You will not replace us!!!

But with a little stretching of English grammar, we might replace us.

Nonononono. Build prosperity. Build progress. Build civilization. Build job... Uh, timeout on that one.

Please don't look too closely or ask what any of it means in practice, because we can't have you standing in the way of prosperity and progress.

Didn't Colossus demand that Dr Forbin be placed under video surveillance as well?

Actually, getting the CO2 out of the atmosphere is easy. Just grow stuff faster than you dump it in. The Keeling Curve slope goes negative every year due to uptake by vegitation.

Problem: To grow stuff, you need more than just the CO2. Plant growth will hit a limit when any one of the necessary nutrients is consumed Right now, we need to introduce more fixed nitrogen (NOx) into the cycle.

No thanks on the light-up Apple logo for me. I think it started with the Powerbook G3 (I had one, it was a great computer) and it was sort of obnoxious even then. I'm not paid to be a light-up billboard everywhere I go.

No thanks on the laptop touchscreen, either. I understand it on something like a Surface tablet -- almost -- but most of the time I used my Surface with a keyboard, like a regular laptop, and never touched the screen. I think ramming touchscreens down everybody's throats was just a gimmick Microsoft came up with, both to A.) convince everybody that Windows 8 worked equally well on laptops and tablets (it sure did); and B.) once again, everybody needed to go out and buy a new laptop, even though their current one worked and served their needs just fine.

My employer announced that AI costs will be billed back to departments. Token use (almost entirely among developers) was cut in half without affecting productivity, and perhaps even enhancing productivity because they had to think a bit about the best use of what they had instead of trying random things.

.. when making presentations to management:

• No more that three bullet points per slide.
• No more than three slides.
• Treat them like three-year-olds.

You just have to keep upping the dosage to get an effect.

echo "#include <stdio.h>" >> Hello.c

How many tons of CO2 were produced by AI answering your questions?

Only in the most utterly pedantic sense of the word "different" wherein you mean that by definition, infant mortality occurs early and wear occurs later. But they can both stem from the same root cause, which is a component not built with adequate tolerances. In other words, they can be the same fundamental issue, just expressing themselves at different times.

Most products don't have an MTBF. And things that do have MTBF are based on accelerated wear testing on a small number of units, and can have almost zero basis in reality. There was one model of major brand hard drive about twenty years back where a couple of RAIDs where I used to work got lost because the drives all died after such a predictable number of powered-on hours that by the time you could re-stripe the RAID, the next drive would die. They ended up making sure the drives had a high variance in powered-on hours before using them in RAIDs after that.

It's an example that proves or demonstrates a point. And the point it was proving was that the same root cause can be responsible for both catastrophic early product failures and premature deterioration-related failures.

Wait! What?

My phone boots just fine. And I have no network here (unless I want to stand in that "special spot" in my front yard to get a weak 5G bar).

Distortion was invented (discovered) by a touring blues bass guitarist who knocked an output tube loose. One half of a push-pull amp stage.

Didn't see an y support for this in the linked report.

A valid point. But it works to make the cost per officer higher. Reducing the number a given budget will support. The current emphasis is now on "more cops". I'm not certain this is the right way to go, given the population density of the USA (lower) compared to that of European countries. "A cop on every corner" when corners might be miles apart just won't cut it here. So John Q. Public will have to take responsibility for his own defense. Same holds true of "no go" neighborhoods in urban areas here. Smart cops is what we need. But part of "smart" includes technology. Like Flock.

Now, if he had any smarts, he'd let it be known that a "failure to deliver decrypted files" would be met by the same Mossad group that knocked on Gerald Bull's door. Forget about repairing file systems. This is a well demonstrated skill set.