Like . . come on.

So that leaves only $100k to pay everybody who had to babysit it

I remember a time when any stupid idea that you could put ".com" on would get shit tons of investor money. The only thing it produced mostly was bankruptcies and the opportunity for small companies to buy needed equipment for pennies on the dollar. This AI craziness strikes me the same way. AI can be useful but it'll never be the "be all things", they rarely to live up to the hype. I've seen it too many times, the dotcom boom-bust, nano-technology, Ruby on rails; anyway COBOL had a good run.

If the AI can code the stuff you prompt it for: it creates the same code a human had, based on the code the AI is trained with. So: the maintenance is the same.

And: you do not maintain AI created code manually. You tell it what is wrong and let the AI fix it.

Are you stupid or what?

No one who has any clue is going to let an AI produce 30kLOC code, and then fixes the problems by hand. That would be utterly idiotic.

A) you do not know which apps are made by or with AI
B) you are not even looking ...

If you are not even looking, how the funk do you think to know which apps are made with AI or by AI?

The law punished the action.
Not the value that changed possession during that action.

I was calculating based on kwh per day of expected solar against kwh of consumption for a gigawatt (so... 24gwh).
Then explain the math ... as I don't get that sentence.
Why would you need 24GWh solar capacity when you only need 1GWh?

5 miles by 5 miles is a huge installation.
I guess this is certainly in the eye of the beholder.

If you look at a random wheat field in a random part of USA, it is most certainly bigger.

That is why we unite behind: we don't know.
But if you do know: why are you not telling us and farm in your Nobel Prize?

Correct. That is why they call it "dark matter".

Perhaps they should have called it "mysterious matter"?

Fact is there is either "more gravity" the there should be (or can be explained by looking at the visible atter), hence the term "dark matter" (as the matter is - seems to be - invisible) -or- there is an entire unknown force working ... with similar properties like gravity.

Which it is, we don't know.

Punishment (in Germany too) for theft is based on an range of variables, including the value of the item stolen.

Nope it does not.

The only exception is 248a StGB - which is not very old and was thought to be a good idea if people steal food in a super market. Otherwise it does not matter at all, if the value is above $50, what the actual value is.
What matters are circumstances, like removing locks or breaking into houses or if it is gang crime.

Yes, under your idiotic law in this particular state.

In most of the world there is no difference.

If you put a wallet in a restaurant on the table, and forget it when you go to toilet, I take it: how should I know how much money is inside? Before I stole it, of course ...

Patent law in Japan works different than in the rest of the world.

And your stupid idea, just because someone else did it already: is just that, stupid.

I know an anecdote about lightbulbs. One company (A) sued another one (B) for patent infringement. It was about the windings. So A claimed B copied the improved winding that ensured better conduction or something. Company defended by saying, close to the bulb we have this "rim". Our conduction is better because of that rim, we do not know anything about windings, we do them like we thought is common sense.

So B won over A.

Keep in mind: patent disputes and similar are extremely rare in Japan. Usually companies approach each other and try to solve disputes like that over a half a year of dinner parties.

Well, as I said legal words have a meaning.
Breaking into a car is most certain similar to breaking into a house, and similar to burlaring.

However robbery means: you use threat or violence to get an item a person does not want to give away.

So, if I hold a bag under my arm, and you snatch it and run away, that is a (mild?) case of robbery. If you wait behind a corner, threaten me and make me hand it over: a not so mild form of robbery, depending if you show a weapon ... even worse!

If I sit on a bench and back is beside me, and you pass by, snatch it, and run away: theft.

when you've only been taught whole words,
That is not how it works.

That is until you have learned the whole alphabet. Then you learn words letter by letter, but READ them as whole words when you know the word.

So, if you have an unknown word, obviously you can not read it as a whole word, but have to decipher it.

I'd imagine that figuring out how to do it on the fly can be rather intimidating if you've never even encountered the idea before No idea what that is supposed to mean. While you learn how to read whole words, obviously you simultaneously learn how to put them together as sounds. Otherwise no one would learn reading ... very strange attitude of yours. You basically learn: reading, writing, and the alphabet. Not sure what there is confusing about. The first 100 important words you learn as words, in parallel you learn the alphabet and how to recognize/pronounce words you did not learn yet. I for my part read half sentences "at once", sometimes the whole one.

but I can assure you from personal experience that even in a Sefer Torah, there are spaces between the words is that modern Hebrew? I was the opinion that historically they had no spaces, like Greek and Latin or Egyptian, or cuneiform.

The AI overview is interesting. I copy/paste it here:

Well, regarding Thai. Sometimes being able to deceiver the alphabet does not help. As it is written like it was incepted 600 years ago, and the pronunciation was different. That basically you need to know two things: the real word/meaning, and the ancient writing. Or you can not read it at all at present time. Especially loanwords from other languages. That is of course not very common. I stumbled over such a word yesterday ... but forgot already which it was, sigh. Gosh, should have made a photo or put it into my dictionary.

If you learned whole word reading, you can read every language whole word.
If you know the words.

Hebrew (at least historically, no idea about right now) and Thai for instance have no spaces between words.

Also it is a silly misconception that people who learned whole word reading can not read letters and build up a word with sound, that is a ridiculous idea.