William Hilsum

Co Founder and Technical Lead of @Wi5_Tech, Head of Creative Technology @nockagency & Director of EZPC. When I have free time, I help people on @super_user

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Living outside of the TFL zonal system sucks. Ticket to go somewhere much more expensive than getting a ticket to the zonal boundary, then touching in oyster, and continuing... Both options still more expensive, less convenient and longer than driving.

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

all files together, and it fails. It also fails if I just upload 2 at a time...

Tried numerous prompts, wasted an hour, and it just can't seem to do it - it tries to be too smart and produces junk.

Figuring out a better way - API + automation to feed one by one? ... annoying.

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

AI is amazingly powerful and annoyingly dumb.

Given @ChatGPTapp (multiple models) a PDF file to extract information. It does it AMAZINGLY well, very very quick.

I have thousands of files I need to do this on, and they have an upload limit of 10 at a time. I've tried combining

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

When the AI uprising starts, I hope they come for me last...

[Edward Hilsum @EdwardHilsum]

I’m so excited to be bringing my full show to @MagicCircleHQ on Sunday 30th June! This will be an amazing evening of entertainment, with some of my best friends sharing their incredible magic alongside me 🪄

Hope to see you there!

Tickets: https://t.co/UD0njB3obp

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@PaliparanDotCom So... How do you find these? And, wow!

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Trying to buy something from Amazon working out what's what... The *BEST* description came from @Dragon2611 :

Amazon 2024 - Ali Express with better shipping.

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@NoContextBrits @jamesfreedman

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@Wise Can you see if you can see any message between myself and Li Xing, last on 23/2/23? I got fed up of chasing and no response... there is no unique ticket reference number that I can see.

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Hi @Wise - would raise a support request, but, still waiting for a response from over a year ago for something that was more important! ... Getting a confirmation of AUD account details, and, you have an address error?!

It only shows up on the bank confirmation.

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@DanKaszeta Multiple flags in your post... EU vendor? Can you sign up with a gmail/anything else temporarily then use GDPR to state they have to update your record to be accurate?

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@rsmck @VisionExpress Maybe their marketing team should have gone to Specsavers!

[James Freedman 𝕏 @jamesfreedman]

I rarely post personal stuff but I really need some help please. Yesterday afternoon, we came home as masked burglars were leaving our home. They stole lots of things of huge sentimental value; jewellery that belonged to parents & grandparents, my late Dad’s watch, papers… /2

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@shanselman I learnt so much from this book! Thank you!!

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Right now, need to download ~2 years of docs from Santander. Each page holds 20. I need to download ~150 or so. No bulk options, No open in new tab - each one I have to click, then go back to main which takes me back to first page.

Same with so many others I use day to day
2/2

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Feel like a grumpy old man... really hating "modern web" on so many sites - it may look amazing for mobile/phone, but, a huge step backwards for usability.

rant 1/2

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@AskNationwide I asked a while ago and didn't really hear anything back - Why are you still advertising after years that you aren't closing any branches when the Petts Wood branch closed?

How many other branches have closed and what's the point in this promise you advertise?!

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

@AlexKokcharov Wasn't this the Horizon weapon in Stargate Atlantis? https://t.co/s1nXkqIdhf (That was 14 years ago?! Bloody hell, time goes quick!)

[William Hilsum @wilhil]

Apple Business Manager is the biggest load of rubbish ever. I try and enrol clients as external IT with full authority according to the terms, turned down - when my client rings and says we are external, agent advises lying and putting the same name & spelling differently

[Edward Hilsum @EdwardHilsum]

Honoured to have won the @IBMBritishRing Close-Up Magician of the Year!

Huge thanks to @jamesfreedman, without whom this act would have never left the notebook & for his invaluable wisdom.

Shout out to the legend - Terry Herbert. Highlight of the day was ice creams in the ☀️❤️