There's always been an odd puritan streak in US culture, in recent years it's gone from an oddity to something quite sinister. I've had multiple serious enquiries from friends and acquaintances in th… (View Post)

LLMs don't write code, they just regurgitate variations of code segments they've been trained on. If you ask an AI to produce a bubble sort routine it'll give you one (which I guess is where the 25% … (View Post)

A good example of why perfect design doesn't exist is the semiconductor industry. They have put enormous effort into designing purely with simulation technology, given that actually getting a physica… (View Post)

Indeed. Neither the tories or labour have tried to hide their desire for micro-control over our lives. Benefits claimants will be first because, as mentioned, nobody cares about them. The mechanisms … (View Post)

My ophthalmology consultant has two separate PCs on his desk, one to access my records and one to view OCT scans. Apparently the two pieces of software cannot run on the same system (one PC was runni… (View Post)