Read Elon Musk appears to make back-to-back fascist salutes at inauguration rally by Martin Pengelly

Waking up to videos of Elon Musk doing Nazi salutes on the podium at a US presidential inauguration; what a way to start the day!

I saw the stills, I thought “Nah, that’s been taken out of context.” Then I saw the video and an actual feeling of dread settled in my stomach.

It doesn’t even matter if it was really just a deliberately provocative prank.

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Generally, this has been harder than it needs to be because there’s quite a lot of out of date information out there.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