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I suspect you're right there. Yet it forged ahead confidently giving answers anyway!

I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust i…

I had a brainwave recently. I was tired and looking at two XML documents which looked identical to me and I thought hey, let's see what ChatGPT thinks. So I asked it to describe to…

I definitely "cheated" some of these by throwing in something horribly verbose rather than whatever a more correct solution would be

Europe has entered the chat

Draw.io does this. When you export a diagram as a PNG. There is an option to embed the source file in the png. If you subsequently open one of those PNGs in Draw.io you can carry o…

Does anyone else remember "Web 2.0" being talked about as "The Semantic Web"? Because I sure do.

Is it 1998 again?

Is getting old mostly about watching people rediscover the same mistakes over and over again? I think I am getting old.

This is my exact takeaway. I can't decide whether this article and many of the commenters are deliberately missing this point or whether it's actually not understood.

This seems to miss the point. Of course these dithered images don't result in a saving in filesize when offered up as jpegs. This feels like a bit of a strawman argument. Some peop…

One of the things that gets to me while working from home is the lack of ambient noise. Where I live is fairly rural and the silence can be deafening

One benefit I can think of is that you might be willing to pay to sit somewhere but not actually want to purchase food or drinks. I put on weight very easily and whenever I go to a…

Not in England, no. But it is in Ireland or Scotland.

Yeah, i looked for something like that to keep next to the phone but couldn't find anything. I was sure they used to be a thing. What you _can_ get however are little kits you wire…

Well, I don't. I rarely use the landline. I'm just saying that you can if you want to.

It's just a bit of fun. It's more ornamental than anything. It's just nice that it also works as a phone although I rarely ever actually use the landline.

I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect …

I can remember teaching myself HTML using a WinHelp file I found on a magazine coverdisk.

The main reason is I have kids. In the past, I mainly just used a tablet to watch video.

This is my experience. Bought an SanDisk card to pop in my phone before I went on holiday. Changed my camera settings to save to the SD card. Great. I can stop worrying about filli…

My current "Smart TV" setup is a 10 year old 42" dumb tv with an Amazon Fire TV stick plugged into the back. I don't know what I'll do when it dies (it's dying). I wish you could j…

I think that even our current civilization, if it stopped today, would be pretty easy to miss in the geological record 200 million years from now. But imagine if civilization had e…

Something that has occured to me in the past whilst thinking about this is that given the miniscule evidence our species and civilisation will leave in the geological record, can w…

You're right. To anyone that's not incredibly wealthy the deal on offer, in reality, was: "Two unfeasibly cheap flights to the US plus a free vacuum cleaner"