* Posts by Handlebar

7 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2016

Google, DeepMind accused of 'stealing the internet' to create Bard AI chatbot

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Bard seems to be better than ChatGPT in my recent testing for general knowledge, even citing sources at times. Neither seem to 'know' any basic nuclear physics, however. Impressed that Bard apologised for getting it wrong, though: "You're right, I made a mistake earlier. A neutron has a slightly higher mass than a proton. The mass of a neutron is 1.00866491 u, while the mass of a proton is 1.007276466 u. This means that the neutron has about 0.14% more mass than the proton.

I apologize for the confusion. I am still under development, and I am always learning. Thank you for pointing out my mistake. I will try my best to avoid making the same mistake in the future.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions."

Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

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I use Swiftkey, but spend most of my time removing erroneous commas it seems to add, after, every other, word. Have no, idea, why it does, it.

Contractors welcome Lords inquiry into IR35 before tax reforms hit private sector but fear it's 'too little, too late'

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Re: Aboyt effing time too

IR actively encouraged incorporation for small busineses in late 1990s. They even put adverts in the papers aimed at electricians, plumbers etc, saying how the self-employed could benefit from moving from self-employed to Ltd Co. IR35 came along shortly after and its purpose was to stop the 'Friday-to-Monday' effect, whereby an employee leaves on a Friday and then returns to the same company as a Ltd Co contractor the following Monday.

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

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Simple

As someone said in the comments: "Guys it's really not that hard, all you have to do is have your bulb off for at least 5 seconds then have it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on and the bulb will flash on and off 3 times, unless you're running old firmware in which case all you have to do is have your bulb off for at least 5 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 2 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 2 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 2 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on for 8 seconds then turn it off for 2 seconds then turn it on and it'll flash 3 times. I don't understand what all the commotion is about."

Do not adjust your set, er, browser: This is our new page-one design

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Great, now 66% of my screen is blank space when viewing your site!! Huge (dis)improvement.

It's 30 years ago: IBM's final battle with reality

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Re: OS/2 Desktop virtualization before it was cool

Er, IBM were doing virtual machines in the 1960s ;-)

Yahoo! says! hackers! stole! ONE! BEELLION! user! accounts!

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I have an old BT Yahoo email account associated with my landline. If I try to delete the account online, it says it can't be done and I must phone 0845 600 7030 to get BT to do it for me. When I phone that number, they say they can only reset passwords and don't have the ability to delete email accounts. Top notch support from BT again!