Not IT but data analyst. Missed a 2% salary increase for our union members when projecting next year’s budget. $12 million mistake that was only caught once it was too late to fix.

Coming from an astronomy background, I can tell you that abso-fucking-lutely no one is going to use zettameters instead of kiloparsecs. If I tried to use that in a paper or talk people would think I was insane, and then demand I convert it to kPc.

And they would be right to do so since kPc is an immediately understandable distance (to astronomers). One parsec is roughly the distance between stars. So one kiloparsec tells me something is about 1000 star-distances across. Easy. I have no idea what a zettameter is. I like consistent rules as much as the next guy, but sometimes you have to make accommodations for things that are actually useful instead of the “strictly correct” option that is useful to no one.

So he’s gonna just… stay on the plane? Just sit there on a plane he knows isn’t going to go anywhere?

Sounds like the students were the smart ones, they could at least go catch another flight.

No, social media is not just for pictures.

But if someone is using it just for pictures and you try to sell them on a service that isn’t fitting to their use case, that’s on you if they’re not interested.

Know your audience. Offer them alternatives that actually fit their preferences, not yours.

If all music streaming services were owned by HBO then yeah, I would argue that.

Its a stillsuit, why would you get OUT to pee?!

What? Not it’s not. Where did you get this number?

It’s more like 6.7 AU. Source

In other words somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn in terms of distance to the sun.

Well, a billion kilometers is almost 7 times the mean distance between the earth and the sun. Asteroids pass in that distance all the time. We’re currently closer to Ceres (the dwarf planet) than that and its on the other side of the sun from us.

And how much gasoline are you refining in your backyard on those cloudy days?

Copilot is a LLM. So it’s just predicting what should come next, word by word, based off the data its been fed. It has no concept of whether or not its answer makes sense.

So if you’ve scraped a bunch of open source github projects that this guy has worked on, he probably has a lot of TODOs assigned to him in various projects. When Copilot sees you typing “TODO(” it tries to predict what the nextthing you’re going to type is. And a common thing to follow “TODO(” in it’s data set is this guy’s username, so it goes ahead and suggests it, whether or not the guy is actually on the project and suggesting him would make any sort of sense.

I’m going to print this out and frame it on the wall of my office.

Squeal

“Sorry, I’m under a pretty strict NDA and I’m not allowed to discuss it.”