Fun fact: the stainless steel body panels cannot effectively be repaired or refinished to insurance company standards, so if something should happen to even just cosmetically damage one of the main body panels, the entire vehicle is unrepairable and totalled.
This is one of several reasons why the things are extremely expensive and difficult to insure. And, of course, it tells you how to do your part in making them even more expensive and difficult to insure.
I mean … I don’t hate it…
Half of cars today have push-button shifters anyway, and the steering wheel is kind of a fun and novel place to put them.
And wasn’t China very recently concerned about their birthrate being too high? One Child Policy?
Now they’re already concerned about their birth rate being too low?
I’m beginning to understand why management types like it so much.
Well, that’s what they mean by one of the ‘good jobs’.
Because, sure, that still sucks ass. But at least you’re not sweating like a pig and getting skin cancer while mowing lawns. At least you’re not pissing in a bottle and stepping over dead coworkers for Amazon. And at least you’re not getting physically assaulted by irate customers who are mad at your employer’s terrible policies in some shitty dead-end retail place.
Until those layoffs happen, you get to work in an air conditioned office. You get a chair to sit in. You might even get lunch breaks sometimes!
they were already using software(way before pandemic) to grade papers.
To grade multiple choice questions, right?
… right?
It’s mostly just a piece of paper required for most white collar jobs to even pass on your resume to a real person.
Fun fact: as long as you’re not studying to become a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or other professional with a governing/licensing body, you can just lie about it.
No employer has ever asked to actually see my diploma. No employer has ever requested a transcript from the school. And even if one does, what’s the worst that can happen? You just won’t get that specific job – but you can keep on trying and applying to other jobs.
What’s the point if it’s all just phoned in?
You get a piece of paper at the end that proves you’ve gone through the class barrier hurdle successfully, thus demonstrating that you’re not one of those filthy poors, so you’re eligible for one of the good jobs.
Ivy League college students are, by definition, people who attend classes at an Ivy League university … nothing more and nothing less.
If you want to claim they’re anything other than that, you’re using different arguments – it can’t be justified definitionally. You’d think someone who was actually intelligent might know that…
Hot damn… Having issues because you’re used to the AI thinking for you is one thing … being incapable of counting to 10 (with repeated attempts!) is quite another thing entirely.
I’d hate to be a teacher. Imagine how much time you’d waste grading AI-generated papers…
They are actually humans
[citation needed]
the kind of proposition you make when you think your customers are fucking idiots
To be fair, a huge proportion of customers – especially AI customers – are fucking idiots.
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Yeah … I think it makes more sense in somewhere very flat.
But in somewhere with hills and elevation changes, moving heavy things with a hand cart will become quite a chore … and maybe even dangerous, if the handcart doesn’t have adequate brakes for the weight on a steep hill.
does it really matter if it was vibe-coded?
If you want secure, reliable, and maintainable code, very much yes.
People are calling this a ‘problem’ and a ‘bug’ … but it’s neither. It was just a missing feature.
Bookmarks, people – use 'em!
Easier to search, more organizable, easier to transfer to new devices, more resistant to being lost, they don’t eat up all your RAM … the advantages over endless open tabs are immense!
Long overdue, really.
Hijacking like this is one of many reasons I’m running noscript these days.
can you create more of like a natural language interface that lets people do everything they want?
I don’t want a ‘natural language interface’ in my browser.
I want a browser interface in my browser.
This shit ain’t broke. Don’t fix it.
Can be a surprisingly effective tactic sometimes.
Just show up for work, start working. Later, complain to HR that you don’t seem to have gotten your onboarding materials, and your first paycheck is late. With a little luck, the HR person will think you were omitted due to an error in the system and they’ll manually add you. And then, congrats – you’ve got a job!