Yes, they can, but they can't do it well. As another example to those in the original link, I asked Google Gemini to compare two PDFs to find differences. The PDFs in question were commuter train schedules with different effective dates. The PDFs had tables with stations and times. Some trains were express trains (skipping stops) and some made all stops. I asked, "The attached are railroad schedules for the same train line during different time periods. Summarize the differences between them" followed by "Are there any differences in the timetables for travel between the X station and Y station?" The output detected that there were no differences between the timetables for these two stations (yay!), but it was *terrible* when it tried to list the actual train times; it couldn't figure out when a train skipped a station. After a few back-and-forths, it gave up on determining the train's departure time, and focused on the arrival time at X station. I gave it hints as to the formatting, and it improved.

The lack of privacy is not new. What is new in the last 20 years is the lack of anonymity that mass surveillance has enabled. I did stupid stuff as a kid, but there was almost zero chance of my stupidity being filmed and uploaded for the world to laugh at.

"Employee bought company ABC's stock after hearing that his employer is planning to acquire ABC" is already against insider-trading laws, which I imagine is part of the training for Warner (I had to retrain every few years when I worked at a public company). Whether ABC was a former employer is not really relevant. The enforcement of the laws is an open issue in the current administration.

It's a UI prototyping tool. My company's UI folks seem to like the ease of developing prototypes with it, but its organizational system is nonexistent. I can never find any files; the only way I can access any of the files is via links people send me. Maybe this is due to the way the permissions are locked down at my company.

They're just coordinates.

Agreed. Interest rate risk is not a new concept. I learned about when I was getting my MBA 20+ years ago.

Make it modular and optional.

I can't help with the modular part, but you can create an account and change your preferences to the old skin.

This is being done for two reasons:

1. 1) for employees in California, accrued / unused PTO must be paid out when the employee departs.
2. 2) accrued PTO is a liability that must be reported as such on the balance sheet and income statement (which makes sense under #1, given that it must be paid out, but it was recorded as a liability even before the California law).

By going to unlimited PTO, there is no more accrual, so there is no more liability and no payouts when people leave.

That said, I've spent the last few years at companies that have this policy, and it is nice to not have to worry about going negative. I don't think I take any more PTO than I would without the policy, though.

Criminals are already obscuring their plates.

FTFY. And you are correct, unfortunately.

Experian and Equifax both make credit freezes simple to set up (I had less luck with TransUnion). It takes about 10 minutes for each site and they can be unfrozen very quickly (from my recent experience, within 1 business day). They are now free for everyone.

You can read about the logic here; there are three paragraphs of quotes talking about how Tableau will enhance Salesforce's business.

I don't recall any recent news about organizing at Salesforce. What makes you think this was tied to organizing in any way?

Apparently schools find their schedules nearly impossible to compile too

This very much depends on the school. Depressing story: my father-in-law created the master schedule at an inner-city high school for several years. There were lots of requirements specified in the relevant laws and regulations; the most important -- and usually conflicting -- ones were: students have to take a certain number of class periods, each period can only have a certain number of students, and there is a certain number of teachers assigned to the building, and each teacher can teach a certain number of periods. Going strictly by the book, it was mathematically impossible. As a simplified example, let's say each student had to take 1 period of math, there were 300 students in the building, no more than 40 students were allowed in the room per period, and there was 1 math teacher assigned to the building who could teach 5 periods. Given all this, there's no way to meet the requirements. 300 / 40 > 5, or 300 / 5 > 40. Yet the school opened every year. How did he do it? He oversubscribed the periods, because he knew (roughly) what percentage of students wouldn't show up. So he'd put, say, 75 kids in the first period, and 70 in the second, knowing that half of them wouldn't show up for the first period, and maybe a few more for a second period. He might also adjust the oversubscription percentage based on the difficulty level of the class, age of the students, etc. This is the kind of thing a machine-learning program could do, but a conventional software program, with rigid rules, could never pull off.

Google has decided in their wisdom that you can't use an app password with your account unless you enable two factor authentication. That, of course, requires giving Google my cell phone number, which isn't happening.

You can do 2FA with a FIDO-compatible card (I use YubiKey), which is far more secure than cell-phone based 2FA because it cannot be SIM-swapped. The YubiKeys are not free, of course (mine cost about $45 each, and I have two), but if not giving out your phone is important to you, it might be an option.

Not in the US it's not. I stay in hotels maybe 3 or 4 times a year, and I've never been assessed a cleaning fee. Some hotels threaten to charge a cleaning fee if you smoke in a non-smoking room, but I don't smoke, so I wouldn't know if they follow through.