It's no fun when the hackers steal your data, is it Microsoft Executives.

Only if it's a deepfake of another chip.

It might call someone by the wrong pronoun.

Was it The Avengers 8? Spiderman 6? Or that they just inked a deal to film Sound of Music 2 and 3 simultaneously and they'll be released a year apart?

Autotune, songs written by committee, image over talent, artist input ignored in lieu of label input, etc etc etc.

I fail to see how AI is going to make much of a difference.

At least he's an engineer, and 30 years ago when I knew him he was a hella nice guy.

Well, didn't really know him. He was in a weekly meeting I attended while I was at Qualcomm. He was just an engineer then and seemed like a good guy.

Jerking off is low skill, repetitive, and (for me) requires heavy lifting. I don't think I'd trust a robot to do it for me.

In other words, "if you don't give us that sweet sweet corporate welfare we may never open this factory".

My understanding is there was a discussion as to whether the plug should be opened or removed. If it was just opened it didn't need additional QA, if it was removed it did. To save time/money someone who should be held responsible decided the plug was opened, not removed.

That in a nutshell is why Boeing sucks today, and why it's going to take decades to get their reputation back.

Hell, everyone knows I wear Pokemon undies. I've shown it to all of them.

My guess is automatic monitoring, Have the water pump report flow rate, water temp, and whatever else they want to see. Easiest way to do that is to put it on a network.

After all, a water pump for a nuclear power plant is nothing like the water pump in your car.

This is an issue with the standards and inspection. If the spec says "the pipe shall last no less than 10 years", the 10 year pipe is installed leak free, the inspector certifies it was installed leak free and should last 10 years; then the problem is with the standards. Not the Chinese. Not the builder. Maybe the buyers, assuming the builder pointed out "the pipes in the wall, ya know, the ones that carry your upstairs neighbor's shit past your floor? They should last a good 10 years" and the buyer was ok with that.

I want some online privacy safeguards too!

A long effin time. Even a fast machine with a high end graphics card will take centuries to crack a good password. My TV has the cheapest CPU they could find and there's no high end graphics card.

I'm retired now but I lived through several layoffs and got caught in a couple. The big thing that doesn't show up on a spreadsheet is morale. When your team is thinking of the project and is invested in it's success good things happen. Fire a couple of team members, who's work is good, and everybody else on the team quits putting in the extra effort, longer lunches are taken with people talking about layoffs, and essentially the whole gestalt of the workplace changes.

My first layoff experience was in the 80s (I survived that one). My company was applying microprocessors to military test equipment, literally replacing walls of equipment with a box the size of 2 briefcases. This was during Reagan's buildup so money was flowing. One quarter we were only going to make 30% profit, instead of the 33% Wall Street wanted. So management laid off a bunch of folks. Instantly company culture changed. Nobody trusted management. People formed cliques to protect themselves. 6 years later the company got bought out by a large defense company. I'm sure management made out like bandits, but the working stiff got screwed.

25 years later same thing happened at Qualcomm. I was a consultant then, but when QC did their first layoff in the late 90s the effects were drastic. Trust in management evaporated. Going the extra mile was no longer a thing. Granted, the stock price did good, that's when it did it's 20 to 1 rise in the late 90s. Most employees had stock options so that alleviated the hit somewhat, but the company was never the same.