I remember playing Unreal for 3 days solid while working an IT service desk in the late '90s. Compaq Deskpro in software mode later upgraded to a Matrox G200 which upended my world. Working Christmas and New Year was a bonus as far as I was concerned. Dodged the family drama and got in plenty of gaming. Also tidied the office...
You pass a law giving a class of inspector the right to enter premises where building works appear to be progressing. You strictly limit what they are permitted to observe and record and require recording of reasonable suspicion. Refusal to grant entry is itself an offence.
Approaches like this would work but are also a huge can of worms.
>You pass a law giving a class of inspector the right to enter premises
In most countries (and I'd expect to include Australia), there cannot be a blanket invasion of privacy - and it'd require a court order. The amount of paper would would be ridiculous, then what if I do that on my own, or I used a cousin to do it for me, for free?
The customer would be made to sign a contract allowing random state inspection.
> what if I do that on my own, or I used a cousin to do it for me, for free?
You and your cousin could decide to go and mud wrestle crocodiles, but we'd still ban opening an amusement park where that was offered to members of the public.
I often observe that PPE compliance in the U.K. is dramatically better than it is on the continent where I live. In part I think that’s a result of the concentration of the building contractor business and the (relatively) strong enforcement of workplace regulation at sites of large construction projects.
You’d be shocked in the U.K. if you saw someone scaffolding a building without a helmet. In the EU, you’re shocked if they are wearing one.
I live in the UK and used to be an electrician. What you say is for the most part true; on any commercial or industrial site or construction project, the building or site manager is going to come down hard on you if you're not using appropriate PPE. It's a liability and ass-covering thing: if you get injured (or indeed killed), even if it's entirely your fault and would have been avoided by using PPE, the manager is liable, and HSE will bury them. They know this, and they will expel you from the site if you don't comply.
That said, it's all a wash in residential. I've seen plenty of plumbers and heating engineers drilling walls without any eye or ear protection. I've seen plenty of heating engineers soldering copper pipes without a mask and in poor ventilation (e.g. tight cupboards). I've even seen other electricians installing meter tails into a live supply without any gloves, standing on conductive surfaces like surface drainage grates.
Which part of Europe? Ppe is very much mandatory with big fucking signs on every site displaying what is required where i am. And I mean every [legal] site*.
A site without a sign invites a lot of questions. When I had my building renovated, the builder tried to work without a sign....no chance!
By registering, and displaying the sign, it meant he had to follow the rules.
I never saw similar in the uk (for example on a house), but I also wasn't looking, despite labouring for several years there.
There are lots of ways to define “good enough” as well. What are the costs of inferring several small experts contributing to a decomposed workflow versus using GPT4 for example. If you want to run multiple instances for different teams or departments, how do the costs escalate. Do you want to include patient data and have concerns about using a closed source model to do so. Etc.
There’s little doubt that GPT4 is going to be most capable at most tasks either OotB or with prompt engineering as here. But that doesn’t mean it’s the right approach to use now.
These are by far the hardest kinds of fraud for banks to deal with right now. They’re so convincing that even when the bank detects them, the customer still demands the transactions go ahead because they’re so bought into the fraudsters. We need this kind of authentication to become normal for everyone for any transaction.
The answer might be in the article already. The proportion of manufacturing that is in industries like construction has increased versus heavy industry, semiconductors, auto-manufacturing etc. The reasons for a decline in productivity in those industries seems pretty clear. If you have to build anything in NYC or any big city, your people are going to spend a lot of time standing around waiting for things to happen. When you can't put a hole in the ground without significant paperwork, is it any surprise that it's hard to drive productivity increases?
The obvious contrast is Tesla. The level of productivity with which model 3s are built now is clearly a vast improvement over where it was and the improvements (single casting for e.g.) keep coming. As long as US / UK and EU manufacturing continues to substitute making things in factories for making them in the street, and heavy industry for light industry, it's hardly a surprise that productivity overall is going nowhere.
Multibillion dollar organisation with an essentially unlimited scope for bureaucratic work versus kid trying to move house at the weekend.
The “why did he do this to himself?” meme seems appropriate.
Also, yes. I’ve gotten better over the years at taking a breath and just doing it but it still sets me off. Employers exploit this in people by adding hurdles in expense systems. It’s an oft forgotten corporate dark pattern.
