Posts by Occasional Comentard

Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff

My son works for a US company that has unimited leave, even though he is UK based. He still needs to get all the work done though, which just means working longer hours on other days, and it hasn't helped his general stress levels at all.

OpenAI is developing software to detect text generated by ChatGPT

Sources

Just require students to add sources to their work. This should be standard practise for factual essays anyway. Chat GPT cannot list it's sources. Probably it has no record of where it's training data came from

Hubble Space Telescope may now depend on a computer that hasn't booted since 2009

Re: Er, yes, mate?

I think the point being made was that the computer, although being replaced in 2009 as stated in the article, was based on a 1980s design and had not been updated to a 2009 design.

Co-founder of coronavirus vaccine biz holds in-person tech event... 20+ attendees later test positive for COVID-19

Re: Not me

"School are different. You have to trade off the damage done to the next generation by missing classes against the very low risk of harm to a group of people who rarely catch the virus, and who are at very low risk of even moderately severe consequences.'

One word : Teachers.

Crap computers in a crap box: Smart-meter blackouts risk to UK

Re: Whilst I can see the value.....

And where do the power companies get 'their' money?