Re: It's a tool
As a follow up Tim O'Reilly presents my point much better than I managed Why It’s Better for Us to Think of AI as a Tool than as a Worker
Posts by HappyDog
24 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Dec 2022
Coders paired with bot buddies work fast, but take too many shortcuts
Thursday 6th November 2025 20:18 GMT
Re: It's a tool
Apologies for any misunderstanding. The bold emphasis was meant to signify emphasis, as in, "It's ARTIFICIAL!". The italics emphasis was meant to signify sarcasm, as in, "Intelligence? Yeah, right."
Thank you for the opportunity to explain myself better.
I found myself agreeing with a lot of things in this link
Techie found an error message so rude the CEO of IBM apologized for it
Microsoft Copilot joins ChatGPT at the feet of the mighty Atari 2600 Video Chess
Datacenters selling power back to the grid? Don’t bet on it, say operators
Thursday 17th April 2025 14:37 GMT 
"It requires different equipment and different investments to be done up front,"
"It requires different equipment and different investments to be done up front,"
A bit like the London Sewage system then.
From Wikipedia, "During the early 19th century the River Thames was an open sewer, with disastrous consequences for public health in London, including cholera epidemics. These were caused by enterotoxin-producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Although the contamination of the water supply was correctly diagnosed by Dr John Snow in 1849 as the method of communication, up to the outbreak of 1866 it was believed that miasma, or bad air, was responsible.
Proposals to modernise the sewerage system had been made in the early 1700s but the costs of such a project deterred progress.
Further proposals followed in 1856, but were again neglected due to the costs.
However, after the Great Stink of 1858, Parliament realised the urgency of the problem and resolved to create a modern sewerage system."
Everything costs more initially than throwing your shit out of the window or burning the planet, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done.
CrowdStrike meets Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off
Monday 23rd October 2023 19:56 GMT 
What a waste of money and opportunity. If they had joined forces with, for example, a smart thermostat manufacturer, they could have provided a package that would have actually saved customers money. We had a new gas boiler all efficient and "eco friendly", whatever "that's" worth for a gas boiler, with a truly woeful UI. All manual time settings and tiny display. Made the thing unusable except for the boost button which turned the heating for the boiler on to full max for minimum 1 hour. When the room would be like a sauna. Then the house would cool down over the next hour and the boost button would be pushed again. Rinse and repeat. We got a smart thermostat and from, an average of 4 boosts, i.e 4 hours and half the time freezing between boosts we currently average 1.25 hours with the smart thermostat and are never cold or too hot. The smart thermostat controls the boiler turning it on for a small duration, usually about 5 mins to keep the room temperature at my presets, before turning it off again. Everything can be controlled easily from an app. If the government had rolled smart thermostats out instead of dumb smart meters, we would probably be close to their original net zero targets and people would be using and paying for a lot less fuel be that gas, electricity or renewables
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch
Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space
Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac
An unexpectedly fresh blast from the past, Freespire 9.5 has landed
Millions of mobile phones come pre-infected with malware, say researchers
Microsoft disarms push notification bombers with number matching in Authenticator
Uptime guarantees don't apply when you turn a machine off, then on again, to 'fix' it
Edinburgh Uni finds extra £8M for vendors after troubled ERP go-live
Tuesday 21st March 2023 20:21 GMT
Changes in requirements
"The institution has confirmed implementation partner Inoapps and software company Oracle will see the price of their contract rise from £25.4 million ($31.1 million) to £33.5 million ($41.12 million), owing to changes in requirements and additional work orders by the customer."
Oh. You want employees paid on time *and* every month? Might be a bit of scope creep going on there. Charge 'em double!!
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil
Service desk tech saved consultancy Capita from VPN meltdown, got a smack for it
If we plan to live on the Moon, it's going to need a time zone
Wednesday 1st March 2023 19:32 GMT
Daylight saving?
My biggest beef is that every year (twice!) we go through Daylight Saving. One hour forward, one hour back. Here in Ireland, we go back an hour in October and forward an hour in March. Why March? If we go back one hour one month after the autumn (fall for our American cousins) equinox, why do we have to wait until one week after the Spring equinox before we get that hour back? By my reckoning we could have put the clocks forward last Sunda. Meaning we could be having daylight until 7pm and beyond from now on
Biting the hand that feeds IT
