How dare you bring nuance, experience and moderation into the conversation.
Seriously, though, I am a firm believer that no tech is inherently bad, though the people who wield it might well be. It’s rare to see a good, responsible use of LLMs but I think this is one of them.
Generally speaking the customer is the one paying for the product. For a commercial TV station, the customer is the advertiser, not the audience. The audience is the product being sold. Like IKEA felling trees to build furniture, or Exxon pumping oil, the TV station makes programmes as part of the product manufacturing process.
Also, this is a reason why public service broadcasters need to be cherished.
You’re surprisingly wrong. Landlines exist but there is basically nowhere left in the world where landlines outnumber mobiles (except places like North Korea, obvs). Mobile networks are literally cheaper to run than landline networks and that gets more and more true as the quality of infrastructure drops.
I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.
Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.
In the North of England that’s called ‘shittin yer keks’.
Did you hear that Steve Jobs died of just a matter of focal length or cropping?
They tried doing the same thing in the UK with a comedy duo, Mitchell (PC) and Webb (Mac). They were best known at the time for a Channel 4 show, Peep Show, where Mitchell played an educated, qualified, no-nonsense, go-getting, straight-talking realist who was a bit awkward and frumpy, while Webb played an entitled, self-aggrandising, directionless, scatterbrained half-wit convinced he deserved greatness… I forget where I was going with this.
It’s wild to think about, but 3D filament extrusion printers are actually a lot more simple than ink/toner document printers. I think the age of printing - at least in home and small office settings - is coming to an end. Most people I know don’t have one and those that do can only think of “so I can print boarding passes” as a reason.
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Once we get the Americans to write the date properly we should probably agree on the symbols we’re using as decimal and thousand delimitation.
Your cognitive ability changes with you. Your human thoughts, emotions, memories, reasoning, skills, understanding and desires are destroyed.
The universe doesn’t distinguish between “intended effects” and “side effects”.
You’re one of those people who can’t click their fingers.
You misunderstand. Phil’s abilities and agency are not in question. Phil can read. Phil chooses not to.
Something, something, dihydrogen monoxide, something.
If someone approached me and told me they’re trans I’d say “don’t fucking talk to me. You’re disgusting.”
In fairness I say that to everyone.
I think NI is included as part of the UK and, if we’re being honest, it’s rare that they visit anything more than an hour from London or Edinburgh so having most of the rest of the UK is push too.
100% this. Latency is far more important than bandwidth for most things and I’d much rather have a 50/20 FTTP service than a 300/100 cable or DSL line.