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Comment Re: Power failure (Score 1) 174

I donâ(TM)t remember the last time I had a power outage. It definitely hasnâ(TM)t been as many as few times in the last fifteen years. I donâ(TM)t remember any power outages in our current flat, which we bought 13 years ago.

Comment Aging occurs in stages (Score 3, Insightful) 57

And yeah, for me, 48 years old was the big downslide. So many small things start going wrong at the same time. And the maddening thing is, you still feel young inside. It's just that you slowly give up on stuff because the body doesn't follow. It's like seeing opportunities disappear and doors closing. Not fun...

Comment The kindest thing that can be said of AI (Score 1) 59

is that at the moment, it has human junior engineer-level skill. This means it's also liable to do stupid mistakes out of inexperience, that turn into giant screw-ups if you put it in charge of critical stuff.

I did my share of root rm -rf's when I was a young programmer but my boss didn't let me do it on the primary database machine. The wost that ever happened was that I deleted my own copy and had to reinstall my machine.

If you're dumb enough to make AI work on important stuff, you're a bad "manager" of your AI junior engineer.

Comment Re:Nonsense. (Score 1) 80

One puts her fitbit on the dog

When we had Vitality healthcare at work, they explicitly said that they had ways to detect this very trick. Not so good when at detecting that it's your child with your running around with your phone though ;). Never mind that some of these health companies are also involved in pensions and, as a healthy and active person, I don't think I want them making decisions about what annuity I might possibly get later in life. The less data you share with these companies, the better. Also, never mind that Vitality was about three times the cost of Bupa, which I guess is how they fund all of their incentives.

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