That is shocking, surprised not more widely reported. There’s quite a few hunger strikers though, are they all to be tarred by one accusation?

How shocking are we talking? It is my understanding that they were non-violent and no need to remand essentially

Starmer is going to get raked badly over the coals, and rightly fucking so, if any of these hunger strikers die on his watch. They are obviously political prisioners and won’t be forgotten at all, he’s literally about to create a martyr on UK soil

Keep it away is my strong advice. Having to deal with banks will mean having to deal with regulations. Having to deal with crypto means having to deal with crytpo bros. Having to deal with paywalls is a barrier to entry

The internet was a better place without money touching everything!

Me too Maestro, me too. Not too late yet, but no clear route either sadly

I told you so rings hollow sadly. Brexiteers have no real answers, but LINO aren’t going to reverse, and nor will Reform. The case for an independent Scotland in the EU growing stronger every year

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They can still ballot I believe

Their union should be balloting for strike action at this work. Some might be ashamed, but clearly not enough of them

Something 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

So 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?

They also pissed off a lot of contributors and community members. Tenacity for me!

Ardour is milea ahead on all that anyway. Tenacity is a simple multi-channel recorder. That’s all it needs to be

Tenacity has replaced this years ago. Fuck around, find out!

And 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

LLMs 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

LLMs can’t count. Can’t add. Can’t deal with actually large datasets

How is excel a good fit for vibe-coding?

Nowhere 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

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