Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
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Olap@lemmy.worldto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.English
6·1 month agoTotal Annihilation on a LAN
Red Alert cut-scenes
Halo on a LAN
Battlefield online with voice comms
Couch co-op gears of war, and Army of 2
Finishing Mass Effect
Worms, hot-seat
Instagib. Oh fuck, instagib is pure adrenaline
Just one more turn
Last 5 in Battle Royale, never yet finished last!
You have died of dysentery
Hitting that last alien
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?
22·1 month agoSomething with gears. Like a cranked egg whisk. Huge amounts of science went into this, but all of it should be replicable in a few generations of experiment with even bronze working. And it should inspire inventors of the age too
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?
12·1 month agoSo you can likely earn in another role. The key is to make them believe that you chose to be here, rather than anywhere else. And that may involve lying because management don’t want to hear it’s because of your short commute and relatively easy workload. But, maybe you are there because you think that they are doing good work in whatever field? Maybe they do offer you great experience for your career. Maybe you do have a great team?
And maybe you don’t. In which case it is platitudes time, tell them what they want to hear and volunteer for things more. But also, maybe time to get that CV brushed up too?
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and WordEnglish
11·1 month agoAnd it will fuck up around half of even the simple formulas. This is really bad, and the idiots in charge should feel bad. Excel basically runs the world and they are about to fuck it up
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and WordEnglish
21·1 month agoLLMs lose context over a short session. They all have input limits. Very small input limits usually. Best it can probably do is suggest formulas for you based on your natural language, maybe some copy/paste. Which means it can beat a 9 year old, great news everyone! Or show a help article on pivot tables (which the help function already does!)
Excel is very simple to work with, hence its ubiquity. LLMs also get shit wrong about half the time, way more than half with difficult things ime. Meaning they cost experienced operators time, a few studies are showing this now with coding. And are expensive as fuck. And slow as fuck. And reduce capacity for learning. Meaning they actually cap what excel can achieve, as the user won’t grow at the same rate, renoving the one advantage excel actually has: the learning rate is phenomenal
The C-Suite which insisted on this integration is basically an subservient idiot themselves at this stage who doesn’t understand their product, their market fit, or their userbase. They should replace thenselves with an LLM
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and WordEnglish
262·1 month agoLLMs can’t count. Can’t add. Can’t deal with actually large datasets
How is excel a good fit for vibe-coding?
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report FindsEnglish
121·1 month agoNowhere close to any junior ime. Grads learn very quickly. Interns only job is to understand. Code academy career switchers understand requirements and will ask questions. Subservient AI does fuck all of any of those things
They are more akin to yet another Rapid Application Development wave imo. Go see how the previous iterations have done. Lots are still with us (rails ftw!). I’ll bet most will outlive LLMs
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world•The Church of Sainte-Mere-Eglise has a mannequin on its bell tower.
3·2 months agoAnd a festival on the 6th of June. Great local Cider
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Which of the 3 standard compression algorithms on Unix (gz, xz, or bz2) is best for long term data archival at their highest compression?
41·2 months agoThis is a money game, how much are you willing to invest?
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple steps up war of words with European regulatorsEnglish
551·2 months agoHave you tried to have a smart phone outside of Apple or Android? They are clearly operating as a duopoly at this stage, they need tackled
Olap@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in LondonEnglish
2·2 months agoHe could be barred from entry or proscribed though
Olap@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in LondonEnglish
4·2 months agoCalling for the government to resign and elections isn’t exactly treason. Dissolution of the government is a perfectly ordinary part of democracy in the UK
Just the way he’s put it makes him a total cunt
Olap@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Modernization of the British nuclear forces and the threat of a new arms raceEnglish
1·2 months agoCommand and Control is a great read also!
Olap@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are a lot of statues vandalised with traffic cones in Scotland?
2·2 months agoIt started with the Duke of Wellington in Glasgow afaik. And the council would send someone up to take it off. And so a local would stick it back up. And so on. So mostly just a laugh, I don’t think anyone really had much to say about Wellington in the 20th Century. And it just kinda spread. Glasgow City Council don’t bother removing it these days, too much faff
Olap@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirmEnglish
62·2 months agoAnyone actually playing 7? I know of no one personally, and I’ve played them all religiously
Olap@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•P&O Ferries boss who sparked outage after mass sacking quitsEnglish
2·2 months agoHe was the face of it. He profittsd massively from it
Olap@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•P&O Ferries boss who sparked outage after mass sacking quitsEnglish
9·2 months agoTo no doubt get another CEO role. He should be pilloried from pole to pole and unemployable
I’m gonna bet he’s not massively experienced and thus could be a bit nervous too. Airflow, hydration, you could go on top some more, try more positions, and most importantly, have plenty of fun!




That’s why I have a 65" and sit barely 2m from it. Stick on a 4k Dolby Vision encoded file through Jellyfin. Looks fucking great!