It's unreasonable to weigh the value of a degree while not discussing the current down-turn in professional entry level roles, such as the historically lucrative computer science. There're plenty of people out there with marketable, useful skills who can meaningfully solve problems, but there's a broken hiring market as job allocators aren't putting them to work. I don't see a great future from the argument that we just shouldn't be training them, at all. The causal arrow's going the wrong direction. Lots of people who went into school picked up valuable, useful skillsets and are now struggling with the market reorganization currently underway. There's a great, big bet on the idea that we can replace people at such scale that the harms of doing so poorly will make up for it.

Amazon had the size. I doubt it really was 'internal business knowledge'. They have a stranglehold and are a market-maker. If you gave Amazon's knowledge to iRobot, it'd be no different. The difference is that iRobot would have simply become more leverage for Amazon's flywheel. Amazon has a competitive market chokehold advantage that can't be met, otherwise.

What a framing. We're at a point where functional products die because we don't let them get rolled up into yet another conglomerate. If not achieving a merger was the death-stroke, they weren't stable in the first place.

Huh. That'll actually make my life a bit easier. Not used to seeing that lately.

Not quite sure how to interpret this without a strong caveat regarding reliability of data sampling in the current environment. There's a lot that's changed within the last year and I lack the expertise to know whether that affects this comparison or not, whether on the overall ranges or the needed sample size to make a conclusion.

... and that's surprising? It's a case where people are constantly having to deal with syntax, which we process poorly. It has immediate, stateable goals, and can be directly tested and checked and basically involves getting a machine to help you communicate with a machine. Pretty clear use case. I use Copilot for just that, all the time. It's not like "Hey, make this 15 step process with scripts", but when you want to offset a row based on an entry elsewhere and process it a certain way, it sure beats digging through the documentation to refine exactly the syntax you want.

Updated: Found the link! It does exist. https://www.science.org/doi/10...

Sources that I can find cite PNNL as the lab and August edition of Science as the pub... but I'm not seeing it on the PNNL site and the recent issue of Science doesn't seem to have it. Searching for the supposed quotes doesn't bring the actual paper up anywhere. https://www.science.org/toc/sc... It all seems *too* convenient. PVC solution into useful hydrocarbons and hydrochloric acid at room temp and standard pressure? Really? I'm not certain we're not being had.

More relevant: Apple doing the *exact* same thing with the pulse-ox tech lifted from Masimo.

Can't get a job with your specialized knowledge? Why not spend your time trying to create your replacement? They're just going to turn around and drop it into services as a way to prevent the need for actual expertise.

Austin's pretty fond of the turn signal and tends to respect it. It's Houston and Dallas where you take your life into your own hands. Houstonites take a blinker as a challenge to protect the lane. Consequently, 3 of the 5 most dangerous stretches of highway are in Dallas and Houston.

Ah, yes, Uber's claimed a ridiculous number in their earnings report. If I were to publish such a claim on a paper, I'd be gone over with a fine-toothed comb. Actual data and analysis or we're just looking at more marketing "puffery." It's important to remember that Uber's only stated business strategy to become profitable is to obtain a monopoly on all ride-sharing and taxi service the world over so they can juice the prices. They're... not exactly reliable.

We're going to discuss population, but not the sheer volume of travel and consumption at the top? Look at who's contributing the greatest volume of the carbon footprint, even in the US, and it's top-heavy as hell. We're discussing this like 8 people don't control more than half of GDP. One of the fundamental problems is that these folks are in monopoly levels of influence but can't be bothered to prioritize the changes needed to actually clean up their value streams.

One of my ongoing questions is: When will they finally produce a mechanical version? If ergo's supposed to protect against RSI for heavy use, then strictly having rubber dome versions just ignores the customer's need.

Labeling it "Full Self Driving" and hiding behind the legalese in the confirmation screen? Absolutely moving fast and breaking things. Selling to the public like it's L5 when it's L2.