Now, please don't give ideas to Samsung's engineering team...

I tried that just for fun, and ChatGPT offered me the Samsung fridge RF65DG9H0ESR with a large vertical screen as the 2nd suggestion... Scary.

Ah come on, if your toaster was internet-enabled, we could sell you a subscription for a timer...

Well, there is IOT in idIOT...

Fret not, citizen, we have the perfect solution for you. We can retrofit a vintage CRT monitor on your KitchenAid and put ads on it! Then you too can benefit of progress and innovation. Also AI.

Call me old-fashioned, but by not browsing through the 2000 page datasheet while looking for the information you need, you also miss the opportunity of learning other information on the way, which will eventually clarify "why is the datasheet confusing on this or that point"...

Usually after reading and understanding, the datasheet becomes not so confusing anymore - and you gain insight on the microprocessor for which you are writing assembly code, leading you to making better, more efficient code.

If AI does this search job for you, your brain is not exercising, and at some point you'll have lost the ability to browse through large documents, gaining tidbits of information on the way, and progressively getting a better understanding of the bigger picture - which is actually a useful skill to have.

While it's comfortable and seemingly productive to use AI on the short term, I don't think it brings long-term benefits to us as professionals. If anything, it tends to dull our ability to analyze and understand things on our own.

Of course, do we still need to analyze and understand things on our own in 2025? An open question...

Not a farmer myself, but live in the country and am in close contact with some of them - they sell on the local market, we discuss...

You use satellite-based information to decide when to sow your crops, when to irrigate (if necessary), and when to harvest. When exteme weather events are likely, you go check your fields more regularly. You need finer-grained information than just the national weather for this, you want to know your local circumstances. And yes, with this information, you can improve yields, limit risk of harvest loss, and ultimately keep food prices at a reasonable level.

Why would the US want to get rid of valuable information for their farmers is beyond me - in the rest of the world, we are not dependent on your stuff, so well, have it your way...

And how does that make you feel?

Well, what if you scale it up? Harness a large number of peacocks, and aim them somehow at a target? You could build the first environment-friendly laser CIWS, also mostly maintenance-free. Imagine a ballistic missile worth hundred of millions of dollars shot by [insert rogue dictatorship here], downed by a cluster of peacocks. The face that [insert rogue dictatorship leader here] would make upon hearing the news. The heads of the generals rolling. Why didn't my missile destroy [insert valuable objective here]? What do you mean, *peacocks*? Is that some kind of joke, Herr General? You know we don't like joking much around here, hmm? And as an added bonus, in times of peace, you can eat your laser defense.

It's peacocks all the way down!

Orc-walking startup Waaagh files for bankruptcy.

Tariff one country into oblivion, observe industrialists move production to the next cheapest country, lather, rinse, repeat.

We don't need to try listening to the distorted sound of the early universe to suggest we are living in a giant void, turning on the TV does the trick.

Another one bites the dust!

(woof)

Golden!