You filter out any such applicant with digital applications for digital postings requiring proficiency with digital tools.

Any such potential candidate passing these is then given an interview in which technical questions relevant to the question are asked.

I'm really not sure how you imagine a luddite makes it all the way to their first day to drop some weird "oh, I can't actually do this job btw" bomb.

Even supposing they do, they have a job description requiring that they perform certain tasks that are within the realm of reasonable expectations as set by the government.

Someone in a wheelchair isn't going to get hired for any "must be able to regularly lift and move weights over 50 pounds" job just because of equal employment opportunity as they can't perform the legally allowed requirements.

And what if someone decides to convert after starting the job?

-doctors refusing to abide by the World Professional Association of Transgender Health Standard of Care's Standards of Care for Hormone Replacement Therapy and Gender Confirming Surgeries

-employers refusing to employ queer people

-landlords refusing queer tenants

What did you settle on?

I like foot but don't mind waiting a few tens of ms in exchange for kitty's graphics.

I'm on Rio at the moment, pending a wezterm bugfix (but I might just stick to Rio). The launch is perceptually instant on all my machines, and it does support sixels and all that nonsense.

It's all subjective though. Asking most in a 'developed' country whether they'd trade their high rent for a dirt floor/house would result in an affirmative no. Same for health/insurance - "Would you trade your high premium for 'the nearest so called doctor is a days walk away'" is going to be a resounding no.

But then it's the same the other way around "Would you trade your dirt floors for linoleum if it meant you hard to do hard labor 40 hrs a week?" and "Would you trade your witch for the luxury of owing the doctor thousands of hours of labor?" would both also be resounding nos.

I know there is a growing contingent of those moving off of the grid and spurning modernity for log cabins built by hand, and the converse OLPC in dirt huts thing but for the most part everyone everywhere wants to have their cake and eat it too.

Hell, lawn mowers have been able to drive themselves for a few years. But then, we rarely see that because the machines are too costly for most individual families.

Same with the tractors. John down around the bend probably doesn't have a GPS driven tractor, but Deere sells 'em, so there must be customers.

I think autonomous mowers are more a tech problem. Just like the vacuum cleaners, they're only successful in the case of literally zero eventualities. Rake left out in the grass? Ope, guess you need a new mower blade. Dog poop or slick of jam on the floor? Congratulations, literal Picasso has been made for you. On the floor.

Ranting on, even dishwasher machines are like this. You have to stack and unstack, easily the most labor intensive part of the job, and you have to do it just right. Spatula jams the upper spray arm spindle? Sorry, best I can do is literally baked on residues that will NOT come off next cycle.

I'm not sure what point I was making but I'm sure this connects to shoddy LLM software in some way.

With things like tractors there is more financial leeway in providing fast image recognition to avoid problems.

With lawnmowers having a full agi nearly human level system is needed, but way too expensive/complicated for a device that does one thing every two weeks.

Mechanic, plumber, electrician, roofer, framer, handy-man, general contractor, flooring, painting, siding, lawn-care, landscaping, copy-writer, copy-proofer, web-dev, housemaid, fast food worker, aviation mechanic...

Maybe I don't recognize that it's weird how often I got to / had to do my parents jobs and tour my relatives jobs...

But lots of places have job shadow opportunities, high school made us do one decades ago...I'm sure a motivated kid could replicate the experience today calling around to local businesses with a "hey, I'm interested, not asking for pay, can I swing by and help out or watch for a few hours?"

None of those are same level as an engineer. Those are technician level vocations order of magnitude "simpler".

Most software engineers are not in the same level as real engineers either, let's be honest here.

And the comment that I responded to doesn't mention anything about engineers...just careers.

And the fact remains that one could shadow engineers were one interested in shadowing engineers just as any of the careers I mentioned.

Looks fine on mine as well.

Genuinely confused by more than one person confused about this. If you want to look inside, you are perfectly capable of doing so. It's just a tar...

>it depend s on a third party to keep the service running

Does Nostr address this? Even things like freenet, tor, i2p rely on third parties...just more third parties than the traditional web, with the idea being that more means more uptime and less individual power.

But if you spin up a nostr (or any of the above) relay after the others have shuttered, you'll have no data because there are no peers. Torrents are fairly durable because there's usually at least one peer, but when there isn't, there just isn't.

>A book doesn't disappear from your shelves just because the author lost interesting That's because the book is actually on your shelf. If you have local backups of websites, they don't disappear quite so easily. The web is just the library but on the web - you send a request to borrow, they let you if they have a copy, what you do with that copy is up to you and your legal system.

>You shouldn't need to write raw HTML to write a website wysiwyg editors are better than ever, no? Plenty of themes available to take the burden of CSS off. Plenty of engines to take the pressure of JS off. Even in-browser IDEs and the inspect window if you do want to play with the code.

> Does Nostr address this? Even things like freenet, tor, i2p rely on third parties...

Yes, as Nostr and Freenet disconnect the storage location from the document identifier. Thus your link keeps working, even if the servers change.

The problem with the Web isn't a lack of cheap storage or people willing to mirror content, it's that none of that matters when the links keep breaking anyway and nobody can find the content anymore.

For how to do it right, see Usenet, the messages are held together by unique message-ids and the protocol was designed for distribution. Thus archives could be put together from random backup tapes and even 45 years later, you can browse and read the discussion threads.

Your average web forum just disappears when something goes wrong and even if somebody has mirrored the HTML, they'd have a rather bad time trying to recreate the original database, since the HTML is really more like screenshots of a GUI than the actual content.

> The web is just the library but on the web

Many countries have a legal requirement that every book published has to be send to the national library. We also have ISBNs that uniquely identify books. We have nothing like that in place for websites.

> they don't disappear quite so easily.

A local copy doesn't preserve it on the Web. Even if you wanted to preserve it on the Web, you can't, since the original domain belongs to somebody else.