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I’m confused why you are telling me this, when I was in agreement?

bows thank you thank you. Glad about my efforts being well received, and even more so it got you out of bed! Cheers and may your day remain on the up.

Actually, after kinematic analysis of the required fingertip trajectories upheaves both of these arguments. If you calculate the aggregate spatial displacement across a standard 2D Euclidean plane for both input strings, the former macro sequence yields a significantly lower metric footprint than the latter.

For the sake of empirical demonstration, we can map this across a standard ANSI 100% layout using a normalized key pitch constraint where 1 U = 19.05 mm. By establishing a Home Row Idle-State Matrix as our behavioral anchor and tracking independent multi-finger vectors using the standard Pythagorean metric tensor—calculating the straight-line distance d = sqrt( delta_x^2 + delta_y^2 ) between consecutive keystroke coordinates—we arrive at the following quantitative breakdown:

Macro Sequence 1: sudo [shift] !! [enter]

• Single-Handed Vector String: 40.878 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 778.7 mm
• Dual-Handed Touch-Typing Matrix: 8.424 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 160.5 mm

Macro Sequence 2: [up] [home] sudo [space] [enter]

• Single-Handed Vector String: 40.989 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 780.8 mm
• Dual-Handed Touch-Typing Matrix: 21.728 U
  • Net Linear Displacement: 413.9 mm

tl;dr

Fewer keystrokes != less work. Even though typing !! looks like more work, it isn’t because your finger travel distance is significantly shorter when executing those keys using two-handed touch typing on a standard ANSI QWERTY keyboard.

it amazes me how many people drink the Kool aid of conservative propaganda, and misleading research done by parties with conflict of interest.

I have a friend who is getting this type of therapy soon! Really cool stuff, but hope none of us have to go through it.

It’s prob why some of them are building bunkers

It was the free-est, most affordable, and happiest days that the world will be in my lifetime.

As much as I hate that too, it takes longer to make so I’m not as against it for now. I’ll take the win.

Honestly I love my yubikey and I prefer it to passkeys any day of the week. Proton pass made passkeys less annoying, but I still hate them.

If this was the case where we have to adheree strictly to the definition of capitalism then what the US has is no more a capitalistic society than say the Nordic nations. We have a hybrid approach to capitalism in the same way that we have to a democratic Republic and not a democracy. The Nordic nations employ a form of capitalism called welfare capitalism. They have the fallback that OP was asking about and is still capitalism. The US has social programs so therefore is not pure capitalism. Full stop. Why not slide the gradient a little more?

Oops added my own comment didn’t see that, but yeah you can use whatever authenticator you want with it although they suggest their own or used to. Recent changes to their authenticator recently could have removef TOTP.

Only if they are getting rid of one time code style applications as well. As of today I am still able to use my non Microsoft fully open source authenticator (aegis).

They do seem rather eager to screw us over by any means necessary as soon as they can. Damn the repercussions and economic fallout it would bring. That’s tomorrow’s, and someone else’s problem.

Alright let’s entertain this; how long do you think it would take for an individual to land an apprenticeship in a trade? Keeping in mind these are usually very competitive beyond even my own country and limited in number even if you went across all the trades in your area. How about the hundreds of even thousands of people in your area do the same?

You can keep saying this misleading statement to me all you want, but it does not change reality.

Licensure is not free at least here in the US nor are the materials to acquire it. The cost is not just getting into the job though, you have to consider the cost of leaving a job that could have been better paying that maybe no longer exists. Someone with a family that just is not a real option. Now apply this “just go into a trade” logic to everyone who has lost their jobs or wants to have something better than they currently do and you’ll run out of trade jobs very fast. Same problem as today but different lens. Then what?

Fully agree here. They were not in good faith, and made a lot of assumptions with little articulation. Their argument works well for a single individual in a vacuum but you apply that to everyone with job loss and it falls apart. Thank you for your statement.

I will admit I do not work in trades so I won’t pretend to, but I am aware of licensure and unions. To this you are correct they are a great strength and benefit to these fields and jobs that have really helped these individuals retain their jobs and skills. With robotics and AI specifically no they cannot replace these individuals currently; however, there has been a push to deregulate which would not overnight ruin these careers but it will encroach. We can see an example of this in Texas where they removed the requirement of bar exam for legal jobs, and we have seen more of a push to use non traditional means in this position. So while I agree these jobs have some current protection it may be only temporary if these are the same people who are willing to trash other career fields over automation. We do have a bit of a gray area though around the remote form of robotics that are controlled by a human possibly even one with licensure.

I have however work in robotics. Most robots are exactly as you say in a factory and not really that capable, but this is very rapidly changing as we create robots more and more capable of general tasks and dexterity. The robots that I have seen designed specifically for HVAC jobs are not particularly great yet compared to their human counterparts are very skilled at the few things they can currently do and I’m not talking about like ones in a factory I’m talking about ones deployed on a home call to work on someone’s air-conditioning system. These are the ones that I am concerned about, and for those that aren’t you will be. It very well could be long in the future but companies are taking steps to do this as soon as they can and it spreads so far beyond just trade jobs.

The current state of AI as LLMs is pretty low risk as far as I am concerned for any skilled worker. Won’t change any time soon either, but we know why they are doing this. Our corporations have exposed their true end motives. They full and well would rid themselves of every employee if they could. None of us know what the future is going to look like, but thinking it’s not going to spread beyond software or unskilled work is not going to end well. What starts as the incapable robot in a factory iteration after iteration is suddenly capable. We now have the tech to make these a reality where even half a decade before we did not. The only hurdle is the legal side of things to which we see movement to dismantle even if only a little at a time. Most people seem concerned about full on automation/AI but that’s not the near term threat. It’s remote physical labor. Again look at the medical field and 7/11 using robots to restock their shelves. Neither of those are AI, but are taking jobs from the US annually. One at a time step by step headcounts are reduced. This won’t be a sudden torrent, but a trickle.

I agree that there are jobs and have been jobs for trade and non trade jobs yes. In terms of numbers Ai has not taken jobs from anyone, but rather has been used as reason for layoffs as it sounds better than financial woes in these organizations. This is also supported by research/data. The current number of jobs is also consistent with what they were pre COVID inflation.

Again yes I am concerned about what is coming because I am a forward thinking person. I make plans because hopping fields is expensive to do. I am not sure why this is such a surprise for you? I am not sure how I was being negative about the trades at all. I’m just saying it’s not a silver bullet to the upcoming career crisis if we are to believe AI is actually a threat. What may be a concern for some fields now it’s only going to either broaden directly because of that same threat or because of oversaturation as those who were once in their own careers no longer can and look for work elsewhere that had not yet had the rug pulled out from under them. You can chose to ignore that I am saying and that’s fine, but sticking your head in the sand doesn’t stop this from approaching.

Yes generally I think about long term viability to a field. I plan to still be here in 10 years. Although I added that statement to be less alarmist. Those robots exist today. Go ahead and enjoy the competition of everyone flowing into trades though. Will be the same disaster facing college graduates today in less than 4 years.