So... What oiled your gears today?

[hellkat]

The dog likes to stamp on big spiders that are stupid enough to stroll across the floor.
Then she attempts to eat them.

But mostly she leaves their carcases on the floor.
Which I then sweep into the spider graveyard under the sofa
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[recman]

[Nobby the Bastard]

Hellcat and ste fucked off to his place for. some sort of unholy conjunction without any obvious issues so I trust her to not invoke an apocalypse.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

*although ... she hasn't quite grasped that when I shriek and shout "Get it, get it, get it!" and point at said offending arachnid, she isn't supposed to bark at me and wag her tail - she is supposed to look where I am pointing and go "Oh, a spider, I must rescue my mother from this vicious beastie!".
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[hellkat]

[recman]

[CrypticCrud]

Some dumb old hag in her Fiat 500 & her piss poor efforts at barge in turn.

You lose bitch!
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I've done my CBT.

Nothing else to report.

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Easy-X]

It's Friday!

https://i.imgur.com/NVV0VYl.jpeg
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[BanditsHigh]

Been relearning 6502 machine code and have restarted writing a game which I first started 37 years ago on the BCC Micro but never finished ... I might not finish this time either, but I'm having a great time

For those who know what I'm talking about ... Repton type hardware scrolling, but MODE 4 (mono graphics), world is 4x the area of Repton and is fully wrapped around.

All the best ... Barry

[rpsmith79]

[Easy-X]

The only genuine project I ever finished in 6502 was making a plug-in cartridge.

It had an EEPROM as I didn't have a UV lamp or EPROM writer at the time and plugged into the expansion port so the program would boot on power-up instead of faffing around with tapes or disks. I wired the user port up as a standard parallel Centronics interface.

The program worked as a print server taking the parallel data and converting it to the weird serial peripheral interface the C64 used for printers. And that way I could keep using my old printers with my Amiga - a decent Epson 24-pin A4 fanfold printer and this weird A5 plotter that ran off four tiny little biros
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[hellkat]

I finally got round to cutting the transcript out of a teams meeting during which a totally incomprehensible presentation on a data strategy, delivered at about 500 words per minute, and also during which my teams meeting (to which about half a dozen people were connected) froze and I had to reboot... *gasp* ... and putting it into ChatGPT for a precis.

I am now in love with ChatGPT and I want to have its babies.

So I've bunged it into the Minutes, hacked it about a bit to fit in with the style of my usual minutes, and have emailed it to my boss to see if he notices.

I am looking forward to seeing how much of it he accepts
THEN I will tell him it was ChatGPT.

I'm not worried that I will lose my job because of its apparent efficiencies, because (a) its the NHS and you never bloody run out of work in the NHS; and (b) even if I did run out of work, I could retire instead
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Well done on making yourself unemployed.

Your sincerely

Captain Ludd.
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[hellkat]

Am I bovvered though.
See paragraph (5) above.

My boss was delighted that last week I brushed up on my powerpoint skills. His beady little eyes lit up and he definitely muttered something about giving me those to do

He's discovering, much like most of my former bosses, just what a useful and obliging little minx I can be when I put my mind to it.


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[Hetzer]

[Ste]

Do NOT tell your boss or anyone at work that you're using ChatGPT.

You can tell him in however many years time when you're leaving but until then, nothing good can come from telling people about it.

[Easy-X]

It reminds me of IT bods holding down multiple full-time systems administrator jobs. "Your job is to monitor the servers and make sure they're running 100%" So dudes were writing scripts to automate most of their work and then sitting back and reacting to anything exceptional the scripts couldn't handle.

A similar situation when my cousin worked in Lira accounts (before the Euro). People in the office were barely utilising the power of spreadsheets and writing in all the financial formulas in by hand. My cousin realised it was all built into Excel anyway and basically finished a day's work by lunchtime.

The question then: if someone pays you to do a job, should they get upset if you do it in a way they didn't expect? Maybe more if you're an hourly-rate employee rather than salaried
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[hellkat]

Well it was he who recommended I look at how it works in the first place, about a year ago.

I resisted for this long, but the awfulness of the presentation last week frustrated my sensibilities so much that when someone else mentioned trying it out, I've succumbed.

So yeah, maybe I won't mention it He wasn't even there himself anyway ... so unless any of the others who *were* there take great exception, I'll just take note of what he red-lines instead

Thing is ... I've resisted it for a while because its "too new" and also because Terminator (of course) ... but I really don't like getting behind with understanding how new tech works, because I dread becoming the archetypal boomer about techy stuff.

So I wanted to get my head around it and the possible uses it might have. I needed to try it out on something, and this appears to be the ideal opportunity.

I'll just sit tight and see what happens.
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[hellkat]

[to v or not to v]

the Rozzers are actually ramming bike thieves in my city now
came upon this scene yesterday afternoon, the Skoda is an unmarked police car.
https://i.imgur.com/ZEKpWtt.jpg
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
Moto Guzzi V7.

[Easy-X]

More Man Points! Six shelves put up, perfectly level (the rest of the room is not!) and the smug satisfaction of a job well done
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[hellkat]

Dropped in to St Thomas' to donate some blood, first time in 30 years.

Vaguely disconcerted that it all still seems a bit old fashioned, although the list of why you possibly can't donate blood has got even longer as I had been turned down several times before over the 30 year period, variously due to Caesarean section, severe anaemia and a tattoo, but apparently not this time.

Nonetheless the typical chirpy NHS attitude was much in evidence, which was nice, as these days I only really get to see the boring corporate side.

They make you drink a pint of water before you start nowadays, which my bladder just wasn't going to cope with, so I asked to go to the loo before I got in the chair. They sent a nurse with me to ensure I didn't do anything dodgy whilst in the loos (not sure what I might do but I was definitely chaperoned )

I couldnt for the life of me think why the chap in the chair next to me looked familiar until I realised he was the director of operations who I had seen many a time on the staff forum: nice to see that senior management also do their bit.

Stopped for a post-donation bag of crisps, a Kit-kat, and a glass of squash - and I was out of there in just over an hour.
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[Easy-X]

The cat that got the cream:

https://i.imgur.com/i5wHrp8.jpeg
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