Philip Beck

try { IPA (beer); code; flight; bikes; more IPA; throw memory_exception; }

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

Bose Android app. Please don't forget all my settings every time you upgrade yourself.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

As an ex Twitter user, I'm tweeting that I've un-exed myself back onto the ex Twitter service called X.

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@PeterStefanovi2 Congratulations South!

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I'm getting a bit rusty with C, so I may have a look C into Rust and C what I can C.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

@rpg_haven @RhysSullivan I often have text in the windows clipboard and I want to paste it... right here. Right click, new text file. Double click, paste. Sometimes I open the app first and then save. Losing either option would be like losing a limb.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

@system76 dir (on amiga 1000) or load"*",8,1 if you include the c64 blinking cursor.

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Good luck Heathrow on your potential third runway! Maybe the one square mile of HS2 they're building at Euston can be utilised properly now. Forget the North, build another direct train link to the airport.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

VS2022 just warned me that .net 6.0 is out of support and will no longer receive updates. I haven't quite got round to starting to use it yet. I wonder if my usage of MFC from the 1990's is also out of support. Will have to check on that.

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@sysxplore Like Linus I started with Minix.

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Every Microsoft product ever - ctrl F to search for text, except Outlook. I read somewhere that Bill Gates himself intervened to have ctrl F forward an email. So I've spent my whole life trying to remember how to search for text in an email in Outlook.🫤

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If shipping containers can agree on a global standard why can't black socks?
It's a pair! No the stitching colour is different...

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

The new Outlook puts a squiggle under my bad spelling. If I right mouse click the word, does it offer me the correct spelling? No, it offers me an emoji. :-(

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

USB C falls out too easily.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

@TeamYouTube I can confirm that that appears to have fixed it.
Thank you.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

@YouTube The latest version of the Youtube app (Sep 4 in UK) on my Sony Bravia OLED crashes / exits as soon as it has loaded.

[Philip Beck @philbeck]

@TeamYouTube Only our Sony TV. The TV software is up to date. We have temporarily resolved the issue by uninstalling all updates which I think reverted the app to the version that came with the TV. We tried re-installing but the problem definitely seems to be with the latest version.

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Bank holiday musings...
Tried to catch chatGPT out... If you have a rocket flying 10 miles per second and a second flying 10 m/s faster, how fast is the second flying? It answered as expected. Then I said there are 30000 rockets all flying 10 m/s faster than the previous...

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I don't know if this is fake (seen on Facebook). Ripley was an innocent commercial traveller at the start of Alien and I'd be surprised if Ridley Scott makes this.

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According to Denis Hassabis at Google deepmind the strengths of the 3 top AI models are:
Claude for coding,
GPT for reasoning,
Gemini for memory (talking about your data).

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@seanpk It's not a business stroke of genius, it's because Elon Musk understands software and that modern corporations employ huge numbers of unnecessary workers. See https://t.co/TkLGkDCmiK