You merely reiterate my point. The left don't care about reining in the financial markets, they care about castrating kids.

Sure, it may provide some small value somewhere. But just as you don't have go to to the Moon to develop velcro, you don't have to create a giant financial casino to develop low-latency communications... you just invest the money on developing low-latency communications instead.

There is simply no world where it makes sense for the best and brightest kids to be spending their time figuring out how to take a tiny cut of transactions rather than building new things that will be useful to everyone.

In my experience it seems that consultants are often only hired to justify things that managers can't justify. Once they hire a consultant and the consultant tells them they should do the thing they want to do, they can do it with no further justification and blame the consultants when it all goes wrong.

AI should be pretty good at that.

I know of several companies who are avoiding hiring anyone with a degree for that reason; it's much cheaper to hire competent people without degrees than to hire people with degrees who expect much higher pay so they can pay off their loans.

But they're small to medium sized companies who aren't being strangled by HR.

HR is basically Political Commissars for business. It's quite insane that anyone let it grow from what should be a tiny part of the business to a cancer that's destroying so many.

I've had about ten jobs since I left school and not one has ever asked for proof of my grades. I didn't even bother getting my degree certificate until I had to send a copy for a visa application; they're the only people who've ever asked to see it.

That said, it may be different now that HR has taken over running so many companies.

> Anytime we want we could shut them down but we would have to change how we vote.

No major party wants to rein in the financial markets. I'm not sure about Harris, but I remember Clinton getting more donations from financial companies than Trump.

> The next time you're getting upset because somebody gave their kid puberty blockers or somebody said happy holidays ask yourself how many hours a year you worked so that you could get upset about that.

Imagine if the left had spent the last ten years pushing for reining in the financial markets instead of castrating kids.

Imagine what the world could be like if we didn't take a large portion of the smartest kids in the country to have them work on how to skim 0.00001% of every financial transaction and instead employed them doing something useful instead.

History will see this as an absolutely insane waste of potential.

That may explain it. I have a Qrevo S, which is from 2024, while yours is from 2022. The only thing that it ever gets stuck at is one spot where, from under the couch, it can see out the ground-level window, and get stuck between the couch and window ledge (not actually stuck, just confused), because the LiDAR sees out the window. And I fixed that just by setting a small exclusion zone there. It never "gets lost" - maybe your house has some vast open spaces that it can't handle? But the LiDAR seems to see pretty far. The only other issues I've had are things like where I'll have a loose cord on the floor or some large piece of debris or whatnot, and even then, it's usually good at not getting stock on them. I'm also impressed with how well it deals with doors vs. a Roomba - my Roomba used to always get itself locked in rooms by accidentally closing doors after it entered, while the Roborock really tries to avoid ever touching them.

The Qrevo S has actually rotating mops, and they do a superb job with the floor. Spotless. My robot has the hardest mopping job in the world, too - it has to clean under my parrot's cage, and he poops off the edge onto a plastic mat under it ;)

I've never had to contact support - hopefully I don't need to :)

The next admin won't be able to force manufacturers to make EVs because the AI data centres will be sucking up all the available electricity.
They're more likely to ban EVs to free up electricity.

although map editing sucks and it often gets lost and can't properly reset its position. It needs to be rescued pretty often which is a major fail.

That's very distinctly not my experience. What version do you have?

A real vacuum cleaner just about maxes out a standard residential 120v 15a circuit, as anyone who remembers the incandescent bulb era can attest to. A circuit with a few lamps shared with a vacuum cleaner could easily end with you flipping a breaker or replacing a blown fuse.

When you look at the absolutely tiny lithium ion pack these robo-vacs come with, ...

Sitting on my kitchen table right now is a drone pack. It's 57,5Wh, smaller the batteries of most modern Roombas. It's 50C - thus it can output up to 2,9kW. And there's even higher packs available than that. Lithium ion cells can handle some truly high power outputs. It's *energy*, not *power*, that is their limitation. Run a pack at 50C and it'll be empty in a bit over a minute. That said, on hard floor surfaces there is absolutely no reason why you should be drawing more than 300-400W or so, and you can get by with well less than that. High powers are for like shag carpeting and the like. Also, the head matters more than the power (though of course contribute) - for a hard floor, for example, a fluffy roller head is ideal.

Pet hair has never been an issue for me with robots. My long hair always is. It's way longer than any pet's.

Yeah, my Roborock has rotating mops, and I can say with 100% certainty, I haven't lived in a cleaner house since I moved out of my OCD mother's place as a teen. You could eat off that floor.

Facts. I used to have a Roomba for years, but as I live in Europe, it was getting increasingly hard to deal with modern features (like the self-emptying base which needs 120V power). I reluctantly switched to a Roborock when my power converter died, and just, wow, they're light years ahead of iRobot. I think iRobot has been coasting on its name for a while now.