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  So he read that Frank Herbert quote about "permitted other men with machines to enslave them" and thought it was a great idea

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  A guy I know complained they kept talking English to him, although he was native. I told him to ditch the raincoat and shave the stubble. I mean, the guy dressed like a stereotype.

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  If you scrape every piece of dung with near perfect efficiency, it would work for cars. You have to disregard the much larger amount of scooters.

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  Rapid advancement in walking and balancing, but not always advancement in useful things. There's a golf cart following the bot with a guy using a remote control to drive the bot. So these robots are just like remote control cars. One even ran into the side railing. These kinds of demonstrations are fun, but that doesn't mean they can function autonomously in construction sites, factories or households.

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  Tales from the field: One developer walked into the client site, laptop bag under his arm. The moment he walked in, some hardware went down. They all turned to look at our developer shouting "WHAT DID YOU DO!!" The common rule at all clients seems to be to blame everything on the external developer, even when they're still standing in the door opening. One techie at a different client had to install some new empty rack in the server room. He didn't found any outlet for his dr...

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  The "say no later" button is missing

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  That was a discussion point some time ago. People complained batteries from ev were not being recycled. Meanwhile the numbers showed there were not enough batteries to recycle because everybody was using them for grid storage and they last a long time. Only batteries from cars that crashed too hard are not reused.

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  That’s going to be used by teens for finding new ways to sit and show off their balancing skills until it inevitably breaks, gets vandalised because it’s already broken until it ends up surrounded by dumped household waste and rats. The budget for cleaning up is used up for making that monstrosity in the first place, so it remains there as a blight on the landscape.

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  "If Google was a guy" vibes

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  More right wing architecture

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  There was one other emperor after him and then the empire broke apart.

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  It'll always be Victor Trojan

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  Also business removing remote work so people who went to live in cheaper places move back or at least closer to the city.