Facepalm

I think it saw A as the column header, assumed this was Hex, added everything up, and then converted back to Decimal and got 15, because off-by-one errors are unavoidable.

Is copilot written in JavaScript? Concatenation of ints......

well this was entertaining. Mission accomplished.

Are you not entertained?

I found that to be a turning point in my life after working a few years at a real job at a respectable place and realized holy shit even the big places are full of people that have no idea what they are doing and lots of stuff is just winging it. Its really scary when you realize it.

There is almost always some sort of discrepancies in the figures. That’s why the auditors never say that the numbers are ”correct”, instead they ”present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position”.

Because Microsoft spent $35 Billion* dollars on AI and needs to see a return on the investment or they're fucked.

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And do you think I will react reasonably with the rational and factual information you gave me? Because, yes, I will, so thanks for your analysis

Whats rrally sad is nearly every other comment is just acceptung it as straight fact

Damn you're right. I can totally see the crop and the fact there's probably 10 other numbers.

Ctrl + v

Or is that copilot too now!?! Oh dear, don't give them ideas.

Otherwise I’ll have to learn all about data center sabotage, and that seems like work.

Well, data centers usually have fairly tight security, so your first challenge is just getting access to it. There are five main approaches you could try:

1. Infiltrate: Apply for datacenter jobs and try to get employee-level access to the facility. This is likely your best shot, but depending on your background, it may be difficult or impossible to achieve. It will also be extremely difficult to maintain your anonymity while doing this, so you're very likely to be caught.

2. Assault: Datacenter security is designed around keeping out a sneaky, lone, unarmed intruder. A rapid application of brute force and violence could probably break through security and gain access. But alarms will definitely be tripped, so you'll likely only have a few minutes before police backup arrives.

3. Long-Range Assault: Using drones, rockets, long-range rifles, artillery, trebuchets, whatever heavy weaponry you can get your hands on, attempt to damage the facility from long range, from well outside of its security perimeter. Unless you can get/build some very impressive weaponry, damage is likely to be limited and localized, but you could conceivably get away with it without getting caught if you 'shoot and scoot' and cover your traces well.

4. Stealth: Try to find holes in its physical security and sneak through without being noticed (including by impersonating staff without actually getting hired). Since this is exactly what their security is designed to prevent, it will likely be the most challenging option, but it's possible there are still vulnerabilities in their security that could be exploited. If you do manage to make it through, you could potentially cause a lot of damage and still manage to get away without being caught, so it's a high risk/high reward strategy.

5. Hacking: Instead of trying to get physical access to the datacenter, you could try to hack into it and gain electronic access. However, this is likely to still be fairly difficult unless you're extremely skilled in hacking, and the damage you can do is limited because you won't have much opportunity to cause hardware damage. This will (mostly) be limited to causing temporary outages before they restore from backup. (Though if you could manage to set off the fire suppression systems...)

How exactly you actually go about damaging the datacenter's systems will depend heavily on which method you're using to gain access. Different methods open different possibilities.

You mean COBOL? Cause pretty much every bank out there still has shit built with it.

so you're saying people who don't know what they're doing shouldn't use tools they don't understand to do things that could cause huge problems if they go wrong? How dare you admonish the Dunning-Kruger field generator!

Great idea! AI can write the Python for me!