The article seems to read that more independent shops are selling online. You only need an inventory and a couple of people (or robots) to fill e-commerce orders.
True, but can an online only store survive? I know several local specialty crafts ( needlepoint) stores that sell online but that alone would not enough to cover inventory and other costs. A lot of sales occur in store, and that helps turnover as well as sell threads with a canvas. Turns for online only would be a lot slower. Granted, it’s different than books but I suspect the economics are similar.
I'd rather see it be a 70% increase in real brick and mortar stores with corresponding staff. I miss the days of Borders Bookstores and the local bookstore like we had in my old hometown. Barnes and Noble doesn't even come close to Borders back in the day.
I agree. Part of the value is wandering the stacks and seeing books you might like but never heard of, and independent shops’ staff recommendations.
You just drove into a lake. The car is going down nose-first. The bystanders would like to rescue you, but that rear access that is still above water for the moment is not available.
That’s what you get for relying on Apple Maps
-- as Spain clearly demonstrated on 28 April 2025, when wind and solar was supplying 71% of the produced power, and a 5-second interruption caused tripouts across the Iberian peninsula and southern France, resulting in a total power outage lasting ten hours or more.
While renewables were part of the cause, they were not the sole cause, a lot of things combine to result in the voltage swings and cascading outages; even the investigations pointed out that more spinning power alone would not have stopped the event.
And the reason that this horseshit could not have been a Zoom call is..?
Because 90% of the actual discussion ad business is done outside of the meeting in informal settings, often in a chance meeting. That's hard to do in Zoom, especially with the possibility of such discussions being recorded. Plus, it's a pain to have to start a new meeting every time your free tier limit was reached...
The field is becoming saturated. I'm reading a one percent application to hire rate lately for EEs and MEs. That is, 1 job offer to 100 applications.
I suspect that may have something to do with what you want to do as an EE or ME. Power engineering isn't sexy like some areas but is hiring and few people want to work for the power company.
We have different tech, providing different benefits, doing different things
Agreed. For example, people today don't know what a "file" is, Oldtimer!
Or why cut and paste is called cut and paste. Then there is the difference between CF and LF...
The entire premise is simply “not China”?
I was told manufacturing jobs would come flooding back to this country.
But you weren't told when. This sounds like a way to get cheaper labor and less environmental rules; and I doubt they can ever scale anywhere Cole to China in terms of output or price. China could simply drop prices to make this an unattractive investment, leaving it just another promise to appease Trump without having to actually do anything substantive.
The worst is that most of "the haters" -aka- grandpas, either indeed never tried it, or are simply not competent enough to write a prompt to an AI.
That means their conclusions are based on wrong premises.
Some may be, but anecdotally, the ones I know don't hate AI and even use it. It's not going to replace them, by the time it is good enough to do so they'll be retired. They've got theirs, and if AI can make their job easier as they ride off Ito the sunset, then so be it.
Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong. - Oscar Wilde
