i'll get me coat
― we're up all night to eat biscuits (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
It would have to be a very powerful computer
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
hahaha i met a bright-eyed young engineer at work who told me he'd come up with a logarithm that "does what you guys do"
― screen scraper (m coleman), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 09:39 (ten years ago) link
There are a few recurrent aspects of my job that could totally be done by a script or handful of scripts and it is immensely frustrating to me that they are not. Like, that's what computers are for, surely, to do tedious repetitive tasks. It's 2013. What the fuck.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 09:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-for-the-luddites.html
― iatee, Friday, 14 June 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
i met a project management guru the other week who is flatly, calmly convinced that robots will replace at least 50% of the jobs people currently have and that it would have happened sooner except no one knows how to replace the lost demand
maybe we can find aliens to buy our products and let the preponderance of humanity starve
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 December 2014 02:39 (nine years ago) link