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I do find some use for LLMs when I need to make a genuine natural language query:

Is there a name/theory describing a shift in the political spectrum (left or right) that results in what were once moderate left/right views becoming considered “extreme”?

Turns out there is a thing called the Overton Window 🤷‍♀️

Though, not sure I agree with Lehman right now:

The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.

I was in Barcelona recently and saw an apparently unofficial femicide memorial, just there, by the side of the street. We need more of this. Especially in the UK. Our politicians have got everyone frothed up about migrants they’ll likely never see or meet, and the biggest crime is literally right nextdoor.

Just had a classic LLM loop: “How do I do this?/You could use this setting/I can’t find that setting/that’s because it doesn’t exist”

If I hadn’t let the RAF recruiter convince me to apply on an officer track JUST because I was a graduate, I reckon I’d have seen at least four “hot” combat deployments and three or four “very warm” airlifts, by now. Well, assuming I survived being deployed to Afghanistan on probably my first ever tour. Weird thinking about it.

Makes perfect sense to me. A country populated with people that believe that “more guns” makes people safer WOULD be in favour of starting a war in the name of peace.

I don’t really get how people continue to be surprised by this pervasive dislogic.

I sent a Pull request with some minor improvements to the Power Apps documentation in December 2024. Totally forgot about it. Apparently, they just got merged. I feel bad for anyone that tried to follow that tutorial in the mean time…

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Posted this to the Power Platform Community forum:

Lost the best part of an hour testing and trying to fix a Child Flow returning true to the parent via “Respond to an App or a flow”. I’m trying to test that output with a Condition and it would not work. I tried setting the output on “Respond to…” to text and yes/no. Tried with single quotes, without quotes, using Expression to pass boolean TRUE on BOTH sides (in the output and the Condition value).

I could see from looking at the results of the Flow it looked like it was returning a String but the Condition step gives no debugging output – you can’t see what it is comparing, never mind the Type!

In the end, I figured some magic auto-typing was happening somewhere and simply changed the output from the child to Text with the value yes (no quotes) and set the value of the Condition in the parent Flow to the same.

Worked immediately.

Wonder if I was actually doing it wrong?

I love everything about omg.lol except the name, which I am not sure would even appeal to my 11 y/o daughter.

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Like, circa 2004, or whatever.

Microsoft Copilot “AI” just suggested I use the Clamp() function in Microsoft Power Fx. Sadly, it doesn’t exist, which Copilot was happy to confirm and yet made no mention of the mistake. I assume this is by design. Presumably admitting fault is the same as admitting liability.