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Comment Not even that (Score 1) 82

I'm still using whatever version of vim came with my initial distro install since as far as basic text editing goes it's been feature complete for decades. I'm sure some people like writing vim scripts to do... drawing a blank frankly.... but only once in my 30 year career have I met someone who did and that was just to do some company specific search and replacing.

Comment Re: Why is Contact sharing legal? (Score 1) 50

A tiny percentage. OTOH theres a limited amount of abuse possible with a landline number compared to a mobile phone. The main privacy issue with phone books was publishing home addresses so any nutjob who knew your full name and area you lived in could track you down, phone numbers were a secondary concern.

Comment Re:Attention Blocks (Score 1) 93

ChatGPT can get its maths right. Ask it some maths problem involving a lot of long floating point numbers , maybe a few functions such as log or sqrt etc that there is no way in hell could possibly be in its training data and it'll get the answer correct. I suspect OpenAI have embedded some kind of calculator into it now.

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