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I hear you. Going to college, one of our friends had a 70s something like this: Redirect Notice[^] Trivial to keep it running, basic engine. You did have to do the rotor and points every 5k miles. As compared to my daughter's 2017 Tahoe that has thrown a lifter. Now the engine does have 230k miles on it, but it has one of those efficiency modes that shuts down 1/2 the engine to get better mileage. I shudder at the added complexity of modern cars. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

I'm sitting here chuckling thinking back to my first experience with Mac...IIRC it was a PowerMac 6100s from 1994ish. The phone company was throwing it away so my dad scavenged it and gave it to me complete with software, a printer, scsi cd reader and a huge 13'' color monitor. :thumbsup: It got me through my first year back at uni, but when I got into the programming classes, I had to finally get my first windows machine. While it's true that the colors looked fantastic on that little monitor, too much of the time it was displaying a sad mac face, or worse yet, a bomb icon! :laugh: I must have rebuilt that system at least a dozen times. Frustrating, but it taught me a lot. I do realize that the h/w and software (7.5.x) that I owned were from a time when quality was questionable/shoddy, and that quality was vastly improved by the time the iMac came out and has only gotten better. That said, I still (illogically I know) hold a grudge and refuse to get an iDevice for myself. (the wife is on iPad/iPhone #8...the benefit being when she has an iProblem, I don't gotta be involved! :laugh: another benefit is to avoid video calls...sorry, doesn't work on my android! :cool:) "Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"

Okay, finally located the article. Yes it was a Python/pip inclusion problem. Here is the original article to correct for my blurry memory. AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them • The Register[^]

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Gonna get a Bob themed lambo... Jeremy Falcon

[sips beer] ...and you were expecting...? cheers Chris Maunder

These days an if/then statement seems to qualify as AI. There's some seriously deep, deep changes happening in the world right now. A lot of it seems to be covered in a blanket of "me toos" and re-wrapping of other's work. My bet is that AI will simply come to mean LLMs until someone (please, someone!) comes up with a better, sexier name than LLM. cheers Chris Maunder

You'd just end up burning a ton of electricity to generate randomised well-formed, most likely responses to each previous sentence. It would be the 15 trillion parameter equivalent of watching pong. cheers Chris Maunder

"Enemy Mine" - my favorite, one of very best of his work he was good at every thing he did "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

I learnt 6502 assembly on the BBC Micro (by Acorn). The assembler embedded in BASIC made that a cheap and convenient option. Still use that skill from time to time. And the 6502 is still manufactured, by the way. Still useful as a fast, reliable embedded device.

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obermd wrote: above your hip bones where, in theory at least, you're thinner I know of some tailor tape that would like to have a word with you.

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The Nina Hagen version did not age well. lol. CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair

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I agree "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

Exactly! The officer needs to know how many men are available (a platoon of one wouldn't perform well either). He could have asked, "How many are available?" But he didn't (in this example). Presumably he can see there's no one there, so he effectively asked, "Is this everyone in the platoon?" The correct answer at that point is "Yes", at which point he knows what he has to work with (even if it's zero). To answer No at this point would imply that there are others who are not present, which isn't the case. If we were to write that in code, it would be Platoon.AreAllPresent(), and the result would be True as long as no members of the Platoon are absent (even if there are no members of the Platoon).

will have to look into this. I used to use a product from SciTools, but they got stupid expensive. Guess they decided the small developer market was irrelevant. I don't have a problem paying $1200 for a product. Forcing me to do it every dang year? I don't think so. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.