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Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 53

I doubt that any amount of Excel training would have helped for this specific issue. That mistake could be made by anyone. Once you hide a worksheet it's not obvious it's still attached to your workbook... because it's hidden. It's a mistake waiting to happen.

Maybe someone should make a course and include that so people don't make that mistake.

Comment Re:No it was not (Score 0) 53

Yes, it was: The person up the chain who hid the sheet in the first place, thinking it was safe after doing so, could have not done that if they were properly trained on Excel. I see this all the time in companies. People hide sheets or columns with sensitive info then send it out like it's perfectly fine. "I hid it!" yea, not how that works Bob.

Comment Re:Weird World (Score 1) 104

The story doesn't say, but I'm wondering about the brand deals. Do these influences find and convince the brands to sign? Or do big brands like Secret Deodorant seek out and approach Tik Tokers with only 8k followers? Seems unlikely.

I have a friend in the UK who streams games full time. He just reaches out on social media to companies and that usually works. He's not a huge streamer but makes a decent living at it.

Comment Re:How to turn off these silent installs? (Score 4, Informative) 122

Yep, unfortunately some companies just can't help themselves and instead of sending down drivers and apps necessary to use the hardware, they are abusing it with their crapware. File under "This is why we can't have nice things." MS could police this but given their behavior, shouldn't come as a surprise they don't.

Comment Re:Anyone Here? (Score 2) 31

Yep. My company is still doing on-prem to 365 migrations on a regular basis and I'm aware of three companies that I've interacted with that are still on-prem including one that's staying on-prem only for the next few years at least. Personally getting rid of on-prem exchange (well mailboxes, until recently you needed to keep it for AD user mail attribute management) and sharepoint admin is one of the big upsides to going to 365.

Comment Re:Sounds like BS to me (Score 2) 37

The Alpha-Radiation from Plutonium is already undetectable on the other side of a piece of paper. And, incidentally, Plutonium based nuclear weapons are lighter than Uranium based ones. Such a coincidence. Sounds to me like this person is full of crap.

This is one of those cases where things are not as simple as they seem. For one, plutonium does not directly decay to stable lead. You will never have a pure plutonium core for very long, so daughters are going to be present, some of which decay via gamma emission, and we know the ratios they will show up in over time. For another, when plutonium decays, the resulting daughter doesn't always end up in a ground state right away, but lands at an excited state, which then drops to ground, emitting a gamma when it does. Finally, the electron reconfiguration that happens during the decay gives off x-rays at known energies. All of this is why most Pu and U (also usually a alpha emitter) isotopes can be detected with a gamma spectrometer. Pu-242 is a standout, its gamma emissions are exceptionally weak, but it's undesirable in nuclear weapons which aim for as much Pu-239 as possible.

But all that is irrelevant anyway. If you read the article they are not looking for decay emissions. They are looking for neutrons created when high-energy protons from Van Allen belts slam into the uranium in the bomb. This creates a cascade of neutrons which the detection satellite's neutron scintillator based detectors (which are designed to discern the neutrons from the bomb from the background radiation) can pick up.

But sure, the nuclear physicist from MIT is the one full of crap here.

Comment Re:Will the AI-fueled SSD-crisis be over in 2028? (Score 2) 79

Between this and all the "Just pirate it!" replies, I'm going out on a limb and say pretty much none of you owns a modern console. You don't play off the disk, that hasn't been a thing for a while now. The game files get copied to the local drive on the console, the disc is then just used as a license check (and why getting rid of them actually sucks: no 2nd hand market). As for DRM, PS5 hasn't been broken yet. Even when it does happen, it's usually such a pain in the ass that most won't bother.

Comment Re:TDS vs Logic (Score 1) 68

This is not too dissimilar from the Government limiting the export of strong cryptography.

And how did that work out? Oh yea, foreign (mostly European) companies sprung up selling strong encryption products to the rest of the world, putting US companies at a disadvantage. Turns out the US didn't have the market cornered on math. The same thing will happen here.

Comment Re:Yeah..... (Score 2) 56

Well one thing everyone doesn't do is use a model "... trained on text with all named entities and factual content stripped out before training. It learns grammar, register, and discourse patterns. It cannot learn facts because it never saw any." https://2brains.net/architectu... . Which is interesting but also very handicapped. If it works it would be great for things like customer service chatbots, or replacing about 75% of what companies want from Copilot. However it's really going to be limited to those RAG heavy roles. It will not replace the big foundation models.

Before I really even care about this though, I want to see demos and third party validation. Their site is very slim on meaningful details and I can already see some problems based on what they have disclosed.

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