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Comment Re:Non-AI solution to the rescue (Score 2) 37

In the context of the story, Employment Tribunals in the United Kingdom, the Judge will instantly spot any dodgy citations. Basically, all the useful citations are known to the judges already, so anything they don't recognise they will look up. Of course, they have access to a computerised database of all the cases, so looking things up takes mere seconds.

How do I know this? My brother is, in fact, an Employment Tribunal Judge in the UK, and he told me at Christmas that he had already seen a legal firm doing that. Referenced a case he didn't recognise, looked it up because, of course, he was curious to find it didn't exist.

Comment Re:We never learn. (Score 2) 56

If you think having the RAM market supplied by 10 manufacturers rather than 3 would make the slightest bit of difference to the current price hikes, I have a bridge to sell you.

Clearly failed Economics 101. The same market forces pushing manufacturers to supply AI data centres would still exist, and RAM manufacturers would likely make the same choices they are making now.

Comment Re:More accurate title (Score 1) 37

More likely, they are a litigant in person because lawyers are expensive. Filling out an ET1 is not easy if you are not a lawyer, so people resort to using AI. If you are on a zero-hours contract and your last employer didn't pay you your last paycheck for say £400, you are not hiring a lawyer, but that £400 quid is actually going to make a big difference to your finances.

That said, my brother (an actual Employment Tribunal Judge in the UK) tells me he has caught legal firms using AI in their submission to the tribunal. Basically, there was a precedent cited that he had never heard of before, unsurprisingly, as the case didn't exist.

The real problem is that ~10 years ago, a report said the complexity of Employment Tribunal work was on a par with that of County Court Judges, and that salaries needed to be raised to match. Nothing was done. Last year, they attempted to recruit ~60 extra full-time Employment Tribunal Judges in England and Wales. They only got 12 suitable candidates.

Comment Re:Hard drives won't like this location (Score 1) 24

Better yet, rather than locate it just outside London, move it to Scotland, where, if your servers are direct liquid-cooled, you can use free air cooling 365 days a year with a healthy margin against the hottest temperature ever recorded. Outside London, that is simply not possible, as the hottest day on record exceeds the maximum air temperature at which you can use free air cooling. You are now into evaporative or compressive cooling, which is not green.

On that front, basically all the electrons in Scotland are low-carbon. About 3% of the electrons come from burning North Sea flare gas; the rest is nuclear, wind, hydro, or solar.

Comment Re:infinity plus gum (Score 1) 299

Just read it, and like all other definitions, it is useless. For example, it excludes anything "extruded", well, that's going to have the Italians up in arms as all pasta is now out. Sausages are also extruded, so those high-quality ones from outdoor-bread, organic pigs, that I get at my local butcher are out. I am guessing any sort of minced meat is out, too.

Then anything with fructose is banned, so that's anything with honey in it, one of the very few foodstuffs that have never been alive (the only other I am aware of is milk). Apparently, honey has no culinary use. I can't even use cornflour to thicken anything, because thickening apparently has no culinary value.

I swear the idiots who wrote this have never cooked or baked in their lives.

Comment Re:Now if they could only ban... (Score 1) 181

Tell me your male without saying so. Large numbers of females will have issues with your misogyny around the issue of hot flushes. Not that I am female, but I do have compassion for others and eyes to observe their problems, unlike you. That is just one example as to why you might need to change the setting on the move. I can come up with others if you so desire.

The assumption that HVAC can be constant is not borne out by the realities of the human condition. If it works for you, that's fine, but your arrogance that everyone is the same marks you out as lacking compassion for others, which is, to put it politely, a negative personality trait.

Comment Re:Technically True, but just barely. (Score 1) 29

Let me guess you are American and cannot stand the idea that TV was not invented by an American so will go through all sorts of mental contortions to claim it was.

The reality is that the first moving pictures transmitted over radio waves was acomplished by John Logie Baird. Further noting that Farnsworth was not the first person to demonstrate a fully electronic system, either.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 188

The problem is how you define sexual assault. To get to the 1 in 5 figure, you have to expand the definition to include things like any sexually suggestive language directed at an individual. That's not what most people think sexual assault is. Further, by this definition, a similar percentage of men have also been sexually assaulted. Even if we include things like pinching bum/ass as sexual assault, plenty of women will do that to men. So yes, you can legitimately say the 1 in 5 figure is a lie, depending on what your definition of sexual assault is. I don't agree that grouping catcalling in with sexual assault is legitimate.

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