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by conductr 3mo ago
Feels like my experienced reality of task automation in corporate environments. We routinely have engineers spend 40+ hours automating tasks that an entry level person can do manually in 10 minutes and only need to be done weekly. Automatio
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by conductr 3mo ago
Probably net positive. But just like spreadsheets, it’s likely that having tools created by a layperson that does not properly secure or test the system is probably going to occur, cause some unfortunate issues, and steal the headlines. Sim
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by conductr 3mo ago
Fiberglass rebar is comparable in cost, stronger, and not subject to water/salt damage. Rusting steel expands and cracks concrete from the inside, id want to avoid that. I’m actually building a pool right now using it instead of steel.
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by conductr 3mo ago
I’m seeing this too. I compare it to spreadsheets in terms of getting broad application building tools to the layperson
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by conductr 3mo ago
I find with these decisions, it’s still hard to future proof. The USB standards and ports will evolve and that may be more of a problem. Probably plenty of ways to solve in the near future but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was more of a p
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by conductr 3mo ago
In reality, you get both. People don’t shop at Costco OR Amazon. People primarily go to Costco for food (then stumble on everything else), Amazon has struggled over and over to get their grocery business to catch on. They’re just the best s
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by conductr 3mo ago
Amazon routinely is delivering things to my house 3+ times in a single day. They don’t do a great job of grouping their orders into deliveries. We’re usually to “blame”. We don’t do coordinated orders in our household. We have 3 people orde
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by conductr 3mo ago
Counterpoint. I remember when disc drives were requirement and shopping for a PC meant geeking out on disc drive read/write specs. I was then thankful when it disappeared and never missed it. I once thought about getting one as a perip
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by conductr 3mo ago
Games are different. They all have DRM which make it essentially encrypted with no decryption service available. Likewise, the game isn’t usually 100% contained on disc. So it relies on the internet and service layers to actually play the g
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by conductr 3mo ago
That would have been prior to DRM that can basically brick the data
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by conductr 3mo ago
It’s not even clear if you’re saying its playback will be unsupported at some point? Or the media itself has a shelf life? If I use a disc to backup family photos, will it experience bit rot? I suspect no. Is there a potential that no soft
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by conductr 3mo ago
I'm not sure I'm understanding your opaque comment correctly. But I'm assuming you saying the goal is to crush the already lowest levels of labor wages around the world? Because nobody's building this with the express in
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by conductr 3mo ago
Interesting. I'm curious if you've seen this in operation and can vouch that it actually performs exceptionally better than residential products? I ask because the marketing claims all sound very similar; vision based object avoid
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by conductr 3mo ago
I’ve paid over $3000 for a lawnmower and over $1000 for a vacuum before. So I’m already halfway there and with a fraction of the benefits as a general device. I’d need more diligence but would certainly pay $8k on a mower that did a great j
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by conductr 3mo ago
How is it any more dystopian than any other offshoring that exist primarily as labor arbitrage? My in-laws have a full time live in housekeeper that costs $500 per month. And where she’s from, this is a huge opportunity that she went to “ma
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by conductr 3mo ago
I’m not sure remote operations needs to be like a VR sim or joystick control of every movement. It might be something more similar to prompts. “Go to front door” “bring in packages” “open packages” “sort trash into pile” <click for item
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by conductr 3mo ago
I could sweep, mop, vacuum, etc with just my thumb and index finger if needed. But I agree, it’s a limiting design. Probably something they will want to grow beyond eventually. They’ve intentionally handicapped this version, but if they wen
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by conductr 3mo ago
I think this was able to occur as genuine new user growth disappeared. So the engagement of the community churns and opens room for off topic discussion. Then politics being what it’s been enters.
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by conductr 3mo ago
This. It’s the core difference in forums causing the discourse to be higher quality. They were all communities after all. Some, I admired and learned from as a mere visitor as I knew my contribution wasn’t additive. So I just never joined,
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by conductr 3mo ago
I feel discord is the same medium IRC served, there’s not really a contemporary equivalent for forums. Reddit is closest but not quite it.
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by conductr 3mo ago
There was a huge wave of everyone jumping to Facebook groups in the US. I feel like facebook likely wasn’t at critical mass yet everywhere so they probably missed it. Then it became pretty quickly obvious that sending your traffic to facebo
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by conductr 3mo ago
Given how incapable my robotic vacuums and lawnmowers have proven to be, even after several years of iterations, I’d almost prefer if it was all teleoperation and it would hopefully unlock a huge amount of additional tasks it could preform.
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by conductr 3mo ago
The word annoying was used to describe the lights by the person I was commenting to. I continued using it as a point of context for this conversation that you chose to jump into. Funny how your mom got pulled over by a police officer servin
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by conductr 3mo ago
Thought I addressed this in my original comment but to make it clear, this is typically where I choose to withdraw from any debate. This is where I would typically take the advice in the article. I don’t want to convince anyone the data is
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by conductr 3mo ago
> Is climate change man-made? When having the climate change conversation with deniers I roll it back to; is the climate warming? They almost always[0] agree it is and we agree it’s evidenced. So now we’ve agreed on a fact and have commo
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by conductr 3mo ago
Potholes aren’t really the core of the annoyance, just like the lights, it’s the control mechanisms around them. Potholes are going to occur yet there’s no proactive repair response. Massive potholes you’re describing rarely show up over ni
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by conductr 3mo ago
If you’re a cost conscious manufacturer, I think you could do it very cheaply these days (cents/unit). The problem is most manufacturers would turn this into a full blown AI capable smart device to justify charging a lot more.
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by conductr 3mo ago
How about just forget about this thread and don’t let it be a major annoyance. It’s a very minor annoyance. It would be a more widespread debate/discussion if so many people were upset by it. At the least, just admit you’re in the mino
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by conductr 3mo ago
People seem to hit a wall when flooded by resumes. They feel like there some needle in the haystack they need to find and it’s overwhelming. But you don’t have to read all of them. Or talk to all of them. Or use a system like this to filter
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by conductr 3mo ago
I have no data to lean on other than my experience and intuition but I’d say that’s not the case. My domain is corporate finance, which encompasses a lot of structured roles and certifications, yet I consistently feel the Resume is just a p

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