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What do you mean, what is copilot in excel doing exactly?

Not OpenAI, though, because they already gave $14M to an AI Excel add-in startup (Endex)

I think they mean OpenAI showing ads from other companies to users, not buying ads themselves.

It's not perfect, but Excel can track changes by multiple users. Excel files shared on OneDrive/SharePoint allow multiple people to simultaneously update the data, and it tracks each individual change by each user.

I was under the impression that this model does support caching. The pricing page says the cost of input tokens (cache hit) is $0.028.

> almost identical circumstances

That is a stretch, "similar" is a better characterization. The Wikipedia article says he made the comments days after 9/11, and advertisers withdrew and the show suffered as a result, but the show wasn't cancelled until the following June.

Okay, that makes sense. But the monitoring software should capture the connection request to the VPN or Remote VM?

Since it seems to have been glossed over in the court transcript, can anyone explain how exactly a VM or client for remote VM could be used to bypass the monitoring?

Wouldn't the monitoring software capture any application's network activities, including a client for a Remote VM? I'm imagining something like Wireshark?

Agreed, the Trump administration is _heavily_ leaning on this as evidence to support their argument that "Biden's economy" was a "disaster":

> Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden’s economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken.

> The benchmark revisions make clear the economy President Trump inherited was even weaker than we thought.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/09/bls-revisions-sh...

why use many word, etc

I don't think this reasoning holds up anymore now that somewhat polished prototypes are so cheap to create and change. Maybe not everyone is aware of that yet but eventually it will be common knowledge.

It can behave just like a senior role would - produce the set of steps for the junior to follow, and assess if the junior appears stuck at any particular step.

It's so elegant. Even in failure, it's still operational.

> We just attribute everything to disinformation

The full effect that disinformation has had on Americans is probably impossible to measure, but with evidence like the Mueller report, you cannot deny that it has had some tangible effect. With Russia's efforts and the outcome of the 2016 election, I would be surprised if they did not continue and even ramp up their efforts in subsequent elections.

I think what we know about disinformation shows people don't have to actually be bullied, they just have to think they're being bullied. Disinformation is cheap and apparently yields great returns.

Pump the brakes there comrade. You may live in America, but you don't get to speak for Americans.

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say. There have been a lot of events since the inauguration that are unprecedented, and that is indeed important.

Natural gas furnaces can leak CO

> idk how we can have the mindset that this is all pointless, if you never make any effort to cut wasteful spending

So you've never heard of the Government Accountability Office, huh? This is literally its purpose.

Knowledge and skill are two different things. Sometimes interviewers test that you know how to do something, when in practice it's irrelevant if you A) know how to retrieve that knowledge and B) know when to retrieve it.

> focusing on matters such as veganism and artificial intelligence destroying humanity

Not sure if they are proponents of veganism or if they think it will, in addition to AI, destroy humanity.

Excel add-ins can be written with the Office JS API so that they can run on web as well as desktop for Windows and Mac. But I don't think OP's add-in is possible with that API unless the local model can be run in JS.

If anyone would like to try an alternative to Copilot for Excel, I've been working on an addin that is designed more for advanced users who know what they want. It's currently free while it's in beta and I gather feedback to improve it.

It can be used to quickly add conditional formatting rules, charts, pivot tables, formulas, perform data manipulation tasks that you would have to use VBA for, etc. It's also private - it doesn't include the data in prompts, only metadata (table headers, etc).

I'm sending invites out as they are requested. You can request an invite here: https://www.incant.app/

To use an example from history, Hitler was convicted and served prison time for attempting a coup. He was able to use the trial to spread his ideas. He rose back to power over the next several years due to his and the Nazi Party's popularity, and became Chancellor. I'm no historian but, logically, if he was convicted of treason, he should never have been allowed to hold any position in the German government ever again, regardless of how popular he was.

I'm aware the felonies were from New York. Despite that, he still made it on the ballot in New York, didn't he?

Do you not find it _insane_ that he was awaiting a federal trial to determine whether he was guilty of interference in the previous election, was allowed to run, won, and will now make that trial just disappear?

I agree that it could be abused by an authoritarian to silence political rivals. But there are plenty of laws that can and already are abused, including to prevent justice from being served. For example, the several people close to Trump that were pardoned by him right before he left his 1st term.

For that price, it's gonna somehow have to be included in _every_ holiday.

They are, apparently, which is why it's a failure. He was also awaiting trial for interference in the previous election. The irony would be amusing if it weren't so seriously wrong.

The candidate who was just voted into power is a convicted felon awaiting sentencing and also awaiting 2(?) other criminal trials which are now probably going to just disappear. It's objectively a failure of democracy.

I have no idea what you're talking about. Some examples would help your argument.