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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • A salary maximum (as per the article) of 79k USD per year seems low. This as the accident rate amongst longshoremen can be significantly higher than average. It’s often not reported on enough (at least in Europe) but significant injuries and deaths happen often enough. This partly because (obviously) a mistake has way more consequences on a terminal vs e.g. working in an office.



  • In Netherlands the fixed cost for city based heating is paid by the people who make use of it. That seems fair, but practically it means that it’ll be cheaper for people to arrange their own heating system and rely on electric heating. This because the fixed cost is high. However, if everyone switches to using electricity the city based heating would overall be much cheaper solution than relying on electricity. This as currently loads use a gas solution and there’s a huge cost involved to upgrade the electricity network.

    The city based heating variable price is connected to the gas price. So even if city based heating per kWh equivalent would be cheaper, people wouldn’t notice or get the advantage.

    As a result, city based heating is very unpopular. Planned projects to switch entire neighbourhoods have been cancelled. Again, logical because people were really upset to pay significantly more despite insulating their entire home.

    Seems that in Netherlands they’ll ignore the problem and have the country be less cost effective and upgrade the electricity network for significantly more money.

    The Dutch Financial Times did a few articles on above in the last 12 months or so.






  • oh you watch videos and it’s hard to concentrate after a while? Welcome to actual driving jobs

    Watching videos is comparable to e.g. ATC work. I don’t see driving as comparable. In one you’re actively doing something. In the others you’re only checking for stuff that might go wrong but usually goes ok.

    There’s a significant difference in ATC vs the training AI: in ATC work people are swapped out after a few hours and they have regular breaks. While here for that AI the company is pretending it can be done for an 8 hour shift.

    I have no doubt that we will likewise see the mental and physical effort of driving as well as the danger of it become as unconscionable as threshing or machine operator work is to us now.

    Meh, that’s been said for ages. Currently the reliability of automated driving is often crazily overestimated. Human driving is pretty reliable, especially on highways.

    Change for the better is good. But just because there’s a computer involved doesn’t mean it’s already better or that’ll be foolproof.