Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Last of 2025

[blinky465]

@limburger – I used ChatGPT to explain code sometimes. Sometimes I ask it to validate syntax for things I’ve written (I work in so many different languages, I find it really hard to remember the syntax for all of them – so write almost “pseudo-code” and ask for the syntax). In almost every case, my conversations with ChatGPT end up with me calling it a twat and reaching for a reference book off my shelves.

ChatGPT summarised 2025 for me – it said I’d worked on electronics projects, written software, and swore a lot.
It wasn’t wrong. AI *will* replace jobs in the immediate future – it’s already happening. We’re all just hoping we can survive the next five years or so – if I’m still employed/employable by then, I’ll be worth a fortune, fixing all the slop it’s generated and called “code”.

Good luck with the hobby room.
I was supposed to start Bungalow 2.0 during my time off this Xmas. I haven’t even begun the foundations.

 

@grantinvanman – playing bass sounds like great fun. Booby-de-boo-wop-de-bomp-bomp.
I played the bass line for “the time warp” at an open mic a little while back and it was amazing fun.
How I wish I’d managed to get away with just one engagement with family this year!
On a sort-of-related question – how often do you change your bass strings? Do you prefer fresh and “clanky” or that old and mellow sound that comes from 18 months of bacon grease build up on the underside of the strings?

 

@sundancer – hope you enjoy your NYE.
If it was just me and Nick, I’d have booked us a surprise visit to see her daughter (who is in Naples atm) for NYE. But I’m still “entertaining” until my sister decides it’s time to take her kids home (or, more likely, until her kids decide that Uncle Chris is too boring to hang around with and they want to go home – I’m working on it…).
I’m slightly envious of you having the entire day to yourself – you lucky sod! 🙂

 

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