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Jan 12, 2020 at 21:29
One interesting consequence of home automation devices is it enables presence when you're not at home. You can switch on lights or even talk through a smart doorbell. Will this change expectations of visitors?

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Sep 6, 2020 at 23:23
I'm impressed with the amount of automation on the typescript type declaration repository. In my first PR, there's a welcome message, pings to the maintainers, some static analysis, and even an automatic performance test!
Add type declaration for Parser.assert in parsimmon 1.13 by Wilfred · Pull Request #47293 · DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
Add type declaration for Parser.assert in parsimmon 1.13 by Wilfred · Pull Request #47293 · DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
This was added in parsimmon 1.13: https://github.com/jneen/parsimmon/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#1130-2019-07-25c
Jan 5, 2020 at 13:15
Automation does not seem to have much of an impact: people are rarely forced to change industry, companies are not investing heavily in AI, and productivity growth is slow: https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/
Mar 17, 2019 at 17:09
At what point do we start talking about a minimum expected level automation in industries? To what extent are there industries that still lack basic automation?