Not sure if ironic or dystopian that one of the companies offering this service is called Humanly

but it's done in public where anyone observing the count can see that the people counting don't have any pencils etc in their hand

Exactly - it's done in public, and not centrally. Any citizen can go and check how it's done in their own Geminde.

Can't see any mention of bug bounties on your site - do you have any details you could share?

I think there's different levels to look at it.

If you know that you need O(n) "contains" checks and O(1) retrieval for items, for a given order of magnitude, it feels like you've all the pieces of the puzzle needed to make sure you keep the LLM on the straight and narrow, even if you didn't know off the top of your head that you should choose ArrayList.

Or if you know that string manipulation might be memory intensive so you write automated tests around it for your order of magnitude, it probably doesn't really matter if you didn't know to choose StringBuilder.

That feels different to e.g. not knowing the difference between an array list and linked list (or the concept of time/space complexity) in the first place.

My gut feeling is that, without wrestling with data structures at least once (e.g. during a course), then that knowledge about complexity will be cargo cult.

When it comes to fundamentals, I think it's still worth the investment.

To paraphrase, "months of prompting can save weeks of learning".

"You need to fire whoever green lit this." — I'm sure they themselves probably all green lit this.

Why would they be embarrassed?

At least using Irish as an example, the state of machine translation is still far far behind proper translation unfortunately and wouldn't be up to scratch

Yep exactly this, and some languages still haven't been fully digitised https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/a3369c56-abaa-4b67-a1...

Literally all you have to do is configure a cronjob to renew the cert?

I've got a website I build for a friend running that I haven't touched in 5 years TLS-wise, never had any issues.

For public websites most probably don't even need to touch cron as Apache/Caddy/NGINX/Traefik have built-in options these days. The only time I run something like a cron task is for certain internal IoT type certs.

From a _consultancy_ it feels a bit on the nose. Do you have a system that's mostly working at the moment? We'll migrate that at huge cost to something else (for little upside, but it'll get sold in really well to senior management)

This marketing effort is aimed at shareholders, not customers or employees. The stock has been tanking hard and she's just replicating the strategy of staying in AI related news hoping for a bump. Hopefully it works, for the employees anyway, so they can dump their own shares.

I think your point is a little black-and-white — there's tons of behaviour that sits in the "technical possible but frowned upon" bucket.

It's like people listening to music without any headphones on the train — technically has been possible for ages but previously would've gotten you told to turn it off. Now it barely gets a raised eyebrow.

Can you prevent people secretly filming you? No, but most people still don't want it be become accepted behaviour, even if to you that's all just "whining and blathering".

You say that, but "mechanically" in the dictionary gives "In a mechanical manner."

"Mechnical" gives "Of or relating to machines or tools."

"Machine" gives "A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy and transmits it in a more useful form." and "A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment."

An ox & cart fits the bill for "machine" with that lens. Not sure it's a smart-alec workaround, any more than the likes of McVities arguing the biscuits vs cakes in court for Jaffa Cakes. Anything not defined is fair game.

It is perfectly obvious to me and to the vast majority of people. That is why they didn't bother defining it further.

> An ox & cart fits the bill for "machine" with that lens

No it doesn't. I don't think you thought this through. The cart itself cannot do anything without something else acting on it. An ox is obviously not mechanical (it being an animal) which is what is propelling the cart. Therefore it is not mechanically propelled.

If it was a person a bicycle then would be more ambiguity. But it is commonly understood that a bicycle (excluding e-bikes which are mopeds) is not a "motor vehicle", because it is propelled by the rider.

"Propelled" is the other term in that definition. A conveyance might be mechanical in the sense you describe without being propelled by a machine.

At the same time, an individual person being blown forward by a sufficiently large fan might meet the qualification of "mechanically propelled" without being in a mechanical conveyance per se.

But more generally, a vehicle plus a motor of some description would seem to meet the definition. ICE, steam, electric, spring-wound, whatevs.