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I couldn't find diddly poo of any depth on SO when I began work on Microsoft Graph. I found I had easily been able find help with issues pertaining to Google's API but felt I was "No Ron, just you" with SO and ms graph.
Not only did Chat have good info, I was greeted with "Sure!" followed by a darn good example that worked. Over and over. When I had had for days - null reference exceptions.
I'm not surprised at all.
It also seems to understand the nature and angle of my questions.
I try to help it as much as possible.
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Ron Anders wrote: I couldn't find diddly poo of any depth on SO when I began work on Microsoft Graph.
I wonder if this is a quick judgement made too rapidly. SO does have a learning curve and doesn't have a warm welcome mat for newcomers.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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According to internal documents seen by Windows Latest, Microsoft is testing at least one AI-powered feature that could revolutionize how users interact with the desktop. Because my computer's fan doesn't run at full blast all the time now?
"AI depth wallpapers", because we're AI-ing all the AIs these days. :ugh:
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How do you "AI" a plain blue background?
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I actually had to check when I was reading that article. I couldn't remember what my desktop background is (plain grey here, I guess it will be extra-smart grey in the future).
TTFN - Kent
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Making it 3D and giving it depth with shadows?
M.D.V. 
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Racing stripes make everything better. And flames. All the good muscle cars follow that rule.
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When you get a shiny new hammer everything looks like a nail!
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fgs1963 wrote: When you get a shiny new hammer everything looks like a nail!
And how many things will you break with it to realize after a while that they actually were no nails?
M.D.V.
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To mis-quote Allie Brosh[^]: "Break ALL the things!" 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Only because you can, it doesn't mean that you should...
Someone should make them remember it
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seems devs at microsoft dont have any icons to polish , now its AI to polish
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Don't fck with my desktop slideshow. It's pictures and memories from my life.
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But now they could be “AI-enhanced” memories! 
TTFN - Kent
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We make it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites. Because who doesn't want their websites to look like those great government ones?
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Oddly, government websites are clearer and easier to user/navigate than IBM's and Oracle's, among others.
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Maybe they're on to something then?
TTFN - Kent
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Lately I have been thinking about what I have changed my mind about in software development. "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change"
I prefer "to adapt" instead of "to change"
M.D.V.
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German physicists used an ion-exchange microbead as a very tiny "pen." But people have been writing in snow for ages
Well, some people
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Kent Sharkey wrote: But people have been writing in snow for agesWell, some people
I didn't... I did angels 
Article wrote: Scientists figured out how to write in water
Will we learn things by drinking their books? That would be pretty cool... and we would not need holes in the head.
M.D.V.
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According to researcher Shaolei Ren from the University of California, ChatGPT and similar LLMs use up to 500 millilitres of water (17 oz) for every 20 to 50 prompts or questions users ask. "Yes I'm burning to the core, I need rain"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: ChatGPT and similar LLMs use up to 500 millilitres of water (17 oz) for every 20 to 50 prompts or questions users ask.
Hey... we have the solution to the increase of sea level
I'll get my coat, do not worry I do know the way out
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I'm not getting it! What is the water used for? It looks as if they are talking about hydropower to generate electricity, but the energy generated in proportional not only to the amount of water, but to the height of the tamed riverfall as well. How much does this half liter of water fall, to generate the power?
When you start making back-of-envelope calculations, you probably at first think that you are getting the magnitudes wrong. Hydropower requires huge amounts of water!
Here in Norway, we have reservoirs typically around 1000 m above sea level. Assume that the generator is located at the sea shore so the full 1000 m fall is used. A typical Norwegian family consumes 20 000 kWh of electric power a year (yes, we use it for everything, from fueling cars to heating water to heating and lighting up homes). To produce that power, around 8 million liters - 8000 cubic meters - of water must be drained from that high mountain reservoir a year.
If the electricity I buy is produced from a dam in the river, the dam being only 10 m high (with the generator at its foot), it will take 800 million liters of water to serve my home alone. Another 800 million liters for my neighbor to the left, and the same for the one to the right, the one across the road and every single family home in the nation.
That is quite a lot. More than 2 million liters a day, from the 10 m riverfall power station. "Only" 20,000 liters a day from the 1000 m high reservoir.
Or for those of you who prefer modern, silly units: The riverfall power station would have to let through almost an olympic swimming pool of water every day, year around, to satisfy my needs alone. I guess you wouldn't notice if it was 500 ml more or less.
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