If it's brandname Jell-O, then the brand might know how much they're delivering to each store...

Huh. We don't either in Germany, but I assumed, it was largely because the whole place is inhabitated. Is there not some desert or Alaska or something in the US, where no one minds?

Oh man, if not someone else would've also mentioned Spongebob, I would've been really on the fence whether you're just making a elaborate joke or not...

I mean, without knowing the details what your scrum master does, that feels more like a 'product owner' role to me.

But to be fair, I'm also not sure, what the 'scrum master' role is actually supposed to do. Some say, scrum masters really need to be deeply involved in the whole project to be able to question/assist the way of working.
And then there's the reality at my company, which is that scrum masters often have 10+ projects, where they just hop between meetings to host them, while hardly being able to contribute anything...

I imagine, this is more about software devs than sysadmins. Sure, you'll hire a couple more sysadmins to help with the massive user growth during the pandemic. But especially combined with loans basically being made free in the same time, it's suddenly worth hiring a bunch of devs to build the Next Big Thing™.

Once those loans start costing again and the user numbers fall off, you quickly have lots of devs that you can't find tasks for, that are worth doing.

A flork of cows? I hear, you have to license their works...

Also worth mentioning that universities generally see themselves as research facilities first and foremost. They teach students, because they want to get the next generation of researchers.

Sure, they'll also do job training to some degree, because it's a good argument to get more funding, but yeah, just not their primary goal.

I feel like direct marketing will become a lot more important.

AI-generated books flooding Amazon is already a thing. And even if AI at some point becomes capable of writing good books, I don't see there being much of an incentive to stop flooding online stores with shitty AI-generated books. Because customers will have a hard time knowing what's good and what's not upfront.

At the same time, though, customers won't be happy about this as a whole. Online book stores that don't curate will stop being useful. Those customers will look for online stores which curate, or for authors on social media.
If you post e.g. on Mastodon, talking about your writing process and all that, people looking for a non-shitty book will take a look.

What you consider successful is an entirely different question, though. Even before LLMs, it was virtually impossible to earn a living wage with writing...

I feel like that's exactly why we don't have a generally-accepted definition of consciousness. Western ethics assigns special protection to whatever is conscious, so it is convenient to come up with a definition of consciousness, which excludes groups you want to exploit.

Well, Bethesda isn't actually involved in that, so it'll be of much higher quality either way...

Das Krebsrisiko, was von HPV ausgeht, wird um so viel gesenkt. Nicht das allgemeine Krebsrisiko.

Falls jemand bisher nur den Titel gelesen hat...

I thought, this couldn't be true, because surely, one of those cameras doesn't cost more than like $200. There's no official price list, but I'm finding numbers online of $2500 per year. This includes maintenance, footage hosting and cell service, which is likely the bulk of the cost. Either way, jeebus, that's a lot of money.