My 14yo hates the current AI but says most peers are using it and can’t understand how to write an essay or such without it.

I think only some of the kids are alright. Many, if not most, are in trouble.

Er, what? On what knowledge or experience are you basing that assessment of their claim? The ratio can vary widely depending on the specific job, but they’re not wrong. I’m a psychiatric nurse practitioner at a psychiatric hospital. My previous role at this facility was in the ball park of 2-3 hours of chart time per 1 hour of patient face time. In my current role it’s more variable, but it’s still around 2 to 1. Mind you, that’s not all just typing notes or checking boxes - both roles necessarily involve a fair bit of reviewing of records too. And I’m not counting coordinating with the care team, communicating with family members, staff meetings that don’t pertain to patient care, mandatory training time, etc. etc…

On automation, I can’t speak for others but I don’t see much automation of my job happening before we have artificial general intelligence, which current “AI” plainly is not. Even using AI just to do automated visit summaries wouldn’t be useful for me given how much time I spend talking with patients about the content of their hallucinations and delusions, which is something a LLM simply can’t understand in any meaningful way that would allow for a logical/useful summary.

washing yourself down with iso alcohol. Get a good scrub in. Then get that inner cleanse with a stiff shot.

But maybe grab the ethyl for the inner cleanse.

Wtf does that even mean. Pedal make go, steering wheel turn. What do I need AI for?!

Right, do we not remember PRISM? Edward Snowden is still living in exile in Russia.

They don’t need to tap your router when they already tap the routes.

Right, like, who did you think you were making surveillance tools for? Because it wasn’t Mr. Rogers.

Not just suicide assistance chat bots, but suicide promotion chat bots.

Dickbaskets have an annoying habit of getting into positions of power.

It would also have to cause terror. The people using these websites live in such an abject state of terror about their own inferiority that this probably had no measurable effect anyway.

I never understood how anyone thought touch screens were going to take over for productivity. Back when they were being hyped, it seemed plainly obvious to me that even multitouch didplays couldn’t outpace a physical keyboard and mouse for input speed.

I can’t find it with a cursory search, but I remember seeing marketing back then for a laptop that was just two touch screens with no touchpad/keyboard. Color me shocked that it didn’t become the new norm…

I remember when Doom Ultra HD 8k came on 40k floppies. Back before we even had 2k displays. It took nearly 2 days to read it all into RAM (mind you, I had a cluster of 200 computers just to have enough ram…) and ran at about 0.01 FPS on my 640x480 CRT. And you had to read about 73 more floppies every time you loaded a new map.

Ah, the good old days.

Benefits can be expensive, and they only pay you for the 40 hours because it’s a salaried rather than hourly position. They just want free labor at the expense of the employees’ sanity.

Also consider a healthcare career. As a teenager, I wanted to do computer science/engineering, and sometimes I do wish I had stayed on that track. But now, as a nurse, I could get a job in any state in the US by tomorrow. I dare you to try to find a hospital that doesn’t have open nursing positions. Even when the economy goes down, people still get sick. Even if society collapses, the knowledge/skills will be useful.

And if you don’t want to change diapers or deal with blood, there are still options; I’m in psychiatry and rarely have to deal with either.

It was really only the OG Pebble and the Steel. It was resolved by using a different screen connector in the Pebble 2 and Time.

I’ve had multiple OG’s over the years and each have developed the tearing issue. It’s a fairly easy fix if you’re comfortable opening electronics, but obviously that’s not going to work for every customer of a mass market product…

No moving on here. I still wear a OG Pebble daily, and I’m super excited about this. I just wish they hadn’t chosen ‘Core 2 Duo’ like it hadn’t been the name of another product…

Most phones support multiple regions’ frequency bands, especially these days. Some don’t, probably mostly older ones. Manufacturers used to make different versions of the same model for different regions.