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And vice versa

I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties

They don’t express gender, they signify adjective and noun. No genders in Esperanto

I used to refer to the helpdesk as the reading desk - “Hello, you’re through to the IT Helpdesk, what can i read for you today?”

In this scenario the ai _writer _ is redundant. You might as well publish the prompt you were going to give to the writer and have the ai reader consume that directly. Assuming you…

The longbow didn’t require “minimal training”, it took years of regular practice and physical conditioning. Weekly longbow practice was even a legal requirement for most English me…

Except it keeps reverting to the new notepad every few days…. I’ve been fighting this for the last couple of weeks but it just doesn’t stick

According to Wikipedia she was born in Britain and a British citizen, but i am not aware of all the ins and outs of her case

Not heard of Shamima Begum? British born, stripped of citizenship I’m not commenting on the rightness or not of her case, just pointing out that being born British is not necessari…

As an IT security loser it’s not your software I’m worried about, it’s your OpSec. I’ve seen enough innocuous software being owned and being used to deploy malware that it takes a …

Don’t let the bastards win. Keep your principles

We have a process at work where clients export information from their database as a pdf which they email to us so that we can ocr it and insert into our database. No one else seems…

The Omega Factor is another good one you’d like judging by the rest of your list. Was terrified by the theme music as a child and never allowed to watch it. Managed to find it a li…

I’ve been rewatching it recently and thought the first season was awful. The plots specifically, the aesthetics and theme music are awesome and worth watching for that alone. Haven…

From memory I believe it was windows 7 that broke the taskbar - before that you could put it on any side of the screen and also embed folders on it. I used to have it on the left s…

This isn’t a bug, it is known behaviour that is inherent and fundamental to the way LLMs function. All the AI companies are aware of this and are pressing ahead anyway - it is comp…

Another thing that Microsoft is regressing on. Entra and intune are a poor substitute for Active Directory. Likewise with SharePoint compared to file shares and NTFS permissions

Except the new notepad autosaves so I can no longer trust it for temporary password storage. Thanks Microsoft for making everything worse I feel sorry for the younger generations, …

I think you’re absolutely right. These companies know full well that their “guardrails” are ineffective but they just don’t care because they’ve sunk so much money into AI that the…

I really think we should stop using the term ‘guard rails’ as it implies a level of control that really doesn’t exist. These things are polite suggestions at best and it’s very mis…

Some languages - human languages, natural or constructed, not programming languages - have ways of expressing the source of a piece of information, such as whether it is a known fa…

“Ko op” where I’m from, never heard it pronounced any other way Rhymes with no-op

Not just the ’new regime’ Check out the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where Russia, USA and UK all agreed to preserve Ukraine’s borders in return for them giving their nukes to Russia. …

Not only was it cool, it was also social. I met a lot of people through smoking that I wouldn’t have done otherwise