No. You can be replaced by AI even if your job does require precision and quality. At some point, the company will have to rehire people to replace those they laid off but the CEO gets to keep the bonus. And it doesn't mean they rehire you. Probably someone cheaper.

It is definitely regional. In California, stations that don't charge a higher price for cards are rare. It happens (I stumbled on one last week well outside my normal area) but it is rare. Card same as cash seems to be the rule in Missouri. Here is California, the stations that don't charge extra for cards tend to be in relatively low rent areas. Missouri is low rent compared to most anywhere in California.

The pandemic work from home move gave employees more power while managers and top leaders had a more difficult job as their control over staff was reduced. The decline in the job market and RTO have reduced employee power while making the jobs of management and top leaders easier. So, it is pretty natural that staff will feel reduced well-being while management enjoys a tighter grip on employees and easier hiring. Whoever gains power feels better than the ones who lost.

I'm surprised they found so many "12345" passwords. Not because it is a dumb password. It doesn't surprise me at all that people would try to use a password like that. It surprises me that, in an age when even useless logins require eight characters including mixed case, a number, and a special, that there were enough systems to allow all numeric five character passwords for "12345" to be popular.

Certainly, I have never seen a cancel-rebook site. I do, however, do something similar manually. I will book a room or car well in advance with free cancellation terms. But I continue to shop. When better deals comes up, I make a new reservation and cancel the old one. When it gets close enough to the target date that I think it won't get cheaper, I may switch to a non-refundable booking to save a bit more.

I see all the comments of people putting coins in jars and this is on a tech board where I expect most people to be reasonably good at arithmetic. Or is the problem that you don't have a reliable place to keep the coins? I seldom have more than five pennies or three quarters on me at any given time because I deliberately pay out whatever it takes to get the next denomination. If price is $1.24 and I don't have exact change, I could pay $1.25 that means another penny in my wallet but if I pay $1.29, those four pennies in my wallet become one nickel. Later, I might toss that nickel at a transaction to get a single quarter back instead of two dimes. And I never pull out a $1 bill if I have four quarters. The math is not that difficult though I do understand that it depends on me being able to keep my coins together and too many wallets have no useful coin purse.

It is not clear there will be suppliers even if there are buyers. Storing energy by making hydrogen is grossly inefficient. Even pumped hydro is much more efficient. It only seems to make sense if generation greatly exceeds transmission capacity for such a long time that no practical energy storage mechanism can buffer it. There are cases where wind farms are required to shut down but those are due to local weakness of the power grid and I don't think these wind farms have storage anyway.

Apart from offshoring, that is. In principle, they can save time as the company doesn't have to create and staff a team. Less charitably, they can reduce employee churn has the roles the company isn't sure it wants to keep are filled by disposable consultants. But I don't see how adding another company and associated management to the mix can reduce cost unless the people doing the work are just paid less. But the target company can do that too. Disclosure: I worked for Accenture for a while. It seemed pretty clear that our job was to perform the junk tasks that direct employees were not interested in doing.

And thus require better cooling? Granted, there are still structures whose activity will not increase with the 5x greater load per GPU but 5x is big enough that I would expect some marginal or even not so marginal cooling solutions to fail.

I think it more than just the actual result of RTO. RTO shows the management is perfectly willing, eager even, to create a toxic work environment for mere hypothetical benefits. If the bar for company benefit at the expense of employee wellbeing is so low, what ELSE are they willing to do and actively doing?

Because these are investments, not sales. Accounts are being drained and not refilled because the expected sales have not arrived yet. This cannot continue. It feels like late in the DotCom boom and many of remember that time well as well as what happened next.

If you just want the solar power, you don't have to put the data center in space. Orbit just the solar array paired with a microwave power transmitter which will get the power to a rectenna at a data center on Earth. You get the power where it easy to get while keeping the data center where it can be cooled and maintained.

I can enter the address of the complex but that isn't very useful as it is a rather large complex. The app doesn't know what to do with apartment numbers. I had a similar problem at a prior residence in a town home development. The interior streets didn't have names. The street I was on could be thought of an extension of a nearby named road and apps often translated my location to such an address. Unfortunately, routing to such an address would require driving through a wall.

I always have trouble with rideshare pickups from my apartment. I can plant an X where I want to be picked up but then this gets translated to an address on a neighbouring street that is not in my complex. I always have to send a clarifying message to the driver. This is challenging because I can't send it until the driver is assigned, which is when I'm rushing around trying to be ready in time. It would seem that Waymo might skip the step of converting to a human readable address. That might help. But if, it doesn't, texting the robot driving the car doesn't seem to be an option. Has anyone here tried to get a Waymo pickup from a similar tricky location?

It is absolutely vital that collaboration of a quality seemingly not achievable when remote occur in their companies. Of course, this ideal never happened in these companies before COVID, hasn't happened since RTO, and seldom happens anywhere. But it is vital that employee happiness not interfere with this hypothetical possibility.