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Comment Re:Not a lot of people paying attention apparently (Score 1) 21

It's pretty wild how many people had to fuck up in order for this to get all the way to the Appeals Court.
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2. The filing lawyers' staff (assistants, paralegals, maybe a junior lawyer or articling student) who participated in the drafting.
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6. The judge's support staff, insofar as anyone was supporting on this case.

Generally assistants and paralegals may not have any part of false citations. They would be more involved with the processes than anything else. It is mostly on the lawyers who signed the filings. Any work submitted under their name is a reflection on them.

Also what did you responsibility do you expect of the judge's support staff? The judge's clerk and court reporter do very little research or look at the filings in detail. They are generally more involved with the processes like scheduling hearings, processing the filings, preparing transcripts for lawyers, etc. From what I can tell this was a state court handling a divorce case.

Comment Re: Disbar (Score 1) 21

Generally opposing counsel would challenge the cases; however, if opposing counsel was lazy and did not bother to check, that's another story. The first case I know with AI generated cases was Mata v Avianca. The opposing counsel alerted the court to the fictitious citations early in the case. The lawyers that used ChatGPT to write the briefs were sanctioned and fined. But that was a federal case where there is more scrutiny. A local divorce case may mean the lawyers and judge did not check everything.

Comment Re:Modern design (Score 1) 104

Either the Indian investigators did not like what they found (it implicated the crew, ground personnel, airline, etc rather than the plane maker) or they were unable to understand the data and were not willing to admit this and hand the boxes over to the experts. Why would I presume this? Simple. They've announced the recovery of both boxes, so we know they have all the flight data and voice recordings.

Unlike you, the various government agencies that investigate crashes have a responsibility to make sure they have everything correct. Analyzing the data is not instant. People seem to think investigations happen like in CSI. Determining the root cause could take months. Part of the investigation is determining if it could have been prevented, what steps can be done to avoid the cause in the future, etc. The crash happened on June 12, 2025. It has not been a month since it happened, yet you expect findings to be released immediately?

If there were data recorded to indicate a problem with the design or construction of the plane, there would have been immediate notifications to the American and European air safety agencies and the plane manufacturer, which would have been followed by airworthiness notifications and possibly groundings.

Your assumption again is that somehow investigator instantly know the root cause and are ready to release their findings. When the investigation determines that it was a design or construction problem, the appropriate agencies are notified.

When there's a known safety issue with the design of an airliner, the various safety agencies are not just gonna sit there on their collective hands.

Part of the investigation has to take into account how it has to be done. Suppose the root cause is a faulty design of a part. It will need to be replaced; however, the replacement part has to be redesigned first. Then it will take time to replace the part on all affected aircraft even if all the parts existed. Things do not happen magically.

Comment Re: "far too small to generate any lift"?? (Score 1) 104

He is trying to smear leftists with topics unrelated to this post. But as his name suggests, he is a right winger. If you follow his other posts, he uses every chance he gets to blame things on the left. Like this post where he insinuates that it is Obama's fault that touchscreens have replaced physical controls in cars."One could indirectly blame the Obama-era NHTSA for pushing a backup camera requirement . . . ".

  1. Obama made backup cameras mandatory.
  2. ????
  3. Automakers removed physical controls.
  4. Profit!!

It is his modus operandi.

Comment Re: "far too small to generate any lift"?? (Score 1) 104

Doesn't the 787 also have a battery for electrical power? I remember that early in its lifetime they had some issues with said battery, and tried to blame the manufacturer.

Yes the 787 has batteries. No the battery is not enough to power all systems for long. Yes there were initial problems with the lithium-ion batteries in the beginning as some of them caught on fire. I do not know the details of the investigation but batteries catching on fire under usage generally suggests a manufacturing issue.

Comment Re:bad news for us good news for China. (Score 0) 17

Indeed, Loonsong announced they have server CPUs that are comparable to Intel ones from a few years ago now. Chinese designed GPUs are catching up rapidly too.

No. According to the Chinese they are catching up. Until someone actually tests these chips, I would be skeptical. Both AMD and Intel have been caught exaggerating performance of their CPUs at times.

It's probably already too late, the decision was made and the Chinese government isn't going to pull back from pushing for high end CPUs and chip fabrication now.

There is still execution and implementation that remains to be seen. Remember when China announced they had 7nm chips to rival TSMC and Samsung? It was proof that China had surpassed the West some said. That is until people look at the details. First of which is that TSMC is now on 3nm. Second, it was done using older DUV not the new EUV.

But by using DUV, China was able to do what TSMC could not do according to some. That is not the situation. TSMC could have done 7nm with DUV if they wanted; however, it would have been costly as it would have taken longer, required more steps, and the yields would have been much lower. Also the transition to 5nm and 3nm would been even harder. It was easier to use EUV than DUV. China does not have that option as they have only and handful of EUV machines that are no longer serviced.

Comment Re:EVs are not a solution beacuse of (Score 1) 238

But not by as much as people are claiming. It's heavier by between about 5 and 25%. The morons driving wankpanzers make far more difference.

25% is not a small amount. If you were missing 25% of groceries/pay check/whatever, you would consider it meaningful. The fact of the matter remains that Tesla is heavier than a Camry by a meaningful amount.

Comment Re: Time to resurrect the old meme... (Score 1) 247

The dollar being the reserve currency of choice is one thing, what really matters is that oil is traded around the world in dollars. That effectively expands the dollar economy by trillions, and is what allows more dollars to be printed without affecting inflation. Once countries stop selling or paying for oil in dollars, that's when the currency will crash and burn for real.

Comment More details on the $900M error (Score 3, Interesting) 13

The background on the $900M error. Citibank was supposed to make a payment on a loan on behalf of their customer. They accidentally paid off the loan. The problem for Citibank (and their client) was the client did not have $900M in the account to pay off the loan.

They sued to get the money back; however, a judge ruled against them. Part of the judge's reasoning was the $900M was supposed to paid off eventually so the recipients were not gifted money they were not entitled to get. If they accidentally deposited $900M in my bank account, they probably could get it back. I do not know internally what Citibank had to do to make up the shortfall themselves but it was clear it was all on Citibank to fix.

Comment Re:should be 'CEO doesn't understand tech, is scar (Score 2) 93

To date the only AI that I've seen deliver any sort of semi-useful work in the corporate world has been meeting summarization technology. Basically the AI attempts to interpret what was said in the meeting in order to deliver a summary.

To me AI is still a work in progress. The best uses of AI is in discovering unknown patterns. However in some fields like science, results are checked. In other areas, I feel that validating results is lacking or non-existent. For example there have been a few lawyers that have been caught with using AI to generate filings. The filings themselves looked fine on the surface; however, AI fabricated the cases cited in the filings. It would be one thing to use AI write a brief or filing: Not checking the work is just lazy and stupid.

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