Executives are still excited about AI replacing workers left, right and centre.

And Springer too of course. They'll turn a blind eye any chance they get.

I've not inquired as to how it happened but India, unlike China, does in fact tow the rules that were set down by others. And has done so for a couple of decades now. It was something to do with manufacturing of generic drugs. They gave them up for I don't know what in return.

Replacing Z80 with ARM would make it valid today. Basic still does the job.

It more than moves costs around, it adds a shit ton extra costs that no one will be interested in. And then it also throws out a shit ton of uncontrolled radio active waste that no one wants to deal with.

It was clever enough to produce the graphical representation itself. ;)

The Atari 2600 manages with maybe a 0.1 MIPS single core, a few kBytes of RAM, not a lot more ROM, and one or two Watts of electricity.

... with the amount of bullshit and money, and electricity!, being thrown at "AI".

Radiators are made to order all the time. There is lots of small shops that make them. After all, it's a very common place of damage for low speed rear-endings.

And when adding in Coke/Pepsi/Redbull and co ... what's the percentage then?

I would concur with this. We're at the level of alchemists of old. The science has yet to be discovered.

No thought in it.

You're lucky if it stumbles onto a pre-existing template that matches reality.

Just like all the US companies that have rushed to get military contracts with the Pentagon also have a choice.

should be less greedy and give back a little - Provide some stats on query metrics.

And here I was thinking this was a discussion about total galactic mass and the gravitational behaviour of galaxies.