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> ... Apple renting its AI from Alphabet (Gemini with Siri) might be a long term risk...

Similar to Apple (and everybody else) using Google maps. They survived.

That is not the take-away. LLMs are finding potential bugs in code. People are using LLMs to create potential fixes which people then test, confirm and implement.

> You have to think the current administration is completely and totally owned by foreign interests at this point.

... completely and totally owned by private interests, some of which are foreign.

More like 700 years.

> ...(‘Super intelligence’ is the term that President Donald Trump has ordered government employees to use in documents and statements in the place of ‘artificial intelligence’.)

The intelligence formerly known as...

> (I’ve experimented with em-dashes—brefly—but it doesn’t look good to my eye in English.)

I saw what you did there.

Repeatability is more important than accuracy.

Note also that some of the best printers used metronomes to count exposure time and turn the enlarger light on and off manually.

The fit is (almost) trivial.

That's confusing copyright with patents. The right to publish Newton's books is separate from being able to apply the knowledge which a patent protects. Note that math equations cannot be patented.

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

Make like a tree and leaf?

> I liked the film noir voice-over.

I remember the voice over the first time I saw the movie, possibly in a cinema. I liked it, and was surprised with the general level of dislike it has received. The film was meant to be a mid-20th-century film-noir detective drama.

> Windows Vista came out and everyone hated it.

People had difficultly opening the plastic case it came in. I did. Ms added a red pull tab to indicate an affordance, then later changed the case to a simple clam shell for Windows 7.

You're off a generation. The boomer's kids have kids.