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Re: been known to accidentally pay with my default card

I'm going to get downvoted for this [...]

No, you're not...at least by anybody with an IQ above room temperature.

_{That can be either Fahrenheit or Celsius}

@Blackjack

I prefer the term "Fabrications" since it is another word for lies.

A good point, Blackjack. However, I would infer from the word "Fabrication" a somewhat (to severe) malicious intent to deceive. From what I know about LLMs, no such intent can be inferred (at least, from the "market leader" LLMs). "Hallucination", on the other hand, does not imply such intent; it instead implies that the source of the hallucination is rather addled, and is not in full control of its capacities¹. To me, this is a much more accurate representation of this phenomenon. YMMV, of course.

_{¹ Anyone who has been there knows what I am talking about...}

I think there is some concrete skill that humans execute that makes it relatively less likely for us to confidently spout nonsense and then double down.

That "skill" appears to have been systematically purged from basically anybody identifying themselves as Republican.

_{And likely, from anybody identifying themselves as Tory, although not as sure about that; as a left-ponder, I'm not quite as familiar with right-pondian pols.}

Re: Don't be so surprised

Our product is perfect, you must have a bad computer, [...]

Bad Computer! Bad! Bad! No donut!

_{That someone could say that with a straight face (and not be laughed out of the conference call) indicates that it was, indeed, a different time.}

We have a winnah!

Re: What, no backup strategy?

If the light stops working on the whim of someone else, that is an intrusion into the "home" - it may as well be a hotel for all the sense of "belonging there" that is left. And that "someone else" doesn't even know you! It isn't even personal, you are literally nothing to them other than an account on their screen.

For the record, I do not, nor would I even consider, turning off someone's lights, whim or no!

Re: What I cannot understand ...

If I had a nickel for every instance of whataboutism in this forum...

Re: What I cannot understand ...

Yeah, but that would require putting down the clicker set (welded?) to Fox Noise, putting down the Super-Slurpee full of Kool-Aid, and straining every synapse to try to comprehend what is there...all the while desperately trying to filter out the cognitive dissonance that would result. Sheesh! Too much work! Much easier to sit back and watch Hannity bullshit himself silly.

_{I mean, it never was about the facts, now was it?}

Re: What I cannot understand ...

Mary Trump (remember her?) posited recently that he's keeping them for leverage in a potential future business deal overseas. If these docs contain some embarrassing/compromising details on a head of state that tRump wants to do business in, they could be used to get The Orangutan a better deal.

Ego? Sure, but tRump is purely transactional, and these could help him in a transaction.

Re: as did his aide Walt Nauta

Nothing in the EU would ever be an analog to Tejas!

Re: Not a flight risk?

So, he could fly it to Paraguay, that famous refuge where old authoritarians go to die.

Re: I can finally admit something

"Six degrees of Kevin Bacon"

Re: I can finally admit something

[...] indeed, famously he's the only President never to have won a national election [...]

I suppose it depends on how you define winning a national election. In 2016, Hillary Clinton received more popular votes than did tRump, but tRump was (legally) installed as the President by dint of having more electoral college votes. One could make the argument that tRump "lost" the nation election, but won the Presidency.

Re: Women in Jobs?

The problem here is allowing people in positions of power to believe "freedom of religion" means freedom of religion only if it is a their Christian religion.

There, FTFY.

Re: Thanks El Reg...

I've got a migraine after trying to grok that first paragraph.

Migraines aside, I got BINGO on 3 cards!

_{Oh, and wasn't it the Boomers that came up with Buzzword Bingo, in response/disgust to the Me Generation (Gen X)'s obfuscatory excess in trying to regularize their developing corporate greed?}

To quote the old song, "Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggens!"

I find it quite possible that, given a large turnout of folks from home during that two-week period, that Salesforce's Powers That Be will make some kind of declaration along the lines of: "Well, what a wonderful turnout we had in the last weeks. We saw a discernable increase in productivity¹ during that time. So after much discussion², we have come to the inevitable conclusion that we need your asses/arses in seats here, so you all must start coming in at least 3 days a week...."

_{¹Naturally, we don't have any documentation supporting this claim, and even if we did, you can't see it, anyway.}

_{²OK, maybe a 5 minute conversation on the way to an Executive Lunch}

Re: The Recommended File feature

It's just blatant, self-serving, attention seeking by a company that feels the need to keep telling us about the "quality" of its product, rather than just letting that quality speak for itself.

These are the Sounds of Silence...

Actually, more like: "Microsoft is fucking up File Explorer, again."

Re: Hey Google!

[...]difficult to see how others can be punished for the same WFH[...]

Not difficult to see at all; "One rule for thee, another for me," is is a phrase spoken (under one's breath, where the plebs can't hear it) in all megacorps' C-suites from the time of Dickens to the present.

Re: Cloud values are shall we say rather terse

What's new is old again and they used complain about Bash scripts.

...and INI files...

Re: As for ...

Can't tell if I missed a <sarcasm> tag there...