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I “love” lists of “before they were famous” movie roles, which either:

  1. include the actor’s breakout feature (e.g. Steve Martin in The Jerk)
  2. completely overlook their notable childhood roles (e.g. Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun)
  3. just ignore half their career (e.g. Keanu Reeves in The Lake House 2006… 15 years after Point Break)

These are lists curated by actual people. If LLMs are trained on this rubbish, no wonder they spout such junk.

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Generally, this has been harder than it needs to be because there’s quite a lot of out of date information out there.

One thing that really threw me was trying to work with responsive layouts. I kept seeing this:

Parent.Width *  
    Switch(Parent.Size,  
        ScreenSize.Small, 0.5,  
        ScreenSize.Medium, 0.3,  
        0.25)

Well, Parent.Size just didn’t want to work for me. I did eventually find out why: Size is a property of Screen controls. So, if you have a Screen control called “Main” Main.Size will get what you want.

Obviously if you’re working with a control that has a Screen as a parent, Parent.Size will work. So, while Parent might be useful shorthand when you’re writing… it’s not when you’re learning.

They’ve changed the worksheet tabs in excel and it’s like someone I have always know with a beard has shaved

Today, in the UK, we’ll find out if it’s OK for humans to continue to die in intolerable pain, the likes of which it would be illegal to inflict on an animal.

The only sane response to the trolley problem is to do nothing. If you can be (philosophically) responsible for deaths by inaction, then we’re all guilty of that anyway.

eBay sent me an email detailing things I could improve in the listing. Said the descrption was no good… their AI wrote it.

“I’m only doing this on the precondition that I can lie, and no-one will call me out,” is definitely the way to run a democracy.