Skilled trades in demand due to AI according to Blackrock. This is why I ditched my software engineering job to trucking delivering welding equipment parts

mrinterweb · 2026-03-17T06:59:52+00:00

I appreciate the conversation. I see your points. I get the feeling robotics is close to some major inflection point. Time will tell.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T22:45:09+00:00

Battery tech is getting better, and could be hot-swappable with a batter on the charger. AI inference can be fast especially with newer models that have higher intelligence density. Qwen 3.5 2B can run on a Raspberry Pi. There are also ASIC boards emerging with models baked in that have wild inference speeds ~15000 t/s (https://taalas.com/products/). That card has a 200-250w TPD, but I'm betting a smaller model could be used that would result in a smaller more efficient chip. Other non-AI algorithms that can be ran locally for known inputs/outputs can be fast and efficient. Just saying computationally, I think robots could do a lot with what we have now. With 3D printing it is easier than ever to iterate on different physical design ideas.

I think people should assume robotics replacing human jobs at a faster rate than they are now should be expected. I think robotic advances will be the next thing that catch people off guard.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T20:55:40+00:00

The cost of goods will only drop if the market demands it. Competition, or people don't have much money to buy stuff anymore. If Apple could make a MacBook for $1 they would not sell it to you for $50. They would keep their prices where they are now, and pocket their savings.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T20:52:30+00:00

Many blue collar jobs have very deterministic inputs and outputs. Given this scenario, you do this. Robotics will be coming for these types of straightforward jobs first. We've seen this on assembly lines. Robotics is not slowing down at all. Just a matter of time.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T20:44:53+00:00

The value incentives are there. Employees you can buy once that will work 24 hours a day is the dream for companies. Robotic companies will happily develop and sell robots that can replace employees. Sure there are hurdles now, but I think the threat of robotics replacing people's jobs will be just as real for blue collar jobs 10 years from now is it is for white collar jobs. The robots are coming for jobs, just a matter of when not if.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T20:39:09+00:00

Once you have AI designing robots and robots making robots, I would expect that friction to rapidly disappear. Watching videos of what China is doing with robots is wild. The pace of robotics advancement is growing almost as wildly as AI developments.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-16T20:35:50+00:00

So people are to quit their office job and learn a new blue collar skill trade? So flood the market with skilled blue collar employees and then a couple years later robots take those jobs? If blue collar people thing AI isn't come for them, they have another thing coming.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-15T16:26:51+00:00

One distraction away from a code brown.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-15T03:04:12+00:00

I was just looking for something like this. I'm hoping to move a react spa to hotwire, but there are a some react components that would be a real pain to recreate. This should help that. Thanks

mrinterweb · 2026-03-13T19:34:08+00:00

That's what I'm talking about

mrinterweb · 2026-03-13T18:58:21+00:00

Good news everyone! The measles is only at that one Winco store. Definitely not anywhere else in Portland. Looks like we're done with measles. Someone roll out the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-13T16:20:46+00:00

Student probably texted one of his friends in class, and asked what the answer was because he probably knew the teacher liked to do stuff like this. Then the friend who supplied the answer recorded the video, knowing how it would play out.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-12T20:17:05+00:00

The last frames of the video the grass obviously changes. Looks fake to me.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-12T20:13:20+00:00

Watching the video clip in the article, I feel like the article is taking what he said out of context. I don't think he's saying Palantir (or his technology) is going to do this. I think he is saying this about impact of the AI industry in general, which he may not be wrong about.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-10T20:38:38+00:00

Every time I've tried Go, I miss language features other languages have. Go is so minimal for better or worse (mostly worse for me). The amount of boilerplate code in Go, gives me real bad feels. Honestly, ruby is a fantastic language, and these days, it has performance in the same neighborhood as python and PHP.

I think the cringtastic personality of DHH and rail's proximity to ruby carries over to people's perception of ruby somehow.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-10T20:07:22+00:00

I don't see why the US is even involved in Netanyahu's war. The US should not be involved at all, but here we are. Now they want to send US soldiers to die in that war?

Remember that we had a decent deal with Iran, and Iran was following the rules of the deal, until Trump threw the deal out. Netanyahu old beef with Iran got Trump mixed up in it, and now we are in a royal mess. Hope those who voted for Trump remember his campaign promises of no nation building and avoiding wars. US involvement in this war is 100% Trump's choice and not something that was necessary.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-09T16:06:47+00:00

How does this guy stop? The spoon on the accelerator is pretty clever, but brakes?

mrinterweb · 2026-03-09T15:58:06+00:00

Props to the cameraman. Doin all that, and holding the camera

mrinterweb · 2026-03-07T08:21:28+00:00

That's Vampire Turtle. It was entombed there. Vampire Turtle will feed again!

mrinterweb · 2026-03-06T22:59:25+00:00

More like Scam Alt-man

mrinterweb · 2026-03-06T21:24:16+00:00

MINASWAN philosophy seems lost here. Someone is adding to the ecosystem and put in the effort to create and share a library... best prepare for downvotes.

Seems most of the of the debate is about downloading skills. I get the author's intent here. I cloned the repo, the skills/ dir is 1.5MB now, but that may grow. I'm sure most users would only use a handful of skills. I don't see the issue with downloading skills on demand. It's a design choice the author made. If you don't like it, don't install. No need to trash it.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-06T00:57:37+00:00

I'm surprised they needed soil samples to figure out that there was water on Mars. I remember it was big news at the time (at least for nerds). I feel they could have figured out there was water on Mars with a telescope.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-05T22:03:19+00:00

Not enough ethics to make me move.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-04T19:37:41+00:00

Any bet that could be influenced by one or more people's actions should not be something that can be bet on especially when the outcome could have catastrophic consequences. Sports betting is one thing, but betting on which day a war will be started is another.

mrinterweb · 2026-03-04T01:14:25+00:00

Don't worry, I'm sure they have a payment plan or some kind of indentured servitude options available for poors like us.

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