This makes the same error, or a related one. That input is not the lawyer's internal expert process, only the intermediate or (near-) final outcome of it.
For those interested in LLM use in courts (and the attendant mishaps) I thought I'd point out this "AI in Court" tag on the generally good Volokh Conspiracy blog. It's a convenient place to track recent cases and developments.
At first I thought that it must have been dictated as "caught on" and simply mistranscribed. TIL!
I like the first sense:
> (Ireland, informal, idiomatic) To stop behaving immaturely; behave, grow up.
> You'll get in trouble with the boss if you don't cop on.
Irish is on my list of languages to learn, and I wonder if by chance this expression has roots in the Irish language.
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Later edit: OED does not give the phrase "cop on" under cop (although perhaps it's in one of the supplements, which I don't have yet). But one of the general senses is "to catch", so I guess it's just a variation of the phrase.
Who amongst us is not appalled that Iran would use any defenses against a preemptive invasion by countries it considers its sworn enemies, let alone all of those at its disposal?
> is not appalled that Iran would use any defenses against a preemptive invasion by countries it considers its sworn enemies, let alone all of those at its disposal?
Those of us who would prefer not to see schools get bombed.
Like, you have a point. Iran hasn't been playing by international law since basically its founding. America flirted with the idea of blowing off international law before fully committing to the bit in 2025, joining Russia, China and Israel. So we have a theatre where those limits don't apply.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't argue they should, or ask if Iran would have been better off playing by the rules.
I find it hard to give that argument (were it to come from the US) any weight when its head of state, who unilaterally started this conflict — and proudly so — recently went on record, along with his Secretary of State, to assert that there is no international law; certainly none that applies to him; and that the US is only bound by his "own morality". E.g., https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/trump-power-...
> hard to give that argument (were it to come from the US) any weight
If Iran hadn't engaged in war crimes since the 1980s, including but not limited to restraining itself from supporting Hamas, before and after its October 7th attacks, chances are it wouldn't be at war right now.
That isn't a satisfying answer. But part of why we have these norms is to reduce the sort of cross-contamination of belligerence that occured in the lead-up to each of the Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII and then the Cold War.
> Wanting to kill one guy really, really bad is not really a justification for killing children
It shouldn't be. But historically it has been.
The world tried, once after the Napoleonic Wars and again after WWII, to establish the norm that it isn't. But the norms were rejected first in parts and then wholesale in WWII. And then, again, in parts during and after the Cold War and then altogether with Russia into Ukraine, Israel being Israel, China going on about Taiwan and now America under this regime.
Put another way, if you choose to engage in war today, you're going wind up killing children.
I was considering adding a full offline mode but here is my thinking: that is actually a feature/concern that would be separately useful, so it should not be baked into blogtato. And there might be already some pretty good options out there.
For instance, `wget` is a pretty widely used HTTP client that is able to mirror links for offline access. Then you can use standard tools such as `grep` to search in all the offline content. And `blogtato` does already have an export feature, so it is almost trivial to write a script that saves all posts for online content.
So perhaps what should be done here is find a user friendly tool for offline access/search for web content and just add some convenience features to `blogtato` so that they integrate very easily.
At the time of our writing, it is a new product and was announced about a week ago, to be released on March 11. By Thursday of last week, Costco had essentially sold out of preorders for both models. (I think a few of the pink color remain.)
So I think there is incredible demand — especially when memory prices are skyrocketing, everyone stores most of their data in the cloud, most LLM inference is also on remote machines, and the chip can handle most if not all typical office and web tasks (pretty much anything except running local models and demanding video editing).
I'm interested in one myself for law work on the couch, and I'm eager to read the first reviews.
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