The model returned an answer that looked legit, but after the board meeting someone pointed out that the answer was wrong and had we given this answer to a paying customer, we might have been criminally liable. I'm not sure who would have been criminally liable. I don't think they would arrest the entire company.

This was over two years ago and Claude seems to be getting MUCH better over the last year, so maybe things are better now. But, as the Russians say, "доверяй, но проверяй" (trust, but verify.)

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but mixing your comment with a few others, maybe a nuke plant on the ground that cracks the co2 in the atmosphere to make carbon neutral hydrocarbon fuel.

maybe with an emergency diesel engine in the back.

i'm guessing there's more research to make it feasable since i haven't seen "carbon neutral gas alternative" at the local Chevron.

also conflates power with energy, but fine.

if you talk about cost (dollar or kilowatt hour) per joule delivered to a vehicle and then compared the total cost of electric vs. the total cost of petro, i would listen. but he ignored the fact that petro fuels cost money, energy and water to produce.

and there some things electric motors can do that ice can't. an electric ekranoplan isn't too infeasible, but we know from soviet studies you can't keep salt water out of an aspirated motor when you're that close to the water's surface. turns out electric motors can be sealed against water.

and dissing physicists? wtf? makes me think he failed out of an engineering physics degree cause he didn't understand math. as we used to say, the limit of a bs or be as gpa approaches zero is bba.

The plan was to come into the warroom and just hang out. Your manager would come and get you and take you into a private conference room to discuss your package with an HR specialist. The packages were pretty decent, at least.

In gallows humor I drew some stick figures on a white board for each of my team with their unix logins below them. As people were RIFfed, I would go over and put a universal red circle and slash "no" symbol around the figures who were laid off.

My time came and I marked myself as a "no" and handed the red marker to a co-worker.

I remember being a little ticked off at my manager, but when I came back to say goodbye to everyone I noticed his figure / login name had been exed out. The last thing he did before metaphorically being shot in the head was to metaphorically strangle half his children.

"What was deluxe became debris, I never questioned loyalty. But this dead end demolishes the dream of an open highway."

My experience with recent CS grads is it's easier to hire Art and Political Science grads and take the time to teach them programming and all it's fundamentals. At least they won't argue with you when you tell them not to use regexes to parse HTML.

In the states we're dismantiling our research and development infrastructure (will the last person at Stennis or JPL please turn out the lights) but China has been making strides and the ESA has a pretty decent record of launching things, so maybe there's enough time for them to plan, launch and execute a DART-like impact mission on 2024 YR4.

We will know we're living in a simulation if North Korea puts a nuke on a large rocket and successfully deflects it.