Just to clarify:

Defending that stupidity is more a you problem. And if you want to know my “technical” complaint, somewhere behind a 20-million cell spreadsheet is someone actually trying to excuse broken default behavior in Excel under the guise of user error. When errors are not the fault of the user, what then is the always-acceptable excuse for the financial messiah?

Part of the acceptable inaccuracy I speak of is the absolute blind adulation for Excel in business. If that program was found to be broken severely and proven quite inaccurate in a future update, no business would ban the use of Excel. Not one. They all sit around waiting for a fix to their fix.

Blind adulation, is blind for obvious reasons. None of which are good.

Uh, that’s a nuclear reactor on a planet that has no protective atmosphere. When you say “minimizing risks”, just be prepared for a lot of laughter from an audience who likely knows better. The idea of any of that being anything but high risk, is a joke.

We will grasp this concept well when the first Martian meteor shower shows the human race the value of atmospheres.

Careful. Show off like that and you might just get accepted at an Ivy League political refugee camp.

Uh huh.

And every financial auditor knows damn well what is implied by a “tweak” feature.

Only reason they don’t call that shit out, is job security.

What should be downright illegal is the hoarding of patents in “war chests” that sit unused for shits and fucks sake.

People or corporations may secure an idea, but if they fail to use the damn thing, then in many cases it should go up for auction or back in public domain. Tough shit if companies feel like they “need” a war chest. They don’t, and they’re killing innovation as a result.

Lastly, I don’t care what the patent office has to say about AI being little more than lab equipment. We know damn well the AI overlords will sink their patented teeth into anything and everything created with the assistance of THEIR AI system. And yeah, that likely IS already in the EULA we never read.

And yet, no one assumes this problem can exist at scale in Excel?

Are the latest versions of Excel tracking to 42 decimal places and offering rounding accuracy that makes GPS timing look like a 19th Century pocket watch, or am I missing something as to how certain flavors (rhymes with sex sell) of inaccuracy are perfectly acceptable in business?

Guess that depends on if the like feels like this is more a you problem rather than a capability anyone should be meeting:

Screw the memory issues. 20 million cell spreadsheets should get you drawn and quartered.

Oddly enough, you just described how it might work perfectly if you had a few sites to extract that energy source that’s more dependent on timing than physics.

Extract the energy from “hot rock” when hot. When it cools to a non-optimum temperature, you switch back to primary power and target the next hot site to pull energy from and wait for the first one to heat back up to become an optimized energy source again. Rinse and repeat.

Switch to geothermal sources in times when the primary is more expensive (such as heating costs in winter). Convert to geothermal when you can mimic nature year round and pull the energy effeciently.

Oh, and much like Japan nuclear wont forget tsunamis anytime soon, let us not forget about natural and wild volcanic activity. One cannot over engineer that safety valve enough.

With friends like that behind the corporate firewall, where’s Pablo Escobar the HR Director when you need him.

Seriously. A sneeze-activated cocaine dispenser on the CEOs desk sounds better for business than that shit. And ironically is what currently works to keep their stock price higher than giraffe pussy.

The Product can either take the service selling them as they see fit, or they can kindly fuck off.

There. Hope that clarifies how much influence the “customer” has on that platform. And how much you want, actually matters. They don’t need your input anymore. And they’re not asking for it.

That, is how you treat a Product you’re selling. Not a customer you’re catering to. Fucked up part is this is so brainwashed in consumers now they forgot what it means to be a customer. You used to vote with your wallet. They took that feature away by becoming that dealer giving away the good shit for free. Forever. After that, Product behavior became as predictable as addiction.

I’m well aware of how business used to work. Be more aware you’re talking about ancient history now. Even consumers don’t remember how to customer anymore. They think every service online should be “free” now, without grasping who The Product must become when a wallet never opens to pay a bill.

Yeah, but hang on a minute. Let’s look at this in context a bit more.

Don’t look now Meta, but you just described Facebook. The hell else do they think their feed junkies do upon breathing air in the morning other than scroll through their personalized feed to get their daily fix for the last 3.1 hours since last login from the shitter?

Facebook on Facebook. How very Meta of you.

Riiight. It was me going out of my way and not a senseless dragnet operation to hunt down misdemeanors at a cost of millions to taxpayers who get such a tax paying bargain in that state, right?

California hardly needs my help to look like the asshole state they are. There are now more legal weed dispensaries in the US than McDonalds. California was the first to legalize thirty fucking years ago. Go make them make it make sense. Otherwise they deserve the verbal bitch slap for grandstanding on a double standard. That dragnet bullshit should have been shut down last fucking century. Literally.

Those “users” (a cute but outdated 20th Century term) are The Product now.

Meta will use and abuse AI to sell The Product as they see fit.

Any actual resemblance towards usefulness in AI for The Product, is purely coincidental.

Yes. This is in the EULA. Yes. I do know you still read it to see if I’m lying.

Consider this additional California-flavored extra-special stupidity; it's currently legal for grown-ass adult homeowners to grow their own fucking weed in their own home. Even being caught with a massive grow is a misdemeanor.

So they really went out of their way to annoy the shit out of taxpayers already paying through the nose for electricity. And California wonders why it was forced to charge an exit tax.

It seems the attraction to exaggerate here, is practically magnetic.