The next major ransomware victims will sue Instructure for encouraging ransomware attacks.

This sounds like the video game version of the MadTV sketch Apple presents the iRack from a couple of decades ago, spoofing the war in Iraq.

"Bureaucratic slip-up allows facility under construction to delay paying for water bill for several months. Coincidentally, facility happens to be a data center."

In principle, I can send your phone arbitrary unlimited data using just SMS, subject only to rate-limiting and management of dropped, delayed, or out-of-order SMS messages.

If I have your public key, I can send it to you encrypted.

In practice, I don't know if such a thing exists.

Back in the 20th century, you get student/teacher discounts through university/school channels and possibly from other authorized Apple resellers, but you had to show ID.

... for the low low price of a quarter peta-buck.

There IS a place for AI as a coding assistant. If used right by someone who COULD write good code from scratch AND who is well-versed in using his AI tools, it could actually save time.

In very limited problem domains, non-AI program-generators and LLM-"AI" program-generators can actually produce usable, correct, reasonably efficient code almost all of the time. But so could a reasonably competent programmer who was an expert in the problem domain.

In any case, using AI is likely to use a lot of electricity.

Old way for a small task an entry-level person could do in 2 weeks solo: a week to design, a few days to code, a few days to unit test

New way - "official/what you tell your boss": a few hours to design/decide what you want the output to look like and rough-draft your prompts a hours to "code"/prompt the AI, including iterations, and a few hours to test the results.

New way - "reality/what you actually do": design? what's that? a few hours to iteratively create prompts until you get output that "feels good," and testing the results - yeah, right, who has time for that?

Sigh.

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If only the very small percentage - possibly "0 plus epsilon" or less - of Reddit that was worthy of the term "expert advice" were used as training data, this could be useful.

But the odds of that happening are less than "0 plus epsilon."

... designing my workflow to avoid using this browser.

Is it to improve understanding of the required, basic-standards subject matter?

Is it to provide an enrichment opportunity?

Is it work that literally cannot be done in school, like "interview your grandparents about New Years Day 2000"?

Is it to instill good habits that will be needed later when "all work is homework" such as college/university?

The answers to these questions will drive the answer to the question "how much homework should students have, and what should the homework be?"

Just keep them away from your floppy disk and you'll be fine.

We may be entering a world where we can find 99.44% of bugs and we may find the "easy to find ones" a lot faster than we would find them today, but it's very arrogant to declare "we are entering a world where we can finally find them all" given how many unknowns are still out there.

Yes, the progress is good, but we need some humility and we need to be realistic with our expectations.

Well before pets.com, small textile firm was bought out in a hostile takeover. The new owners pivoted the company into an investment/holding company.

While not as big a Apple, it is pretty big in terms of market capitalization.

You may have heard of it.