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Can you give us your config file?

I find it useful for doing tedious stuff that I can easily review - writing argparsers for functions I’ve written, for example.

I’ve yet to see AI for any of the things I’d actually like it for. It’d be good if I could use it as a natural language compatible filter for my feeds, for example. I’m interested in gaming news but have zero interest in a number of popular genres, settings, and so forth. Having an AI look at the feed and be able to spot the rough shape of stuff I don’t care about and throw it away would be useful to me and mistakes wouldn’t matter.

Similarly I could do with something on the desktop that helps me keep my files tidy. Learn the way I’d like to do things and help me keep things sorted. If unsure, learn when I’m likely to be willing to answer questions and ask for clarification then. Worst case scenario it misfiles something and there’s an interface to ask it “the file about the thing - where is that? It’s not where I would expect”.

Instead I’ve got shit like “let us summarise email for you”. If the email is long enough that I’d need a summary then it’s too important to be entrusted to the Hallucinatron 5000. If it’s short enough that it would be safe then there’s zero time saved for me. A few sentences? What an insurmountable challenge - help me, Twatbot 2.0.

The sheer amount of advertising for gambling is grim. Whilst I’m not susceptible to it, I can’t imagine it’s doing the UK any good (I find gambling extremely boring - they can advertise all they want at me).

Glad to see us doing the opposite of the US on this.

What was it the yanks were saying a while back? Make them pay for it?

When I was at uni (UK) we would never put our names on assignments. Everything was done by student number (I think the official term was something like “matriculation ID”).

i.e. in this instance the professor wouldn’t know whose paper this was

More of this, less of the shit stuff. It’s not fucking rocket science.

I’m using a Hotmail account from the '90s, fuck off.

I suppose if you’re that far right the gap between yourself and other points on the political spectrum is quite a gulf.

At least they remembered to change the name on the homework they copied from the Conservative party.

Proscribed organisation. Now.

I can’t agree with that defeatism. If nothing changes, sure, but the general election isn’t tomorrow.

To be used on right wing extremists, right?

… right?

Huh, today I learned. I only tend to pop in for specific items but I’m still surprised I didn’t notice.

Presenteeism is such a daft model for employment. I am not sat at my keyboard for my whole work day. I could, if forced, but I’d literally get less work done and I’d burn out so quickly as to be a liability to my employer. Half of what I do is reading technical documents and understanding them. Lots of the time that means doing literally anything other than reading more documents - they need to be digested and that means not trying to cram even more data in.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy…” until you can find a big enough rock.

The Conservatives still exist?

But if we were to tax him he’d… What’s the current lie again?

Which shop does that other than Tesco?
I’ve not been in a Waitrose or a Sainsburys in a few years but I’ve not seen that problem in Morrisons, Co-op, Lidl, or Aldi.

Serious question because Tesco take the piss.