The Engineer had agency. The AI (or google search, or a stack of text books) does not.

Of course, if the mad bomber instead posed as a student and found some non-evil reason for wanting the exits to collapse first (even a thin one like directing the dust upwards), the engineer is less culpable or not culpable at all.

But we need to be very careful about imagining an AI has agency. There are many legal and philosophical implications behind that.

Sounds like they want privacy for me but not for thee.

But not why it is used in the computer context, whuch is wahy differnet than those snowflakes doing crafts.

Yup, Carriage Return and Line Feed. I wonder how many realize cut and paste comes from the old printing days when you cut text and pasted in in the layout, usually with rubber cement.

The real problem is "connected", not un-encrypted.

Back then most emulators were just an executable and a couple smaller files. Throw a full library of games on a ZIP disk, head to your friend's house to play games.

I suspect that may have something to do with what you want to do as an EE or ME. Power engineering isn't sexy like some areas but is hiring and few people want to work for the power company.

Or why cut and paste is called cut and paste. Then there is the difference between CF and LF...

I had one that plugged into a SCSI port IIRC, and later an internal one as well. I used them to backup my HD and store old project files, the 150 and 250. Worked great until the dreaded click of death. Still have the drives and disks, haven't tried to get it working and see what is on them. In theory the internal one should work with the right interface but I doubt there are drivers for my Mac, maybe a VM and Linux or Windows would work. Not a high priority as it's likely just random junk now.

But you weren't told when. This sounds like a way to get cheaper labor and less environmental rules; and I doubt they can ever scale anywhere Cole to China in terms of output or price. China could simply drop prices to make this an unattractive investment, leaving it just another promise to appease Trump without having to actually do anything substantive.

So the addresses are bigger, so what?

In most cases, all you care about is the prefix, which is just 64 bits, expressed as 4 groups of 4 hex digits. This is IT, is hex really beyond people's grasp?

Most of the admin is done one terminals that support cut and paste anyway.

What if I voted for a cat but the election went to a pit bull with a brain injury?

Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.

And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.

Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?

What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"

Some may be, but anecdotally, the ones I know don't hate AI and even use it. It's not going to replace them, by the time it is good enough to do so they'll be retired. They've got theirs, and if AI can make their job easier as they ride off Ito the sunset, then so be it.

I get your point, but I think there is a difference between the tool (pony express) and the system that uses it (delivery). You can change the tool but if people don’t know how the system works, you will have problems.