The last time I interacted with turnitin, I could easily see its shortcomings. That software is made to look for cheating and plagiarism. That works well for essays, but for math you're looking at a square peg - round hole problem. There are a lot of different ways to write a paragraph on an historical figure. There are only so many ways to solve a given practice math problem. It's easy to show that a history student copy / pasted from wikipedia, it's very difficult to show if a math student came up with the correct math answer on their own or googled it.

The proper way to asses learning in a math class is a live in-person test. Homework should be for the students to practice their learning, and if they choose to not learn while doing it that will be seen on the exam.

At least for Microsoft. So many errors to regression-test with each patch...

I look forward to papering my walls with H100 boards

Frankly, I don't doubt the general trend from that article. But a relevant analysis would look for and discuss exceptions, too.

Paypal used to be a useful tool that did useful things. Now it's just a way for rich people and con artists to extract money from others who apparently don't know better. It's infuriating how many nonprofits are losing truck loads of cash to paypal as the fees continue to climb. The ones I'm involved with switch to Zelle a while back for the majority of all transfers and that has been a huge step in the right direction though of course not without its own set of tax weirdness.

"Wankflier" or "Wankspeeder"?

That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).

It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.

Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.

Well, I generally don't have much interest in biopics. But for this particular movie, I heard a couple interviews and reviews talking about the content, and decided "Ugh! I am NOT INTERESTED in that -at all-.!"

A long time ago I had a Facebook account. Facebook threw me off by forcing me to go to 2-factor, and none of their 2nd factor mechanisms were acceptable to me. But I had been growing increasingly disgusted with Facebook when used to support 'latest posts' (by connections) for their fucking algorithm recommended posts. There are a few people I used to talk to on Facebook that I miss, otherwise I'm happy to be free of Meta. (And I have all Meta IP addresses blocked at my firewall. The local NPR station app tries to contact Facebook every couple of minutes. They still owe me an answer 'why', the last I heard was "we'll ask the vendor.")

I'll start by saying I've never owned a console from Microsoft or Sony. I've seen them, I've seen game demos in stores, etc, but I've never owned one.

To me as one random consumer I fail to see the drive to upgrade from PS4 to PS5, or from the previous XBox to the newest. The games don't look that different. For that matter, it doesn't seem that the two consoles are really offering much difference from each other either. Both consoles are primarily hawking the newest Quake look-alike, or the latest professional (or college) sports titles. I see very few games for either that don't fit into one of those categories.

In other words my argument here is that they have sold to their core market already, and the demand has dissolved for the rest of the public. Even if we ignore the cost, the benefit is no longer clear to many people. Why upgrade to the newest console, other than to say you have it?

Before the money That would be my perspective, too. The original movie explores how such a sociopath builds such a successful company. This movie just shows the company is sociopathic, behavior inherited from its founder.

Your brevity makes your intention unclear, My point was why I have zero interest in that movie, and by extrapolation why I think most people have zero interest in that movie. The focus of the referenced article was 'audience reaction', and the starting element of audience reaction is a desire to watch the movie in the first place.

We don't need to be 'entertained' to find that out, even if this is really a story about an heroic whistleblower...

And thanks to those who did mod that post up.

No points for me today, otherwise parent would get +1 Insightful!