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Comment They should be sanctioned (Score 5, Insightful) 73

Lawyers in these cases should be sanctioned and whatever other punishments are usual for lying to the court. "My computer did it" is worse than "my dog ate my homework" on the hierarchy of unacceptable excuses. Especially after multiple incidents have been widely reported. Anyone trying the "I thought it was just a fancy web search" is either lying or incompetent. Not that it ever should have been an acceptable excuse. There are dedicated legal databases for such things. Any lawyer using a general web search (the thing they claim they think the LLM is replacing) for case law is a bad lawyer.

Any clients should be examining their bills very closely. Were you billed for 4 hours of senior partner time when the work was a 1st year spending 15 minutes with ChatGPT?

Comment Just give up on desktop search, MS (Score 2) 104

For the sake of argument, let's assume there are some things Windows does well. Search is not, and never has been, one of them. I think after 30+ years it's time give up. There are tools like Agent Ransack that do search on Windows right. You can search by file name and/or contents. Search by date, file size, extension. Search with regex, wild cards, or literal strings. No fudging results like it's being paid on commission--searching for "tests" does not return results for "test"--and no fancy guessing on what you meant--search for "mime" does not return results for "meme".

That other groups have accomplished this with much less resources than Microsoft has, might just mean MS doesn't have what it takes for this particular task.

Comment Re:Maybe (Score 5, Interesting) 81

This is the answer. Leadership doesn't need an engineering background, they need a manufacturing background. Boeing needs to be a company whose mission is to build airplanes for profit. Not a company whose mission is solely to generate profit.

Jack Welch and his cult are the worst thing that ever happened to the USA.

Comment Re: Upper limit? (Score 1) 46

I also wondered about that upper limit.

My quick research indicates this is not a theoretical limit, that something happens to black holes beyond that limit, but a practical one.

Black holes take time to grow, and the universe hasn't been around long enough for any to grow past 50 billion solar masses.

https://www.newscientist.com/a...

Check back in a few billion years and that limit will be increased.

Comment Re:Solution posted (Score 1) 99

Sure I agree it's not most. But if you search for apple tv keeps asking for password you see lots of people with the same issue.

I suspect it's to do with two factor, I've refused to turn it on because I don't have any other apple devices and they don't support standard 2 factor apps.

Comment Re:Solution posted (Score 1) 99

And that 'solution' will last for how long? My apple tv 4k box has been asking me for my password pretty much every single freakin' day for the last year. Which is really frickin' frustrating using the apple remote if you have any sort of decent password. And multiple times it's locked my account and forced me to to do a password reset in a browser. Finally just chucked it in the trash last month and bought a chromecast for christmas. Not a perfect device, but it remembers my password at least.

Comment Seems obvious (Score 4, Insightful) 66

If you're applying to another position, you're likely looking for something you're not getting where you are. If the internal transfer is rejected before you even get to speaking with the hiring manager, the message seems pretty clear: you have no career path with this employer.

This is how many companies devolve into mediocrity. Anyone with any prospects eventually leaves for greener pastures or is poached away. There are groups and entire divisions that over time become nothing but folks who either have no where else to go, lack the ambition to go, or lack the confidence to take a chance on a new position.

This includes management, ESPEICALLY management.

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