they have no idea what they are talking about isn't going to slow them down, and when they are told that it is more they simply "already know" that it isn't and aren't about to take the time to find out that they are wrong.

I found some articles where the CEO talks about the percentage of people he expects to take the deal and it's only 3 to 5%. With 60,000 people even at the top of the range that's only 3000.

That is still significant layoffs clearly indicating we are in a recession. But it's not the insanity of laying off a quarter of your staff.

So what they're doing is they are targeting older employees but they know they're going to get sued and they've been sued several times for targeting older employees and lost. They are hoping the triple whammy of announcing 60,000 offers combined with AI combined with the fact that frankly we are in a recession and you can prove that in court provided you take out the AI spending and that those three things combined will prevent them from getting hit with another judgment for age discrimination.

There is probably also some insourcing and outsourcing going on. Microsoft has been caught multiple times firing American employees and hiring h-1bs.

One of the problems that's stuck out for me when I read the article was that they use layers and layers of contractors before somebody is actually driving a truck.

The reason for that is to avoid legal liability and paying benefits. I think especially the legal liability although it does help that they can underpay the driver's massively. There are examples of drivers making pennies a week because of the scams they run them through.

And God help you if you get hit by a semi.

Every single company involved in it will play a game of not if to avoid paying for your injuries and the shell company that the driver actually is legally working for gets folded immediately. If you get any money out of it it will be much less than you are due, you will settle and you will settle with a company that is a little worried about bad press but not much else.

Is probably already on Firefox. You get the same problem with left-wing politics where they are always preaching to the converted. You do need a little bit of that but it doesn't get you new converts.

In June, over $500,000 worth of bourbon was stolen out from under the nose of a warehouse in Phildelphia. The first paragraph:

Later in the story, the explanation for how this happened is nearly identical to these tech thefts:

Newman said investigators believe the theft may be tied to a "complex ring" targeting high-value consumer products. The perpetrators appeared to impersonate an existing trucking company, using a company name, phone number and other details to gain trust and secure the load, he said.

"They basically try and look like, sound like ⦠a legitimate trucking company," Newman said. "They spoof the company name, they spoof the trucking dispatcher."

In the company's news release, it said the theft appeared to have been carried out with knowledge of "logistics operations and product movement schedules," suggesting planning and coordination.

What part of one time bonanza didn't you understand?

Also I didn't bring it up but it is telling that most of the plates are out of state...

If I automate 20% of welding jobs wages drop. Supply and demand works both ways

Ah yes, the old LLM is the same as AI cluelessness. LLMs are just one Neural Network component, and they work in conjunction with numerous other components in a frontier model. You also don't seem to understand that since Neural Networks comprise the human brain complaining that AI is "just" a pattern predictor ignores the fact that the brain is "just" a pattern predictor. Furthermore AI is used productively all of the time. If you can't figure out how to do that color me not surprised. The cognitive dissonance required to write what you wrote and then say I am the one incapable of learning must be painful. I know just reading you document your ignorance is painful to me.

We don't build anything but data centers and that's a one time bonanza at best.

Blue collar guys don't hire other blue collar guys to do jobs they can do themselves, you need white collar guys to keep them employed or you need government infrastructure programs.

We already did away with the latter and now we're killing the former