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  1. 17 minutes ago, retsevlys said:

    This was discussed at a conference I was at this past fall.  ChatGPT cited several cases.  The opposing counsel or the judge questioned those citations.  The attorney asked ChatGPT for the opinions for each of those cases.  ChatGPT gave them.  All of it was fabricated.  The attorney claimed he thought ChatGPT worked like a search engine to generate results.  I'm not an attorney, but I can't imagine that you'd assign the same task to a junior attorney and not review their work before submitting.

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-lawyers-sanctioned-using-fake-chatgpt-cases-legal-brief-2023-06-22/

    Yes, I read the transcript of the show cause hearing in the NY court. The lawyer at fault was given chances to withdraw the offending court paper and didn’t until the court issued the show cause order.  Opposing counsel initially brought it to his attention by asking for copies of the cases, letting him know that the cases did not appear to be real, and he basically ignored it.  Later, he lied to the court about vacations and other stuff as an excuse for not fixing it.  I never heard how he was sanctioned and/or disciplined.  
     

    edit:  I see from your link that they were sanctioned $5,000.  They also could face disciplinary action by the state bar.  

  2. 29 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

    When you get a shot that makes your veins feel like they are filled with fresh lava, let me know. 
     

    25 years later and I can still vividly remember that feeling. It. Sucked. 

    Was that the old shingles shot?  The new one (double shots) has been out for 5 years or so and it also hurts going in.  I also had cold/flu symptoms that kicked in around 12 hours after both shots.  But it didn’t last too long and it shouldn’t prevent people from getting the shingrix shots.  

  3. In legal circles there’s a situation in NY in the last year or so where a lawyer used ChatGPT to do some legal research and write a brief to file with the court.  He didn’t double check the case law that ChatGPT spit out.  Turns out that ChatGPT fabricated some of the cases.  Then he didn’t come clean right away and was in some hot water with the judge.  

  4. 5 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    I don't understand houses up North do not have to drip pipes or have frozen/busted pipes problems. How are they building things differently up there versus down here?

    Well all the warmth is sure to keep the pipes from freezing and bursting. Issue mitigated.

    The water pipes coming into the house are in a basement or otherwise buried so as not to be prone to freezing.  

  5. 6 minutes ago, locodos said:

    yeah but universally better than the shingles.   

    csb: The nurse who was gave me the shot told me the symptoms would be rough, but then she shared that for her 50th B-day she was getting the shingles vax.  Evidently she had worked in a clinic and her experience with pain management in shingles patients meant she was going to ANYTHING to avoid getting them, including spending her birthday feeling a bit low.

    This.  And the shingrix shots are very effective.  I got shingles before it was available and I was too young for the old, not very effective, shot, and as soon as shingrix hit the market my doctor said to get the two shots asap.  I know a guy who has diminished eye sight in one eye from shingles.  

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  6. 2 hours ago, dlatin said:

    First gumbo of the season…and got our tree switched over at the start of the year. We were gifted a king cake that lasted a day. Not bad, we normally get a Randazzo’s cake mailed to us.

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    I get a Randazzo every year from a colleague in NOLA.  Love it.  I have a hall pass Thursday and I’m making my first seafood gumbo of the season.  

  7. 1 minute ago, tx 3 putt said:


    7 is stout 

    ill be at the golf range. should play more but never do

     

    Funny thing is that I play, on average, once a week and it doesn’t seem to affect my scores.  I played 72 rounds last year-most ever, but I can go a month without playing and it doesn’t seem to matter.  

  8. 1 hour ago, tigol said:


    It will.

    My husband thought that if it is below freezing outside, you have to use emergency heat on the heat pump.

    I hit the fucking roof when I got the bill. Then I started my campaign to demonstrate how a heat pump works.

    He still doesn’t believe me. Because reasons.

    Your husband sounds like my wife.  

  9. On 1/13/2024 at 11:46 AM, jdhorn92 said:

    Heading there in a couple weeks with a group of buddies.  One of them has a house, so we should be good on local intel, but is there anything you can pass along for newb to Aspen?  Believe we are skiing Snowmass 1 day and then whatever mnt has the Cloud 9 restaurant/bar the other.  Eating at Catch one night.

    Looks like we'll be getting much better snow than you got.  Family and I were at Breck for Christmas and we had similar snow to what you described, still fun though.

    Try to get reservations at Lynn Britt Cabin on the mountain at Snowmass.  If the weather is nice, sit outside and get a drink at the outdoor bar.  Sam’s is also good and you should get reservations.  I don’t ski at Aspen Mountain so no mountain recommendations there.  But, as mentioned, for in town dining Clark’s is always good (love the cioppino).  The famous sushi places are very good.  Pretty much any of the downtown Aspen restaurants that have been open for several years are excellent if you can get in.  I like the bars at the Little Nell and I still love the J Bar at the Jerome.  One of my favorite places in Snowmass Village is Il Poggio.  I believe it’s closing in October after 30 years in business.  Just classic good Italian.  It’s still a relative bargain for the area and it has a very good wine list for the money.  

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  10. On 1/15/2024 at 12:41 PM, Pam Cummings said:

    Fool Me Once is decent. This lady is a genius at getting people to watch her kid.

    We finished it last night.  For me, Maya has it all going on.  Just the right amount of cockney accent in addition to the pretty face and figure.  She seems tiny though which is not all bad.  

  11. On 7/6/2023 at 9:11 AM, Braff Zacklin said:

    I never realized how excellent his voice was until focusing on this song. Kind of a male Mama Cass, imo.

    He even held his own with Placido Domingo in Perhaps Love.  I recall one of his (or his only?) TV (Christmas?) specials filmed in Aspen in the 70’s or early 80’s.  I’ve always loved Colorado and I have to play Rocky Mountain High before each trip.  

  12. 10 hours ago, dogbreath said:

    It wasn’t strictly high school, but Breaking Away fits for high school friends figuring out what to do in life. 
    The tail end of the boomer generation born 60-64 is who I have in mind but it deserves a wide audience. 
     

    This.  I was born in 62 and Breaking Away is a good fit.  Though it came out much latter, Dazed and Confused was set in the 70’s and was a lot like my HS experience in Texas.  

  13. My wife is convinced that Navarro’s sister is also the dead Annie K.  Either she’s crazy or I am.  My wife thinks the line tattoo on the chin is the giveaway.  She recalled that Navarro’s sister had the same tattoo.  I didn’t really notice but I tried to tell her that the visit with Annie K’s brother would be different if they all were siblings.  I had to let this one go.

  14. 4 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Looks like ercot was over cautious with their predictions for supply and demand. Big gap between the two and looks to be fine. 

    Yes.  And they were especially cautious on the Available Seasonal Capacity estimate.  The current committed capacity is about 5,000 MW greater than yesterday’s estimate of the ASC.  

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  15. “May see rolling blackouts. . . “ doesn’t mean we will have them.  Some of you guys are chicken littles.  The last estimate shows a small surplus in capacity at 8:00 am tomorrow, otherwise it’s fine.   And this is from the ERCOT site regarding the estimates:

    *Note: The 6-Day Forecast graph should only be used as a relative indication of future system conditions. Due to uncertainties associated with the longer-term nature of the forecasts used, both the Available Seasonal Capacity and Demand Forecast may adjust significantly as the Operating Day approaches.

    *Note: Capacity available from demand response programs is not reflected in the Current Day and the 6-Day Forecast graphs unless these programs have been deployed.

  16. On 1/7/2024 at 5:13 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I’m lucky that I already work from home the majority of days but I’ll not going back into the office until I can go a day with medicine and I’m not coughing. Nothing pisses me off like a coworker who sounds like death in their nearby office. I’m not going to be that person.

    Nor am I, hopefully.  Most cases are easy--when you really are sick (uncontrollable cough, fever, sneezing, nasal congestion, etc.) then stay at home.  But, at least with me, I'm a life long allergy sufferer.  I often get a sore throat, sneeze and cough, and nasal congestion is not unusual.  I take Flonase every day, but still have days that I would appear to be sick to many people.  The only time I got Covid that I know of (June 2022), it started with a sore throat (again, not unusual for me), but by the second day I had a slight fever and I knew something was up so, of course, I stayed home for the recommended time.  But if I stayed home every time I had a sniffle or I coughed, I'd never leave my house.

    And what about the people that can't afford to miss work--they don't get sick days.  Unless they are really sick, they need the money and they'll go to work.  

    And then sometimes, you can't just stay home, though some-especially here, will disagree.  I got a stomach bug last Friday night after the rehearsal dinner for my daughter's wedding.  I felt like shit the entire day and night of my daughter's wedding.  I did my best to stay somewhat clear of people--but I was the father of the bride and there's only so much you can do at a large wedding reception.  I was not going to miss my daughter's wedding and celebration unless I was damn near death.  If that makes me a bad guy, then so be it.

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  17. 1 minute ago, Foosters said:

    Maybe if the judge was the Waco Kid. Otherwise, not seeing how one draws a gun and fires in the nanosecond the judge had to react before he went flying into her

    Perhaps.  Most of the courts in Texas I’ve appeared in (mostly federal but some state civil district) the judge is far enough from counsel table to have plenty of time to react.  

  18. Damn, I missed this over the weekend.  He was great in every performance.  I’ll rewatch John Adams and Michael Clayton soon.  He was fantastic in In the Bedroom, but Sissy Spacek was vicious.  “Did you do it?”

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