Management asks us to write long manuals for the board on using our company's database software. I have been padding it out with chapters from a printed 1990s manual for WordPerfect 4.0. Nobody has even noticed it.
I’ve done short guides, long guides, short videos, long videos. People never read/watch them. It’s almost like an aversion…
Lawyer here: I add Idiot Tax of Ā£200 on to my fees on matter where someone has made an offer on a house "Ā£123,767" instead of a simple round number. It's not clever, it just marks you out as a twat.
Glad that’s not a thing on eBay! My last second bids always end in the same odd number of pence in an effort to beat other people doing similar.
Shocker. Women and girls failed again by health servicesā¦
Always found it weird that your Steam wishlist appears under the Store menu rather than {username} menu. It’s MY wishlist after all. I guess this is one of those things that gets A|B tested and I was on the losing side #ux
Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is not.
I’ve been using an LLM for support while I set-up a new Linux environment. It gives me a sounding board and, I hope, some idea of good/best practice.
It also gives me commands, with most of which I am already familiar, so I am happy to copy/paste… BUT, even in a single conversation, I can see it deviating for it’s own suggestions, or making subtle tweaks to commands it already advised me to run and not always explaining why.
It’s clearly not building a holistic “mental” picture of what we’re trying to achieve. It keeps assuring me it is, but it is evidently not actually able to do that. Maybe this is demonstrated by the way it often regenerates ALL the advice it has previously given when asked for clarification on an apparent caveat. This is when the unexplained tilts can creep in.
Knowing a little of how an LLM works, I think I can understand exactly why that is.
With all that in mind, I can completely understand how it can’t reliably develop an actual code base!
It is pretty great at tedious shit like combining and transforming two simple JSON datasets, though!
PhilUnless this REALLY picks up in the final two episodes, Iām baffled by this review. I canāt wait to get it over with. The plot is āSpooksā levels of āespionageā nonsense. Thompsonās character, while likeable and against type, is hardly transformational. Whereas, Ruth Wilson playing an e...
It did not pick up. It continued to be mostly ordinary and more than a bit daft.
I made a *monkey user script that simply hides the #related sidebar on YouTube. I use YouTube for ambient noise (like this video) to help my concentration but (ironically), I often get distracted by the sidebar content when I go to switch it on #adhd
The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider
I had a similar thing from Dominos. They sent me an email that explicitly described itself as a “service message” from survey@feedback.dominosmarketing.co.uk
So, I emailed their DPO and they, obviously, just waved it away. How is anything that directly encourages me to engage with a business for the business’s benefit not direct marketing? š¤·
Where does your customer feedback function sit? Under marketing. So, gathering customer feedback is a marketing activity? No.
Managers so quick to dimiss complaints about workplace software until they actually have to use it.
“Why do we have to do it that way?”
They say kids these days are being ruined by social media but mine have learned plenty from FailArmy on YouTube!
Including (but not limited to):