Trying to add an album of MP3 files to Music in MacOS. I have a theory that Apple makes iTunes software so buggy for playing your own music files, because it's hoping everyone will just move to streaming :(
I guess those Akhvakhs are probably quite bemused.
Is there anybody *out there*...
Let's say I have a line that's 950px long. It has 5 segements of different colours. I want the segments to start longer then get shorter. What kind of ratios could I use to look cool? Something logarithmic maybe? Or something like the golden ratio that looks visually appealing? Can you supply lengths for each segment in px for the different options.
This is the kind of thing I find AI really useful for. Saved me a bit of time.
Ugh. I really don't enjoy the new icons in MacOS Tahoe :(
Few people know this, but the word ‘infantilise’ originally came from the practice of soaking things in Fanta to rejuvenate them
Captcha security image from the Paypal site, asking the user to identify which squares in the grid contain 'crosswalks'.
Is it just me? I see the edges of the stripes just reaching into the top right square. Will the captcha system agree? Every time I do one of these things I get it wrong. And anyway, can't AI answer this for us already?
It's handy that Amazon makes it easy for me to subscribe to buying rice cookers. Apparently the most common frequency is to buy one every 4 months, but I can get a new one every 2 weeks if I want.
If VAT is included in Trump’s 39% “effective tariff” calculation for the EU, then U.S. sales tax should also be included in the “effective tariff” that the U.S. applies to imports—but there is no mention of this…
"Ask me anything". So Meta have put AI front-and-centre of WhatsApp. But the AI is unable to access any personal information or access anything in any of my chats... feels pretty clumsy.
It is ironic that the most common human experience of AI in the world today is watching the loading icon in DeepSeek.
Yes the BoE used QE at those times. It did create money as you say. It stabilised things but also increased the price of shares in general and made rich people a lot richer. Inflation made ordinary people poorer. AFAIK It’s not a sustainable solution to just keep doing that.
Generally the BoE cannot just "print more money" as this would cause an inflation problem. Instead the govt borrows extra money by issuing gilts. It's a complex system and I'm not an expert either, but this idea that we can just spend whatever we want with no consequences is nonsense unfortunately.
Sovereign default isn't really what we want. Worth reading this to understand the risks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soverei....
National debt in 2007 was £0.8 trillion. Today it is £2.8 trillion. Risen from 37% to 100% GDP. If debt was “not real” there would be no limit on govt spending at all. We could all live in palaces.
Government owes the debt to investors who buy its bonds. The govt has to repay the bond plus interest after a fixed period. If govt refuses to pay no one will lend it money again. Printing more money leads to inflation. Tax is the way to raise more money for spending.
If you borrow to spend you have to pay more interest. You cannot just keep borrowing more forever. At some point things will get very bad. The real question is, why have the super rich got so much richer while the national debt has tripled since 2008. The answer to use taxation to reclaim it.
Who do you think eats more, Shaggy, Scooby Doo or Obelix? (Asked on behalf of my son, age 8)
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