I wired a radio station in my early 20s. The chief engineer taught me a very valuable lesson: When confronted with a choice of more or fewer connections in any circuit, it is always a SAFER bet that the circuit with fewer connections will be more reliable! Connectors, switches, and cables are the most likely failure points in electronics.*

I hate those damned adapters. I've been screwed twice when my kids loaned me SDXC Micro cards in an adapter. They corrupted one job and outright failed to mount properly on another. NEVER AGAIN.

I do not scrimp on cards. If a device CALLS for a Micro SD card, I'll use one, but I'll use the Micro SD slot on my high speed card reader, rather than put the card in an adapter to read it. I simply won't use a Micro SD in an SD adapter.

*Static electricity and AC power surges (spikes) come second. Bad connections are often responsible for those AC power line spikes! THINK: "back-wired" AC receptacles on outside walls of homes built in the last 40 years or so… Moisture from condensation causes corrosion to start. That builds up a resistant film that leads to arcing, pitting, and those power spikes that damage electronics. The gripping fingers in the backs of those cheap outlets fail due to metal fatigue and relax their grips on the wires. I've replaced dozens of them over the years, always using the screw terminals of higher quality receptacles when I do.

Cheating is indeed a persistent aspect of human behavior that seems to endure across generations and contexts. Its prevalence can be attributed to various factors, including individual motivations, societal norms, and the perceived benefits of cheating relative to the effort required for honest work.

Children, in particular, may be drawn to cheating as a means of bypassing the challenges of academic tasks or games in favor of immediate gratification or relief from pressure. The allure of fun or the desire to avoid strenuous effort often outweighs the moral considerations for many individuals, especially when they believe they can escape consequences or perceive cheating as a low-risk strategy.

Moreover, the modern landscape, with its emphasis on competition and achievement, can inadvertently foster an environment conducive to cheating. Pressure to excel academically or professionally, coupled with the ease of accessing information through technology, may further incentivize individuals to resort to dishonest means to achieve their goals.

While cheating may seem like a convenient shortcut in the short term, its long-term consequences can be detrimental, eroding trust, integrity, and the value of genuine accomplishment. Therefore, efforts to address cheating must extend beyond mere punishment to include fostering a culture of honesty, integrity, and accountability, both in educational settings and society at large. By promoting ethical behavior and emphasizing the importance of diligence and perseverance, we can work towards mitigating the allure of cheating and nurturing a more principled approach to achievement and success.

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is correct, time to have oral test, to see how much a student realy knows.

As software developer for 40 years, I started programming on cards and I worked with AI in business applications. The many algorithms were very complex and always evolving. Can an algorithm learn. It depends on how the data is stored along with intermediate and final results that are kept as historical data allowing th3 computer to make decisions based on both current and historical data. We had the largest sets of legal data in at least the US and possibly Europe where our parent company was. We stored billions of rows of data from all kinds of 100's of sources. To process that most of that amount of data 25 years ago could have taken weeks. Our longest job which updated all of the outside data tables took about 17 hours.