Tuesday, January 16
Daily News Stuff 16 January 2023
The Worst Laid Plans As Well Edition
The Worst Laid Plans As Well Edition
Top Story
- Microsoft is offering a $20 monthly subscription that adds an AI copilot to Office apps including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. (The Verge)
PowerPoint: Do you want me to just make some shit up?
You: Yeah, the meeting is 4PM Friday so nobody is going to make it past slide 3 anyway.
PowerPoint: You got it, boss.
Hang on, that doesn't sound entirely awful.
Tech News
- There's another critical vulnerability in GitLab. (The Register)
Three things about GitLab:
1. It's great.
2. It's free.
3. Run it on your VPN, far away from the public internet.
- AMD's Zen 5 CPUs are reportedly already in mass production. (WCCFTech)
Unless they're not.
If they are, that suggests we might see a Q3 launch rather than Q4. Given manufacturing schedules, AMD should have time to get the chips back, tst them, package them, and ship them out to retailers before September.
- Should I try to manufacture toasters? (Hacker News)
Hell no.
I can get a toaster for A$7.50 at Kmart. You can't come within a factor of ten of that.
Disclaimer: By comparison, I pay A$7 for a loaf of gluten-free bread.
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So Microsoft is re-releasing Clippy but as an A.I. ?
I KNEW that little guy was trouble...I just didn't realize to what degree.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wednesday, January 17 2024 04:24 AM (liVFZ)
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Clippy was dreadful. The accursed dog assistant may have been more obnoxious, though. There should have been Nuremberg-style trials in Redmond.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, January 17 2024 07:29 AM (bg2DR)
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You could make a mint if you sold toasters that actually browned the bread while leaving it soft inside on the first try, rather than the new ones that are so neutered that after three tries, you have a slightly browned crouton.
Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, January 17 2024 02:34 PM (nk1Z+)
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, January 17 2024 08:56 PM (oJgNG)
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ESR had a rant about toasters in 2018: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8063
They're all optimized to lower BoM as much as possible (except, at that point in time, there was one really expensive Sunbeam or something that wasn't.)
"My friends, the sliders were all effectively identical, bar the one pair that was slightly longer to fit a toaster with extra-long slots. Same nondescript thin white metal, same shape and spacing of flaps. They looked like they all might have been designed on the same CAD program and built by the same no-name appliance OEM"
They're all optimized to lower BoM as much as possible (except, at that point in time, there was one really expensive Sunbeam or something that wasn't.)
"My friends, the sliders were all effectively identical, bar the one pair that was slightly longer to fit a toaster with extra-long slots. Same nondescript thin white metal, same shape and spacing of flaps. They looked like they all might have been designed on the same CAD program and built by the same no-name appliance OEM"
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