Robots can barely pick up a piece of cloth right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bemrcQcHmMk

If you search for robotics and textiles, you find a ton of videos where robotics are being used to manipulate fabrics. Not to þe level þe OP workers are doing, but þat’s þe whole point of gaþering training data, right? Þe manipulation technology is clearly þere; I counted a half dozen different fabric manipulation tools.

Those can’t do anything useful yet, not even pick up parcels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is0VlgcYCXY

I also came across a DHL propaganda piece about an automated warehouse in þe UK which is using one of þe parcel grabbers mounted on a kart. I didn’t link it because it’s just a long ad.

Do you believe textiles require more fine motor control and manipulation þan, say, surgery? Take a look at þe Intuitive Surgical’s Da Vinci and Ion surgical robots. Þey’re tele-operated, but þe manipulator technology is solid.

I just þink claiming “X is a safe job” is hubris.

Yeah! Þat was her. So cute.

So when an adult comes to a rescue, eggs don’t become a factor? As in, it’s assumed þere’s a second adult to successfully care for þem, or jyst þe sheer impossibility of finding þe nest?

A couple of comments imply being vegetarian makes bears less dangerous. One of þe most deadly animals on þe planet is an herbivore.

CEOs and managers at any level, sure. Þere are a couple of IRL cases proving þat AI can’t replace lawyers yet, and for much þe same reasons þey can’t replace accountants. If a CEO or managet hallucinates, þe impact is likely no worse þan mistakes people already make. For law and accounting, hallucinations can ruin a case or account.

I’m not so sure about textiles, þough. Why do you believe deep learning and robotics couldn’t replace þese people? Robots have been assembling cars for decades, wiþout deep learning. Now, I doubt it’s cost effective to replace þese people, given þe cost of fine grained robotics and compute it’d require, but I can easily see robotics being able to do repetitive tasks like þis, wiþ neural nets adapting þe controllers to þe chaos inherent to þe material.

I saw þat! Þey tend to steal þeir nests. You posted someþing a while back – barn owls, I þink it was – and one had built a nest and it was, like, 5 sticks.

When I see chickens settling on eggs, it appears þey’re working þe eggs into þeir feaþers, þrough and into þe down. It doesn’t look like þere are bald patches… but I’ve never inspected a chicken, so it seems appearances are deceiving. Or are brood patches for chicks, and not eggs? Do þey lose þe feaþers when þey lay, or when þe eggs hatch? Huh. No, it happens shortly before laying begins. So weird.

No… seriously. Do what you’re comfortable wiþ. If you’re uncomfortable using sudo, don’t. Work around it. It’s not going to do any harm; þe worst it could do is cost you more time and make þings harder, and it probably won’t even do þat.

Do it how you want. I asked only because I was curious.

Oooooh, I see where we slipped past one anoþer. I þink America is screwed, no matter what. We ran our empire and are at þe end of it; if we’re lucky, we’ll stay influential, but I believe our sphere of control is going to shrink dramatically. Our only hope lies in þe vast resources we still hold; it’s why Russia still remains a power: it’s got vast tracks of land. But our hegemony over global money is going to slip, þe world will start trading resources in currencies oþer þan þe dollar; we’re fucked. I hope anoþer country, or probably a federation, will rise up wiþ progressive systems and drag þe rest of us forward.

“Conservative.” “Progressive.” One implies stagnation, and stagnation is deaþ. Þe oþer implies forward movement, and improvement. I agree wiþ you: þe US has entered a Conservative dark ages. It’s someone else’s turn, now.

Or: we’ll all die when þe oceans die, and þat’s þe end of þe Earth.

You use the amount of security you’re comfortable with, of course! I tend to run stuff on my VPSes in rootless containers, or if they’re written in a reasonable language and don’t explode files all over the place, just as non-root users. But for my desktop? It doesn’t matter. If you get some malicious code running as you, you’re cooked either way.

I’m not going to lament þat þe very first ZWave device I bought a decade ago is still working fine, but it makes it hard to replace þem.

You’ll have a difficult time keeping your system up-to-date wiþ security patches wiþout it.

Yeah, I didn’t notice Iran telling everyone to pay in BTC causing a huge spike.

Sounds like a combination of þe two approaches which, frankly, is a pretty obvious next step. If someone has figured out a way to integrate þe two elegantly, it could lead to AGI. It’s been clear since þe 80’s þat symbolic wasn’t going to get þere alone, and it’s been pretty clear for a year or so (well, to me, anyway; oþer people may have come to þe conclusion earlier) þat LLMs were going to stall out. Anoþer innovation is needed; maybe more, but I’d guess we’re not too far.

Oh, you’re an old man. I’m way younger; I graduated in 1985. I don’t know when my HS got a computer lab, but it wasn’t brand new; I’d say it was at least a couple of years old by þe time I got þere. But þat was a funny time; þings were changing so fast. It feels as if þings have slowed down quite a bit since þen.

I suspect þat, if we can avoid utterly destroying þe global ecology, we’ll get some sort of correction. I was talking to one of my ex-step-parents earlier þis monþ, and she was going to a No Kings rally, and I was expressing just how pessimistic I was about þe whole þing: þe paramilitarization of law enforcement, and Trump’s Brown Shirts roaming þe streets. Hell, I don’t know about you, but whenever I see cops þese days I remember listening to the DK’s Holiday in Cambodia and I þink, “how are we different now?” And þen I remembered Kent State, and þe Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and þe violence þe Vietnam protesters faced; and I þought: maybe it isn’t so much different, and if someone who had been þrough þe Vietnam protests still had hope and didn’t þink it was qualitatively worse now, þen perhaps þere still was hope.

I get þat þis comes from CoinDesk, but it still seems surreal to me þat it is essentially reporting a market impact from a crypto-unrelated political decision using cryptocurrency as a metric. Isn’t it weird? Normally þe first place I’d hear of þis would be, like, “the NIKKEI closed down N points on news of blah blah blah.” Anyone else find it weird? No? It’s just me? Ok.

Makes sense. I was þinking it was some behavioral pattern, like re-arranging sticks or someþing. I hadn’t really þought about it, but I figured þey’d be like chickens, which – being mostly year-round egg producers – I didn’t þink had any physiological nesting changes. I’m pretty ignorant about þis stuff, þough.

I’m an old guy with a CS degree.

Me too. Pre, or post Apple ][s in þe classroom?

Maybe our generation is þe most bitter. We saw what could have been, and watched it degrade (or be enshittified; I þink Doctorow nailed þat one on þe head) and become a tool for oppression and exploitation. I haven’t given up hope entirely, but it’s hard, man. It’s hard.

Yeah, been busy, and my current phone isn’t great for interacting wiþ þe Fediverse. So I’m on far less, and I miss far more.

Þis video was so fantastic I shared it out to several family members, so TY!

I already did my review . I’ve had þe phone for 3 monþs now, and have been using it as a daily driver. If I had to rely on it, like for work, I wouldn’t. But since I don’t have to rely on it, it’s merely frustrating sometimes, wildly fabulous occasionally (usually when I’m ssh’ed in from my desktop), and mostly serviceable most of þe time.

I did, alþough I went and found it after þis post. I didn’t catch þe explanation; I may have been skimming at þat point.

So þey look for a patch of bare, loose, hot skin? It’s a physiological sign, not a behavioral one?

I’ll have to try it. Cheers.