Dave Akerman

2017-2018 apparently!

I told ChatGPT what to do, but apparently he's sorry, he can't do that.

I love the touch about driving back having had your wash :D

I was *so* disappointed when, as a lad, I went to watch the Milk Race and didn't see a drop of it; just a bunch of cyclists in lycra.

Indeed. It's all very well having AI generate a fan controller for my campervan fridge, in 1 hit with no errors from a carefully crafted prompt, but for complex mission-critical situations it does feel like it's heading for HAL or Skynet.

I should add that poor Claude kept tripping up over the lack of memory in the microcontroller, and in the end I had to guide it to a solution, but it was still very impressive.

Example: all written by AI. It wrote the backend yaml script to create the screen layout, the javascript to convert to an image file, and even the microcontroller code in the display to wake each hour, connect to server over wifi, grab and display the image, then go back to sleep.

I'm a (slowly) retiring dev. For my work stuff Claude AI has saved a lot of time, e.g. writing handy functions for me; in others it basically makes me redundant! I've been adding smart devices to our campervan, and I just talk to AI as a junior dev and writes the entire thing for me.

This is an ePaper display connected to my van WiFi and Pi4 running HA. Some icons faked awaiting actual hardware.

The weather picks up the van's GPS location using an Uputronics GPS HAT. Schedule is from Google calendar. Sensors are switchbots (temp/RH) and Mopeka (levels).

I've been wondering the same thing.

Please nobody tell him that Greenland is mainly ice and Iceland is quite green.

Impressive technology!

Herefordshire

Don't cross the streams!

"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. 42".

#Duvalayknowitschristmas worked for us last night in our campervan.

I think they're going through accounts changing them over gradually. Mine switched a few days ago.

It'll be Experian, who recently changed their scoring system.

That's just nuts.

It works for me 😁

Indeed. Perhaps it should be a requirement that those making these decisions first invest some time learning about investment before they make silly mistakes. Watching Ramin's channel for a start 😁

And practically that's the wrong way round; if you want safe cash for emergencies or planned expenditure, then you want it readily available in an ISA and not tucked away in a SIPP where there are rules and possible taxation on extraction.

Plus as you say MMFs are a useful portfolio ingredient, to reduce risk, to hold spare cash in case the markets take a dive and create buying opportunities, etc.

I use them as safe cash for the next few years, but I'm 65 and gently retiring, so probably not affected.

That's just nuts. By far the main reason for not investing that I hear from those that don't (knowingly) invest is "but I might lose it all". So rather than encourage them to invest, the government wants to remove the most obvious dipping-toe-in-the-water product from their options. Madness.

Complain to your ruler.

I'll press 1️⃣ for a callback then 😁

The idea of limiting cash ISA deposits does seem odd, given that as you say a MMF in an S&S ISA is still very cash-like. Or just leave it as cash in a T212 ISA for example.

Education seems a much better route to encouraging investment. And removing stamp duty on UK investments!

I had a similar experience when I left a camera bag behind at South Ken. I noticed before I got to the next station, got the first train back, and the platform staff soon reunited me with my expensive cameras.