The cops are lazy, not stupid.

Double-checking stuff is work, and there will be no repercussions for the individual cops, so why should they care?

Just call the towing company and go back to the donut shop.

Ha ha.

I wonder what their employer thinks about that.

AI is very good at writing COBOL.

"Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice." -- Sarah Connor

They're the most obvious and visible ones, but plenty of others are queued up to take part in Trump's Fallinto Line Dance.

Actually, Hitler wanted Franco to take Gibraltar.

Franco refused because the British would retaliate by taking the Canary Islands.

What motivation could they have for intentionally making themselves look incompetent?

I think if you took all the software devs on the planet and gave them unlimited budget and time you might just possibly be able to get near that goal, although you might have to outsource bits of the task to other planets. We've been using AI to audit our code, which is well-written, commented, and documented (the boss is a stickler for that), and it's taking us as much as several weeks per item to remediate it if it's a deep-seated design issue that's been in there for 20-30 years. That's for good-quality code. Now imagine what it's going to take for Cisco-quality code. And as others have pointed out, a lot of the code in there will be to deal with hardware bugs and quirks, or bugs and quirks with other devices and systems, documented only in the memory of ol' Bill who retired 18 years ago and is now in a care home and dribbles a lot.

The idea of doing all of this in a few weeks is beyond delusional.

It sounds like someone at Cisco took whatever drugs Andy Yen is currently tripping on. This rewrite will have one of two outcomes, it'll either have to be bug-for-bug compatible with all of Cisco's existing products in order to no lose the decades of knowledge and existing configs that people have built up working with their stuff, or if it's a full rewrite with new capabilities and features and bugs, so essentially a new product, then why on earth would anyone go back to Cisco and not get something better and cheaper from anyone but Cisco?

Giving people money to spend is a Demand Side Stimulus .

A demand-side stimulus makes sense when:
1. Unemployment is high
2. Inflation is low
3. The trade balance is in surplus

None of these conditions are currently true.

A demand-side stimulus in today's economy would fuel inflation and would mostly be spent on imports.

Can you define what you mean by "hoarding"?

Rich people have most of their money in equity. That's investing, not "hoarding".

That's only true until supply catches up with demand.

Plenty of new fabs are being built.

I predict that 3 years from now, the current DRAM shortage will turn into a glut.

Disclaimer: My predictions are usually wrong.

I used to contribute regularly to Wikipedia and spent many hours editing articles each week.

The deletionists ended that.

Too much of my work was being deleted for stupid, arbitrary reasons.

If someone is willing to spend hours writing an article about Trudaeu's son, then it's reasonable to assume others are interested in reading it. Even if no one reads it, it does no harm by existing.

The deletions need to stop.

It was "AI in Open-Source Cryptography: Maintainers Compare Notes", from the programme here. They usually put the videos online within a few weeks, currently only the 2025 ones are up. For the exact wording (mine might not be 100% word-for-word correct), wait for the video to be posted. It was a really interesting panel covering, well, what the title says.

Great quote from the OpenSSL conference a week or two back, "if left to their own devices AIs will recreate sendmail". Followed by various examples of them doing it.

Efficiency of an electrical inverter: 90%

Efficiency of a gasoline generator: 20%

A gasoline generator might work as an emergency backup, but would not be economical for daily load leveling.

TFS says the inverter's extra hardware costs $650.

A 10kw gasoline generator would cost at least as much.