I mean I used to run `xscreensaver -root` on Linux some 25 years ago as a novelty, but this is cool too.

That's what we do here. But we suspend controlled burns during drought. Dang climate change making forest management trickier than it was 2,000 years ago.

Yea, my Dad has a landscape rake for his Cub Cadet. And you can scale the concept up in size.

Of course, a landscape rake is not going to work in the coastal forests here. It will get hung up on coyote brush and roots. And coastal redwoods grow in tight clusters, where even a hand rake is not easily brought between them. (I helped my neighbor clear up his "yard" of 40 redwoods. It looks beautiful now and a local couple had their wedding there shortly after).

For me, a brush cutter on the front of a skid steer vehicle is the only way to manage my property. Essentially what looks like a mower deck that sits in front of a tracked vehicle. The deck has an array of polygonal blades and it'll cut through small trees and chop up brush into chunks a few inches in length. From there they can be spread out to decompose or raked up and bagged to move elsewhere. I have a lot of invasive species, so we left it in place to avoid spreading broom to new locations during transport.

Salesforce fired 4000 customer service reps using llms.

That's almost half their customer service reps.

Like a lot of people I got my start decades ago resetting people's passwords. From there I can work my way up.

It's debatable how much productivity programmers are getting out of AI but it does seem like it's quite a bit anecdotally. But even without that entry level customer service employment is down substantially.

And remember those people don't just keel over and die. Eventually I need it more money and got my act together and moved up and I'm now competing for six figure jobs.

Most of those customer service reps will wash out before then but some of them will make it and you will compete with the ones who do and that will drive down your wages.

This is real and it's not something we can ignore.

These products should be forced to have a privacy setup which guarantees that even if Facebook does accidentally get some private data, it goes no further and gets used for nothing. If they aren't safe for use in medical situations, they aren't safe to be released onto the street.

A ha ha ha ha!!! AHH HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

Oh wait, you're serious?

Incompetence would eventually collapse. These men aren't stupid they're evil.

AI has the potential to replace trillions of dollars worth of employees.

We have given basically unlimited money to corporations and about 2,000 people on the planet. So throwing around 100 billion dollars is nothing to them. It's roughly equivalent to you putting 20 bucks on a horse race. Probably less because you could have bought some pizza with that.

Basically everyone is racing to being control of this tech because whoever is actually in control of it is going to have massive amounts of power and wealth. They're going to be able to cut probably about 15 to 20% of the human race out of gainful employment and get that money for themselves.

The real problem is we're not going to have Star Trek style replicators and we aren't going to have a complete or near complete lack of work. Instead we're going to have a large percentage of the population that simply isn't needed and a percentage that still is.

The ruling class is currently jockeying for position to see who gets to control and profit from the infighting from those two groups.

It's a basic aliens versus predator situation where no matter who wins we lose.

And the converse. The company gains productivity, because instead of staying home and not working when I've got [INSERT-MILD-ILLNESS-HERE], odds are I will be at home working at my job, because while I want to stay out of the office to protect my co-workers, I'm feeling good enough to work.

"Solar energy is currently significantly cheaper than coal, with costs for solar energy averaging around $23.52 per megawatt-hour compared to coal's $43.80 per megawatt-hour."

North Korea?

Why not, everyone else is.

Plus, the U.S. cannot produce all that it needs, manufacturing-wise. And the U.S. does not have enough people to even bother trying. Except that la Presidenta seems hell bent on trying no matter what the bad consequences. He thinks he can sell anything. So he's axing all the gov. reporting mechanisms that can report bad outcomes. And he's constantly uttering stupid things about how great the economy is.

Those are all "second-job" jobs, jobs you take because your primary job isn't bringing home enough cured pig; so they aren't going to do much for the American worker except keep him/her from pulling out the pitchforks and the torches. And as you mentioned, el Bunko needs those for his resorts and other crap he's into.

It's because they need them here. The cost of living and therefore wages paid in India are a fraction of what they pay here.

Just like it didn't work with Hitler appeasement doesn't work with your boss or with mega corporations.

That's the dirty Little secret nobody is talking about the president, AKA trump, can waive the fees at will.

There's a bunch of H-1B stuff in my feed that comes from the pro H1B side because I searched for it and once you search for something Google doesn't understand so just gives you whatever.

The pro H1B side has already calmed down and they're no longer worried. This doesn't apply to existing H-1B recipients and Trump can waive the fees.

This is just Trump soliciting bribes again and putting himself in a position where he can exert pressure to get late night talk show hosts taken off the air.

It's not going to have any effect on your job prospects. Once again Trump is not your friend Trump is Trump's friend

And there so they don't have to pay severance and unemployment.

So yeah of course if you want one of the people they're trying to lay off they don't really care if you come in the office.

This is the kind of nonsense you get when you refuse to pass laws to protect workers' rights and you refuse to organize to protect those rights. It's going to get a lot worse.

Iran's air defense system was disabled remotely, apparently Israel had bribed someone to connect some point of their military network to unsecured networks. You have to admit that Israel has some pretty good crackers, software is one of their few profitable industries. Not a mistake that Iran is likely to allow to happen again.