If they show me the pictures of my friends, while hiding all the garbage (outrage politics, “you won’t believe this”…) so I spend about 2 minutes a day there and get off it would greatly increase productivity. Well it would lower mine because I almost never check facebook anymore - but my life would be enhanced if they limited themselves to the useful things they do and let me go in 2 minutes: a trade off that would be worth it.
There are a few things facebook is better at than anything in my life - checking up on distant friends that I wouldn’t call normally but I want to know the big events in their life; ensuring my parent see pictures of my kids (we don’t live in the same state). However those things only need a couple minutes of my time per day, and that isn’t enough to make them a big company and so they keep shoving garbage that doesn’t make my life better in my face. That garbage takes up hours per day of many people’s time and is worth a lot to facebook.
A good boss won’t have problems with that - they are always looking for their next position anyway and having a replacement ready to go is good - if you can’t be replaced you can’t be promoted. A good boss will help your get involved with the politics needed to be good at this. A good boss will put your name up for leads in a different department where there is an opening that you wouldn’t even know about.
Note that I said good boss above. Not all bosses are good.
Let’s assume battery density gets so good we can make a complete transh American flight in one charge
Nice thought experiment, but the physics of how batteries work mean we can’t. The theory behind batteries only allow for so much improvement, and will never get close to gasoline/diesel. For most driving batteries are good enough, but they will never be as good as gasoline despite how inefficient ICEs are.
Sort of. Wind is very good at stirring things up, but you can still see differences in places where there are a lot of plants (1-2%). This things needs CO2 to function and that means it needs concentration so the more CO2 to start with the better.
Fortunately this is small and electric is something we already move to cities in large quantities. Putting it in a city makes sense - assuming it works and is safe of course.
That is a tricky question. IT isn’t just does the CEO know, but should the CEO have known. If you make a machine that injures people the courts ask should you have expected that.
The first time someone uses a lawnmower the cut a hedge the companies and gets hurt can say “we never expected someone to be that stupid” - but we now know people do such stupid things and so if you make a lawn mower and someone uses it to cut a hedge the courts will ask why you didn’t stop them - the response is then we can’t think of how to stop them but look at the warnings we put on.
When Grok was first used to make porn X can get by with “we didn’t think of that”. However this is now known. They now need to do more to stop it. there are a number of options. Best is fix Grok so it can’t do that; they could also just collect enough information on users that when it happens the police can arrest the person who instructed grok. There are a number of other options, if the court accepts them depends on if the tool is otherwise useful and if whatever they do reduces the amount of porn (or whatever evil) that gets through - perfection isn’t needed but it needs to get close.
I’m told Unicomp has finally rebuilt all the tooling and the keyboards are good again. When you got in 2019 was from a worn out assembly line and would have problems. If you like the keyboard a new one is apparently good again.
Everydown turn there are layoffs and loss of talent. They alweys find something ‘unique’ to blame it on. Then things recover and they hire people who learn it again.
until 10 years have passed I refuse to call ai job loss anything other than the latest iteration of that pattern. Time will tell.
In my case wind turbines. My local utility produces more wind power in a year than customers use.
Welcome to inflation. If a price isn’t going up regularly someone is getting ripped off.
When my boss gives me a raise I always compare that to the yearly inflation rate - it has more than once turned what looks good into a loss for me. (I might accept it once in a while, but I’m looking for new jobs soon if they don’t fix)
What makes you think it is just one song? In the 1980s it was a mix tape that took the good tracks from several albums. With computers it is a playlist. Or more often it is a play random tracks from my large collection until I hit stop.
I do listen to just one song once in a while when that is all I have time for, or when some song comes to mind that I want to hear. However mostly it is a playlist that I created.
There are a few albums that are related collection and work best listened together, but most are just a bunch of songs and you can listen in any order.
Green is a myth. (I’m colorblind)
Mouse with your off hand means your main hand can do other things - type or such. Most keyboards have a numberpad to the right, so the left is the more ergonomic place for a mouse.
I have two computers, and two keyboards and two mice. I keep a mouse on each side. (I tried a KVM and didn’t like it). YMMV.
I need the mouse cursor to be better at drawing attention to itself at times though. When you have a couple big monitors often finding where that cursor is hiding becomes a problem.
You still have a power supply with a laptop.
Your kids should inheirit the desk your great granpa mades, those plates that have been in the family for years. Your lost $40 should be used to pay the taxi driver who brings you to the hospital where you die.
give them love now. Teach them to care for thenselves. They should expect to get nothing. Spend your money yourself for what makes you happy.
Don’t give the bills - pre-pay your funeral. (Careful - there are a lot of scams here).
Why are you typing anything in a grocery store? Type in the kitchen when you need to add something to the list, but in the store it should be just checking off the items as you put them in the cart. Maybe you have a good reason, but it feels like you are solving the wrong problem. [insert long rant about usability and human-machine interaction]
If you really need a keyboards I agree bluetooth keyboards are chunky. I often use a 60% keyboard with my phone, but it is a lot larger than my fine despite being a small keyboard. There is no getting around the size of hands though, you can’t make a good tiny keyboard (even a 40% won’t fit in your pocket).
You can find bluetooth keyboards that work just fine on a phone. The hard part is finding a good small one.
Hopefully firefox and the like will start putting spellcheck in their mobile applications again. I got mad at auto correct because it was worse than my spelling (at least you can guess what I meant - auto correct often changed to the wrong word: you wouldn’t think to I might mean something else). I also often use a bluetooth keyboard, again spell check is needed.
I had a few cousins who took and finished all my grandma’s unfinished quilts. They were already into quilting though. YMMV, but it is a good example - if there is someone who can understand/take this over give it to them.