That's the same argument Napster used.

If we can't get all our inputs for free, it would kill our ability to charge for similar stuff based on those inputs.

If we can't take everything we want without permission whenever we want it, it would kill our plan to replace human creativity with cheap imitations.

Does that include people who made a bunch of money on CDOs in the early 2000's and got out before the crash? It was literally rigged gambling.

What things of value do short sellers create?

Half of finance jobs are just glorified gambling. "Something of value" was created when the stock was issued, but all the other trading is zero sum, value is moved but not created.

CEOs with golden parachutes of failing companies do not create value. The corporate raiders who bought companies to liquidate their pension funds destroyed value. There are literally hundreds of categories of income generation that people can make obscene wealth without creating anything of value.

It's a device with a processor, storage, microphone, speaker,and camera that sits on your desk with two other devices that have the same things plus a screen and tactile inputs. The other two devices have zero problem accessing or running AI models, and have the added benefit of not needing to verbally summarize pictures, videos, or charts. The user would have the same painful experience of a telephone interactive voice response when selecting from a list. What purpose would this serve? Who, other than AI fanboys, would want this?

Clearly the fix to the critically understaffed U.S. air space network is adding unmanned drones with Boeing management expertise. What could go wrong?

Is anyone naive enough to believe that the author "always" checked out the material first, but the time it's so completely and obviously wrong just so happened to be the first time it wasn't checked?

That excuse wouldn't be believable from a child, it's embarrassing that an adult used it.

Who could have predicted it was a bad idea to make your business focus on continuously loaning money to young adults who needed 4 months to pay off a sandwich?

They have definitely heard of these, and they have definitely been tried.

Those emulators all work only if the floppy drive is used in a common way used by popular operating systems.
They do not work if the original software used proprietary techniques for speed, copy-protection, unique operating requirements or other purposes.There were a lot more ways to control some old hardware to do odd and unconventional processes than are accounted for on modern emulators. Emulators just don't handle techniques like intentional spin speed variations, modifying amplifier sensitivity, or bit timing between the thresholds for zero (0.6us).

More than 99% of the time, the emulator is fine. It's the sub-1% of cases that the actual floppy drive is not replaceable by emulators.

The instructor is not there to learn the course material, the student is. If the student could explain how having an AI, instead of the student, providing answers to the instructor helps the student learn the course material, perhaps she would have a case. The teacher is free to use any and all resources at any time, that doesn't mean the student has a "right" to use the textbook on every exam just because the teacher used it to write the exam.

And the article never mentions how much AI generated content there was. Was AI generated content used on one assignment, a couple of quizzes, some supplementary material, part of the syllabus, or the entire textbook?

I think she is still entitled to a refund, and from every education institution she attended, because somehow they conferred a degree upon a student who has zero clue what the basic point of education is.

It's just a trial run of Axlotl tanks.

This is yet another of the dozens of "new improved" batteries that are announced each year based on lab results, with little to no work done on actual production issues. Since they are expecting them to be ready for "preproduction" (whatever that means) in 2027, it is safe to say with better than 99% accuracy that you can completely ignore this and will never hear from it again, like the other thousand or so miracle battery technologies announced in the last 20 years that we've never heard from again after the PR announcement.

The Trump Presidential Library is run by the National Archives and Records Administration. He had no problem taking stuff from them before, and it took 4 years to even unsuccessfully get it back or prosecute him for clear-cut illegal theft from them. Do you really think this is going to be different? Do you really think elections will be fair in 4 years? Do you really think that a future Republican administration would do anything about it?

You should feel neither, because that post has a zero percent chance of being true.

I said in my original post you replied to: "someone who knows how to use the appropriate tools would generally take about 15 minutes of actual work to repair one." - since you use tools so infrequently than you just shoved them where ever when you moved and don't even know where they are, and the concept of having a small toolbox or even just putting tools in the same closet is a complete mystery - this is clearly, obviously not about you or other people lacking this skillset. I know there are people that don't want to fix it, or are incapable of fixing it, otherwise I would not have qualified my original statement. You were not trying to explain that point to me, you gave a detailed list of why what I said was false, and that it clearly takes more than 15 minutes, ignoring that I was clearly not talking about you, or people who are as unfamiliar with tools as you. Then you kept moving the goalposts. I've done nothing but stick with my original point that I was talking about "someone who knows how to use the appropriate tools". You called me a "god of organization" (completely irrelevant AND completely wrong) for having a known cabinet with a toolbox in it, and not putting tools into a random location after every use. Now you claim that you were trying to teach me that the exact category I delineated in my first post was a subset of all humanity and not everyone, which is pretty obvious that I knew since I specifically named that category and didn't say "everyone".

Because you won't clearly are incapable of stopping until you think you were correct all along, I'll just say all your points were clearly right, and this distant point you have attempted to move the argument to was obviously the point all along. Happy now? You can rest, those goalposts you've been hauling around are heavy.

Being able to put tools back into a tool box does not make anyone a "god of organization". Do you just leave your dinnerware and clothes all over the house? It's really no different. Your dad and grandfather doing it has fuck-all to do with anything, you are not them.

Sorry your ego won't let you finish without a tortured adventure in the twisted logic of how you were right all along, despite none of your post having anything to do with my original point. I was talking about fixing things makes financial sense for competent people who have the time, not how difficult it is for a non-competent person to conceive of putting a screwdriver back in the same place twice.

"Don't judge me" says the guy who has been basically calling bullshit on everything I've said, despite having zero knowledge or experience of anything I was talking about. If you really don't want to be judged, stick to opinions you have at least the tiniest bit of knowledge about, and, if it is pretty clear you are wrong, either admit it or shut up. Don't dig in, then switch to sob stories of your life as if that makes your wrong statements somehow correct.

Putting a screwdriver back in a drawer does not, in any way, shape, or form equate or even loosely imply "living to keep my tools all in one place". Are you also living to put the milk back in the fridge? Living to park your car when you get back home? Living to pull your pants back up after you crap? These take the same amount of time or less.

I was mistaken when I thought you were on the first peak of Dunning Kruger, you're off the chart on the upper left, you know less than nothing but somehow think your incredibly ignorant and stupid concept of tools applies to those with even a sliver of knowledge and/or experience. This last post lead me to believe that you have an inability to grasp even the most basic, minimal, organizational skills of everyday life, or are one of those irredeemably egotistical idiots who keep making decreasingly rational points in an vapid attempt to prove their original, completely false and idiotic point somehow was justified.