In my experience... if I ask Claude to help with something that's my strong point (like my core coding), it's like training a junior programmer, and I can solve my problems faster myself. But... when I need something outside my core expertise, like helper programs, wrappers, or interfaces to other technologies I'm not familiar with, it's a very fast way to get 95% of the way there without wasting time climbing the learning curve myself for a one-time need.
Like any tool, you have to know when to use it and when not to, and what its strengths and weak points are.

All jokes aside, this is more useful as "a button next to my bed that shuts off all the inside and outside lights, closes all the doors, activates the alarm, turns down the heat, makes sure the tv is off, and disables notifications until the morning."

I've also seen one used as "a button to hit on your way to work to shut off all the things you forgot to shut off."

A panic button next to your bed could be "turn on all the outside lights, save all the security camera footage somewhere extra, and tell me if any motion detectors outside this room go off any time in the next 10 minutes."

I imagine someone will want one that makes their cell phone make a noise, so they can find it.

Or, it's a simple way to add a second switch to a room (or hallway) with one inconveniently-placed switch.

For a young child who is afraid of the dark, a button to dim the lights to 20% after they're in bed, and automatically turn them off an hour later.

A wireless doorbell.

Etc.

I suspect a large majority of the money spent towards open source is in the form of support contracts, yes, but large contracts paid by large companies to large projects. The problem is that a majority of the *projects* are small, often single person, and *those* do not have a good way of funding their work. There is no web of small companies paying small projects keeping the greater open source community healthy, and so smaller projects have to look to other ways to fund work.

"I really don't see how people aren't more productive with AI."
A couple of things:
1. The right tool for the job. We know how to use AI productively, but for us, AI in search is not it. YMMV.
2. DDG users tend to be a self-selected group of people who don't want computers to remember everything we said and maybe regurgitate it later to someone else
3. Every new technology has a choice between "go slow and understand the ramifications" and "go fast and break things". We prefer to not break things.
4. We know how to ask ChatGPT stuff when we need an AI answer. We don't need everything on one page.
5. Some people prefer the comfort of the known, to the stress of the unknown, and need more time to adapt to new tech.

It sounds like you can get some tax advantages that are specific to 401(k) if you, as a business, decide to do 100% unlimited matching for your you, as the employee, allowing you to get 401(k) advantages but with twice the effective limit.

Not quite true. If a customer gave a binary to someone else, the customer would have to give access to the source code to that someone else. Red Hat has no obligation in this case. This is because Red Hat uses 3(a) to distribute sources, not 3(b) or 3(c).

Under 3(a) when you download the binary from Red Hat, you have the option of downloading the sources from the same site at the same time. Once you download the sources, or choose not to, Red Hat's GPL obligation is complete[*]. You don't get to point at Red Hat and say "get the sources from them, not me" nor do you get to wait a year and come back crying because you didn't download the sources when you had the chance.

[*] technically, Red Hat's obligation continues as long as they continue to offer the binaries to you, but once the offer of the binary is withdrawn, the offer of the sources is no longer required.

Communication is about what the reader understands, not what the writer says. If the reader got the right impression, the right words were used.

Plus, "monopolized" may apply to a group. Journalists have this tool called a "dictionary" that tells them what words mean:
monopolize /mnäplz/ verb
past tense: monopolized; past participle: monopolized
* (of an organization or group) obtain exclusive possession or control of (a trade, commodity, or service). "they instituted press censorship and monopolized the means of communication"
* have or take the greatest share of. "the bigger teams monopolize the most profitable sponsorships and TV deals"

Remember, *being* a monopoly is not illegal in the USA. *Acting* like a monopoly is, and it's possible to act like a monopoly without being one. The papers are arguing that big tech, collectively, are taking advantage of their market dominance to exclude smaller players. The papers are not arguing that there's only one of them.

Yup! People think that $206B is a lot and say it should be used to help the poor, but consider that $206B evenly spread across *just* the population of the USA is only $628 per person. Would an extra paycheck or two fix any long-term problems? Probably not. But, all that money in the hands of one person apparently can (1) employ lots of people, (2) push the boundaries of science and technology, and (3) inspire people to create a better future.

As for the fact that he *has* lots of money and can spend it how he pleases is, well, a side effect of capitalism. You don't agree? Start your own megacompany and show us how it's done ;-)

One of my graduate projects was analyzing a modification to ALOHAnet. Weeks of simulation and twenty pages of calculus just to approximate the answer, it was one of the toughest - and most rewarding - questions I've ever sought to answer. So while I never knew him, his work still sparked a memorable time in my life.

IANAL but IIRC "Fair Use" is a defense against copyright infringement - it only really comes into play *after* you're sued, and you admit to the "crime", but claim Fair Use. So the president could still claim fair use, but he'd have to do it in court, convince a judge, and risk losing.

Also IIRC using the work for commercial gain (in this case, the 2020 presidency) counts against fair use, so perhaps the copyright holder could argue commercial gain, and try to convince the judge of it. The defendant would have to argue against, perhaps that it's a parody, or commentary. Either way, each side would have to argue for or against meeting each of the four Fair Use points, and both sides risk losing in court.

The typical answer to this is "old hardware that's still in service in an otherwise secure environment but doesn't support more modern crypto".

People in such situations really hate it when developers shut off their access without recourse.

Perhaps they could go into business making blasters for the empire's stormtrooper army...

I think, as a condition for the airlines to sue for missed flights, they should no longer be allowed to overbook. Otherwise, they're setting up a situation where they can sue all the passengers they didn't have seats for.

The battery's purpose isn't power generation, it's load smoothing, like a capacitor in electronics. It has to be able to provide (or absorb) a lot of power in a very short time (milliseconds to seconds) to keep the grid in spec; solar can't do that, fuel-powered generators respond too slow, etc.

So even if they built a solar/salt power station, they'd still need the battery.

Yeah, that's why it died out back in the 80's shortly after it was invented.