And when these guys discover local auctions, the storage requirements explode. So many half-broken mowers, engines, chests of old tools - all needing sorting out, fixing and keeping forever.
I think I'm going to disagree with the accuracy statement.
Yes - AIs can be famously inaccurate. But so can web pages - even reputable ones. In fact, any single source of information is insufficient to be relied upon, if accuracy is important. And today, deliberate disinformation on the internet is massive - it's something we don't even know the scale of because the tools to check it may be compromised.
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It takes a lot of cross-referencing to be certain of something, and most of us don't bother if the first answer from either method 'feels right'.
AI does get shown off when it's stupidly wrong, which is to be expected, but the world doesn't care when it's correct time and again. And each iteration gets better at self-checking facts.
I'm using Hugo to design a new website and Gemini has been useful in find the actual useful documentation that I need. Much faster and more accurate than trawling the official pages, and does a better job of providing relevent examples. It's also really good at sensing what I'm actually asking, even if I'm clumsy at the phrasing.
And for those who continue to say AI isn't really useful for learning - another thing I've been using it for. "write perl to convert a string to only container lowercase, converting any non-alpha chars to dashes" - I've learned how to do stuff like that over and over again, but the exact syntax falls out of my head after a few months of not doing it. AI is good at providing a quick recollect. I've already learned perl properly (including from paper books - yes, I first wrote perl a quarter of a century ago) - and forgotten it so many times. AI doesn't prevent me learning, just makes it faster.
Maintaining perl scripts from the 90s is my ball park!
Mind, I did write some of them, and they're still whirring away making it a pretty easy job. Perl's lack of breaking features is its strongest strength.
It's no coincidence that Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had such a close relationship - they thought alike.
In Britain, Thatcher is still reviled by many for sweeping changes. Killed the coal industry without giving support to the many thousands employed there and put the North into recession, took milk away from children, depowered the unions (which were too powerful at the time, tbf) and generally put the Tory Party on the London & Banks first mantra that they've been on ever since.
Fun fact: the majority of people trafficked in the world are for sex purposes
What's the source for this, please?
My own research points to the fairly reputable https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/ which estimated around 28m in modern slavery (on the low side of other estimates), and of those, 6.3m are in commercial sexual exploitation, less than a quarter.
I get that you’re trying to bring awareness or whatever
I absolutely am trying to do that - it seems to be ignored by almost everyone, something that I personally find shocking. Even when raising the figures here - usually a place full of people with more empathy than most social media, the response has been partly negative. Maybe because people don't seem to want to acknowledge the bigger problem. I don't get it. Perhaps the numbers are so huge it's hard to appreciate that each one of these is a human being who's trapped, alone and suffering.
but both comments so far read more like “not worth legalizing sex work when other slaves still exist”
Making sex work legal won't stop slavery - plenty of modern day slaves exists today in nail salons, fast food, cleaning, factory work and so on in every city in every Western country.
Agree, it's a bit unfair that people are blaming Labour for trying to sort things out. The mini budget from the previous government a year before is estimated to have cost the UK £30bn alone in two weeks.
Snowing in some parts of the country. First time this year. Historically we lose our shit when it snows. (England and Wales at least, Scotland are pretty good at dealing with it)
Farmers upset at a recent budget where they get taxed on death duties above £1m if they didn't transfer property to their kids early enough. (The French farmers are also protesting, but for different reasons)
Quite a few small businesses going bankrupt because of the same budget. (Especially motorbike retailers who've suffered some other problems)
Ukraine fired a UK-supplied missile into Russia. We're kinda worried about repercussions, but why did we give it to the them if it wasn't meant to be used?
Sex allegations about Al Fayed, the now deceased boss of Harrods. "As bad as Savile"
As a young kid in the 80s, I went to stay for three days at an adventure centre. One barn was converted to house bunk beds and there were about 20 kids of about 11 years old. Everyone else was there for a week and I joined midway, and found it difficult to integrate.
One kid, the only one who had shown me any welcome, had his woolly hat stolen. Another kid suggested searching everyone's bags for it. There was general resistance, most kids thought he'd lost it somewhere and that never happened.
When I got home the following day and unpacked, I found the hat in my bag. Someone had planted it there, probably the kid who suggested searching bags. Taught me a lot about people, that did.
HR should absolutely get involved because it's going to really affect the working environment. And if you're hungry as a result, you're really not going to be doing your best work.
And when these guys discover local auctions, the storage requirements explode. So many half-broken mowers, engines, chests of old tools - all needing sorting out, fixing and keeping forever.