Posts by RockBurner

Re: Verbose mode

To be honest - I don't think you're talking to "engineers".

(sounds more like a delegation from the crayon eaters to me...)

Re: Ha ha ha ha ha

I give you "The Happytime Murders"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308728/

Re: Gullible!

I once had two motorcycles of the same model, one red, the second blue, otherwise nigh on identical. The red one was definitely faster.

Re: More lies and bullshit from the Home Office

AIUI: it's not even PC Plod, it's a "trained" wetware contractor at best, and an algorythm (AI??) at worst doing the matching.

Re: I'm amazed this still works

It's virtually impossible to find these details in "new" Outlook. Drives me insane.

re sabotage...

More likely the scammers who stuck up the phoney QR codes that link to fraudulent copies of the parking app website are the ones who sabotage the pay machines.

Doesn't need saying here - but worth pointing out as a reminder... ANY QR code that's physically accessible to the public is a target for a scammer to make use of by sticking up a replacement QR code over the original. If you have to find a new parking app, do it by searching the company name and making damned sure you're on the correct website, or downloading the correct app, before entering any information whatsoever.

Re: so...

... "Isn't American capitalism great?"

For American capitalists, yes.

Re: Good riddance

Touchpads are the lowest form of user interface, I'd never expect decent functionality from any of them and avoid whenever possible. Apart from possibly touchscreens. <ptooi>

Re: surely there's a market here.

"... and left the UK?"

Sadly not - there's one on the consumer-estate near me.

Re: Form over function?

It also shows up that there's some serious lack of knowledge about real-world riding.

Without a proper front mudguard (ie one that covers the wheel for at least 15 degrees forward of the wheel hub) the bike and rider will get very wet and very dirty, very quickly as soon as it rains.

Re: The bubble will have burst before they implement it.

"Trust nothing produced with AI. Do not pay for AI. Do not use AI."

Do Not Collect $200. Go Directly to J-AI-l.

Re: "Whatever legitimate places AI has, inside an OS ain't one"

I think you mean "More likely to be right than any given AI response".

Re: 400 million years in the future

Expect a cease and desist from the Lucas estate forthwith.

Re: Trifold?

The digital rendering (for such it is), seems to have 2 hinges that fold in the same way. IE, each fold will put the two outer "leaves" being folded into a "face-face" arrangement with the central "leaf".

So ... if BOTH hinges work like that... which part of the time-space continuum is the left (or right) "leaf" pushed into when it tries to move into the same spatial coordinates as the right (or left) "leaf" which has been folded over the central "leaf".

I assume that this HAS been thought about.... but the rendering would suggest otherwise.

Re: THE NEXT BIG THING

"One of the earliest IT Rules people need to learn: Marketing lies "

It's a rule of life, not just of IT. Should be taught in kindergarten.

Re: Prompt

He's too busy at Microsoft.

Re: That's not the right question

"... The only reason humans needed to be in the loop before AI was natural language understanding, and that's one thing that AI *is* actually pretty good at - certainly better than the frustrating IVR voicetrees that have you shouting "representative!" in no time. ... "

I'd debate that LLM/AI/Trenchcoated Autocompletes "understand" natural language, as opposed to "recognising" it. Subtle, but important difference. They can identify the language being used, and pattern match it as reference in order to parse their store of information, pick out segments of that knowledge that appear to be related to the pattern, then use pre-defined patterns (and guardrails) to generate a response that simulates a visibly similar pattern to the input language..... but never actually "comprehend" the actual meanings of either the input or the output.

African or European?

Re: Post codes

"... As far as I can discern, postcodes are based on a number of dwellings ..."

(this is from memory, I've not used the PO db for a few years)...

it's ... "something like that".

In towns & cities a post-code is often (but not always), a "street", ie a vaguely sensible collection of address that have some sort of connection - obviously real-life is not neat and tidy so this is only really a "guideline" in practise.

Out in the countryside the post-code defined areas (yes, they're geo-spatial areas with boundaries) are a bit more random, so some might contain 20+ dwellings, some more, some much less (our one has 4 dwellings, but 6 addresses (iirc) - because one of them is a farm with multiple out-buildings and businesses onsite). The centroid of the area is located about 100metres from my dwelling, luckily in site of my gate, but if you're at the post-code centreoid you can't see my house! (the gate itself is mostly hidden in hedging).

Also - again, if memory serves, the PO used to licence the geo-information at different granularity levels for different prices, so it was very possible for cheapskate companies to buy lower-granularity information depending on their use case, or parsimoniousness.

Re: "the AI making so many decisions"

people keep saying it..... "Idiocracy was a documentary".

Re: One point in favour

Writing PHP daily here and you very definitely can distinguish between integers, numbers (decimals), and strings when needed. IIRC strict typing was introduced in PHP v7.

For Gene's reference - in PHP the operator ' + ' is always "add these vars", whereas the operator ' . ' (full-stop) is "concatenate these vars". Works well.

Re: "using metric makes you a communist"

On behalf of we in the UK:

Not on your nelly!

Re: Those who choose not to verify their age...

... No user (read "AI") generated content (read "advertising")? ...

BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAH

Oh... I needed that....

Oh, you poor sweet summer child...

Proofreading?

"We don' need no stinkin' proofreadin'!" (All media sources everywhere at the moment)

I blame an over-reliance on automated spell-chuck and grammur tools built into every single article writing software available.

Re: privacy / security guardrails...

If you're talking to a trusted information source (eg your GP), and they are using one without telling you, then you have no control over that.

Re: Had the opposite over here

"... The bank couldn't show him unless he took his device in with him. Would've needed to take desktop PC and monitor in. .."

Do it. And video the experience.