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Technology@lemmy.ml•Blue-collar revenge: The things AI can't do are making a comeback
91·9 months agoPaywall, so replying based on the headline:
Blue collar jobs are not a holy grail of safety from ai or refuge for prior white collar workers who have been displaced.
- You can’t just suddenly become an expert in a physical job, electricians require trade school and apprenticeship, heck even the easiest jobs in the construction world, painting or hanging drywall, require expertise and a random qa engineer will be genuinely terrible at the job.
- The culture of blue collar work generally incredibly misogynistic and requires a very hardy insensitive personality for women especially. There’s this sort of cultural inertia that has seeped into many blue collar jobs that sees a lot of love for trump and hate for soft handed people (the irony is incredible)
- Supply and demand are not just principles of product sales, a sudden massive influx of blue collar workers will push down wages for everyone, an economy requires balance and adaptation, there is never a single golden answer
- some blue collar jobs are more likely to be replaced with ai than others, but pretending that all blue collar jobs are perfectly safe from the impending storm is an uninformed and irresponsible take. Are indoor painters of new builds safe for now? Yes. But you can feel quite comfortable assuming that if some company comes out with a bot you can rent that does a phenomenal job at painting and costs 1/5th of a human painter the owners or managers of the companies who were contracting out the humans will absolutely switch to bots. Money talks and maybe some will hold out for a while but eventually other companies will offer their services for cheaper because of the cheaper labor and the human workforces will be unable to compete.
- blue collar jobs generally pay less and the future prospects compared to white collar jobs are significantly different. You don’t start out as a framer and end up as a partner, the attitudes of the managers of construction companies and similar often simply view the laborers as replaceable machines.
- blue collar workers sucks, for many you work in crazy harsh weather conditions (outside in 100 degree f) the jobs often require heavy physical labor, your coworkers are often drugged up conspiracy theory nutjobs, there are no watercooler breaks at 10am, you work hard or you get yelled at or fired. Imagine being an hvac repair technician in the peak of summer. Where exactly do you think you’re going to be? In the hottest part of the house in stifling conditions with all the pink fiberglass insulation without any ppe, all goddamn day.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's something you believe strongly but have little knowledge about
5·9 months agoEvolution, carbon dating, some physics topics
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How to find small programming related tasks in the USA
7·9 months agoFiverr and upwork are the standard starting places, their policies of keeping contractors on the site are rough, the cut they take is rough, and the competition is rough.
I’ve had success identifying specific software vendors with functional deficits and targeting customers of that software
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Is there a way to block browser JavaScript from executing commands that retrieve sensitive information from my local machine, while still allowing JavaScript that is only used for rendering web pages?
3·10 months agoYou could monkeypatch some javascript functions like the constructor Date types, but there will always be things not thought of that will leak date info. Hardware identifiers are quite difficult to get in javascript and several browsers already obfuscate that info.
Honestly if you’re very concerned, I really do think a virtual machine is your absolute safest approach, obviously the browsing experience is worse.
Check out amiunique.org to see what fingerprinting is generally available in your current browser
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Is there a way to block browser JavaScript from executing commands that retrieve sensitive information from my local machine, while still allowing JavaScript that is only used for rendering web pages?
2·10 months agoJavascript can’t generally access your local machine directly, but scoped local data like cookies are available. What in particular are you nervous about? You could run your browser in a virtual machine?
Responsibility mostly, no kids thank God but animals would suffer.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
5·10 months agoI love when articles tell me how to feel, takes all the thinking out of the equation. Now I know I should be shaking in my boots. Phew.
Mostly vivaldi, occasionally firefox on desktop. I wish we had more options with better longevity.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If someone said “humans suck, but nature is a perfectly beautiful creation 😍” what examples would you think of that show nature being (1) independent of humans and (2) brutal and grotesque?
5·11 months agoPredators eating prey alive, like lions eating bison from their bellies first.
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Who is the more idiotic? The idiot, or the one who spends precious time yelling at the idiot for behaving idiotically?
10·11 months agoYelling at a rock won’t change it into a rocking chair, neither does yelling at a rock change you a rock.
Behavior and nature are separate, it’s dumb to argue with idiots, but acting like an idiot once doesn’t make you one (necessarily)
I wonder if Confucius was really just a shit poster before the internet
My experience is every person in the US who enters the workforce and gets their first paycheck is always surprised. Since here in the us salary is given in pretax dollars, you never get the amount you’d expect for your first one.
Otherwise, some complain scout sales tax in the us for a similar reason, especially going from a state with none to a state with a high rate
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Linux@lemmy.ml•What do you guys think about RHEL 10 adopting RDP instead of VNC or Spice?
18·11 months agoMy biggest gripe with vnc clients is 8 character maximum password lengths for the default protocol. Straight up crazy.
0x01@lemmy.mltoGeneral Programming Discussion@lemmy.ml•Can anyone point out the mistake in this PHP function?
2·11 months agoAre you looking for a syntax error? Ideological error? The syntax appears valid as long as the surrounding code is a class and you’re on a php version that supports return type hints.
Finding community in the modern age requires you to get interested and participate in something specific. Specific communities are often on Discord or equivalent, for example I’m super into some very specific video games with thriving communities, into specific genres of books and have found like minded people, love chatting about specific computing topics, etc. Specialize your interests and find others who have done the same
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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Could a vampire policemen enter my house if they had a warrant?
9·1 year agoHow does the whole vampire thing work anyways? Like if there’s a hole in the wall breaking the integrity of the house are they still barred? How much of the house can be removed before it’s no longer considered a house? A whole wall? In that case could the police vampire just drill a hole or remove a wall?
Sometimes people do things they know are wrong. Beating one’s child is pretty goddamn obviously wrong.
The irony of your post is that it would apply well to the child who indeed should be taught instead of physically abused (punished).
But why should society let abusers decide what the abused learn when the lessons being imparted are almost always self-serving.
We all make mistakes, we are all human, but sometimes the mistakes we make should have consequences that prevent future errors. Drive drunk? You shouldn’t have a license or a car. Shoot up a school? You shouldn’t have a gun, be near schools, or really even be in general society. Beat your child? You shouldn’t be around children
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Gaming@lemmy.ml•My basement wasn't always so clean I admit. Bad habits can be broken.
10·1 year agoI love a good neckbeard nest for some reason, something about the complexity of the scene really captures my interest
Nah our ideals are very different