Recent content by IT Minion

Yeah, you tell them! Just because no one believes this and all the research says it's *******s don't you let that stop you from having your opinion. It's your opinion and you're entitled to it mo matter how stupid it is. Sometimes you just have to be true to yourself and say stupid things.

I'd go as far as saying that if your process for killing someone relies on them playing along, being a good sport and not taking it personally you probably have a bad process.

The US is in a bind because they don't want to be cruel when they kill people and far too many people object to it. American doctors get struck off for performing an execution. American drug companies won't sell chemicals used in lethal injections because of financial and reputational harm No...

Yep, old people. ;-) Although being fair most of the moaners are even older. Being less cheeky/arseholish: anyone who is just retiring is going to get a level of pension that they didn't provide for the previous generation and didn't pay in as much as the next generation will have to in order...

Why, most of your generation did the opposite?

That's not what you said, but I'm glad you're up to speed now

Shockingly you're wrong again, although to be fair that's only changed in the last few years. It used to be that the only EVs available were premium models, but now there are far more mass market models available and being bought...

3p a mile would be fine even with lower petrol prices than the current absurdity. Petrol price per mile is 14p+ depending on mpg. EV price per mile is 7p+ depending mostly on home charging tariff. If you can charge at home and EV is much cheaper to run even if this person mile tax comes in...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/business/saudi-pipeline-houthi-attacks.html

I can make it say there's only three in a text chat. You instruct it at the beginning to insist that there's only three. You have to play with the prompt but it's not that hard, something along the lines of 'if I ask you to count the number or letters to count how many letters there are in a...

Ask, but if they aren't done they're not going to block the sale

Yep, in theory every house must have an EPC to sell it. In practice it's not enforced

ISAs are a tax exemption to encourage saving money. Which is fine, but after a certain point so we need to encourage further saving? We have to tax something.

Assumed based on the age of the property. Yes it's *******s

You can run an LLM model on a desktop. If one were to replicate itself into every insecure system there is then it would be bad. Botnets at the moment require a human in the loop. Plus to kill a Server, or a rack, or an entire data centre you'd have to know what each of the VMs in your data...