So A2A is the real world name for Skynet?

It did make me wonder if there is a inert digital assistant that could be installed and switched to that does absolutely nothing other than satisfy the system that you are using a digital assistant.
If you know of one, please post

... for simple instructions on how to remove Gemini from a Pixel 9 Pro XL?

Well:
Goal Steps
Restore classic Assistant Google App â' Profile â' Settings â' Assistant â' âoeDigital assistants from Googleâ â' Choose Google Assistant
Remove Gemini app entirely Settings â' Apps â' Gemini â' Force Stop â' Disable
Stop Gemini in other apps Open app (Messages, Photos, etc.) â' Settings â' Gemini â' Toggle off

It then included info citing Reddit about having to repeatedly quash Gemini.

Paraquat was toxic as hell, so we'll use an analogous company and think it is safe.

The sad thing here is the logic that by substituting a different toxin you buy time before enough cases are found, And for plaintiffs to get the science takes time and you delay delay delay. So change it up every now and then and restart the clock.

A little bit like tweaking a drug that is running out of patent time

Difference between a court order for all documents and a warrant? Specificity

Warrant needs to be targeted, and in theory supported by information and belief. (Hard to write that last part without laughing)

Yep and I got "Frist Post". (Old joke)

Modern spell check forced a correction when I first typed that. The joke being that people jumping to make a first post often ended up with a typo.

End of warranty does not end liability.

Apparently there was a sole survivor of this crash.
Vishwashkumar Ramesh was seated in 11A. He was filmed walking to an ambulance. His brother was also on the flight but not accounted for just yet

He also had his boarding pass with him.

Good thing I've got some No Name battery banks not affected by this recall.

That's genealogical records not genetic records. They keep copies of the types of data the government usually keeps, such as births, marriages and life events such as immigration.

The baptism in absentia is a little odd, and might annoy those that consider those things to mean someone, but otherwise pretty helpful.

One reason COBOL exists at all today is the massive amount of legacy code, mostly in the financial arena. After all, the BOL is Business Oriented Language.
Although I'm sad to see a language go, I don't feel too bad about this one. I learned COBOL using card punch and batch processing. The COBOL decks were bigger than equivalent programs in Fortran.

I think that this is a pretty good use of AI. Within the limited world of COBOL coding it can be good at figuring out the routine and translating it. I'd love to see the output from this AI. Sadly the article doesn't link to any of it.

Back in the 90s, my then girlfriend was working in MIS at the headquarters of a large insurance company. They were trying to migrate legacy data that was packed in single lines of variable data length and with possible middle initials and other variances. They were used to set formatting. Apparently they had never done parsing of strings. I wrote out how to go character by character and make decisions based on what they had. She took that to them and they were able to translate the data. (They were MIS people not CS people)

It is also possible that a close relationship presents too much of a potential conflict of interest. That could have messed up sending contracts to SpaceX. Whether or not they were valid and fair, it would have given critics a leg to stand on.
Better to have someone who is not so visibly inclined to favor Musk.

I use notepad all the time for the purpose of removing all formatting and tags from text I'm copying.
It is reliable and helps me avoid leaving any unintended extra information with the text.
And no, I cannot install other editing software to strip the formatting as the computer I'm using I do not have admin privileges. I need this on my work computer.

Grading homework is a chore and a real pain.
I do it so that we can correct when a student gets a concept wrong. So many times it is simply a matter of flipping an answer. They get numerator and denominator switched. Or add when it should be subtract.
That's where homework is useful. And it doesn't take hours of work to see this. With sufficiently broad problems to work, you can see the missed concept and fix it.
If you know the concept my homework takes less than an hour for a 4 credit class.

And a lot easier to ship. Heck, we can ship that fusion reaction device from one continent to another continent in a single hop. Bada bing bada BOOM.