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fitzroy95 t1_j9vvf01 wrote

Reply to comment by sooprvylyn in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

maybe, or not. However, places like Japan are investing heavily in humanoid robots to provide a nursing and companion service for their aging population and shrinking young population. I see those as being an avenue for adoption.

Some light housework, some nursing, some sitting and chatting.

either buy or rent...

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sooprvylyn t1_j9vt96h wrote

Reply to comment by altmorty in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

The spectrum was barely more than a gaming system, and it was not particularly useful for business/home office related tasks. Home computers started to become a bit more popular in mid 80s, but they did cost like $2k+ in 80s dollars. When we got one around 87ish it was a big fucking deal. It had a monochrome screen, a dot matrix printer with punched paper feed, took massive floppies and didnt do shit other than some spreadsheets, word processing and was command prompt based.

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BroForceOne t1_j9vsf8z wrote

Reply to Google asks workers to share desks amid mass layoffs by ravik_reddit_007

>Googlers are permitted to work from home a few days each week, so many desks sit empty when only a fraction of staffers are doing their jobs from the company's offices.

Honestly hotel desking is a pretty normal thing for most hybrid work-from-home models.

You can't both work from home and demand permanent office space in an office that you hardly visit.

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tristanjones t1_j9vrwrv wrote

Reply to Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

'Could' is doing a lot of fucking work in this. Sure we have the technology but it isnt going to be productionalize and cost effective, even if it was, it wouldnt be fully replacing the chore 100%

*Gestures to the roomba trapped in the corner*

This amounts to nothing more than 'We will have fancier appliances over the next 10 years' No fucking duh

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sooprvylyn t1_j9vre5x wrote

Reply to comment by CandyCoatedHrtShapes in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ by altmorty

Except that i have actual experience with producing a product, which a robot would be. I am intimately familliar with manufacturing and materials costs, transportation, qc and compliance testing, safety testing and all the other fun shit that goes into making consumer goods.

I probably have a slightly better bead on the situation than you do, bro

You think you got it figured cuz you got a C in Econ 101?

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fardough t1_j9vozgx wrote

Reply to comment by ARobertNotABob in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

I see your point to a degree. No one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.

The problem is these are enforcers of the law who can kill with impunity. The expectation should be as high as the risk. If you have the power of life and death, then you are expected to never get it wrong. If you can put an innocent person into prison, then it better be accurate. I agree here there is likely a line, mistaking similar statutes versus making up a law

On your first day at a new engineering job, they don’t give you root access to the main application and let you go at it. No, you have to show competence to gain that privilege, and every engineer knows if they delete main, then that is more than likely their job.

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rsb_david t1_j9vopwt wrote

Reply to comment by axionic in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

I’ve been tempted to look into existing solutions or maybe even creating my own solution for a dash camera that can also stream live to a cloud or RTP service. The main problem is internet access and bandwidth availability, especially with a multi-channel camera.

Ideally, I’d design something that plugs into a small computer that can be mounted in the trunk and writes the footage and optional metadata from a OBD-II reader or other devices (GPS, accelerometer, etc) to a local SSD pair with replication in place. There would then be a special switch that triggers a cloud transfer of the last few minutes before and a live upload of real time footage until stopped or a loss of power/connectivity. This would be in addition to a local recording being saved to a separate partition. It would act as a black box for a car too.

You could use LTE networks, but they are normally saturated in populated areas or unreliable in rural areas. Starlink is expensive and needs more hardware. Maybe something that just scans for public WiFi or home WiFi would be useful enough.

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