Paul Harper

Yup.

Education and intelligence are not necessarily connected. The Peter Principle applies just as much in academia as it does in business.

24 books read so far this year, too. Currently reading "Entitled" about the Yorks, and a history of the BBC. Russ Jones' latest book is next in the queue.

Her and Truss are very much birds of a feather. Utterly convinced they're right regardless of what reality inconveniently says.

Good gym session this morning - pushed a bit harder on the legs and belly. They'll ache tomorrow. Followed up by popping into Morrison's for ham and rolls (£7 total) and walking out laden down and £55 poorer! Ah well... it's a lovely morning for it:

I realise that old development techniques like SSADM have largely fallen out of favour, but even that only covered 80% of the systems life cycle - it misses out maintenance, which we always used to describe as being "the other 80% of the cost".

Using AI to code is just unprofessional.

I'm very much in the same boat as you - 30 years designing and building global systems for ICI until I retired. The level and variety of knowledge required went way beyond how to programme. How are these neophyte "coders" going to debug code they didn't write and don't understand?

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Yup. AI is a logical extension of the reduction of programming from something that required genuine creative thought and an intimate knowledge of logical progressions, though higher level macro languages, to little more than a list of pre-progammed procedure calls, to not even bothering with that.

And how are these human, soulful coders (an oxymoron, surely?) going to check their AI-created code once they forget how to write, how to test and how to maintain that code?

What's being described there isn't coding but design. I'm glad I'm out of that business now. There are too many idiots in it.

Tories really are living proof of the old aphorism that says, "If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything."

Says the person who only reposts or replies to other people's thoughts. When was the last original thought that you had, Mark? Something that didn't rely on someone else writing something first?

Maybe start doing something original yourself before describing others as "Patronising much." [sic]

All of you that don't understand a rhetorical question for a start...

The irony of Trump describing someone else as "damaged" is off the scale.

Is it too much to hope for that Israel and Iran could wipe each other out? That would certainly make the Middle East a lot quieter and might finally give the region a chance to grow up a bit.

Trump considering himself to be the pinnacle of 250 years of progress is living proof that evolution is bidirectional.

Ah yes, Jake Paul. The moron's moron...

America doesn't have a "Centre". It has a far-right and an extreme-right. Not much of a choice, really.

Are they *all* pasty white virgins still looking forward to their first shave?

"American Military Intelligence" is an oxymoron.

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Is "bronzer" a synonym for "Victorian mahogany" now?

Sorry, I really tried, but I just couldn't parse that into English.

Beyond hubris: arrogance.

S'moist out. S'very moist!

She'll take over, for sure. Immediately after his unfortunate accident in the shooting range.

I really wish Jess Phillips would cross over to the Green Party. We're much closer to her principles, standards and morality than Labour is or ever will be.

He never met a carbohydrate he didn't fall in love with.

US oil production: 14m barrels/day.
US oil exports: 4m barrels/day

US domestic oil consumption from US production: 10m barrels/day.

Over 70% of oil price increases on domestic production is being paid by US companies and consumers. America is losing huge amounts because of the price increase.

He's lying.

Yes, it's true that the USA produces around 14m barrels of oil per day, but it only actually exports 4m barrels a day.

The huge price increases on 10m barrels a day of US production are being paid by American companies and consumers which more than wipes out the extra export income.

Says the advocate for the artificial intelligence cult.

They're not bloody kidding! Blowing a gale out there.

On the other hand, this year's daffodil display is lovely.

Time for the annual diabetes eye test, so I'll be virtually blind later from the eye drops! The perils of old age...