Not saying this is you, but I’m reminded of a story of a woman who took a ton of photos of vacations - all the sights. But upon the death of her husband realized she never captured the people with her

Upvote for that there first sentence

Does a half-decent job of breaking down how things were affected https://youtu.be/j454KF26IWw

Unit membership for manufacturing started with the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, but I’m not sure how involved or hands-off it was at the time.

As in “kick ass and we’ll pay ya even better than we are now” probation?

Yes

I’m all about that.

I really loved LabView

NI rarely made established software better after a company acquisition.

Generally, IT and Engineering agreed to deprecate their product lines off critical systems about 2 minutes after the deal went through. =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE

Could be a clever nom de plume?

Dang. That’s an earlier rollout than any other agent I’m aware of! ;D

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. 'Al' is not an uncommon name.

We’re always talking about AI Capex, but go back a hundred or so years and it was Al Capone.

some of Als are even Weird

Back in another life (videography), I had acquaintances who would throw looks when they heard I’d purchased a single terabyte. Seems that narrative might already be - at least mildly -pervasive.

Distasteful? I understand that sentiment for the family, but we should all be exposed to the horrors of these lapses. It’s exceedingly rare that you are ever subjected to the bodily carnage, and I’m reminded of when we ceased broadcasting footage of soldiers’ caskets coming home due to it dissuading popular opinion toward war.

Reminds me of a number of grad students I knew who could “talk circles” around all sorts of subjects but failed to ever be able to apply anything.

Heh, but just because a human can fail at something doesn't mean everything that fails at it is human. :p

Right, but if you're saying that something is 'incapable of reasoning' because of a failure mode also found in humans, then either humans are 'incapable of reasoning' or you concede that failure mode isn't a justification for that gross assertion. You can't have it both ways.