When GPT gets it wrong and the IRS fines you $10,000, is OpenAI going to make you whole?
A GPT tool is only as smart as its training data. ChatGPT is currently trained using the collected knowledge of the Internet.
I'm personally amazed that it's gets anything right.
A GPTlike tool trained only on Tax laws, IRS statements and tax court related legal precedents would be pretty damn accurate.
Sounds like make work handouts/welfare for slightly educated people. Can't they learn to pick fruit or something useful?
It's not even make work, the vast majority of returns processed through these companies are never touched by a human.
It's more like make profit. The only folks who get anything out of the current tax preparer system are the shareholders.
These Starlink Satellites definitely do have to be replaced. There is only so much fuel on board to maintain orbit and move to avoid collisions, and the space environment is tough. Especially LEO. A recent solar storm killed 40 of them recently https://www.businessinsider.co...
That is more of a feature than a bug. If you had read the article you pointed to, you would have noted that the issue was increased drag at the satellite's initial insertion orbit. The satellites are initially launched at a lower orbit where they will burn up quickly if they have issues. The satellites then move themselves to a higher, operational orbit for actual use. The solar storm only affected the sats in this lower orbit. There was no effect on the sats already in operational orbits, no matter how much FUD you want to apply.
Those LEO sats are launched, they work for a while, then they deorbit. New ones take their place. That's how this works.
The reason we deorbit satellites currently fall, broadly, into one of three categories.
The current generations of orbiting Starlink satellites generally fall into both of the first two categories. They are already on the v2 units, which are a slight upgrade over v1. And while the improvements are not yet enough, within the useful lifespan of the current orbital fleet it is quite likely category 1 will fully apply.
As for category 2... One of the stated goals of Starship is to have orbital refueling up and running. Once you have the kinks worked out of that process, what's to stop Starlink v5/6/7/etc. from having the capability to refuel while in orbit?
He opposes wind farms in his "backyard" (a mile away), he's a scientist, and no one said HE was posting misinformation, just that others came to his FB page and they shared misinformation.
The project would be about a mile from his home. From the beginning, Kitson -- who teaches physics and chemistry at the local high school -- knew he didn't want the turbines anywhere near him.
Um, no.
from the summary:
So [Kitson] posts the photos and articles, many of which he receives from an anti-wind email list. "I do that just to try to show people what's possible."
Do the Microsoft subscription versions of office require an always-on network service?
The subscription versions have to call home at least once a month. If they go 30 days without, they drop into read only mode.
I know I must be in a minority, but I have a copy of Office 2016 installed on a laptop that I set up specifically to use off-grid and away from all network connections.
And that use case is exactly why there is an Office 2021 coming out next month. It is marketed specifically for PCs that are off-grid.
The 1TB storage really is a nice feature.
I use on of my licenses as online backup storage. I've got a cron job that copies important files off my desktop and laptop (whenever it's connected to my home WiFi) over to onedrive on this second account. My desktop / laptop can't even see this drive, so even if they get cryptolocked all of my important data is secure.
OneDrive also takes care of versioning, so even if things get encrypted, I can just roll back to the previous version and get the decrypted editions.
One of the world's largest companies made a tiny mistake and corrected it quickly after being notified. This might be an interesting tidbit to share over a morning coffee if it happened to you personally. News, it is not.
On the contrary, the fact that Google (A) acknowledged their mistake and (B) fixed it in a timely manner is definitely newsworthy. Historically, it hasn't happened very often.
Undergrounded Lightning is a newbie.
#GetOffMyLawn
Oh to be so young.
#ReallyGetOffMyLawn
This is comparable to what I'm paying right now for cable internet in my small town (~4,000 people).
My current cable provider, Mediacom, sells me a 100 Mbps up / 5 Mbps down Internet package for $80/month. They also charge $15/month for modem rental, so it comes to $95/month. Around here, that's considered pretty good. A lot of people around here, those not "in town," are stuck with fixed wireless (2-10 Mbps) or DSL (1.5 Mbps) as their only options.
Most of those not "in town" folks would jump at 100 Mbps for $99 today. If Starlink comes out of beta with a a 150 Mbps plan at $99/month, I'd probably sign up myself.
In any case, I'm guessing that the problem is that the fees were tied to TV service - and now that lots of people are using the same cables for internet-only service, the revenue stream is drying up. If so, cities should be tying their access fees to the cables, not the service. Then again, maybe they're just getting greedy and trying to get extra revenues from streaming services - on top of the street access for the physical networks...
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, they can't.
The FCC ruled in 2018 that local franchise authority's have no authority over non-video (i.e. Internet) services. That would seem to include the authority to impose franchise fees.
About the rule
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