My student accommodation had cockchafers. The university didn’t believe us until one of my friends presented them with one in a matchbox.
My student accommodation had cockchafers. The university didn’t believe us until one of my friends presented them with one in a matchbox.
And titles (e.g., Miss, Ms, Mr, Mrs, Dr, Prof.) aren’t used with only the first name.
(Though the BBC likes to do this with their ‘celebrity’ doctors).
It seems that ChatGPT does sometimes know that what it’s offered is wrong and actually knows a better answer when challenged.
I’ve often asked for code help, which hasn’t worked. Then I’ve gone to other sources and found that ChatGPT has been wrong about something and there’s an alternative way. When this is put back to ChatGPT, it says that I’m correct (x can’t do y) and offers a perfect solution.
So it looks like it does sometimes know what it appears to not know, but inexplicably doesn’t give the correct info immediately.
Thank you. I think the decades-old chemistry-class flashback distracted me from thoroughly absorbing the full post!
Thank you (4 now added!)
They told me at school that ‘p’ meant ‘negative log’. So ‘pH’ means ‘the negative log of the concentration of Hydrogen ions in moles/litre’.
pH 1 is 1 x 10-1 (strong acid)
pH 7 is 1 x 10-7 (neutral)
pH 14 is 1 x 10-14 (alkaline)
(Chemistry was a long time ago, though)
Yeah…it’s worth checking that your face is centralised.
Last week my wife ran a video call at work with the camera on her cleavage.
I have used OpenOffice on Macs.
Also there are some free Apple apps that aren’t installed by default. (GarageBand and one for making gifs)
That sounds right. I think I remember paying for iWork back then too.
Ouch!
I lost about an hour of my life trying to create a historical timeline in MS Excel. Eventually learned this is impossible with dates earlier than 1900.
Is there an option under Preferences… to turn off notifications entirely?
Maybe turn off, shut down Slack and reboot your Mac. Then turn Notifications back on…?
How is it not fit for purpose? You’ll wish you never asked! 🤣
I guess it’s worth bearing in mind that, AFAIK, organisations’ O365 suites are in part bespoke so things that are bad at one company might be just to do with its specific implementation. But this is part of what makes O365 bad: if you need to find out how to get something to work, the on-line help is often useless, because it won’t apply to your own company’s set up. E.g., menus & buttons might be different.
OneDrive is probably the worst offender. Here are problems that I’ve noticed, or heard about:
I’ve used several other cloud services which don’t suffer from any of these problems.
SharePoint:
Teams
Perhaps not-fit-for-purpose is an exaggeration; but these features are, at least, inconvenient.
Outlook
Yeah we have the whole 0365 package at work. It’s just not fit for purpose.
Teams also worries me in that it’s incompatible with Safari’s security settings. I don’t fully understand what that means it’s doing but MS’s fix is to turn them off. Great.
…same feeling about Shottr for the Mac. It has much nicer editing features than the standard Mac system and you can add extra screenshots or files.
https://shottr.cc/