There used to be rooms of them for any significant project. Now their productivity has been multiplied and compared to the amount of drawing being done, they are few. And when the software can do even that job, they will be even fewer.
I beg to diff. 25 years ago when I started in the work force, you didn't call out sick without a doctors note
You do see how that was abusive 25 years ago, and how it's unrealistic now since you can't get an appointment before next month. You shouldn't have to go to the ER to get a note when you've got a migraine.
My employer recognizes that sometimes you just need a mental health day, and you can call in "just can't do it today". This helps immensely with retention. This was always a good idea, people always needed this, and only now is it being generally recognized.
The constitution wasn't designed not to have an elected King, since there don't seem to be any functional systems for preventing it. This might be a byproduct of it being designed to maintain the balance of power in favor of white male landowners.
Best guess is that in five years, self-driving hardware will add about $15k to the price of the vehicle if they use LiDAR, or $6k if they don't.
Best guess is that in five years we still won't have level 5 autonomy you can trust. I don't mind being wrong, but I don't think I will be. I certainly don't think it's viable for that kind of money and also achieving the kind of safety I think we should be demanding. Not just "better than human" but essentially infallible. The car can have sensors we don't have, it should be able to be a lot better.
There's no good reason you'd replace a working tractor unit when you can just swap out the steering rack, bolt on cameras, and add some electronics
I think 20k is an optimistic price point, especially if you're hoping that it's going to deflect liability.
Seriously dudeæ Ãoeruling classÃ. ThatÃ(TM)s a bit much.
No need to be in denial, friend. That's literally how capitalism works. Did you think either "control" or "the means of production" was hyperbole?
CAD did didnÃ(TM)t eliminate architects and engineers
It all but eliminated draftsmen, the drawing is done by the architects and engineers in the CAD software. The draftsmen mostly didn't become architects and engineers. Now take into account that everything becomes more complicated over time and yet also changes faster, and you can see where the problems are. Humans cannot keep up.
I suspect they were all correct. Most people have to experience life for a while before they learn the value of doing things in a way proven to be effective. The only thing they were wrong about is that the current youth were much more annoying than the youth of when they were a youth. They might even be right that they were different, and in denial about the value of their experience.
When your employer tells you something needs to be done
On one hand, you're right. You are absolutely describing the dominant paradigm. This is reality for most humans, and has been for most of history.
On the other hand, that's shit. If we continue to accept that, then that's what we will continue to have.
On the gripping hand, allowing the dickheads at the top of the ziggurat to eat all of our resources is unsustainable, so it won't continue indefinitely. At some point the whole thing collapses and goes full cannibal. And all we have to change to get there is nothing, so if you're tired of this, just wait!
You're right, and on top of that, we usually don't call hematite "rust" colloquially. We either call it hematite, or we call it a rock. If it's not crumbly and at least reddish people don't usually call it rust.
"Politization" means that people try to answer 3) with "someone else than me" by either claiming question 1) does not exist at all, or answer 2) depending on their political affiliation, completely ignoring 3).
A lot of that shit is just excuses. Some people really do believe that stuff, most of the people who matter don't. And they know everyone would have to pay for it, which is why they don't want to do anything about it. If they could all get rich solving AGW then they would do that. It's only about being in charge. They are stupid enough to think that they can ride the top of the flaming empire down and wind up standing on the ground.
I don't think it can be overstated just how dull the people in charge are. They cannot even conceive of them being affected significantly by anything until it is happening to them.
Do you expect autonomous vehicle to have robot drivers that can deliver your pizza to your door?
Yes.
If fat-asses need to walk down to the street and get their pizza out of a car, they are going to start wondering why they don't just go out a get their own pizza for a fraction of the cost.
No, they aren't. Going to a delivery vehicle is dramatically less work than going to a pizza place, in every sense of the word.
"Most taxi drivers and many truck drivers own their own rigs, and although they may eventually replace themselves with robot rigs, they would continue to earn the revenue after doing so. They certainly have no incentive to fire themselves."
They won't be able to afford to replace themselves and will be outcompeted by a company that can afford a fleet.
Try living in the real world. Anodizing gets scratched off all the time because aluminum is soft and it deforms.
Long haul, local delivery, taxi, bus, you name a driving job and the ruling class will want to automate it.
People have different experiences and different infections are also different. I've had it at least three times (once before there was available testing but I had textbook symptoms, twice more confirmed by tests) and while the first time kicked my ass, the second time was not too bad and the third time I wouldn't have known it was COVID without a test, it was so mild.
And on the seventh day, He exited from append mode.
