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Is the shift in colour balance real? i.e. if we put the printed book next to the painting would it be as dramatic as it appears in the images you've posted? (Have they darkened and saturated the colours to make the text clearer?) And, if real, what's your opinion on it?

Software is such a weird field because half of it is uber capitalists hard at work building the next Torment Nexus and the other half is luxury gay space communism

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It may be.

But if those are annual rates (I can't read the article to get any context) then next year we might find the numbers reverse. Or are both 6.

They look close. I would need to see more detail to pronounce an unequivocal winner.

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

I get that with the comments explaining the code. I know the words made sense to me when I wrote them. And I wrote them as simply and plainly as a I could. But I've no clue what they mean...

Also, if semicolons were mandatory `x =>{x}` would be a clear error. (It should have been `x=>{x;}` outside of the yet-to-be-implemented do-expressions.) #javascript #asi

#javascript: Just written `x => {x}` when I meant `x => ({x})` 🙄 (And people wonder why programmers are pedantic.)

DWP research showed 19 minutes saving for co-pilot: www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/d...

AI chat-bot saved insurance agents 3 minutes a day: www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/a...

Text from Samuel Johnson's dictionary, saying that milk can refer to "an emulsion of seeds"

I was wrong, it's pistachio milk, but he mentions almond milk.

DWP research showed 19 minutes saving for co-pilot: www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/d...

AI chat-bot saved insurance agents 3 minutes a day: www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/a...

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Just beyond parody at this point

But, if I had to bet (using your cash, not mine, obvs) I'd bet on nothing happening till after the May elections. Nobody will want to take office just to own the local election results. And that timetable suits all the contenders who each have their own problems (or flat out don't want the job).

Will people be able tell the difference? Given most people's inability to separate human generated slop (e.g. ███ █████) from quality writing—or for us to even agree what's human generated slop and what's quality writing—I'm not sure.

At the very least, there might be a window to make easy money.

Is a day enough to even proof read the book? My tentative experiments with using AI for software is it will need proof-reading and corrections.

Who dry brushes their nails or puts a wash on them...?!

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

Interesting to read the Badenoch fluffed it and missed the moment.

Your rent has now gone up to pay for your landlord's crypto losses...

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I'm just about to do it with my lunch!

We've certainly been through this before in IT.

How many coders could write in assembly, or even understand a disassembly of their app? How many could work with the C/C++ that their chosen language is largely written in?

I miss it. But I'm more productive. (Although not, so far, with AI.)

The name's Pond. John Pond.

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Kids, today. When I had significant dollar balances, GBP was in the $1.90s and even breached $2. 😉

Covid safety precautions...?

"No unicorns"...?

I heard he was an alcoholic.

"canal" is one of the more dangerous words for glide typing. The meaning of the sentence can change dramatically if it fails to pick up that first "c". 🥴

"Dear Health Secretary, why isn't your number one priority growth? Thanks, Peter Kyle."