slashfilm.com/2049910/plurib… Maybe the emperor is naked?

It would be great for marine life if we can electrify all cargo ships, and operate silently. The battery cost is probably prohibitive at this stage. We'll get there someday.

I witnessed children and educated adults staring at AI generated YouTube shorts slop for an hour. It's all a bit dystopian.

All non-trivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable. Anyone who believes an LLM is a magic bullet to create reliable complex systems is either a fool, or building their own brand.

Game of Thrones may have had a worse final season than Stranger Things, but at least the actors could act. The perils of casting children.

The is from the official Standard Bank Webtrader email account. The platform is fine, but the service around it has always been shockingly poor.

Old Mutual - doesn't respond to mails for a year. Sygnia - initiates RA transfer from OM in 45 minutes. Dinosaurs are dying.

More like ConsultantPocalypse, ie. bad for SAP and Oracle. Pick a solid open source foundation for eg. an ERP, then use AI to extend, customize, integrate with other systems. Solid foundations have millions of hours of thought and operation in them, and support ecosystems.

Love the idea behind EasyEquities and have been using it for years, but their UI is still a confusing mess.

The ICC needs to move cricket back to the basics of bowling. The hand must pass over the shoulder or thereabouts, and no pause in action allowed. Watching India Pakistan and Tariq just looks like how we used to chuck the ball as kids.

news24.com/southafrica/go… A real hero. An utterly badass move to save a man's life. Respect.

the-scientist.com/universe-25-ex… Maybe this really is applicable to humans. Let's say we solve near infinite energy, so all our needs are fulfilled - will humans also eventually just give up?

Wtf is Steve Bucknor secretly TV umpire? That was clearly grassed! #SAvNZ

Dear South African Government DIRCO South Africa. I would gladly register that I’m in the Middle East at the moment (Dubai), but you should then probably try to have someone answer the phone which I’ve been trying to get through for the past 4 days. Thank you for your attention to this matter

Moved house, and also had to move fibre from OpenServe to Frogfoot. I had no idea Frogfoot was this unreliable. OpenServe is rock solid, FF drops connectivity now and then.

They deleted their LinkedIn account

A tip for any developer - create a Github account under your own name! If you use a company related account, and you leave, no one can follow the thread of all the (public) things you created and contributed to over the years.

I'm convinced there is a giant surveillance network due to mobile apps that are allowed to access your microphone. My permissions are locked down, but Friday I told someone Robertson spices are terrible, and now I get ads for it. I have zero interest in spice otherwise.