Re: Google waited a week to revoke his access after he resigned?
"Seems pretty sloppy."
not if he was expected to work a few weeks notice after submitting his resignation
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Jaywalking isn't victimless, albeit most of the victims are jaywalkers.
A large proportion of the ".. bunch of dickheads who are “making” money by gambling the public’s money .." are pension schemes, so your retirement income will potentially be adversely affected by these shenanigans.
Similarly, ChatGPT's saved me a couple of days' effort by generating the structure for a course I wanted; it wasn't perfect, but by giving it appropriate criteria it came up with the sort of framework I would have written myself in days rather than seconds.
This isn't particularly novel; for millennia, painters, sculptors and the like have used their students/apprentices to knock lumps out of marble to create a rough shape, paint generic backgrounds, and so on, leaving the SME to use their expertise to finish (and take credit for) the masterpiece.
ChatGPT, and its ilk, is just another tool.
.. the mass statistics of the global idiot network to support it's "answers."
One thing I've noticed from playing around with ChatPT is that its responses are reasonably correct grammatically, although the content is often dubious.
If its/it's or their/there are used correctly I am sadly now more suspicious that the answer is AI generated.
I am laying claim to the following:
SHort Attack Range Kilowatt Laser - SHARK Laser
I will happily license this name to anyone who wants to build one. ;)
.. there's a new shiny version to counter the disco ball defenc(s)e : Short Prismatic Attack Range Kilowatt Laser - SPARKL :)
I think the Regoniser did rather well with Bernie, a pint for Mr Powell -->
That's too generous for simply changing the character's name from Harry - https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/01/who_me/ .
Are we now going to see a plethora of recycled stories with changed terminology for the Americas (in this case changing "supermarket" to "grocery store")?
It's not problem .. you have a chat with the student, let them know you're impressed with their solution, and ask them to explain it.
You are testing comprehension, not necessarily implementation.
So what if you are using someone/something else's code, does it answer the question that's been presented?
And unless you insist on some kind of hierarchical page structure, most of the pages that users create are never looked at because they are impossible to find.
On the contrary, I've had SP working well (for a given value of 'well') for years with all docs (hunners of them) in one location, categorised using metadata; means that a document can be found by type, product and so on, without having to guess which folder it is in (or worse, multiple versions in different folders). Use revision control and insist on check-in comments and you have a decent revision history.
Search is still *^%$ though.
The fact that they exist doesn't, by itself, make them a good idea.
OK, not brilliant on a short dull winter's day, but I'm at 56 degrees north, currently generating more than 3KW with a 4KW PV system, have plenty of free hot water, and the feed in tariff has more than covered the initial outlay.
Computers in schools at the time were of course pitched at the how-to-drive a word processor level; and all rather a wasted exercise...
I beg to differ - in the 1980s I was with a group teaching with a variety of kit; there were Amstrads and IBM PCs for business applications, BBC micros for programming, Apple Macintoshes for graphic design, and yet more BBCs for CNC machining.
The resource was shared across all schools in the area and catered for all abilities.
A lot of the educational software at the time was cr*p, so a part of our remit was to evaluate what was available, develop our own courses (and software if necessary), and share our experiences.
So, hopefully not a wasted exercise.
Shouldn't that be fill the keyboard buffer G.10G.10:G.10... ?
Hitting Enter would expand it to GOTO 10:GOTO 10 .. overwriting the sound buffer causing the chaos.
Similar fun was to be had on the Beeb with VDU CTRL codes to change graphics modes and the like on demo programs that should have less accepting of their input.
A sparrowhawk recently caught itself in netting in our garden. We called the RSPB for advice and/or help, but they didn't want to know and suggested we contact the SSPCA.
The RSPB seem to be more interested in land preservation and pushing their agenda in the countryside.
[btw, the SSPCA were helpful and the hawk was released unharmed, much to the chagrin of the local song birds]
It may be zero cost and seamless from your provider, but some providers 'make' you pay through the nose (e.g. >£50 annually for a single domain SSL certificate from Heart Internet).
That's fine for businesses, but OTT for a small club or charity website that doesn't collect information or sell stuff online.
That's not the end of the fibre, it runs far closer and there are Openreach crews rolling more out in the area. Wayleave shouldn't be a problem as there are few landowners, and there may even be an existing route to the exchange (though doubtless in pretty poor shape if it's underground).
It's certainly not a Des-Res, with fully loaded timber lorries belting past just all day just a few feet away (when the R&BT isn't shut).
My adaptive cruise control car is a (not top of the range) Skoda. It's not a Tesla, it doesn't steer for me, it's 20th century cruise control but with the benefit that it maintains a minimum distance from the vehicle in front; perfect for those long slow road works with average speed cameras.
I regularly drive the length of Spain and it's a refreshing change from blighty.
With few exceptions, everyone drives on the right; they signal, pull out, overtake, and return to the right leaving the left lane(s) free (except rush hour around Madrid).
Last time I returned from a visit the traffic in the UK looked similar .. on the A3 most folk drove on the right, and on the M25 they drove on the right and over/undertook on the left albeit with less courtesy than the Spanish.
Firstly just tell the delivery driver that you hadn't ordered anything from Amazon and simply refuse to accept delivery on the basis that you didn't place the order...
That doesn't work during Covid - delivery drivers are just leaving goods on doorsteps, maybe taking a photo as proof of delivery in lieu of a signature, then ringing the doorbell and scarpering. By the time I get to the door they're already in the their van ready to go.