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🎆Yesterday, on a local FB group, someone claimed that Heartlands was having a fireworks display this November. Their evidence? A screenshot of a Google AI search summary. Not only did the summary say that 5th November was on a Friday this year (it's not; it's on a Tuesday), but because of how these kinds of generative AI are developed and function, it's not aware of the fact that Heartlands was (essentially) mothballed by Cornwall Council near the start of 2024.🎆
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I will continue to offer Family and Friend Tech Support ™️ for as long as I can, but this AI bum rush will not make my efforts any easier.
For the past ten years, trying to get people to use unique passwords has been HELL. (Happy Cyber Security Awareness Month, by the way.) Convincing people not to believe everything they see, hear or read on apps and the general internet is just going to add to these troubles.
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Suspect a large part of the future will be "AIsbestos Removal".
Asbestos was a wonder material which was going to revolutionise the world. Only then we discovered just how carcinogenic it was.
And now, every day, we have to gently unpick it from the urban environment.
How many companies will belatedly discover that a load-bearing process is actually riddled with AI? Then they'll have to pay to carefully remove it without any further environmental damage.
Hence AIsbestos.
Hey #believeinfilm friends and LEGO builders,
I had the chance to interview Zung, the creator of the fully functional film camera made from just the official LEGO parts, and he lent me his camera for a month to play with! This article has the story:
https://www.analog.cafe/r/hands-on-with-zh1-a-working-lego-film-camera-jy8c
One of my favourite things about this project is how entranced and happy it makes the subjects (particularly if they are photographers) when I take photos of them with it.
This August, I had the chance to interview Zung Hoang , the inventor of the first fully functioning (yet to be official) LEGO film camera over chat. A few weeks later, I met with the man to learn more about the project, see the camera stripped down, and borrow it for an entire month. This is the story of LEGO ZH-1, a fully functional film camera and its creator.
Funny how a single boost from a stranger can make a months-old post suddenly go gangbusters 😆
Now if only I had a soundcloud account to promote...
https://mastodon.social/@tomhazledine/112557623035267824
"I wasted a day on CSS selector performance to make a website load 2ms faster" by @trys https://www.trysmudford.com/blog/i-spent-a-day-making-the-website-go-2ms-faster/
This is one of the unfortunate things about the DevTools' "selector stats." It can really mislead you if you don't notice the text "(slow)" which _really_ means slow.
Since this has gotten a little attention today, here's some more info:
Yes, I did actually do this: https://github.com/tomhazledine?tab=overview&from=2012-12-01&to=2012-12-31
I did it as part of an exploration of ISO Weeks (the GUI I built to do the drawing was a great test-case for rendering a grid of weeks 🤷) https://tomhazledine.com/what-is-an-iso-week/
Question for my mathematics friends (do I have any of those on here?):
What is the better way to show a function that repeats for “n" values?
Going hog-wild with an ellipsis (1 + 2 + 3 … + n), or using sigma notation?
Are they both equally obtuse, or is one more readable than another?
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