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Or ... just dumb.

Well, that's maybe part of the "problem" then. Your problem from their perspective! :woot: EDIT: Love the word "naff"! New one for me! :)

I once posted an adverse comment on a kindle users’ forum, saying that that the UI is naff. “We like it as it is!!” I was told. “Go...

The room full of floppy disks was another problem that modern TB drives finally put to bed. People bat on about the look and feel of...

I probably should have said "not nearly enough". They do no harm, and can catch obvious mistakes. That leaves the question of how to...

Yes, although I question how code reviews of AI generated code might go. I imagine it will get increasingly inscrutable. I suspect there...

Factchecker, we'll have to disagree about the usefulness of code reviews. I recall them catching many issues, but I also recall them...

OTOH, had Amazon not pushed forward into ebooks and created the free reader, my house would still be cluttered with hundreds of old...

I'll third that. Amazon are very good at some things. We won't do without them. But there are a few big buts; the Kindle is one of...

Well said.

A current issue in air defense is that fast, stealthy airplanes require very fast reactions, faster than humanly possible. A US naval...

AI should not, in my view, be used in weapons at all. This will be an unpopular view. I feel certain it has been happening for many...

Here's the paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192

How is that different to real intelligence, where conspiracy theories abound. Entire cohorts of humans become corrupted when the...

Totally hear you on that. The Kindle ecosystem does feel like it was designed in its own bubble, with some choices that make you think...