When I look around my industrial estate, full of fabricators, tool suppliers, hydraulics, hardware, car repair, pipe extrusion, specialist bakeries and printers, you know, where real life happens outside the tech bubble, I can assure you AI will have zero impact for the foreseeable future. The main use I see so far, is a better search engine.

Yeah but /. Has had a good old whine every time windows upgrades.
I’m on Win11, And it’s still just windows.

Well anyone who does engineering or embedded is forced to use windows.
Pretty much every high end eCAD, mCAD, and dev environments that need to talk to real world hardware are windows only.

Australia has done this.
No Real ID was required and no adults I know had to do anything.
The social media companies already know more about you than your mother.

Thus AI will suffer from the GIGO effect.
What percentage of papers are fraudulent or have non reproducible data.
Good luck with. AI working that out.
Wait till AI starts writing researchslop papers enmasse.

Now that every China car is internet connected, what is the chance they have a remote kill switch so in time of war, Chinese cars can be used as weapons of war.

Yeah, what a nightmare.
It sounds like like they interviewed people that don’t manufacture.
It’s hard enough to make a monolithic ERP work let alone join different ones.
BOMs, jobs, serial numbers, combining sub assemblies, shipping from partial jobs while maintaining COGs, tracking labor, payroll, manufacturing execution, QA, AR, AP, Inventory management, purchasing, sales, budgeting.
ERP systems are hugely complex and interlinked.

The problem is, you never know where the peak is.
If you had have bought Bitcoin at $1, then it went to $5, then started sliding back toward $3, would you sold and taking 300% gain.
See the problem with gambling on instruments with no intrinsic value.

Sorry Hunter. /. has become a Democrat only zone.
Dissent will not be tolerated!

I bought a concept2 rowing machine and some weights about 4 years ago.
I row 4 days a week adding up to just over 16km, tracked on my phone which I find motivational and am up to about 2300km

I suffered from the black dog on and off for a long time but having read this article have just thought, wow been long time since I’ve been depressed!
Interesting. Now I’ve just got to stop weekend drinking!

I didn’t pretend to be an epidemiologist. I recorded data produced by our government health authorities, and was super clear that C19 vaccination did nothing for those under 50. /.’s are acting like religious nutters on this topic.

Correct, as everyone was going to be infected and masking was kubuki theatre.

That’s a false premise. While the C19 vax did some immune training, it didn’t prevent you getting infected and passing it on. In fact in some cases vaccination had negative effectivity where people were getting reinfected more often than those not vaccinated. The vaccine did provide some effectiveness with those with high comorobidity, which were primarily age and obesity.
In the traditional sense of a vaccine preventing infection, mRNA vaccination was an abject failure and ended up causing harm especially to young men’s hearts from the auto immune response the body had to the spike antigen produced in a small percentage of people where the mRNA escaped the injection site, sometime because a vein was hit during injection.
So while agree if it was measles you would be right but not for COVID.
Btw, I’ve had lots of other vaccines, esp the ones for overseas travel, but I thought the risk/benefit wasn’t there for C19.

Queensland Australia, had a unique experiment. Our borders were locked and we had no C19, until the govt thought enough of us were vaxxed and opened the borders. The govt published daily deaths, was COVID present at time of death(not cause just active) , how many C19 vaccinations they had and their decile age range. I recorded the data for about 8 weeks as I was interested as an engineer if I could see efficacy.
The data clearly showed if you were under 50 vaccination status made no difference to mortality. Above 50 the effect was only just above the statistical noise.
On the other hand data from places like Japan, were showing the injected RNA was not staying put, and some people was ending up all over the body, ie heart, ovaries for women, and in some cases kept producing spike protein for 6 months. It was a mistake choosing to express the spike as the antigen as it turned out to be inflammatory including the production coagulants responses from the body. There were many morticians pulling out foot long clots.
Dr Bruce Campbel, the UK nurse educator was 100% pro vax, but as more papers were coming in, the evidence turned against the efficacy of the vaccine and he became an advocate against vaccination, esp for the under 50. Many European countries eventually went that way as well.
Our family chose on the evidence the risk/reward was not there to be vaccinated. By that time it was Omricon variant. It was certainly unpleasant, but we only got it once where it seemed our friends who were vaccinated got it multiple times.

The Samsung software is pretty useless.
You get flush but thick TV and then a huge box you have to hide somewhere with a fragile snake cable.
Want to connect it to your cloud photos to display them. nope.
Want rotate photos faster than 10 minutes nope.
Apps like TV are slow to load.
We ended up connecting a google tv to it to replace the functionality missing from the horrible Samsung software.