Honestly, I would find it more easy to believe that this is a big ploy to stockpile computing and energy resources, while making the general public think that all the rich are fooling themselves.

I find it hard to understand how they can actually believe their hubris, by placing all NN and ML stuff into a single category, regardless of methodology and variation in resource consumption between previously successful and ongoing cash-grab projects.

Also, this company was making train controller HMI for another country. They were going on for hours, spewing buzzwords like, “secure”, “safe” and “mission critical”, but then somehow ended with AI.

Wait, I just realised you are the same person that gave the original reply to my comment.
I thought you were playing bokeh in which you ignore the main point of the comment and instead make fun out of another aspect of it and act like you are saying that seriously.
So I replied in kind and dubbed the normal physical keypads of the older dumb and then feature-phones as “fancy” and then acted as if the number actually had to be shown in alphanumeric to match what was written.

Don’t tell me you were being serious when you said that the ny free security suite was going to send you to someone that would fix your problems (unless your problem was having too much of money).

Whoosh ?

So here’s the thing.
In my phone, when I type a phone number, it is a number and does not contain alphabetic characters.
So that thing that it is asking you to call, isn’t callable. Even if you have a fancy physical keypad that has both letters and numbers on the same keys, they still enter numbers when you try to type letters in the number field.

So I recently gave an interview to which, the last question of the product manager cum tech-lead was about how I use AI.
He then specifically asked if I used CoPilot and my negative immediately made him start sighing all over the place.
There seems to be some kind of a push coming from somewhere for these things.

I didn’t know one could call a random IT helpline and get stuff fixed on Windows.
My experience was, either find a workaround or a paid software that did the thing, or live with the bug.

Hmm. Well, I guess they are not using the Qt Widgets TableView then.
Perhaps I’ll take a look too, next time I feel like.

Oof that’s a lot of reports. And even a survey

I don’t really remember enough about Excel anymore, but considering that I don’t remember having that problem despite how many years I used it, I guess that is the case with it.

And yes, a toggle would be nice. In fact, a few months ago, I was thinking of putting up a request over to the LibreOffice team, when I was working on the table view of another OSS project, but then procrastinated until I forgot. Honestly, if there are enough people that have a problem with this little thingy, it’d be better off fixed. Specially in the Qt implementation at least, it really is just a boolean toggle even for the developer.

Would you like to put up a bug report to them?

Of course, corporate VPNs can give internet access, but they most probably won’t have the setup that VPN service providers do to provide workarounds for localised censorship.
And I don’t think normal companies would be very interested in your privacy either. Probably even making sure to keep access logs to make sure their workers are not doing any non-work stuff using their internet connection.

Well guess what?

#include <string.h>
#include <iostream>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
	const int which = strcmp ("zsh", "bash");
	std::cout << which << std::endl;
	return 0;
}

Output
1

There recently was a project that did UEFI on a phone.
Perhaps we can consider doing so with all ARM and RISC V stuff?
Or maybe come up with another common interface more suited to the platform?

Considering Qualcomm went and 1TKO’d Arduino, I’d say we are better off not waiting for it to get onboard.

What happened to your eyes?

I can use CAD. I am an engineer.
But noone will ask me to draft a building design on AutoCAD, same as noone will ask me to do so with pencil and paper.
Because I don’t know buildings.

Sure, I might be asked to copy a pen-paper drawing onto CAD, but a Civil Engineer with CAD will do that better and a photo tracing software might do it as well as me.

So while a good enough LLM might code as well as a coder, Programming is more than just coding and making anything new, requires programming.

Wasn’t it only talking about banning the VPN services that allow a proxy internet access?
Now are they banning the technology altogether?

If that’s the case, then what will they ban next? Fire?

where I, an average user, needs so long to find such a basic function

I am not sure about that.
The default UI is similar to the old MS Office Word and the new alternative (which from what I remember, LibreOffice actually asks you to choose from in a dialogue on first start, so you don’t need to look through menus to set your preference) uses the newer tabbed paradigm.

And while I do prefer the new one, I didn’t find the old one any harder than MS Office Word 2003 or the older version that came around Win 98.

The only thing that made me different from the average user back then, was that I actually read and understood user prompts before clicking “Next” or whatever.

<15 seconds.
Including starting LibreOffice Writer. This is on a 5400RPM HDD and Writer was definitely not cached, since I haven’t opened it in days.

Now how long did it take to start MS Word on my laptop again?

It is so for anything having tables, from what I see.
Dev has to consider whether snapping is a better idea or smooth scrolling is and toolkits seem to have snapping as the default.

Yeah.
Although I usually tend to send a link directly to the post (which is relevant to what is being discussed), the things around that might change their impression. And considering that their is more political stuff than plain tech stuff, almost everywhere on the internet rn, that kind of a result is expected.

Honestly, it is not fun being flattered in a way that makes me try to give them an answer that they will ignore.

Imagine a C++ compiler with feelings, reading your code ignoring the return value of a [[nodiscard]] function.

Ah well, I am not good at that.
The best I have gotten people to say is how I “know so much” about stuff at work and the best I can point them to is Wikipedia, StackOverflow and the like, which of course they aren’t really interested in doing and their lines are probably just a way to try and flatter me.