Im not an advanced writer but I imagine you would have AI build your code in pieces that you put together.
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With the new “silk road” in place many Chinese travel to Italy to work in factories there, it helps them to have a tag which says “made in Italy”…
I would imagine that India may step up to the plate to take over from China the role of “cheap labor” or “slave labor”…
I imagine the new Brics money system is going to knock the USA out of the game, but I also imagine war is not too far off in the future… on a larger scale.
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8 Ways to Find Out If You Are Talking to a Human or an AI - Make Tech Easierai /
This helps in finding out if it is human or AI you are dealing with.
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I am actually a bit surprised the EU didn’t jump in with additional tariffs. -Supposedly- they are against China and Russia but they always drag their feet at best if they ever decide to do anything.
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Yeah, must be how many peasants there are outside with tar, and pitch forks… 
I dont think they could organize if everything is being monitored.
I don’t think it is being monitored quite as closely as they say but I could be wrong.
If you want a fun project… I just ran into this. 91 cents for a microcontroller the size of a grain of rice. (1.6mm x .86mm). It is 90 cents. It is arm cortex m0+ which I think is the same arch version as the raspberry pi -pico- although slower clock, and fewer pins. 24mhz and only 16k of ram, so you might have to write some assembly.
Someone has a channel where they make the board, and then they have a video on how to program it.
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Fellows.
Focus on what is really important in your Lives for you and yours. Shrug off all other, as time-wasting distractions, or suck you in addictions.
The old pickup I use to collect and store household garbage will no longer back up as the left wheel brake drags too badly.
I happened to look down at the scrap cardboard kneeling pad and saw that the Wife’s last favored Shark vacuum cleaner was made in Vietnam. And this before the tariffs snit-fits.
Us paying attention out here far US west coast know our future for our children has been, will be Pacific Rim trading. The WHOLE of the Pacific Rim countries and their each unique resources. Mainland China is just one piece of the puzzle.
The more important point I am picturing is the years accumulated dirty hands-on experiences; and TOOLS, to KNOW that I could get the years now-road-salts corroded stuck on steel wheel and cast iron brake drum off. Reusable. Undamaged.
No amount of AI “assistances”, of hundreds of hours of programmer/assembly times fritzing could of helped with this.
I deal with family, “neighbors” and Grange associates that think they can just hire out the practical needful things. Focusing their intellects on 1’s and 0’s and Information manipulations. Being part of the to-entertain; be-entertained cluster.
Nope. Sure I once was hirable to earn the money to pay the taxes. I retired. I’ll now just walk away, grumbling about damn fools and their useless pixilations.
BTW I do know couple of you could do this replacement brake shoe return spring job too.
Steve Unruh
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I just did my brakes about 3 months ago, back wheel was squeeling, found out it was because I drove thru water was root cause.
Those pixels come in handy running my solar charge controllers which powers my home, and heats my hot water, and runs my aquaponics system which provides me food.
Each time you fill up with gas at a gas station you are using microcontrollers which move the fuel, without them, we are back in the 1800’s…
The right tool for the right job, I don’t like EV’s, but I take the batteries from them and use them to power my home. I am all about backups, thus I looked into wood gas, and now solar cookers, and solar power.
Tech geeks have their place, but so do rednecks, we all need each other for the road ahead.
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I don’t think that Mr Steve was talking about going full ludite, otherwise he wouldn’t be using inverter generators. The point is that when the overseas or domestic produced tech has even one component breakdown there is no work-a-round and you suddenly own a new boat anchor. Non-chipped equipment can always be made to run by people with mechanical aptitude. Otherwise Cubans wouldn’t be driving 1958 Buick’s. Most people are not looking for non-tech backups. Others of us are on forums like this.
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A larger issue is people can’t repair the broken parts because they simply don’t know how. Electronic repair went ouf of fashion because it took too long to isolate the problem and the replacement cost was less then the time for the repair would be.
I can’t even tell you how many pieces of electronics I have fixed simply by replacing capacitors.
I have also picked up several vacuums and the filters were simply plugged. (you get about jack for a vacuum for scrap, it is about waste reduction and maybe the 120v switch which is like 2 dollars, but no shipping time.)
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Yes somewhat that alright TomH.
More-so though is that any skill learned to a can-use, can-help level will have an investment in time and effort. Some learning from mistakes.
Make for damn sure that investment learned is actually of a true-use benefit to you and yours.
Metals welding and fabrication.
Machine and machinery repairs.
Fabric sewing.
Actual for-home foods growing.
Digitizing dependencies your basics in Life is a sure way to failures whenever Needs-Must comes knocking at the door.
We area lost Grid power here at 8:55 AM yesterday. A high school youth rushing to school wiped out one of the main supply three-phase power poles.
Six hours later after pole replacement and Grid restoring; one of my good neighbor gals came up and ask me to look at her well pump system, 'cause now no water to the house.
Her very capable husband is pretty much power chair bound with emphysema and COPE. He is also just recovering from jaw cancer.
Yep. Pressure switch manual kicked: noise. Then it kicks out. The gauge shows 45 pounds in the system. Bottom of tank drain checked - no pressure, and just a dribble of water. The pressure tank is empty.
O.K., hmm. Popped the plastic cover on the pressure switch to check for burnt contact points; broken springs . . . . gee, fuzzy furry thing jamming it up. A little fried shrew.
Removed. Blew clean. Worked then. Pressure gauge 45-60 pound indicated. Water to the house.
It has a bad pressure gauge, stuck at low end range. Needs replaced. Should replace the pressure switch now too.
An adult son living away, working will get these and visit replace them. Verify system full range working.
Ain’t nothing digital to a simple system like this. And there is no need to digitize. A decades evolved, proven see-do or see-do-not system.
Any coming into my life fast fingers digitizing unnecessary I vacillate between hammer smashing fingers to just looping those finger off one by one. I learned well in the mid-70’s that the electronic device must serve me. Reliably. With a good life-cycle return on investment. Not me serve it. Not me getting sucked into geek racing.
Oh hell. Not to worry. I’ll be dead and gone soon.
You all digitizers embracers by choice will find as the users of All Power Labs systems; that there is no redundancy go-back-simple. And those left in the dark without power, lights and water will be lighting their nights with human sacrifice bonfires. Not lawyers and priests - but tech-geeks branded as the modern day witches.
Of course I use digital
One of the five of these now 10+ years in use.
The others . . . . ? Still proving.
S.U.
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Looks interesting… I searched for boards with this on, but I did not see any, but smaller normally means cheaper…
I love my ESP 32 boards, as they do just what I need for logging data.
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I asked about soldering those to a board. You have to use a hotplate, hot air gun, toaster oven, or professionally, they use ultrasonic.
The ESP32 boards have extra commands in the bluetooth chip for being able to hack into them that there is no way to disable. I have them because they were the cheapest with wifi and I had them before I heard about the hack. Im switching to ARM even if I have to spend the extra 4 dollars a board for a pico w.
I don’t know if these chips will make it to a break out board or not. They only have 6 output pins and small ram and storage. The tinker market is probably wearables as the small footprint let’s you put it in like jewelry and stuff. There are some projects I do that I only need a couple of pins and speed isn’t a necessity, but the stm32 ‘blue pill’ boards and the pico’s aren’t more then a couple of dollars. I still want to play with it just for kicks. 
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Today we encounter a series of names that we actually don’t know much about, but they inspire fear in us and we treat them as something “omnipotent”. Let me list some: smartphone, smart car, artificial intelligence,… How it all works is really incredible for an ordinary person.
When I started my career in the company where I work, that was 30 years ago, the technology for operating systems was based on “analog” technology, the company was relatively small and the maintenance systems were also relatively few, but we tried every day to maintain production conditions. Then the company expanded and we renovated old systems, I participated in the design of new systems and also in the design of control programs, programmable controllers allowed much more than old control circuits. … after 30 years of continuous improvements, we are still adding new products,… I am talking about energy HVAC systems for pharmaceutical production, well, now more than 2000 systems operate completely independently 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, control and supervision is possible remotely…
“artificial intelligence” is also a kind of program that searches online data, contains a translator, mathematical functions, various algorithms,… but it is just a machine that operates according to program functions set by a person. I have tested its capabilities several times when I encountered a certain professional question, but I have never received the right answer or calculation,…
I am not a robot, I am made of flesh and blood, the Creator gave me life and soul, I am not afraid of machines made by man, who is limited in God’s creation, because God’s work is perfect, he thought of everything when creating.
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Very well said!
Thanks, Tone.
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I would say that is any new technology and some of it there is a right to be scared, some of it is people don’t want to change and make stuff up.
As far as AI, it is mostly large data sets at this point. It mostly works on probability. So there is a thresh hold like 80% it has to meet, so there are 20% wrong answers and probably even more partially wrong answers. If you need the answer it gives out keywords that you can search for to double check everything and sometimes it comes back with ideas or concepts you hadn’t thought of.
Some of the AI that is scary to me is video editing, because you can’t always tell it is fake, but fake photos, videos and stories have been going on since long before the computer was invented. computers have come a long way though.
I personally think the invasion of privacy with all the data gathered and all the camera’s aimed everywhere is pretty scary and annoying. I can’t imagine growing up today and knowing the stuff that I was exposed to end up being on camera for someone to pull out 20 years later…
The most fun AI to me is the song writing. You give it an idea of what to write a song about and a style of music. It comes back with song. Don’t expect them to be #1 hits.
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