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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 8h

They've changed the behavior of functions in the past, but only on major releases where they mention the difference in the release notes. They can't do that here because they won't be able to reliably predict the changes, which will also happen far more frequently.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 8h

It's bad enough that this will spit out bullshit on budgets and research data analyses, but what's even worse is it might give the right answer on one machine and the wrong answer on another machine running a different version of the model.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 9h

This will ruin countless lives and the only correction will be a statement advising against using the COPILOT() function in a list of use cases that incrementally grows to include everything that people use spreadsheets for, one disaster at a time.

Tweet by Zack Korman @ZackKorman: "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen."

followed by a screenshot of Microsoft Excel with the numbers 1, 2, and 3, followed by a cell where the expression '=COPILOT("sum the numbers above")' has been evaluated as 15.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 10h

Sometimes you get a recruiter inquiry and it's extremely obvious that their client is racing to get a product to market while the government is still run by corrupt grifters who are disinterested in even the basic regulation that Capitalism relies on to function.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 17h

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/why-8
#smbc

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 16h

Some of them are probably competent but disinterested. A lot of those people have left voluntarily by now, but some may still be job hunting and half-assing the bad cases they're ordered to present.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 16h

They'd have better luck with that in front of a New York grand jury.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 16h

Did someone rename that account after the COO followed it?

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 17h

I seem to be incapable of fully internalizing some facts I understand intellectually better than most people, as though my brain is protecting me from the corrupting influence of believing that this is the way the world is. So instead I'm often outraged by things I've seen coming for years.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 17h

Sounds like the sort of problem that heat exchangers/radiators solve.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 21h

Perhaps he did, but vocal decolonizers don't get elected by chance.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 21h

Israel learned most of its dirty tricks from the British.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 21h

Britons didn't want to get involved in another war, which is what would have happened if the Indian troops became as uncooperative as Gandhi's movement. It's no coincidence that it happened right after the UK had been devastated by war, but the UK didn't give a shit about the Bengal Famine.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 22h

The British were very nervous that the Indian troops would turn on them. Mass non-cooperation played an important role in that, but they were more worried about being heavily outnumbered than they were about having Indian blood on their hands.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 22h

The current Supreme Court will hold that they have qualified immunity.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 22h

Looks like a knockoff of the Wu-Tang Clan logo.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 22h

The British were at least as concerned about the Indian military as they were about their consciences.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 23h

I found that I tolerate my printer a lot better since I put googly eyes on it.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 1d

The latest Bluesky AI moderation controversy is exactly what happens when your users don't trust you anymore. This will not be fixed by better documentation about how Bluesky uses AI.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 1d

We're probably like three iPhone releases away from hardware-signed photographs going from a thing used on specialized cameras only sold to police departments to a standard feature on anything over $500 with a CCD.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 1d

99% of flying an airplane is super easy. It's that 1% that's the problem.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 1d

Unfortunately, the Ansible killer for a lot of people ended up being Helm. Templated YAML refuses to die.

Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 1d

They figured out a long time ago that excessive stability is not a desirable feature in a political system.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 2d

As usual, we already have a solution to the problem, but it's not getting rolled out very quickly because of drug patents.

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Spooky Fish @jnsq.org · 2d

Truly his depravity knows no bounds.

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