iPhones save old notifications in a database? Why?

🤔 is it even a shitpost at all?

So you would have preferred her to refrain from helping the boy because of their differences in skin color? Isn’t that… wildly racist? Wanting the child to suffer more just because of race? Because it might resemble some cinematic/literary trope?

I suppose this is a decent reminder to limit my social media consumption. This is gross.

Do you really think that people who have the skills to repair the water treatment plant are going to just deal with sewage backing up into their home because they don’t want to do the work?

In their own city’s infrastructure? No, probably not. But that doesn’t quite clear things up, so I’ll throw out some numbers as an example:

• Let’s say, on average, ~100 pumps need repair/maintenance at any given time.
• Only 50 people have the skills to fix those industrial pumps^[1].

Do an average of 50 cities have sewage backing up at any given time? How do you fill that gap?

Also, do you have an example of a society that functions like this today? Maybe I’m just stuck thinking inside a box because the society I’m most familiar with is not like that. If so, an example might be helpful.

Maybe many would, but also, many would not.

In a society in which everyone can choose whatever career they want, all for the same “pay”/outcome/whatever it’s called in a moneyless society, I would bet that most people would choose not to do these things.

When the demand for such tasks outweighs the number of people who are both willing and skilled to do those jobs, what can be done to meet the demand?

Btw, I’m not asking rhetorically - I’m genuinely curious. If there isn’t enough people to serve such an important job for society, what can be done?

Some people have to dress up in a special suit and swim through raw sewage to repair a big pump - and they have to do it blindly because the sewage is opaque.

Some people have an even dirtier job: They have to clean off that guy’s shitty suit before he can take it off. They might have to do it multiple times if he needs to come out to take another look at schematics.

They do it because it pays very well. It pays very well because nobody wants to do it.

It depends on the person. I’ve known people who are much more motivated by money. Some of them ended up in prison, some are doing quite well, and some are still trying.

Honestly, I sometimes wish I were more money-motivated. I’m very lucky that my passion happens to earn a good salary (for now), but I gave up my business for it.

Thanks

Three consecutive dog photos in my Lemmy feed! I think is is the most positivity I’ve ever seen on Lemmy. Thank you for this one 🙂

Would you mind elaborating a little more? I live under a rock but this seems interesting

I think this is one of the reasons why people from English-speaking countries are less motivated to learn other languages; English is almost everywhere, to varying degrees.

It’s sort of a gift and a curse. I enjoy learning languages, but there’s no practical need for me to, so I’m bad at it 🙈

Yep. I imagine Spanish is much more useful in Texas than in Alaska

There are language exchange sites and apps for that. Lots of people learn languages just as a fun hobby, and there are many resources out there for it

Fun fact: You can learn without school. There’s sooo much information outside of school walls, and it’s easier to access now than ever in the history of humanity.

It’s useful for sending money internationally in situations that would be otherwise difficult

Pedofile

Sometimes it’s expensive or difficult to send money between two countries, depending on which countries they are. But if you know how to send crypto, it’s the same process and price no matter where it’s going.

Oh that’s an interesting challenge.

I hear some LLMs now have some solutions for the classic “how many Rs in ‘strawberry’” problem (related to the tokenization processes), but I have no idea how they might solve the phonetic thing. I’m sure some smart people will eventually find a way though

This may sound weird, but I think anecdotal evidence might be more informative than the productivity stats for now, until the industry settles on a new equilibrium.

Some engineers are more productive with AI, and some (maybe even most, still) are less productive. People are still putting in the effort to learn how to use it more effectively/productively (there is a learning curve), and some of the less productive are getting laid off.

It sucks, but that’s just how it is now.

Also, AI tooling is still evolving very rapidly. A lot of information and stats are only valid for maybe a few months.

It is, intentionally. Some of the training data is synthetic