Mechanical timepieces are a luxury item, and these students are essentially artists in training. Wrist time was solved in the late 1970's with the commoditization of quartz movements. These 'jobs' will get replaced by AI at approximately the same pace as your local sculptor.
Explain how this works when their phones only capture roughly 20% market share, and their computers only 10%. That is to say nothing of the demand for server memory.
It seems like they only represent a fraction of the demand side, but wield an outsized influence over supply?
I was interested to see that Qwen3.5-122B-A10B narrowly beat Qwen3.6-27B on Donato Capitella's SWEBench-verified-mini run with a similar 128GB UMA architecture.
Having an a collective economy governed by the “free market” is like having a pile of stones governed by gravity. There exists a primary directive force, but if you want to construct a cathedral or a bomb shelter, you need to impose some constraints, lest you revert to the angle of repose.
I highly recommend the recently published The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money by Brendan Greeley. It's an accessible look at how individuals, governments, markets, and value all intertwine to create a stable and widely used currency.
While I love the curiosity and creativity that has recently emerged around digital pen plotting, many people may not realize this was the workhorse technology for producing technical drawings for several decades in the late 20th century.[0]
Large format pen plotters with up to 8 separate pens were available for different line weights. Color was mostly avoided because the reproduction process of the time was still centered around diazotype[1], or monochromatic ammonium blue printing.
lol, my org recently silently implemented automatic archiving for SharePoint files with mtimes older than 5 years. Woke up to 20,000 files in cold storage and the only user facing remedy is to manually restore each file one at a time.
After speaking with IT for several days, they begrudgingly exempted my site after ‘leadership approval’ but were confounded as to “why anyone would need files older than 5 years”
Forget the AI boom, there still orgs struggling with storage, databases, and email.
I personally enjoy the Alpine Linux diskless pattern for live images, with the ability to commit state changes back to the image via the Local Backup Utility, or LBU [0]